Great Wall Movie Enterprises Ltd
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Great Wall Studio was Hong Kong's leading left-wing studio and one committed to making progressive mandarin films with social content as well as entertainment value.
Well known for their patriotism towards mainland China, Great Wall often collaborated with Feng Huang (Phoenix) Motion Picture Co and it was the pioneer studio in the early 1950s.
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Overview
In 1948, Zhang Shan Kun co-founded with Yuan Yang An the Great Wall Pictures Corporation. The momentum for developing a Mandarin film industry was established but Zhang and Yuen departed company when the finances and administration of Great Wall became influenced by events happening in China. Yuan stayed in the reorganised Great Wall Movie Enterprises Ltd, which became identified with left-wing tendencies.Well known for their patriotism towards mainland China, Great Wall often collaborated with Feng Huang (Phoenix) Motion Picture Co and it was the pioneer studio in the early 1950s.
Notable Directors and Actors
There are many veterans and talents from China who joined the studio, In the meanwhile, lots of acting talents and directors are cultivated too.Directors:
- Li Ping Qian
- Cheng BugaoCheng BugaoCheng Bugao was a prominent Chinese film director during the 1930s. Employed by the Mingxing Film Company, Cheng was responsible for several important "leftist" films in the period, including the Wild Torrents and Spring Silkworms...
- Yuan Yang An
- Cheung Yam Yin
- Huang Yu
- Wong Su Chen
- Hu Hsiao Fung
- Wen Yi Min
- Jin Yong
Actors:
- Fu Che (also known as Fu Qi, also director and producer)
- Hsia Moon (also known as Xia Meng, Miranda Yang, also producer)
- Shi Hui (also known as Shek Hwei)
- Chen Si Si
- Jiang Han
- Zhang Zheng
- Guan Shan
- Gao Yuan
- Li Tziang
- Wei WeiWei WeiWei Wei , originally known as Hong Jie , was a poet, a prose writer, a literary report writer, a journalist, a vice-editor-in-chief and the editor of various newspapers in China and a propagandist. His works are noted for their themes of patriotism, communism, and nationalism...
- Paw Hee Jing
- Bao Fong
- Zhu HongZhu HongZhu Hong 祩 宏 Chinese Buddhist leader and anti-Jesuit. He was known as the “Master of Yunqi” , after a monastery restored in his honor. He was born in Hangzhou into a family with the surname Shen. Zhu was an excellent student, although he never succeeded along the path of officialdom. His first...
- Wang Bao Zhen
- Ping Fan
- Gong Qiu Xia
- Feng Lin
- Fang Ping
- Yu Wan Fei
- Qiu Ping
- Chen Juan Juan
- Liang Shan
- Lan Qing
- Zhang Bing Qian