Directing

Chiu Shu-San

Born — Died

1904-08-26 — 1987-01-20

Known for

Directing

Credits

11 titles

Known for

天女散花 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

天女散花

1958

White Powder and Neon Lights poster
9.0

This is the first 16mm Cantonese film in full colour, shot on 1940s state-of-the-art Technicolor film stock. Opera star Man-ha (Leung Bik-yuk) enjoys tremendous popularity during her performances in San Francisco, but drowns herself in the vices and temptations of the big city. Increasingly, she fails to show up for performances, almost causing the theatre to go bankrupt. When she sees her lover for the scoundrel that he is, she also sees the errors of her own ways and saves the theatre, restoring it to glory. Joseph Sunn Jue established the Grandview Film Company in Hong Kong during the 1930s and continued making films in the USA during wartime by collaborating with Chinese opera performers in exile there. Wong Hok-sing, an opera actor himself, directed, wrote and starred in this film. He staged a spectacular play-within-a-play at the end, not only to promote the art of Cantonese opera but also to boost solidarity among overseas Chinese through difficult times.

White Powder and Neon Lights

1947

The Eight Immortals in Jiangnan poster
NR

Hong Kong fantasy film directed by Chiu Shu-San.

The Eight Immortals in Jiangnan

1957

No artwork available
10.0

The film is divided into seven episodes, each episode directed by a different director. The film was selected as one of the top hundred Chinese films by film historian Du Yunzhi (HKFA).

At This Crucial Juncture

1938

The Lady in the Blue Lagoon poster
NR

This love story spans more than a decade in the lives of an émigré engineer and a widowed primary-school teacher, a tragedy set in a small town by a lake, filmed in beautiful California locations.

The Lady in the Blue Lagoon

1947

Roar of the People poster
NR

A wartime drama set in Hong Kong during the Second Sino-Japanese War, when people fled to Hong Kong from Mainland China.

Roar of the People

1941

Behind the camera

天女散花 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

天女散花

1958

White Powder and Neon Lights poster
9.0

This is the first 16mm Cantonese film in full colour, shot on 1940s state-of-the-art Technicolor film stock. Opera star Man-ha (Leung Bik-yuk) enjoys tremendous popularity during her performances in San Francisco, but drowns herself in the vices and temptations of the big city. Increasingly, she fails to show up for performances, almost causing the theatre to go bankrupt. When she sees her lover for the scoundrel that he is, she also sees the errors of her own ways and saves the theatre, restoring it to glory. Joseph Sunn Jue established the Grandview Film Company in Hong Kong during the 1930s and continued making films in the USA during wartime by collaborating with Chinese opera performers in exile there. Wong Hok-sing, an opera actor himself, directed, wrote and starred in this film. He staged a spectacular play-within-a-play at the end, not only to promote the art of Cantonese opera but also to boost solidarity among overseas Chinese through difficult times.

White Powder and Neon Lights

1947

The Eight Immortals in Jiangnan poster
NR

Hong Kong fantasy film directed by Chiu Shu-San.

The Eight Immortals in Jiangnan

1957

No artwork available
10.0

The film is divided into seven episodes, each episode directed by a different director. The film was selected as one of the top hundred Chinese films by film historian Du Yunzhi (HKFA).

At This Crucial Juncture

1938

The Lady in the Blue Lagoon poster
NR

This love story spans more than a decade in the lives of an émigré engineer and a widowed primary-school teacher, a tragedy set in a small town by a lake, filmed in beautiful California locations.

The Lady in the Blue Lagoon

1947

Roar of the People poster
NR

A wartime drama set in Hong Kong during the Second Sino-Japanese War, when people fled to Hong Kong from Mainland China.

Roar of the People

1941

Ten Thousand Lovers poster
NR

A rural employee leaves his wife and mother to seek work in the city.

Ten Thousand Lovers

1938

No artwork available
7.0

Hong Kong drama

The Life Line

1935

Song Girl White Peony poster
8.0

A remake (or ripoff) of Chaplin's City Lights

Song Girl White Peony

1939

No artwork available
NR

Hong Kong Horror film directed by Wong Hok-Sing

The Returned Soul

1947

No artwork available
10.0

Dark and windy night, the village is haunted, the villagers do not dare to go out, so they invited the magician to catch the ghost, after a day, the night, the magician was eaten by the ghost, leaving a pile of bones and brains, the villagers buried the bones and brains of the magician. The villagers then went back. It was another night, and suddenly, the villagers heard a sound in the earth. One villager went down and was eaten by a ghost. The villagers were sad. Another villager offered himself to learn to become an immortal, the villagers sent him away, and he finally returned to the village after a trek through the mountains, and at night he relied on the spells he had learned to finally destroy the ghost.

Shadow of the Ruins

1937