In 2005, the Hong Kong Film Awards released their list of the best chinese movies. I plan to watch as many of these as I can, so I'll be ticking them off here.

• ✔ Spring in a small town (Fei Mu; 1948)
• ✔ A better tomorrow (John Woo; 1986)
• ✔ Days of being wild (Wong kar-wai; 1990)
• ✔ Yellow earth (Chen Kaige; 1984)
• ✔ City of sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien; 1989)
• ✔ Long arm of the law (Johnny Mak; 1984)
• ✔ Dragon inn (King Hu; 1967)
• ✔ Boat people (Ann Hui; 1982)
• A touch of zen (King Hu; 1971)
• ✔ Crouching tiger, hidden dragon (Ang Lee; 2000)
• Street angel (Yian Mu-jih; 1937)
• ✔ A brighter summer day (Edward Yang; 1991)
• The private eyes (Michael Hui; 1976)
• ✔ The mission (Johnnie To; 1999)
• ✔ One-armed swordsman (Chang Cheh; 1967)
• Fist of fury (Lo Wei; 1972)
• ✔ In the heat of the sun (Jiang Wen; 1994)
• In the face of demolition (Li Tie; 1953)
• A chinese odyssey (Jeffrey Lau; 1995)
• The arch (Tang Shu-shuen; 1970)
• ✔ Rouge (Stanley Kwan; 1988)
• ✔ Chungking express (Wong Kar-wai; 1994)
• Homecoming (Yim Ho; 1984)
• ✔ The time to live and the time to die (Hou Hsiao-hsien; 1985)
• Red sorghum (Zhang Yimou; 1987)
• Father and son (Allen Fong; 1981)
• The spring river flows east (Cai Chusheng; 1947)
• ✔ Comrades: almost a love story (Peter Chan; 1996)
• The goddess (Wu Yonggang; 1934)
• The highway (Sun Yu; 1934)
• The secret (Ann Hui; 1979)
• ✔ Infernal affairs (Lau Wai-keung, Mak Siu-fai; 2002)
• Drunken master (Yuen Wo-ping; 1978)
• The butterfly murders (Tsui Hark; 1979)
• ✔ Ashes of time (Wong Kar-wai; 1994)
• ✔ Made in hong kong (Fruit Chan; 1997)
• Sorrows of the forbidden city (Zhu Shilin; 1948)
• Liang Shan-po and Chu Ying-t'ai (Li Han-hsiang; 1963)
• The story of a discharged prisoner (Lung Kong; 1967)
• Zu warriors (Tsui Hark; 1983)
• The terrorizer (Edward Yang: 1986)
• The killer (John Woo; 1989)
• Once upon a time in China (Tsui Hark; 1991)
• ✔ The actress (Stanley Kwan; 1992)
• Story of Qiuju (Zhang Yimou; 1992)
• This life of mine (Shi Hui; 1950)
• Kingdom and the beauty (Li Han-hsiang; 1959)
• Dong nuan (Li Han-hsiang; 1969)
• An autumn's tale (Mabel Cheung; 1987)
• A chinese ghost story (Ching Siu-tung; 1987)
• The purple hairpin (Li Tie; 1959)
• The orphan (Lee Sun-fung; 1960)
• Two stage sisters (Xie Jin; 1965)
• ✔ City on fire (Ringo Lam; 1987)
• ✔ Farewell my concubine (Chen Kaige; 1993)
• ✔ Yi yi (Edward Yang; 2000)
• Cold nights (Lee Sun-fung; 1955)
• Po xiao shi fen (Sung Tsu-shou; 1967)
• Raining in the mountain (King Hu; 1979)
• Police story (Jackie Chan; 1985)
• C'est la vie, mon chéri (Yee Tung-sheng; 1993)
• The wedding banquet (Ang Lee; 1993)
• The platform (Jia Zhangke, 2000)
• The wild, wild rose (Wang Tian-lin; 1960)
• The great devotion (Chor Yuen; 1960)
• My intimate partner (Kim Chun; 1960)
• ✔ Dangerous encounters of the first kind (Tsui Hark; 1980)
• ✔ Ah ying / Ban bian ren (Allen Fong; 1983)
• ✔ Durian durian (Fruit Chan; 2000)
• Little toys (Sun Yu; 1933)
• Ai le zhong nian (Sang Hu; 1949)
• The house of 72 tenants (Chor Yuen; 1949)
• ✔ Nomad (Patrick Tam; 1982)
• Dust in the wind (Hou Hsiao-hsien; 1986)
• 92 legendary la rose noire (Jeffrey Lau; 1992)
• Shaolin soccer (Stephen Chow; 2002)
• Song at midnight (Ma-xu Weibang; 1937)
• China behind (Tong Shu-shuen; 1974)
• The spooky bunch (Ann Hui; 1980)
• Taipei story (Edward Yang; 1985)
• ✔ The blue kite (Tian Zhuangzhuang; 1993)
• Tai tai wan sui (Sang Hu; 1948)
• Mambo girl (Yi Wen; 1957)
• Feast of a rich family (Lee Sun-fung, Li Tie, Ng Wui, Lo Ji-hung; 1959)
• Execution in autumn (Lee Hsing; 1972)
• Hibiscus town (Xie Jin; 1986)
• God of gamblers (Wong Jing; 1989)
• As tears go by (Wong Kar-wai; 1989)
• Happy together (Wong Kar-wai; 1997)
• ✔ In the mood for love (Wong Kar-wai; 2000)
• The light of ten thousand homes (Shen Fu; 1948)
• Festival moon (Zhu Shilin; 1953)
• Fu mu xin (Kim Chun; 1955)
• Lin zexu (Zheng Junli, Cen Fan; 1959)
• Dreams of the red chambers (Cen Fan; 1962)
• Digital master (Kirk Wong; 1983)
• Shanghai blues (Tsui Hark; 1984)
• Eight diagram pole fighter (Liu Chia-liang; 1984)
• The black cannon incident (Huang Jianxin; 1985)
• Rebels of the neon god (Tsai Ming-liang; 1992)
• In the hands of a puppet master (Hou Hsiao-hsien; 1993)
• ✔ Summer snow (Ann Hui; 1995)
• ✔ Not one less (Zhang Yimou; 1998)