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Njoo Cheong Seng was born on 6 November, 1902 in Soerabaia, East Java, Dutch East Indies, is a Chinese Indonesian novelist, playwright, and director (1902–1962). Discover Njoo Cheong Seng's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

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Occupation Writer, film director
Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 6 November 1902
Birthday 6 November
Birthplace Soerabaia, East Java, Dutch East Indies
Date of death 30 November, 1962
Died Place Malang, Indonesia
Nationality Indonesia

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1902

Njoo Cheong Seng (Perfected Spelling: Nyoo Cheong Seng; ; 6 November 1902 – 30 November 1962) was a Chinese-Indonesian playwright and film director.

Also known by the pen name Monsieur d'Amour, he wrote more than 200 short stories, novels, poems and stage plays during his career; he is also recorded as directing and/or writing eleven films.

He married four times during his life and spent several years travelling throughout Southeast Asia and India with different theatre troupes.

His stage plays are credited with revitalising theatre in the Indies.

Njoo was born in East Java on 6 November 1902; the Indonesian sinologist Leo Suryadinata writes that he was born in Surabaya, while the writers Sam Setyautama and Suma Mihardja record him as having been born in Malang.

He received his elementary education at a Tiong Hoa Hwe Koan school in Surabaya.

1919

By an early age he had begun contributing to Chinese-owned newspapers; his first literary work, Tjerita Penghidoepan Manoesia (Stories on the Life of Man), was published in Sin Po in 1919.

1920

By the 1920s Njoo had begun writing extensively, often under the pen name Monsieur d'Amour; other pen names include N.C.S. and N.Ch.S. He wrote numerous stories for the Gresik-based publication Hua Po beginning in 1922, and in 1925 he helped establish the magazine Penghidoepan; he became its editor and writer of many of its contents in its early years.

Works published during this time included Menika dalem Koeboeran (Marry in the Grave) and Gagal (Failure), as well as the stage play Lady Yen Mei.

They generally had numerous locations and cultural backgrounds, and were often relating to crime and detective work.

Njoo became active with the Miss Riboet's Orion troupe in the late 1920s, writing several of their stage plays, including Kiamat (Apocalypse), Tengkorak (Skull), and Tueng Balah.

1928

In 1928 he married the actress Tan Kiem Nio, a member of the troupe who was 14 years old at the time.

Njoo coached her in acting and convinced her to take the stage name Fifi Young; Young was the Mandarin equivalent of Njoo's Hokkien surname, while Fifi was meant to be reminiscent of the French actress Fifi D'Orsay.

The two joined several further theatrical troupes, including Club Moonlight Crystal Follies in Penang (under Njoo's leadership) and Dardanella, travelling throughout Malaysia, Singapore, and India.

1929

The Indonesian film historian Misbach Yusa Biran credits Njoo with helping Miss Riboet dominate the country's touring theatre industry from 1929 until 1931.

This was echoed by the leftist Indonesian literary critic Bakri Siregar, who writes that Njoo and fellow dramatist Andjar Asmara's stage plays revitalised the genre in the Indies and made the works more realistic.

However, he considered the conflict in these works to have been poorly developed.

The literary teacher Doris Jedamski describes him as "one of the most famous, most creative, and most productive Chinese-Malay authors of the twentieth century", noting with surprise that little research has been done into his life.

1935

By 1935 they had established their own troupe with Young as the star, Fifi Young's Pagoda; however, this collapsed within a few years.

1937

After the success of Albert Balink's Terang Boelan in 1937 and The Teng Chun's Alang-Alang in 1939, four new film studios were started.

One of these, Oriental Film, signed Njoo and Young; Njoo was taken as a writer, while Young was meant to be an actress.

This was part of a general movement bringing stage personnel into the film industry.

1940

Njoo and Young made their feature film debut with Kris Mataram, a story of forbidden love, in 1940; Njoo directed and wrote the story, while Young acted.

This was followed by two further collaborations, the drama Zoebaida and the musical Pantjawarna.

Njoo then left the company.

When Njoo left the studio to join Majestic Pictures upon the invitation of Fred Young, Fifi Young went with him.

With Majestic he directed two films.

1941

The first, Djantoeng Hati (Heart and Soul; 1941), did not star Young as she was taking a sabbatical for health reasons, possibly a pregnancy.

Young returned for Air Mata Iboe (Mother's Tears; 1941), a tragedy which followed a young man who takes vengeance on his siblings after they refuse to shelter their mother.

The Japanese occupation of the Indies led to all but one film studio in the country being closed; Njoo and Young went back to the theatre, joining the Bintang Soerabaia troupe.

1945

In 1945 Njoo established the Pantjawarna troupe and divorced Young – with whom he had had five children – to marry Mipi Malenka.

Sometime after Indonesia proclaimed its independence in 1945 Njoo took the Indonesian name Munzik Anwar.

1950

Njoo returned to the country's film industry by 1950, writing or directing six further films before his death; one of these, Djembatan Merah (Red Bridge; 1950), was remade in 1973.

By the late 1950s Njoo is recorded as having a fourth wife, Oei Lan Nio; the couple owned a flower store together in Malang.

1962

Njoo died there on 30 November 1962.