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Li Hsing

Taiwanese film director (1930-2021) · Taiwan · On the map · Directors · Died at 91

Li Hsing or Lee Hsing (李行) was a Taiwanese film director. He was born Lee Tz-da (李子達) in 1930 in Shanghai and died in 2021. He made one of the early popular Taiwanese films in the late 1959, Wang and Liu Tour Taiwan (王哥柳哥遊台灣), though he did not speak Taiwanese.

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2021Died19 August 20211978Golden Horse Award for Best DirectorAward1972Golden Horse Award for Best DirectorAward1965Golden Horse Award for Best DirectorAward1930Born20 May 1930

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Golden Horse Award for Best Director1978
Golden Horse Award for Best Director1972
Golden Horse Award for Best Director1965
National Cultural Award

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He was also the key director in the promotion of Healthy Realist film (健康寫實片) and Literary Romantic film (愛情文藝片). He was awarded the best director at Golden Horse Awards three times and had seven films awarded the best feature film: Beautiful Duckling, The Road, Execution in Autumn, Land of the Undaunted,, He Never Gives Up, The Story of a Small Town, and Good Morning, Taipei. After he made his last film The Heroic Pioneers, he vowed to be the lifetime volunteer for the promotion of development of Taiwan cinema. In 2009 he established the Cross-Strait Films Exchange Committee, which has been the main, if not only, organization promoting the interaction and cooperation of Taiwanese and Chinese filmmakers. Lee Hsing is often referred to as the "godfather of Taiwan cinema" for his great contribution to Taiwan cinema.

Country
Taiwan
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1930 to 2021 · aged 91

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