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In the beginning of the 21th century, there were a lot of changes in the mainstream films and dramas in China, which were set in the anti-Japanese wars, compared to those in the late 20th century. The results of the analysis of “City of Life and Death” and “the Flowers of War” show that these changes were the sign of post-totalitarian culture, i.e. the mix of discourse premises and entertainment premises of mainstream types. For this reason, narratives in the films and dramas expressed under such discourse system could not overcome the control of the national consciousness. And also it could not allow the description of treason and other types of narration. This also meant the final mix of the three types of the mainstream films, experimental films, and entertainment films, which have co-existed since the late 1980s in China, and at the same time, the disappearance of establishment of new types of narration and many possibilities which had already existed.