Xie Jin

Xie Jin (Chinese: 謝晉; pinyin: Xiè Jìn; 21 November 1923 – 18 October 2008) was a Chinese film director. He rose to prominence in 1957, directing the film Woman Basketball Player No. 5, and is considered one of the Third Generation directors of China. Most recently he was known for the direction of The Opium War. Xie was a popular director amongst the older generations of Chinese, with six of his films being voted Best Picture in the Hundred Flowers Awards. He was the only Chinese director to date to be a member of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as well as the Directors Guild of America.

Works

The Herdsman

In 1980, Xu Jingshan, a wealthy Chinese-American businessman returns to China to find his son, Xu Lingjun, whom he had abandoned over 30 years earlier. Labeled a rightist because of his capitalist father, Lingjun has been forced to live as a humble herdsman on the grasslands. His bitter life has been transformed by a happy marriage to the wise and beautiful Xiuzhi, and more recently by his rehabilitation by the Party. When he goes to Beijing for their reunion, he discovers his father wants him to work for his chemical company in San Francisco. Lingjun tells the story of his life to his father, as he ponders his future.

Release Date1982-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd 导演

Vote Count21

Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively explored than in any other national cinema. Utilizing both film excerpts and interviews with many leading directors and academics, the film examines topics such as male bonding in kung fu movies, depictions of same-sex bonding and physical intimacy, the emphasis on women's grievances in melodramas, and the career of Yam Kim-Fai, a Hong Kong actress who spent her life portraying men on and off the screen.

Release Date1998-06-04

Charactersd Self

Vote Count10

Visions Cinema: Cinema in China - An Account by Tony Rayns

History of filmmaking in China from its beginnings in the 1920s to 1982, featuring Shanghai cinema of 1930s; the progressive filmmakers; the organisation of filmmaking under the post-war communist government; the impact of the Cultural Revolution; the work of Xie Jin.

Release Date1983-09-14

Charactersd Self

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Release Date1987-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count89

Vote Count3

聊斋

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

三言二拍

Release Date1993-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count55

世纪人生：董竹君传奇

Release Date1999-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count31

Vote Count1

The Opium War

The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, and the subsequent takeover of Hong Kong by Britain; through the eyes of the key figures, fiercely nationalistic Lin Zexu, and opportunistic British naval diplomat Charles Elliot.

Release Date1997-06-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count13

Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain

Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain is a 1984 Chinese film about the life of the soldiers in a PLA army company before, during and after the Sino-Vietnamese War.

Release Date1984-10-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count23

Hibiscus Town

Based on a novel by the same name written by Gu Hua, a melodrama about the life and travails of a young woman who lives through the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution.

Release Date1987-03-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count63

Huang Baomei

The film introduces the famous national model worker, textile worker Huang Baomei, who is played by the real Huang Baomei herself.

Release Date1958-01-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

On The Docks

Adaptation of a lesser known to Western world, yet wildly popular Peking Opera developed during the Cultural Revolution under the leadership of Jiang Qing.

Release Date1972-01-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Big Li, Little Li and Old Li

Sports gain acceptance among workers at a meat processing plant.

Release Date1962-06-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

The Red Detachment of Women

Wu Qionghua, a house maid, is abused by a cruel warlord until she joins a troop of women soldiers.

Release Date1961-01-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9

春节大联欢

Release Date1956-02-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Morning Star

A man must take care of his terminally ill son.

Release Date1992-04-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

An Old Man and His Dog

An Old Man and His Dog is a 1993 Chinese film directed by Xie Jin.

Release Date1993-10-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

A Wave of Unrest

The clan law of the Yang family works against the relationships of a widow and her daughter until a new marriage law is enacted after liberation.

Release Date1955-06-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Qiu Jin

Biopic of Qiu Jin (1877-1907), early Chinese womens’ liberationist and martyred revolutionary.

Release Date1983-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Woman Basketball Player No. 5

Tian Zhenhua arrives in Shanghai to coach a local women's basketball team. Number 5 on the team, Xiaoje, excels at basketball but is unsure of whether to continue playing. As Tian gets to grips with training Xiaoje and the rest of the team, he reflects on his career as a star basketball player before the revolution.

Release Date1957-08-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

Penitentiary Angel

This is a story about seven female prisoners each with different backgrounds, living within the one prison. At the beginning of the story, a new inmate Ding Qing Er arrives with tears streaming down her face, but told that it's too late to cry. The story continues to slowly reveal the lives of the female prisoners, and each of their struggles to have ended up where they are today. There's the mother who's husband keeps giving false promises of taking her and her child to America; the prostitute who was raped; the lesbian who was given up and betrayed by the Red Army; among others, and there's also Qing Er, who is in jail for theft after stealing costly medicine from the hospital for her dying husband. Through the lead of each other and also the kind hearted guards, they learn to form an unbreakable bond, and a way of dignity.

Release Date1996-04-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Two Stage Sisters

In pre-revolutionary China, two young girls, Chunhua and Yuehong Xing, rise through the ranks of Chinese opera, but with their artistic success comes a new series of personal and social challenges.

Release Date1964-02-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count18

Chunmiao

During the Cultural Revolution, the director of a farm collective studies medicine on her own in order to provide a more effective alternative to the collective's "capitalist" health care clinic, then investigates and exposes a sinister plot by the clinic's staff.

Release Date1975-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Youth

After her senses are surgically restored, a formerly deaf mute teenager enlists in the army and is assigned to communications work. But her inexperience with even such simple tasks as answering a telephone lead her supervisor to conclude she is incompetent, and try to have her reassigned. However, a courageous action by another soldier leads him to reevaluate his judgment.

Release Date1977-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Cradle

In the early period of China's War of Liberation the Yan'an Nursey which housed the children of the revolutionary fighters had to be evacuated. Li Nan, an army instructor, guides the group of children to the liberated area in the Taihang Mountains and their parents. Made to mark International Children's Year.

Release Date1979-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

望穿秋水

Release Date1948-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

大跃进中的小主人

Release Date1958-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

水乡的春天

Release Date1955-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

A small story in a big storm

Release Date1958-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Bell of Purity Temple

In 1945, Japan is defeated in its war of aggression against China. During a panic retreat, a baby boy is abandoned, but is adopted and grows up to become and eminent monk. Thirty years later, he visits China and meets his real mother who is now elderly and weak.

Release Date1991-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

The Last Aristocrats

In 1948, four young girls, daughters of Shanghai's elite, attending college in America find themselves unable to return after the Communists take Shanghai.

Release Date1989-08-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Legend of Tianyun Mountain

When Song Wei's fiancee Luo Qun is denounced as a right-wing traitor by Party official Wu Yao, he is sentenced to ten years' hard labor. Song Wei breaks off her engagement, and eventually marries Wu Yao. Years later, after the Cultural Revolution, political currents have shifted; Song Wei demands that her husband, now a powerful Party official, seek Luo Qun's rehabilitation, but Wu Yao has no desire to open up old political and emotional wounds.

Release Date1980-12-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count10