Situ Huimin (; 16 February 1910 – 4 April 1987), was a
Chinese film director, screenwriter and actor, born in
Kaiping,
Guangdong
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.
He joined the
Communist Youth League in 1925 and the
Communist Party of China in 1927. The next year, he went to
Japan to study arts and there, he became interested in
filmmaking. After returning to China in 1930, he actively participated in left-wing theater movement. Then, he worked as set designer and sound engineer in film industry. His debut as a film director was ''
Spirit of Freedom'' (), produced by
Diantong Film Company in 1935. Subsequently, he joined the
Lianhua Film Company in
Shanghai
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. After the outbreak of
the war he went to
Hong Kong
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, where he continued to work both in film and in theater. During this period he created couple of anti-Japanese films. In 1943 he worked on newsreels in
Chongqing. After the war, he helped to organize the
Kunlun Film Company
The Kunlun Mountains ( zh, s=昆仑山, t=崑崙山, p=Kūnlún Shān, ; ug, كۇئېنلۇن تاغ تىزمىسى / قۇرۇم تاغ تىزمىسى ) constitute one of the longest mountain chains in Asia, extending for more than . In the b ...
. Then, he left to the
United States
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to study film technology and management. He came back in 1950s, to continue to work in China's film industry, holding many important offices for the government. He died in
Beijing
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on April 4, 1987.
Selected filmography as a director
* ''
Spirit of Freedom'' () (1935)
* ''
Lianhua Symphony'' (1937) a segment in an anthology film
* ''
The Blood-stained Baoshan Fortress
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'' (1938, Hong Kong)
* ''
Hometown Cloud
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*In developing nations particularly: native place, village of origin in newly urbanized socie ...
'' (1940, Hong Kong)
* ''
Song of Retribution
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'' (1941, Hong Kong)
References
External links
*
Situ Huiminat the Chinese Movie Database
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1910 births
1987 deaths
Film directors from Guangdong
Screenwriters from Guangdong
People from Kaiping
Male actors from Guangdong
Writers from Jiangmen
Chinese emigrants to Hong Kong
20th-century screenwriters