Director

Hsin Chi

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Directed movies: 7Directed series: 0All crew credits: 9

TMDB ID: 1169130

IMDb ID: nm1881815

Known for: Directing

Born: October 23, 1924

Died: September 22, 2010

Age: 85

Place of birth: Taipei, Taiwan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1965 - 1979

Years active: 15

Wikidata: Q19851493

Also known as

Xin Qi • Xin Jinchuan • 辛奇 • 辛金傳 • Chi Hsin

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Director (7)Screenplay (1)Writer (1)

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Biography

Chi Hsin has directed more than 50 Taiwanese Hokkien-language films including romance, realistic, wuxia, comedy, crime, thriller, Taiwanese opera and even softcore pornography – but only eight of them survived. In the late 60s when the production of Hokkien-language films started to decline, Xin tried to make Mandarin-speaking films. He even went to Hong Kong and there he made some wuxia films for the Shaw Brothers in King Hu’s style but the collaboration terminated prematurely. In 1971, he moved to the television industry by writing and directing for companies owned by the state. Until his retirement in 1990, he made numerous dramas and education programmes. After the 1990s, he worked on the preservation of Hokkien-language films by assisting the Chinese Taipei Film Archive (now renamed to the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute) and creating an association for actors once working in the Hokkien-language films. His numerous interviews are the significant historical resources, helping us understand the development of Hokkien-language cinema in Taiwan.

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