Shen Fu (; 23 March 1905 – 27 April 1994) was a Chinese film director, screenwriter and actor, born in

Tianjin Tianjin is a direct-administered municipality in North China, northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the National Central City, nine national central cities, with a total population of 13,866,009 inhabitants at the time of the ...

. During 1930s he was associated with

Lianhua Film Company The United Photoplay Service Company () was one of the three dominant production companies based in Shanghai, China during the 1930s, the other two being the Mingxing Film Company and the Tianyi Film Company, the forerunner of the Hong Kong–ba ...

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. His ''

Myriad of Lights ''Myriad of Lights'', also translated as ''Lights of Ten Thousand Homes'', is a 1948 Cinema of China, Chinese film directed by Shen Fu (director), Shen Fu and starring Shangguan Yunzhu, Wu Yin (actress), Wu Yin and Lan Ma. The film is selected as ...

'' (1948) was selected as one of the 100 best 20th-century Chinese films by ''Asia Weekly''.http://www.chinesecinemas.org/chinacentury.html. See December 19, 1999 issue of ''

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''. It also ranks #91 in Hong Kong Film Academy's poll of the 100 best

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films.

Selected filmography

* ''

Lianhua Symphony ''Lianhua Symphony'' () (also known as ''Symphony of Lianhua'') is a 1937 Chinese anthology comedy drama film. Produced by the United Photoplay Service, it served as a showcase of the studio's possibilities. It consists of eight segments of variou ...

'' (1937) (director of a segment, screenplay, actor) * ''

'' (''The Lights of Ten Thousand Homes'') (1949) (director, screenplay) * ''

Crows and Sparrows ''Crows and Sparrows'' () is a 1949 Chinese film made by the left-leaning Kunlun Studios on the eve of the Communist victory, directed by Zheng Junli and scripted by Chen Baichen. Notable for its extremely critical view of corrupt Nationalist b ...

'' (1949) (screenplay) * ''

Li Shizhen Li Shizhen (July 3, 1518 – 1593), courtesy name Dongbi, was a Chinese acupuncturist, herbalist, naturalist, pharmacologist, physician, and writer of the Ming dynasty. He is the author of a 27-year work, the '' Compendium of Materia ...

'' (1956) (director)

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Shen Fu
at the Chinese Movie Database 1905 births 1994 deaths Film directors from Tianjin Screenwriters from Tianjin 20th-century Chinese writers 20th-century Chinese screenwriters {{China-film-director-stub