Famous Movies That Have Been Banned All Over the World

The Blue Kite

This is one of the most important and culturally powerful films to come out of Asia in the 1990s. The Blue Kite shows the terrible reality of living in mainland China during the 1950s and 60s. This movie was banned by the Mao administration. Subsequently, director Zuhangzhuan Tian was given a 10-year filmmaking ban for making the movie itself. 

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