- Cai Chusheng
Infobox Chinese-language singer and actor
name = Cai Chusheng
tradchinesename = 蔡楚生
simpchinesename = 蔡楚生
birthdate = birth date|1906|1|12
birthplace =Shanghai ,China
deathdate = death date and age|1968|7|15|1906|1|12
yearsactive = 1932 - 1950Cai Chusheng (Zh-cp|c=|p=Cài Chǔshēng) (
January 12 ,1906 -July 15 ,1968 ) was a Chinesefilm director of the pre-Communist era.Biography
Born in
Shanghai to Cantonese parents, but raised outside ofGuangzhou , Cai Chusheng worked in low-level positions in several small studios during the 1920s, before eventually joiningMingxing Film Company as a director's assistant. Cai did not gain true prominence until he joined theLianhua 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), starringRuan 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 . [cite web | url = http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/international/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001614559 | title = Timeline | accessdate = 2006-05-08 | author = Kraicer, Shelly |date= 2005-12-06| publisher = Hollywood Reporter]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 theCultural 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 actorTony Leung Ka Fai .elected filmography
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Cinema of China External links
*imdb name|id=0161529|name=Cai Chusheng
* [http://chinesecinema.ucsd.edu/directors_ccwlc.html#cai Short Biography on Cai Chusheng]
* [http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_artqa/2003-09/24/content_38439.htm Essay on Cai Chusheng]
* [http://www.dianying.com/en/person.php?personid=CaiChusheng Cai Chusheng] at the Chinese Movie Database
* [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/21518 Cai Chusheng] at the BFI Film and TV DatabasePersondata
NAME= Chusheng, Cai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Film director
DATE OF BIRTH= 1906-1-12
PLACE OF BIRTH=Shanghai ,China
DATE OF DEATH= 1968-7-15
PLACE OF DEATH=
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