Filmmaker · China
Bu Wancang
Died in 1973
Bu Wancang was born in Anhui, in 1900 (in 1903 according to MyDramaList). Trained in cinematography according to the latter, he became a director at Mingxing, where he gave Ruan Lingyu her start, then moved in 1931 to Lianhua. During the occupation of Shanghai, he was forced to make propaganda films for the occupier, for which his colleagues reproached him after the war. Settled in Hong Kong in 1948, he founded his own company there in 1950, according to MyDramaList, also worked for the Shaw brothers, then in Taiwan in the sixties. He died on 30 December 1973.
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- CinemaMulan Joins the Army木蘭從軍Bu Wancang · 1939Cinema