Profile: King Hu
Date of birth: 29 April, 1932 (Beijing, China)
Date of death: 14 January, 1997 (aged 64), Taipei, Taiwan
Mandarin name: Hu Jinquan
Other names: Hu King-chuan, Wu Kam-Chuen, Frankie Gam Chuen, Hu King-Chuan, King Chuan, Hu Jing-Chuan, Chin Chuan
Occupation: Director, writer, editor, actor, set designer.
Biography: King Hu is one of China’s most respected and influential filmmakers, famous for historical martial arts films. Despite not being particularly interested in martial arts, he popularised the ‘new school’ wuxia (‘martial chivalry’) genre in the 1960s and helped to cultivate the role of the female knight-errant. King Hu was a scholar of Chinese history and a master …
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