Directing
Tang Shu-Shuen
Born 1941-03-21
Tang Shu Shuen (Chinese: 唐書璇; pinyin: Táng Shūxuán; born 1941), also known as Cecile Tang Shu Shuen, is a former Hong Kong film director. Though her film career was brief, she was a trailblazer for socially critical art cinema in Hong Kong's populist film industry, as well as its first noted woman director. She also launched the territory's first serious film journal, Close-Up, in 1976. She ceased filmmaking and emigrated to the United States in 1979, becoming a respected restaurateur in Los Angeles. Many critics, however, see her influence in the so-called Hong Kong New Wave of edgy, groundbreaking young filmmakers in the late '70s and early '80s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tang Shu Shuen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
7.7A character-driven melodrama about a Hong Kong ‘everyday man’ who marries a rich woman to climb the class ladder.
The Hong Kong Tycoon
1979
7.5A widow upholds feudal virtue by suppressing her love for a cavalry captain in favor of her daughter.
The Arch
1969
7.5A widow upholds feudal virtue by suppressing her love for a cavalry captain in favor of her daughter.
The Arch
1969
7.5A widow upholds feudal virtue by suppressing her love for a cavalry captain in favor of her daughter.
The Arch
1969
9.0A social satire on Hong Kong people’s obsession with gambling, told in 13 vignettes of various styles.
Sup Sap Bup Dap
1975
6.2A group of Mainlanders fleeing the Cultural Revolution risk all to reach the adjacent British ‘haven’ of Hong Kong; yet what they find there is a far cry from their dreams of liberty.
China Behind
1978
6.2A group of Mainlanders fleeing the Cultural Revolution risk all to reach the adjacent British ‘haven’ of Hong Kong; yet what they find there is a far cry from their dreams of liberty.
China Behind
1978