Cai Chusheng

Cai Chusheng was born in Shanghai on 12 January 1906, to Cantonese parents, and grew up in Chaoyang, in Guangdong. An apprentice in a grocer's shop in Shantou according to China News, he made his way to Shanghai and became, at Mingxing, the assistant of Zheng Zhengqiu, who came from the same region. He joined Lianhua in the autumn of 1931, directed his first film there the following year, then turned to left-wing cinema. During the war, he moved to Hong Kong and then to Chongqing. After 1949, he held senior administrative posts; persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, he died on 15 July 1968.

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• CinemaNew Women新女性Cai Chusheng · 1935Cinema