Chief reporter of Jimu News Rong Yu
According to local media reports, Li Xing, a famous director in Taiwan who was hailed as the "first person in cross-strait film exchanges," died of illness on the evening of August 19 at the age of 91.
Li Xing is a witness to the development of film in Taiwan and has made indelible contributions to the development of Chinese cinema. His representative works include "Duck Farmer's Home", "A Boat in the Ocean", "Original Villager", "Story of a Small Town", etc., and is the pioneer of "healthy realism" films in Taiwan.
Born in Shanghai in 1930, Li Xing, whose original name was Li Zida, began to work as a film director in the 1950s, and directed more than 50 films in his decades-long career, among which", "Duck Farmer's Home", "Intersection", "Autumn Decision", "My Soil and My People", "A Boat in the Ocean", "Story of a Small Town", "Good Morning Taipei" and so on have won many heavyweight film awards.
In addition to these realistic films, Li Xing has also filmed a number of films based on Qiong Yao's novels, such as "Wanjun Cousin", "Dumb Girl's Deep Love", "Heart with a Thousand Knots", "Seagull Flying Place", etc., he is also the career leader of famous actors such as Qin Xianglin and Lin Fengjiao.
In the eyes of film critics, Li Xing's film creation adheres to the national style and local atmosphere, insists on writing The history of China, Chinese aesthetics and the story of Chinese in the field of film, digs deep into oriental aesthetics, promotes traditional Chinese culture, and makes important contributions to exploring the nationalization of film.
Since the 1990s, Li Xing has been committed to promoting cross-strait film cultural exchanges, and has laid the foundation for cross-strait film cooperation and cross-strait filmmaker exchanges through the establishment of film exhibitions and other means.
He once said in an interview that the most important link in cross-strait film exchanges is to let young directors on both sides of the strait enhance their understanding of each other, and also stressed that young filmmakers should think more about the audience when making movies, "think more for investors, and don't just make movies that you can understand." In his view, the commercialization of films is the trend of the times, and young filmmakers on both sides of the strait cannot avoid this trend.
Director Li Xing once said that as long as his physical conditions permit, he will continue to make movies until he is 97 years old, or even longer, which shows his love for the film industry.
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