What happened to the death of director Wu Yigong? Director Wu Yigong profile why he died and what works he had

At 7:32 a.m. on September 14, Wu Yigong, the fourth generation director of China, former vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and chairman of the China Filmmakers Association, died at the age of 80 at Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai.

Wu Yigong, originally from Hangzhou, Zhejiang, was born in Chongqing in 1938 and settled in Shanghai in 1948. He graduated from the Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy in 1960 and has served successively as deputy director of the Shanghai Film Bureau, manager of the Shanghai Film Corporation, director of the Shanghai Film Studio, secretary of the Party Committee and director of the Shanghai Film Bureau, artistic director of the Shanghai Municipal Radio, Film and Television Bureau, and director of the Shanghai Film City since 1984. He led the establishment of the only international A-category film festival in China, the Shanghai International Film Festival.

The main film works are: "Our Little Flower Cat", "Bashan Night Rain", "Seongnam Old Things", "Sister", "Exile University", "The Young Master's Ordeal", "The Moon Returns with People", "Que Li RenJia" and so on. Among them, "Bashan Night Rain" won the best feature film award of the first Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award, and "The Old Story of Seongnam" won the Golden Eagle Award for Best Feature Film at the 2nd Manila International Film Festival and other domestic and foreign awards.

He once said, "Of all the titles, the director is the one I value the most." The films he directed have been called "prose poems" by critics, adopting a freehand principle, with a classical poetic mood and reference to traditional Chinese landscape painting and opera art.

"Some people say I'm an idealist, and the film is full of ideals. I used to say that the golden childhood, the rose-colored teenager, the youth will not be easily forgotten, often expressed in the creative process. We are a generation that grew up with the republic, and the ideals, confidence, sincere pursuits, value orientation of life, romanticism, etc., left to us by that era, always refuse to be extinguished in our hearts. This is Wu Yigong's testimonial when he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the China Film Directors Association in 2012, and it is also his review and summary of his life.

In May this year, the veteran artist, who had spent his life with Shanghai films and Chinese films, wrote "Long live Shanghai films" with all his strength on his sickbed.