Song cunshou

Song cunshou

Tsu shousung, born in Jiangdu, Jiangsu Province from September 2, 1930 to May 27, 2008, is a film director from Taiwan, China. In the past years, he was famous in Chinese film circles as Li Xing, Li Hanxiang, Hu Jinquan and others. He is good at making love movies and is known as a "literary director". He once discovered famous actors such as Qin and Han Dynasties, Lin Qingxia and so on. His masterpieces include Breaking Dawn and mother's thirty years old And outside the window.

In 2001, he won the Golden Horse Award for Taiwan film.

Personal experience

Song cunshou graduated from Zhendan high school in Yangzhou. Graduated from Hong Kong Academy of culture, worked in Jiahua printing company and Siwei company, and began to write scripts.

In 1949, he went to Hong Kong and worked as an accountant trainee in Jiahua printing factory. At the same time, he studied in the evening Department of journalism, Hong Kong Academy of culture.

In 1955, he was the screenwriter of four dimensional film company, and created the screenplay "river of love". Later, he wrote screenplays for Shao, Xinhua and other film companies, such as one night romance and Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. He also served as a field reporter and was promoted to deputy director in 1961. In addition to 26 film director works, he has been involved in behind the scenes work of TV series since 1982, and has made a lot of contributions to TV creation. His film works have long been recognized by International Film Critics and academic circles. In recent years, he has won the attention and introduction of international film festivals such as Tokyo Film Festival in Japan and duville Film Festival in France. Song cunshou's experience in film making was very tortuous. When he was a senior high school student, since the Sino Japanese War, he moved to Hong Kong to study in the Journalism Department of the night Department of the Hong Kong Academy of culture. During the day, I worked part-time in a printing factory and met Hu Jinquan, who worked as an accounting assistant in a printing factory. Hu Jinquan later went to Longma film company to do art work, and introduced Song Dynasty to Li Hanxiang. After that, Li Hanxiang introduced song cunshou as the screenwriter of Lovy's film "amorous River". After that, song cunshou successively worked as a screenwriter, field reporter and deputy director in Shao's, Xinhua's and other film companies. In 1963, song cunshou, Wang Zhibo and Xiao Tong wrote Li Hanxiang's Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, which set an unprecedented record in Taiwan. In the same year, Li Hanxiang left Shao's family and went to Taiwan to set up the League of nations film company. Song cunshou also went to Taiwan to join the League of nations as deputy director.

In 1963, he joined Taiwan Guolian film company as deputy director, and in 1966, he became director. Shooting the film "dawn", the story of unjust imprisonment caused by the corruption of officials in the Qing Dynasty is treated as an art film with strong shock, which is well received.

In 1970, he directed the film courtyard deep, which was adapted from Qiongyao's novel. In 1971, he won the ninth Golden Horse Award for excellent feature film. He has written many plays, such as amorous River, one night romance, Miss Fan, etc.

In 1972, he directed the film "mother is thirty", which sharply criticized the old ethics and morality, portrayed the characters' psychology carefully and deeply, and was selected as the best Mandarin film of 1973 by Taiwan China Film Critics Association. Other films directed include "out of the window", "female reporter", "this love can ask the sky", "love of migratory birds" and so on. The general director's feature films are: 1966: the pride of heaven 1967: Dawn 1968: Iron Lady 1970: courtyard deep 1971: light smoke 1972: Ghost blowing the story of Xinlan mother 30 years old 1973: precocious morning star female reporter Yidan 1974: Ancient Mirror ghost water cloud 1975: Qiuxia 1976: the second rainbow 1977: flowers are not flowers this situation can ask the sky 1978: green Villa parrot legend (cooperation with Yu Zhengchun) 1979 : endless road, falling flowers and flowing water, spring to my song, I cry 1980: love of migratory birds 1981: girl of Qiao family 1982: teacher, ska also answers.

Main works

The pride of heaven, 1966

Breaking Dawn, 1968

Iron Lady, 1969

1971 "deep courtyard" (Wang Rong, the best feature film and best actor of the 9th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards)

1972 light smoke, outside the window (1977 Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Netherlands)

"The story of Xinlan" and "my mother is thirty years old" in 1973 (first prize of Best Mandarin film of 1973 by China Film Critics Association; 1977 Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Netherlands)

"Precocious", "ghost of Ancient Mirror", "strange talk in the middle of the night" and "female reporter" in 1974

Morning star, water clouds, 1975

"Autumn glow" in 1976

1978 "flowers are not flowers", "this love can ask the sky", "leave a piece of Acacia", "Legend of parrot"

1979 the second rainbow and spring gone

1980 "I sing, I cry", "love of migratory birds", "endless road"

1982 "the girl of the family" and "teacher, skaya"

Relevant evaluation

Best works

It has always been recognized that song cunshou's best works are "dawn", "mother is thirty" and "outside the window", which are highly praised by film critics and intellectuals. "Out of the window" became popular with Lin Qingxia, who later became popular in Taiwan and Hong Kong for more than 20 years. However, because the original author protested the copyright issue, it was not released in Taiwan.

Connotation of works

Song cunshou combines form and connotation. His style is light and meaningful. He is good at setting off the emotional world full of human taste in plain narration. In his films, the transformation of personal value caused by the transformation of people from agricultural society to industrial and commercial society is generally observed. Therefore, Taiwan film scholar Li Daoming said that the themes of his works are mostly "the conflict between individual lust and group moral norms, the conflict between individualism and familism, the conflict between individual and society, and the conflict between individual and tradition". However, due to song cunshou's simple aesthetic taste, he did not exaggerate and frivolously deal with the theme of intense conflict, but sympathetically presented the conflict and struggle of these characters, and finally succumbed to the traditional "mature" process. Instead of telling the audience flashy truth in the film, he just wanted to make some popular and romantic stories delicate and just right.

Personal life

Song cunshou, the Taiwanese director who helped Lin Qingxia, died of illness at the age of 78. On May 27, 2008, Lin Qingxia was very sad when she heard the bad news. She said, "I went to see him in September last year. At that time, everyone thought he didn't recognize me, but he whispered" Qingxia, "and everyone laughed." Song cunshou directed the film "out of the window", selected Lin Qingxia from many audition girls to take part in the film, let her jump on the screen and embark on the silver journey.

Song cunshou, a heavyweight director who has directed films such as "dawn", "out of the window" and "mother is 30", died yesterday afternoon of a suspected pneumonia fever. His widow Zhao YingYing and two daughters were at the bedside to see him off for the last journey.

Li Xing, a good friend director, said that song cunshou had a strong will to survive after he was admitted to the nursing home the year before last. When he visited in the lunar new year this year, his consciousness was sometimes clear and sometimes vague. Although he recognized Li Xing, he asked the nurse beside him, "why hasn't Xiao Hu (Hu Jinquan) seen him for a long time?"

In 2001, when he delivered his acceptance speech for the Golden Horse Lifetime Achievement Award, he said through his daughter, "I have been in film for 40 years and directed 30 films. However, the bad luck, this life and the grand prize no chance, more pass However, his vision of knowing people is extraordinary. He once thought of Qin and Han Dynasties, Lin Qingxia, Chen Qiuxia and others as shining stars.

Lin Qingxia and song cunshou have known each other for 35 years. In September last year, they visited the maintenance center. Song cunshou, sitting in a wheelchair, talked and laughed with her. They clasped their hands. In a flash, the past of their life appeared like film. She was deeply moved.

Song cunshou also told her that day that he had a dream that Hu Jinquan, who had left earlier than him, came to ask him to film. Director Li Xing said, "what is he doing here? Tell him to go back!" Lin Qingxia said that the deep feelings of the two brothers lie in their words.

Song cunshou suffered from Parkinson's disease in his later years. Lin Qingxia didn't see him for a long time. Until her mother died, director song came to pay his respects, and they met again. When Lin Qingxia invited him to have dinner, she chatted about his family. She also offered him a special toast: "I used to be too young to be sensible. I often made you angry. Don't mind!" At that time, director Song, who had the symptoms of shaking hands, laughed happily. Song cunshou is the promoter of Lin Qingxia's brilliant screen career. His "out of the window" has selected Lin Qingxia from many audition girls. But when Lin Qingxia just graduated from high school and was under 18 years old, her parents firmly opposed her entering this circle, but song cunshou succeeded in making her jump onto the screen. The two worked together on four films, including "outside the window", "ghost of the ancient mirror", "female reporter" and "green Villa".

In Song cunshou's out of the window, Zhen Zhen was too busy to take on the role of Jiang Yanrong. If he didn't see Lin Qingxia's star character at a glance, and if he didn't persuade the two elders of the Lin family with the image of a good husband Maybe it's going to rewrite the history of Taiwan film.

Song cunshou, who is famous for his profound humanistic quality and meaningful style, is as famous as Li Xing, Li Hanxiang, Hu Jinquan and others in the Chinese film world, and is also known as a "literary director". His "dawn", "mother 30" and "out of the window" are the most representative classics.

"Dawn" compresses the time in the night before dawn, through the interweaving of the night and the twisted struggle of human nature, it shows the young clerks' powerlessness in the face of unjust imprisonment and corrupt officialdom; "mother 30" graciously depicts women's desire for love and the conflict between mother and son under the patriarchal culture; "out of the window" starts the trend of pure love movies

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