Cheng Bugao

Cheng Bugao was born in 1898, in Zhejiang. A director, screenwriter and producer, he directed his first film in 1924 and then worked for Mingxing, where he made several of the leftist films of the period, including two from screenplays by Xia Yan, one of them after a short story by Mao Dun. The University of British Columbia describes him as a prolific director. After the Sino-Japanese War, he settled in Hong Kong, where he made deliberately apolitical films, and died there on 20 June 1966.

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• Cinema狂流Cheng Bugao · 1933Cinema