Hu Jinquan

Hu Jinquan

Hu Jinquan (June 3, 1932 - January 14, 1997), born in Yongnian County, Hebei Province, is a director, screenwriter and producer in Hong Kong, China.

In 1958, he joined Shaw company as an actor, screenwriter and assistant director. In 1962, he co directed Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai with Li Hanxiang. In 1964, he directed the children of the earth independently, and later directed the new martial arts films such as the drunken man and the dragon's Gate Inn. In 1975, the martial arts film "chivalrous woman" won the highest technology award of the 28th Cannes International Film Festival. In 1992, he made the film "the king of yin and Yang".

On January 14, 1997, Hu Jinquan died in Taiwan at the age of 65.

Early experience

Hu Jinquan was born in Beiping (now Beijing) on June 3, 1932 (April 29 of the lunar calendar). He was a kindergarten student in Jingxing coal mine, Hebei Province. Since childhood, I have studied ancient Chinese literature at home, deeply loved painting, and enjoyed watching martial arts in Chinese opera. In 1937, after the July 7 Incident, the family moved back to Peking. In 1938, he entered Hutong primary school. In 1943, he entered Huiwen Middle School in Beiping and studied science in high school.

In 1949, he was a sophomore in Huiwen Middle School in Peking. He successfully applied for admission to Dayton college in Colorado. He was unable to leave because of the civil war. In November, he left Peiping alone for Hong Kong and stayed at the Kowloon Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong with his classmate relationship with Wang Dayong, son of Wang Xinzhang, general manager of Hong Kong Station of Air China.

In 1950, Wang Xinzhang resigned and Hu Jinquan was forced to move to Beijiao rehabilitation apartment. In addition, he was not allowed to take the entrance examination of the Hong Kong Polytechnic, so he had to give up the entrance examination. He worked as an assistant accountant in the carnival printing factory and was also responsible for the proofreading of telephone books to make a living. Because of his stubborn temper, he was forced to be laid off and moved to 107 Boundary Street, Kowloon, where Jiang Guangchao and Ma Li lived.

In 1951, introduced by Jiang Guangchao, he worked for Longma film company in advertising, poster, setting, etc., and painted Kanban for the film "my life". Half a month later, he was fired. Shen Tianyin, the director of great wall film studio, the father of Shen Jiale, was interested in learning English for primary school students of No. 107. Later, he was introduced by Shen Tianyin to the great wall film company as a "furnishing" post. Appreciated by Wan Laiming and Wan guchan, he was responsible for the props, drawing and design of the film "a spring".

In 1952, he was in charge of the props design of the films "boudoir dreamer", "children's classic" and "Mid Autumn Moon"; in the same year, he joined Yonghua company as an assistant director, writing part-time film stories and scripts, but he was not hired.

In February 1953, on the new year's eve of Guisi year, he and Feng Yi, Li Hanxiang, Jiang Guangchao, Ma Li, Shen Zhong and song cunshou became brothers of different surnames at No. 107, Boundary Street, Kowloon, which is called "seven leisure".

Acting experience

In the same year, introduced by Li Hanxiang, he performed for the first time in Yan Jun's "the slapper" (also known as "laughter and tears", "laughter and tears", which was released in 1958). After receiving high praise, he gave up his "art" job and became an actor. Then he appeared in Jinfeng, and later acted as Yan Jun's assistant director with Li Hanxiang. At the same time, he worked as a radio announcer in "voice of beauty" cable radio station, and wrote radio dramas for the radio station.

In 1954, he acted in and helped to direct "it's hard to say what you say"; on August 13, Yonghua film store caught fire and suffered heavy losses. On October 9, on behalf of odelden, the creditor of Yonghua, the Lu group of Singapore, asked the Hong Kong government to auction the film factory, and led lawyers and accountants to settle in and clear up the financial property rights. On March 29 of the following year (1955), the Lu Group officially took over and Yonghua was reorganized.

In order to maintain the company's work in Yonghua, he worked as a radio announcer in the voice of Li, and worked for the voice of Li weekly. Later, he joined the voice of America with Zou wenhuai as the producer of Mandarin programs. During his service, he arranged the marriage between Zou wenhuai and Li Hanxiang.

1954-1957

During this period, he worked in Yadong film, Yonghua, Yadong, Shao, Asian studios, Xintian, Dongfang, Tsinghua film, Dianmao, Haiyan, Siwei and many other film companies. He received the influence, guidance and guidance of Zhu Shilin, Li Pingqian, Tao Qin, Yan Jun, Li Hanxiang, bu wancang, Luo Wei, Yue Feng and other directors. He also cooperated with Li Qing, Han Fei, Xia Meng, Lin Dai, Wang Yin, Chen Ying Yan Yan, Li Lihua, Lottie and other actors cooperate to extensively contact and learn various film skills; in order to enrich themselves, they read the theoretical books of dramatists and filmmakers such as Gu Zhongyi, Zhang Junxiang and Huang zuolin, and read the works of Stanislavsky, podovkin, Eisenstein and other film masters over and over again through Russian English translation.

In 1958, Dick McCarthy, the head of VOA, appreciated Hu Jinquan among more than 30 applicants from all over Southeast Asia, and offered him a job in Washington, D.C., enjoying the treatment of civil servant.

I didn't want to accept Li Hanxiang's proposal to sign a contract with Shaw Brothers as an actor. Later, Shao Renmei, the head of Shaw, and Zhou Duwen, the general manager, proposed that Hu Jinquan sign a contract as an actor and screenwriter, and explained that after writing some scripts, he would have a chance to become a director, so he agreed to join Shaw Brothers as an actor, screenwriter and assistant director.

From 1958 to 1965, he acted in more than 20 films, and wrote plays such as "Hua Tian CuO", "spring is not the day for reading" and "red beard". In 1959, he won the best supporting actor award at the 6th Asian Film Festival for his role as "Daniel" in "beauty of the country".

In 1962, he was the famous deputy director of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai directed by Li Hanxiang. In fact, he was the director of academy, downhill visit to Yingtai and other clips. In 1963, he succeeded Li Hanxiang in shooting "yutangchun".

In 1964, he directed and acted in the Anti Japanese film children of the earth. In the same year, he was ordered to shoot another film of the same theme, Ding Yishan, with the same set and costume as the children of the earth.

Ding Yishan also stopped shooting two weeks later.

In Taiwan, Zou wenhuai was optimistic about location. He signed a contract with Taiwan producers to co shoot "red beard", which was ordered to stop by Shao's boss. After that, pan Lei finished shooting in Taiwan and changed to "mountain bandit", and Hu Jinquan became a famous screenwriter. In the same year, he directed the first new martial arts film "the drunken man" and began to conceive and write "Longmen inn" (originally named Qijie). Later, he left Shao's company and raised money everywhere. Later, he decided to switch to the federal company and go to Taiwan.

Join the Federation

In August 1966, he signed a two-year director's contract with the Federal Film Company. The first film was "the long men inn", which purchased equipment for the company and trained new people (including Xu Feng, Shi Jun, Bai Ying, Shangguan Lingfeng, Han Xiangqin, Tian Peng, etc.). In September, he and Sha Rongfeng, general manager of the federal Corporation, were received by Zhang Qun, chief of staff of the leader of the Taiwan authorities.

"Children of the earth" won the best screenwriter award, the best editing award and the special award for the best development of national spirit in the 4th Golden Horse Award of Taiwan film. The public performance of "the drunken man" is very popular. The film and "one armed sword" make him and Zhang Che known as "peerless double pride". On December 12, "Longmen inn" set up a scene outside henggu in Taichung and began shooting the location of the inn.

On May 23, 1967, Longmen Inn was released on the Taoyuan Danan International Studio of the federal company. On August 5, he went to Hong Kong to process the dubbing of the film "Longmen inn". In October, "dragon's Gate Inn" was released and became the first of Taipei's top ten best-selling Mandarin films in 1967, setting the highest box office record for Chinese and foreign films since the opening of Hong Kong. In that year, the total box office revenue in Taiwan was more than NT $4.42 million. In December, "chivalrous woman" officially started shooting.

In 1968, Longmen Inn won the best work award and the best screenwriter award of the 6th Golden Horse Award for Taiwan film. In March, he went to the United States to attend the Asia Society of America. In May, Longmen Inn took part in the Berlin International Film Festival, becoming the first film produced in Taiwan to be officially released in a Japanese theater.

On the afternoon of May 7, 1969, "joys, sorrows and joys" began shooting in China Film Academy.

In January 1970, James Mason came to Hong Kong to shoot the film "Mr. Gu in two faces". He was invited to play the role of a Japanese businessman. The film's salary was as high as HK $160000, breaking the record of actor's salary in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Later, he ended his acting career with money and me. On March 13, Mr. Tang and Mr. Wang discussed the film with the hotel. "Joy, anger, sorrow and joy" was released on October 9. In the same year, the first episode of chivalrous woman was released.

In February 1971, he was invited to attend the 28th International Oriental society in Canberra, capital of Australia. "Chivalrous woman" was completed in Hong Kong, and the next episode "Lingshan sword shadow" was released in Hong Kong on November 18, which did not sell well.

Self organized company

In December, I set up Jinquan film company and started shooting "the rain of the empty mountain", then died.

In 1972, he cooperated with Jiahe company to shoot "the storm of Yingchun Pavilion" and "the picture of martyrs", which opened in June. "Chivalrous woman" won the best color film art design award of the 10th Taiwan Golden Horse Film Award.

In 1973, due to attending the Oriental conference in Paris, the shooting of the picture of the martyr was interrupted. "The storm of Yingchun Pavilion" was released on December 6. In the same month, he began to publish articles on Lao She.

On February 18, 1975, the picture of the martyr was released and won the special art contribution award at the Chicago International Film Festival. He and his friends raised money to buy the European and American distribution rights of "chivalrous woman", edited the international version of "chivalrous woman" for three hours, and participated in Cannes Film Festival.

World renowned

In May 1975, he won the 1975 Cannes Film Festival Technology Award, Palme d'Or for best picture (nominated), the 28th Cannes best technology and visual effects award, and the Canadian Montana award

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