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Cai Chusheng
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- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Cai.
| Cai Chusheng | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 12, 1906 Shanghai, China |
| Died | July 15, 1968 |
| Occupation | Director |
Cai Chusheng (Chinese: 蔡楚生; pinyin: Cài Chǔshēng) (January 12, 1906 - July 15, 1968) was a Chinese film director of the pre-Communist era.
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Born in Shanghai to Cantonese parents, but raised outside of Guangzhou, Cai Chusheng worked in low-level positions in several small studios during the 1920s, before eventually joining Mingxing Film Company as a director's assistant. Cai did not gain true prominence until he joined the Lianhua Film Company where his role as a leading leftist filmmaker throughout the 1930s and 1940s was cemented. He is perhaps most famous for his film, New Women (新女性 , 1934), starring Ruan Lingyu in her final role prior to her suicide.
In 1934, Cai's Song of the Fisherman became the first Chinese film to win an international prize at the Moscow Film Festival.[1]
Cai's post-war film, the collaboration with Zheng Junli The Spring River Flows East (1947) also proved to be a major film in the brief "Second Golden Age" of Cinema that followed the end of the Second World War. Following the Communist revolution, Cai worked mainly in administrative tasks, though he did make one major post-1949 film, Waves on the Southern Shore (1963). As the Cultural Revolution began to gain momentum in the late 1960s, Cai Chusheng, like many artists and intellectuals, became the target of persecution, which led to his early death in 1968.
In Stanley Kwan's 1992 biopic of Ruan Lingyu, Centre Stage, Cai Chusheng is portrayed by Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Ka Fai.
- Pink Dream (1932)
- Share the Burden of the National Crisis (1932)
- Dawn Over the Metropolis (1933)
- New Women (1934)
- Song of the Fishermen (1934)
- Gū dǎo tiān táng (1939)
- The Spring River Flows East (1947)
- Waves on the Southern Shore (1963)
- Cai Chusheng at the Internet Movie Database
- Short Biography on Cai Chusheng
- Essay on Cai Chusheng
- Cai Chusheng Filmography from Chinese Movie Database
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