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Statistics : 11630 Movies 19215 People 1448 Studios 29 Articles 73 Interviews 12 DVD Reviews 32452 Screenshots 3722 Videos
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屠光启 Doo Kwang Kee Tiu Kwong Kai Tu Guang Qi Tu Kuang Chi Tu2 Guang1 Qi3
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Birthdate : |
26/8/1914 |
Date of death : |
30/5/1980 |
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China |
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Hong Kong, Taiwan |
Activities : |
Director (57), Writer (26), Actor (4) |
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Tu Guangqi was a Chinese director and screenwriter originating from Shanghai but who spent most of his career in Hong Kong where he left his mark on the Colony Mandarin cinema. Active from the late 40s until the early 70s. He worked for the Shaw brothers, Cathay and plenty of other studios.
At first, a stage actor in Shanghai, Tu Guangqi gratuated to movies while under contract for the Hua Cheng Meng company following the film director Zhu Shilin's encouragements. He soon becomes assistant director and in 1940. He and Zhu co-direct Meng Li Jun. Tu then shoots his first film in solo: New Fisherman’s Song//Xi Yuguang Qu which is well received by the critics. In 1942 he directs a film for which he also wrote the script Falling Plum Blossom/Meihua Luo. 1946 marks Tu's return to the big screen after a 4-year hiatus with the shooting of two Bejing-made movies: Code Number One/Tianzi Diyi Hao and From Night Till Dawn/Heye Dao Tianming, which becomes huge popular hits. He comes back to Shanghai where he shoots 10 films in 3 years, most of which he also wrote. In 1949, he goes into exile to persued his film career in Hong-Kong and contributes to the establishment of a new prestine mandarin-speaking cinema.
Tu works for many studios. In the early 50s he helps launch the Shaw And Sons, Ltd making for them half a dozen films within two years. That doesn't stop him from making films for other companies including productions in Cantonese. His favourite genres are melodramas and historical epics. His most memorable films at the time are: The Little Phoenix/Xiao FengXian (53) and Half Way Down/Ban XialiuShehui (1957). He keeps writing the screenplays of most of his films. He also has the merit of discovering the actor Peter Chen Ho, one of the rare great male stars in Hong Kong Mandarin cinema in the 50s and early 60s. In 1957, he is one of the three directors involved in Love With An Alien/Yiguo Qing Yuan, a co-production between Shaw and Sons and a Korean studio and the company's first film in colour.
From the early 60s, Tu turns to the Wu Xia Pian starting in the genre with The Daring Gang of Nineteen from Verdun City/Qingcheng Shiiiu Xia. In 1967, he directs Cathay studio first wuxia pian with The First Sword/Diyi Jian followed by Invisible Sabre/Yanling Dao and Violet Mansion/Yijian Qingshen. Despite his substantial quantitative contribution to the genre, he never makes truly his marks on the genre the way fellow filmmakers King Hu and Chang Cheh does. During this period he also writes many wuxia novels some of them are turned into movies.
With sixty films in three decades under his belt, Tu retires in 1972. His last film is Crush/ Tang Shou Ta Quan Dao, a kung fu film made in the same vein as Bruce Lee early hit Big Boss/Tang Shan Da Xiong, which is later parodied by the French situationist René Viénet under the name « La Dialectique peut-elle casser des briques ? » (''Can Dialectic break bricks'') Afterward Tu Guangqi writes his memoirs and also appears as an actors in a couple of films notably by King Hu'sValiant Ones. Later he immigrates to the USA and passes away in Los Angeles in 1980.
Written by Yves Gendron (December 2006) Sources: Hong Kong The Extra Dimension by Stephen Teo. The Shaw Screen a Preliminary Study A Study of the Hong-Kong Swordplay films. |
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Man Of Wealth, A |
1979 |
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Private Eyes, The |
1976 |
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Valiant Ones |
1975 |
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Crush |
1973 |
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Private Eye, The |
1973 |
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Crush |
1972 |
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Many Faces Of A Diamond |
1972 |
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King's Sword, The |
1970 |
Director, Writer |
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Night Is Not Made For Stealing |
1970 |
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Way Ching Killer The Dragon |
1970 |
Director, Writer |
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Lotus Camp |
1969 |
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Violet Mansion, The |
1969 |
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Invisible Sabre, The |
1968 |
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First Sword, The |
1967 |
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White Swan, The |
1967 |
Director, Writer |
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Double Exposure |
1966 |
Director, Writer |
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Heroic Tribe (Part 1), The |
1966 |
Director, Writer |
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Heroic Tribe (Part 2), The |
1966 |
Director, Writer |
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Girl Spy 001 |
1965 |
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Zhang Ailan And The Mafia |
1965 |
Director, Writer |
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Girl's Tears, A |
1964 |
Director, Writer |
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Homeless Children |
1964 |
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How the Oil Vendor Won the Beauty Contest |
1964 |
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No. 1 Lady Thief |
1963 |
Director, Writer |
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One Murder, Five Deaths |
1963 |
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Blazing Volcano, The |
1962 |
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Mysterious Murderer, The |
1962 |
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Heroic Lovers From The Tomb, The |
1961 |
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Witch-Girl, He Yueer, The |
1961 |
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Bloodbath In Emerald Valley |
1960 |
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Daring Gang Of Nineteen From Verdun City, The |
1960 |
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Night Of The Long Knives |
1960 |
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Shadow Over The Chateau, A |
1960 |
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19 Heroes Of The Green Mountain |
1959 |
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Red Turn the Flowers When Down Come the Showers |
1959 |
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Love With An Alien |
1958 |
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Where Is My Bride ? |
1958 |
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You Are My Soul |
1958 |
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Great Wall Of China, The |
1957 |
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Half Way Down |
1957 |
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Love's Elegy |
1956 |
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My Lover, The Ghost |
1956 |
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Love And Duty |
1955 |
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Blood-Stained Flowers |
1954 |
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Mortal Wind, The |
1954 |
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Rose I Love You |
1954 |
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Closed Chamber |
1953 |
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General Chai And Lady Balsam |
1953 |
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Little Phoenix |
1953 |
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Meal Time |
1953 |
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New West Chamber |
1953 |
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Qiu Jin, The Revolutionary Heroine |
1953 |
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Songstress Called Hong Lingyan, A |
1953 |
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Sorrowful Glory |
1953 |
Director, Writer |
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Tears Of A Songstress |
1953 |
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Closer The Better, The |
1952 |
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Fatal Attraction |
1952 |
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Moon-Blanch'd Land, The |
1952 |
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Sweet Memories |
1952 |
Director, Writer |
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Troubled Love Of Wang Kui And Gui Ying, The |
1952 |
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World Turned Upside Down, The |
1952 |
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Modern Wives |
1951 |
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To See The Clouds Roll |
1950 |
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Twenty Four Hours Of Marriage |
1950 |
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