Zhu wenshun

Zhu wenshun

Zhu wenshun (1920-1995), an old generation film director in China. He is a solid and prolific film director. His early film creation before the founding of new China is an important historical stage in his film career. Zhu wenshun worked as a field worker, drama assistant, director assistant, drama director, editing section chief, deputy director and director. In 54 years, he has directed 33 films, 2 TV series, 5 TV series and 13 episodes.

brief introduction

Chinese film director. He was born in 1920 in Jinzhou District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province. Because of his poor family, he went out to work after graduating from primary school. He worked as a child laborer, shop assistant and servant. Forced to make a living, he learned Japanese. In 1938, he worked as a drama assistant with a Japanese to the Manchuria Film Association in Changchun. Since then, he has entered the film industry. Zhu wenshun was smart and studious, and soon became familiar with directing. Assistant director in 1939, director in 1940, independent film. He preferred to shoot tragedies and completed ten films including her secret in Manying. In October 1945, he joined the Northeast film company as a director. In 1946, he successfully directed the stage play "home". In November of the same year, he entered the Changchun Film Studio under the jurisdiction of the central film studio as the director and director of the drama section. He also became an actor for the first time in "on the Songhua River", playing the more important role of his father. In 1947, he directed the film "little white dragon".

In July 1948, he entered the Philosophy Department of northeast Renmin University (now Jilin University). After finishing his study, he was transferred to northeast film studio, where he served as director of drama, acting chief of editing section, and later as director. In 1956, he participated in the director training class of Beijing Film Academy and systematically studied the director theory. After 1955, Zhu wenshun made more than ten films, including "mysterious traveling companion" (cooperating with forest farmers), "silent mountain forest", "ancient temple bell", "grassland morning song", "beacon train", "ice and snow Jindalai", "morning of South China Sea", "two little eight roads", etc. He likes to shoot thrilling feature films, the most prominent one of which is silent mountain forest. The plot of the film is compact, exciting and the suspense arrangement is reasonable. Six of his films reflect the life of ethnic minorities, among which "prairie morning song" and "ice and snow Jindalai" have left a deep impression on the audience. "Two little eight roads" is a film about children's revolutionary struggle. It won the second prize of national children's excellent film for the 30th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China. Zhu wenshun's directing style is simple and natural. He pays attention to the combination of national tradition and foreign culture. He is also proficient in post editing skills, which makes the film more fluent and artistic appeal.

In the 1980s, he directed films such as the shadow of the tiger in the light of the sword, where is not romantic, the explosion at dawn, the sword in the sheath, we don't understand love in first love, and the wandering shadow. He died in 1995 at the age of 75.

Life story

In March 1938, my friend introduced me to the "Manchuria image association" (hereinafter referred to as "Manying"). He worked as a drama assistant first, and then as a director assistant the next year. He followed Japanese director Toshio Otani to make national policy films such as revenge and journey to the East. Later, he made life comedy "peace of man and horse" with fujiro Takahara. Although Zhu wenshun didn't study much, and he didn't specially study film business, he was gifted and intelligent. He took the film studio as a classroom and studied hard, and achieved remarkable results. At that time, the main task of the assistant director was to translate the director's words to the actors and organize the scene shooting according to the director's intention. Zhu wenshun is fluent in Japanese. While conveying the director's intention, he slowly realized the director's working methods and soon became familiar with the "on-site scheduling" of the film set. When the two Japanese directors saw that Zhu wenshun understood the intention quickly and worked well, they often asked him to help in later work, which made Zhu wenshun master editing skills quickly. For Zhu wenshun, the shooting of these three films is equivalent to two years of film University. He was eager to try, and wanted to try his hand on the set.

When Zhu wenshun and Toshio Otani filmed revenge, the famous Japanese spy chief and former police chief of the puppet Manchukuo Ministry of civil affairs, Masahiko Gan, replaced Jin bidong as the second president of Manying. Soon after he took office, he put forward a resounding slogan: "Manying should be Manying of Manchu people", which was unexpected to both Chinese and Japanese in the plenary session. In 1940, "Manying" made two new "guides" and handed them to assistant directors Zhu wenshun and Zhou Xiaobo, which created opportunities for Zhu wenshun.

When Manying was established, it was designated as the national policy club. It is the club that undertakes the mission of national policy. "Manying" is based on this idea as the fundamental guiding ideology, committed to shooting national policy films, with the help of the film efforts to promote Japan, introduce the puppet Manchukuo, drum up the Japanese Manchukuo one heart and five ethnic harmony, enslave the northeast people with colonial ideas. At the beginning of "Manying" shooting, it launched the propaganda of the Puppet Manchurian army and beautification of the Puppet Manchurian police, such as "ambition Candlelight", "mainland Changhong", "flower of the border", "iron heart" and "dawn", as well as the introduction of Japan's "journey to the East".

In the face of reality, Zhu wenshun had to bypass the mainstream national policy films and shoot life films reflecting marriage and family. In 1940, he made his first film "who knows her heart". The film describes a girl named Xiaoying who works as a servant in the Zhou family. She sees a rich lady wearing beautiful clothes and living a comfortable life. She also wants to live a rich life. Taking advantage of the travel opportunity of the Zhou family, she dressed herself up as a rich young lady and fell in love with a young man surnamed Zhao. Xiaoying wanted to tell the other party her true identity, but it was always hard to say. When the Zhou family came back from their trip, the truth came out. The young man surnamed Zhao feels cheated. Xiaoying apologizes and the young man surnamed Zhao forgives Xiaoying. Through such a specific plot, the film shows girls' impetuosity and pursuit of luxury. At that time, the theme of the film was health. In 1941, Zhu wenshun wrote and directed her secret, a film with the same theme. The film describes the story of a broken marriage and its reunion, reflecting the suffering of marriage caused by the thought of being poor and loving the rich. In the same year, Zhu wenshun also made two films, the new marriage and Wang Mazi plaster. Newlyweds is a comedy. This paper describes a very willful woman, Xiao Yin, who manages her family. She can't listen to her husband and makes a mess of the family. Guan's father came to the city from the countryside. Seeing that his daughter-in-law made the house look bad, he couldn't bear it. So he asked the neighbor how to be a man in charge of the house, and asked Xiaoyin's father to judge and mediate. With the help of the company staff, Guan taught his wife a lesson, and the family life became harmonious. Wang Mazi plaster describes a life in which a plaster shop competes with other parties for survival in a complicated market.

In 1942, Zhu wenshun continued to grope forward in reflecting his family life, shooting "hate is hard to fill", which describes the story of his younger brother extorting money from his sister-in-law by using his love experience with his sister-in-law. At the same time, it expanded the theme of the film, and shot "singing girl hate" and "leopard head Lin Chong", which reflect the life of the people at the bottom, especially the life of the drama actors. In 1943, with Japan's tight war in the South Pacific, the number of "Manying" films decreased sharply. In this year, Zhu wenshun only edited and directed "Yuanyang after robbery". The film still shows family life. It describes Tang Hongzhi, a son of a rich family, falling in love with his cousin Tao Yinghua, who is pregnant. In order to control the family, Tang's mother wants her niece Yuru to marry Hongzhi. When Tang Hongzhi refused, his mother drove Yinghua away and forced him to marry Yuru. Hongzhi thought of Yinghua on his wedding night, so he left and went to work in a department store. Li Xiang, the girl in the shop, fell in love with Hongzhi again, so Hongzhi had to hide somewhere else. After leaving home, Yinghua wanted to commit suicide, but thinking of her baby, she insisted on living. She worked as a tutor, a pastry worker, and finally gave birth to a child in the home of a colleague in the pastry shop. After many twists and turns, Hongzhi found Yinghua, but by this time the child was dead. The two finally joined in a sad way. In 1944, Zhu wenshun made the film snow white. In 1945, Zhu wenshun also shot "Zhilan nocturne".

In the eight years of its existence, "Manying" has made 108 feature films, and Zhu wenshun has made 10 films alone in five years. Looking at Zhu wenshun's early works, it mainly reflects the sufferings of marriage, family and the life of the people at the bottom, and shows the theme that the poor and the weak are bullied, and the good end wins the evil. In the "Manying" with the theme of national policy films, Zhu wenshun is far away from the national policy films and seeks his own subject area, which to some extent reflects the life of the people in the Northeast occupied areas, which is commendable. Zhou Xiaobo, who filmed with Zhu wenshun at the same time, pleased the Japanese puppet authorities and made typical national policy films "Yellow River" and "spring on the earth", showing his ingratitude and being despised by the people. Through filming, Zhu wenshun United several Japanese playwrights, such as yagukuan, changyanbosi, yingsan Yamauchi, Chinese screenwriter Zhang Wuquan, and Chinese actors, such as puke, Li Xianting, Liu Enjia, Zhang Min, Bai Mei, Zhang Jing and Ye Ling, to make them shoot life films instead of national policy films, which is also of progressive significance.

In 1945, the puppet Manchukuo was in a precarious state. On August 8, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and sent troops to Northeast China. On August 15, Japan surrendered unconditionally. The puppet Manchu capital Xinjing and "Manying" are in a mess. On the evening of August 19, the leading Soviet air force occupied Xinjing. At 6 am on August 20, the chairman of "Manying" Gan Mian Zhengyan killed himself by taking potassium cyanide

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