India film have been extremely popular in China last century,There's a movie called Caravan(1971) collected over 88m admission on its first run(some data said over 300m admission after all its re-release)
Somebody probably don't believe the biggest imported film by admission in China is Мост(1969),it's collected over 500m admissions in China after all re-release,it's a Yugoslavia world war II movie,most people aged over 50 have watched this movie.
Biggest HLW movie is Rambo:First Blood with over 102m admission on its first run(beating Caravan non-communist state first-run record),Rambo is so popular that collected 91m admission on its second run,don't know Rambo's total admission in China ,but probably is a really high number,because the movie collected ¥25m in China at that time, it's make Sylvester Stallone become household name here,however,other Rambo film is not introduced in China because of politic.
Superman win Rambo at 35mm(we have 35mm,16mm and 8.75mm released at that time) copies admission and become 35mm highest grossing HLW film of 1985,it's collected 80m admission in China first run,it's the first superhero movie succeed in China and after that,great number of US comic book started to introduced in China,other Reeve's Superman film also released in China and doing great number,Superman become popular in China far more earlier than other superhero let alone MCU,the first Batman film released in China is in 1998,Batman and Robin.