Tang Shuxuan

Tang Shuxuan

Tang Shuxuan, born in Hong Kong, China on March 21, 1941, is a Hong Kong, China, female director and screenwriter. She graduated from the film department of the University of Southern California.

In 1969, he directed his first film, Mrs. Dong, which won the most creative special award of the 9th Golden Horse Award for Taiwan film. In 1972, he directed the feature film goodbye to China. In 1975, he founded the film biweekly "big feature" (the predecessor of the film biweekly); in the same year, he wrote and directed the comedy film "Thirteen don't match". In 1979, he directed the plot film "upstart"; later, Tang Shuxuan chose to quit the film industry at the peak of her career and immigrated to the United States.

Character experience

After graduating from the film department of the University of Southern California in 1969, Tang Shu Xuan returned to Hong Kong and directed his first film, Mrs. Dong, which tells the story of a widow remarrying and won the most creative special award of the 9th Golden Horse Award for Taiwan film. in 1972, she directed the plot film goodbye China, CO starred by Shao Xiaoling, Zeng Zhixue and pan Jimin. The film describes the journey of four young students who want to sneak into Hong Kong from the mainland of the cultural revolution, paying attention to the "cross-border" phenomenon of refugees from the mainland. As a result, it was banned by the Hong Kong and British authorities under the name of "may damage the friendly relations [and] hinder public order in the neighboring areas", and was re screened in 1980 The film was officially released in Hong Kong in May 1987. In 1975, he founded the film biweekly "feature" (the predecessor of the film biweekly); in the same year, he wrote and directed the comedy film "Thirteen don't match", which is composed of 13 small segments, each of which has its own subtitle and ends with a circle shaped special effect. In 1979, he directed the movie "the upstart", CO starring Li Xiaotian, Liao Cuirong and Shi Xiu. Later, Tang Shuxuan chose to quit the film industry at the peak of her career and immigrated to the United States to live the life of husband and son, and then disappeared from the public view.

Main works

Directing works

Screenwriter's works

Award winning record

Character evaluation

Tang Shuxuan expresses her unique thoughts on social reality, political history and interpersonal relations, her sympathy for human nature's struggle for survival in the predicament, and her ultimate despair for all seemingly beautiful phenomena, no matter whether she misappropriates the appearance and pattern of art or commercial films. Tang Shuxuan is also one of the few directors in the history of Chinese language films who have thought deeply about gender issues. His concern for sex politics is closely linked with his concern for social politics (review of film art). Tang Shuxuan is known as the pioneer of "new film" in Hong Kong and Taiwan. As a female director, Tang Shuxuan's works have general and common female themes and perspectives, but on the other hand, they also contain more profound human nature proposition. The former gives Tang Shuxuan a style different from that of ordinary film writers, while the latter makes her different from ordinary female directors. In the movie "Mrs. Dong", Tang Shuxuan uses the flashback technique of the movie to skillfully show on the big screen. She has "the unique and sharp delicacy of women", which makes the tragedy of "Mrs. Dong" under the oppression of human nature and system incisively and vividly expressed (review of audio visual).