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Cai Chusheng was born on 12 January, 1906 in Shanghai, China, is a Chinese film director. Discover Cai Chusheng'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 62 years old?

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Occupation Film director
Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 12 January, 1906
Birthday 12 January
Birthplace Shanghai, China
Date of death 15 July, 1968
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Nationality China

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1906

Cai Chusheng (January 12, 1906 – July 15, 1968) was a Chinese film director of the pre-Communist era, and was the first Chinese director to win an international film award at the Moscow International Film Festival.

1920

Cai Chusheng initially worked in low-level positions in several small studios during the 1920s, before eventually joining Mingxing Film Company as a director's assistant to Zheng Zhengqiu, another Chaoyang-native.

1930

Best known for his progressive output in the 1930s, Cai Chusheng was later severely persecuted and died during the Cultural Revolution.

His ashes are kept at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing.

Cai was born in Shanghai to Cantonese parents, but raised in Chaoyang, Guangdong.

He only had four years of formal education, and was home-schooled after he had spoken up for his class about the misbehavior of a teacher.

While home-schooled, he studied Confucianism and practiced calligraphy and painting.

1932

Cai later joined the Lianhua Film Company where he directed a handful of mainstream popular films including Spring in the South and Pink Dream (both 1932).

He would not cement his reputation as a leading leftist filmmaker until after the Japanese attack in 1932, when Cai, like many of his colleagues, shifted towards increasingly progressive or leftist filmmaking.

This shift can be seen in output after 1932, including the class-struggle dramas Dawn Over the Metropolis (1933), Song of the Fishermen (1934), and the proto-feminist New Women (1934), which starred Ruan Lingyu.

Song of the Fishermen, for example, was a major box office success in Shanghai where it played for 87 days, and it would also become the first Chinese film to win an international prize, doing so at the Moscow International Film Festival.

During the war, Cai fled first to Hong Kong, where he helped launch Mandarin-language cinema with Situ Huimin.

In Hong Kong, Cai would also direct two films, including an anti-Japanese thriller.

Cai was also a pioneer in making films in local dialects, and the first to make movies in Cantonese.

He also made movies in Chaozhou dialect.

When Hong Kong fell to the Japanese, Cai fled to Chongqing, China's wartime capital, where he joined the government-run Nationalist Central Film Studio.

Cai's post-war career saw him returning to Shanghai and becoming a leading member of the Lianhua Film Society (later incorporated as the Kunlun Film Company).

1947

His collaboration with Zheng Junli The Spring River Flows East (1947) also proved to be a major film and popular success in the brief "Second Golden Age" of Cinema that followed the end of the Second World War.

Following the Communist revolution, Cai worked mainly in major government administrative tasks.

He was also actively involved in promoting Chinese film industry and also formed an organization to monitor the quality of movies and to recognize talented artists in the industry.

1949

He did make one major post-1949 film, Waves on the Southern Shore (1963).

1960

As the Cultural Revolution began to gain momentum in the late 1960s, Cai Chusheng, like many artists and intellectuals, became the target of persecution.

Cai was forced to self-criticize and admit his mistakes in writing.

1968

Cai passed away in 1968.

His ashes are now placed at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.

The house where Cai spent his youth is now a museum which is designated by the Chinese government as a certified historical attraction.

1991

In Stanley Kwan's 1991 biopic of Ruan Lingyu, Center Stage, Cai Chusheng is portrayed by Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Ka Fai.

Ruan was one of the Chinese most prominent actresses.

This film is about Ruan's life, including her suicide following release of New Women.

Cai condemned the press, which had sparked a ripple effect to raise awareness for responsible conduct in the media.

Cai was also very active in promoting the social status and literacy of women: when he had time available, he would teach classes to Chinese women to improve their literacy.

2010

Cai is honored from time to time at major events like the World Expo 2010 and film festivals.