Shen Fu (director)

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Shěn.

Shen Fu (Chinese: 沈浮; 23 March 1905 – 27 April 1994), was a Chinese film director, screenwriter and actor, born in Tianjin, China. During 1930s he was associated with Lianhua Film Company in Shanghai. His Myriad of Lights (1948) was selected as one of the 100 best 20th-century Chinese films by Asia Weekly.^[1] It also ranks #91 in Hong Kong Film Academy's poll of the 100 best Chinese-language films.

Selected filmography

Lianhua Symphony (1937) (director of a segment, screenplay, actor)
Myriad of Lights (The Lights of Ten Thousand Homes) (1949) (director, screenplay)
Crows and Sparrows (1949) (screenplay)
Li Shizhen (1956) (director)

References

↑ http://www.chinesecinemas.org/chinacentury.html. See December 19, 1999 issue of Asia Weekly.

External links

Shen Fu at the Internet Movie Database
Shen Fu at the Chinese Movie Database

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