The Paper's reporter Jiang Ziwen
Li Xing. People's Vision Infographic
According to a number of media reports on the island, Li Xing, a veteran film director known as the "godfather of Taiwanese cinema", died of heart failure in Taipei at 9:55 p.m. on August 19 at the age of 91.
According to public information, Li Xing's ancestral home is Jiangsu Wujin, born in 1930, has won three Golden Horse Awards for Best Director, and seven of his works have won the Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Film.
According to the Beijing Youth Daily, Li Xing came to Taiwan with his family at the age of 18, and he loved theater performances since he was a child, participated in troupe activities in school, acted and directed himself, and was active on the stage. His eldest brother, Li Ziyi, described him as "growing up in theater and achieving success in movies." Li Xing once said that he grew up watching classic Chinese films in the 1930s and 1940s, and fei Mu's "Spring in a Small Town" had a profound impact on him.
In the 1950s, Li Xing dabbled in the film industry, and by the 1980s, he directed more than 50 works, including "Brother Wang Liu Ge Touring Taiwan", "Raising Ducks", "A Boat in the Ocean", "Good Morning Taipei", "A Thousand Knots in the Heart", "Caiyun Fei", "Seagull Flying Place", "My Land and My People", "Original Villagers", "Story of a Small Town", etc., and was the founder of Taiwan's "healthy realism" film and a witness of Taiwanese cinema for half a century.
In the 1960s, Li Xing's "healthy realistic" films and Qiong Yao's adaptations opened the golden age of Taiwanese films for more than 20 years, and he, together with Li Hanxiang, Hu Jinquan and Bai Jingrui, was called Taiwan's "Four Famous Directors", and his "A Boat in the Ocean", "A Story of a Small Town" and "Good Morning Taipei" won the Golden Horse Awards for Best Feature Film for three consecutive years. Jiao Xiongping, a famous film scholar in Taiwan, said: "When every important film trend in Taiwan rises, Director Li is a leader. ”
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