Touching Starlight
Encyclopedia
Touching Starlight is a 1996 Chinese film
made for television.
It was the first film
to star Zhang Ziyi
. It was made for Chinese television on a low budget and was later released on Video CD
without English subtitles. English subtitles for the film were later created by some fans of Zhang Ziyi and the subtitled version released on the Internet
.
Cinema of China
The Chinese-language cinema has three distinct historical threads: Cinema of Hong Kong, Cinema of China, and Cinema of Taiwan. Since 1949 the cinema of mainland China has operated under restrictions imposed by the Communist Party of China's State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television and...
made for television.
It was the first film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
to star Zhang Ziyi
Zhang Ziyi
Zhang Ziyi is a Chinese film actress. Zhang is coined by the media as one of the Four Young Dan actresses in the Film Industry in China, along with Zhao Wei, Xu Jinglei, and Zhou Xun...
. It was made for Chinese television on a low budget and was later released on Video CD
Video CD
Before the advent of DVD and Blu-ray, the Video CD became the first format for distributing films on standard 120 mm optical discs. The format is a standard digital format for storing video on a Compact Disc...
without English subtitles. English subtitles for the film were later created by some fans of Zhang Ziyi and the subtitled version released on the Internet
Internet
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.