Wu Yigong

Wu Yigong was born in Chongqing on 1 December 1938, into a family originally from Hangzhou, and lived in Shanghai from 1948. A graduate in 1960 of the directing section of the Beijing Film Institute, he returned to work in Shanghai, where he was, according to The Paper, only an assistant director until the Cultural Revolution. He later headed the city's film studio and then its film bureau, launched the Shanghai International Film Festival in 1993, the only one in the country ranked in category A, and chaired the China Film Directors' Association. He died in Shanghai on 14 September 2019.

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• CinemaEvening Rain巴山夜雨Wu Yigong · 1980Cinema