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67-517: A Joseph Plateau Award was an accolade presented by the Flanders International Film Festival Ghent , first awarded in 1985. The awards were given in several categories to honor cinematic achievements in the film industry . They were restricted to Belgian cinema and Belgian producers, directors, and actors. The name of the award comes from the physicist Joseph Plateau (1801–1883). They were considered to be

134-467: A concert in a sold-out Kuipke in Ghent. This way, the film festival became an established name in the film music circuit. Other internationally renowned composers such as Jean-Claude Petit , Nicola Piovani , Peer Raben , Stanley Myers, Carl Davis , Bruce Broughton and Michael Nyman also attended the festival to perform their work. In 1985, the festival presented its first Joseph Plateau Award during

201-420: A distribution premium and a media campaign worth . Yorgos Lanthimos Miguel Gomes The Joseph Plateau Honorary Award is presented to distinguished guests of Film Fest Ghent whose achievements have earned them a special and distinct place in the history of international filmmaking. The award itself is a replica of professor Joseph Plateau ’s Phenakistiscope, the device he designed to illustrate his theory of

268-455: A double concert during the same edition in the then newly reopened Vlaamse Opera Ghent. At this point, film music was firmly anchored in the DNA of the festival. The International Film Festival of Flanders-Ghent started the new millennium with an increased interest in the short film genre. In 2000, the audience enjoyed the first European short film competition. Later, in 2019, the festival would open

335-549: A festival dedicated to classical music. As a result, film music became an important focus of the film festival. In 1985, the International Film Event of Flanders-Ghent organised an international competition with a jury for the first time. André Delvaux , Michael White, Simon Heyworth, Alain Pierre and Loek Dikker were members of the first jury. The main theme of the competition was 'the impact of music on film',

402-501: A fresh impetus to the suffering festival. He developed a much-needed structure and in 1979 he founded a non-profit organisation that served as the essential backbone of the festival. The creation of this non-profit organisation ensured that the authorities (the city of Ghent, the province of East Flanders, the federal and (later) the Flemish government) would participate and contribute financially. Within this structure, John Bultinck became

469-658: A great impact on the seventh art. The audience in Ghent also has a voice and decides who will take home the North Sea Port Public Choice Award. After a preselection by the Belgian TV channel Canvas, the public also decides who will take home the Canvas Audience Award. On top that, there is also a public prize for the short film that appeals the most to the audience of Ghent. Besides all the film-related prizes, there are of course

536-598: A large number of (inter)national filmmakers travels to Ghent. Among them: Céline Sciamma. She talks to Lukas Dhont after a screening of her Petite Maman. For which she receives the Joseph Plateau Honorary Award. The Belgian animation pioneer Raouls Servais also receives this award, when presenting his new film Der lange Kerl. The 22nd edition of the World Soundtrack Awards welcomes American film composer and jazz artist Mark Isham as

603-539: A revaluation of the short film genre. For the first time, the international short film competition received short films from all over the world and became a more prominent part of the festival programme. In addition, the Belgian student short film competition was already well-established within the festival for years. Marco Beltrami was the guest of honour at the World Soundtrack Awards Gala. At

670-460: A separate section in the film programme, a retrospective and a film music concert. In the film competition Alice Diop's French courtroom drama Saint Omer wins the Grand Prix. In a year in which Belgian cinema reaches international success, the opening film Close by Lukas Dhont generates a lot of buzz. Closing film is Maria Schrader's investigative drama She Said, based on a true story. Once again,

737-563: A striking contribution to the history of the festival. Despite competition from the robust programme of avant-premières, classics such as The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway), Novecento (Roberto Bertolucci) and A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang) managed to attract packed theatres. Throughout the year, FFG offers deep-dives into its On Tour films with a ‘Wide Angle’, a dossier including texts, podcasts, and video essays. Every year, numerous awards are handed out at Film Fest Ghent. An international jury assigns two main prizes:

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804-500: A theme that was not on the agenda of any other film festival in the world. Besides the competition, the festival also decided to organise silent film screenings with newly composed music that was performed live. One of the highlights was the performance of a new score by Georges Delerue for the Russian Casanova (1927) in 1987. Delerue conducted the work himself in a packed Ghent opera. That same year Ennio Morricone gave

871-735: Is an annual international film festival in Ghent , Belgium. The festival held its first edition in 1974, under the name Internationaal Filmgebeuren Gent , and has since grown into the largest film festival in Belgium . The festival also puts the spotlight on film music ; since 2001, Film Fest Gent has hosted the World Soundtrack Awards , a series of prizes for the best soundtracks for film and television. The festival takes place every year in October, with an international jury awarding

938-547: Is on the international map. One year later, the prestigious American newspaper The Wall Street Journal also praised the festival. According to the newspaper the International Film Festival of Flanders-Ghent is among the top five European film festivals with its own character. During this period, the attention for underexposed themes and audiences in the film industry grew gradually. Specific efforts were made to program LGBTQ-films and film screenings for

1005-410: Is stomping out a unique project: 2x25, in which 25 filmmakers will make a short film inspired by music by 25 composers. For the first time in a long time, the festival no longer has a country focus. In contrast, it has an even bigger and more challenging official selection. For the third year in a row, FFG opens with a homegrown film: Holly, Fien Troch's fifth feature. Anime legend Hayao Miyazaki signs for

1072-569: The Coen brothers . For the very first time, his music was performed live. In 2019, Wim De Witte, who has been active in the organisation for years, succeeded Patrick Duynslaegher as artistic director. The film programme included a focus on Spain with a series of contemporary Spanish films and a retrospective of taboo-breaking Spanish filmmakers such as Luis Buñuel , Agustí Villaronga , Victor Erice , Alejandro Amenábar and Pedro Almodóvar . During this year, Film Fest Ghent also decided to endeavour for

1139-508: The 90s the International Film Festival of Flanders-Ghent even received several film titles in European or world premieres and hosted big names such as Willem Dafoe , Samuel Fuller , Terry Gilliam , Anthony Perkins , Charlotte Rampling , Paul Schrader , Frederick Wiseman , Patricia Arquette , Kenneth Branagh , Mel Brooks , Crispin Clover , Paul Cox , Atom Egoyan etc. In March 1993

1206-583: The American film magazine Variety placed the Ghent-based film festival among the fifty not-to-be-missed festivals in the world. Variety made its choice out of more than a thousand film festivals and selected Ghent because of its unique focus on film music. Moreover, the festival is the only one from the Benelux to appear on the list. The mention shows that the International Film Festival of Flanders-Ghent

1273-659: The Belgian equivalent to the Academy Awards of the United States. The awards ceremony was held in conjunction with the Flanders International Film Festival Ghent , which initially co-founded the event. The last award ceremony was held on March 7, 2006. Since then, two separate awards were established in Belgium in 2010: the Flemish Film Awards, named Ensor Awards , which are presented each year on

1340-815: The Flemish government declared the International Film Festival of Flanders-Ghent Cultural Ambassador of Flanders. The financial support of the Flemish government resulted in a cash prize for the winner of the international competition. Five years later, the festival was appointed City Ambassador of Ghent. The Ghent-based film festival grew into the biggest film event in Belgium and increasingly attracted more international attention. Famous foreign guests found their way to Ghent. Robert Altman , Elmer Bernstein , Terence Davies , Arthur Penn , James Earl Jones , Guy Pearce , Karl Malden , Danny Glover , Michael Haneke , Irvin Kershner and many others visited Ghent during these years. The focus on film music also continued. A new part of

1407-571: The Grand Prix for Best Film and the Georges Delerue Award for Best Soundtrack or Sound Design. Apart from the official competition, there are sections such as global cinema, classics, and an annual special focus. From 2000 to 2018, a European short film competition was organised. In 2019, the short film competition was reformed into an international competition, with the International Short Film Award as

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1474-696: The Grand Prix for Best Film and the Georges Delerue Award for Best Soundtrack/Sound Design. The international short film jury awards the Best International Short and the Best Belgian Student Short. The Explore Award is handed out by a youth jury to a film in the Explore Zone programme. Furthermore, the organisation of Film Fest Ghent yearly offers a Joseph Plateau Honorary Award to someone who has had

1541-452: The Grand Prix. Film Fest Gent honours two directors with a Joseph Plateau Honorary Award: Andrea Arnold and Harry Kümel. Notable guests at FFG2021 include Pablo Larraín, Leos Carax, Ari Folman, Miguel Gomes, Radu Jude and Avi Mograbi. The World Soundtrack Awards welcomes Max Richter as guest of honour. Nainita Desai wins the award for Discovery of the Year. Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou receives

1608-581: The Greek film world, which has been revived internationally since the “Greek Weird Wave”. Looking back at a tumultuous past, the ‘Classics’ are entirely devoted to the oeuvre of Theo Angelopoulos. The festival opens with the Belgian thriller La Civil by Teodora Ana Mihai. Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch closes the programme. As a theme, the festival highlights positive aggression with the programme tag 'Why We Fight', while supporting non-profit organisation Touché. Gaspar Noé’s emotionally overwhelming film Vortex wins

1675-493: The Hollywood musical. While Kurosawa had a direct influence on Hu, the comparison with Minnelli is equally apt since both men were highly cultured aesthetes who paid special attention to the décor and art direction of their films and who reveled in the ability of mise-en-scène, movement and the spatial composition of the frame to express character and the relations between characters.” The British Film Institute wrote that "Hu

1742-475: The Joseph Plateau Honorary Award, the author-director Pedro Costa and the French actress-director Maïwenn . During this edition, the festival wanted to show solidarity with filmmakers, cinemas and colleagues who had to cancel their festivals due to the health crisis. All participants and audiences wore masks. The year also marked the 20th anniversary of the World Soundtrack Awards, which took place online and

1809-567: The King's Men , he moved to California in the early 1980s. Late in his life, he made a brief return from semi-retirement in The Swordsman (1990) and Painted Skin (1992), but neither achieved the renown of his first two, financially successful wuxia films. Hu loved Peking Opera and was a trustee of a Peking Opera institution. He promoted many young Peking Opera pupils into the film industry, such as Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung . Hu

1876-620: The Lifetime Achievement Award. The main prize at WSA (Film Composer of the Year) goes to Daniel Pemberton. The 49th Film Fest Gent features a challenging programme of films from around the globe. 'Veerkracht' (resilience) forms one of the themes of the festival, linked to a solidarity action for the OverKop house in Ghent. Because of its enormous popularity and quality, this edition puts a spotlight on South Korean cinema, with

1943-500: The Night of Film. The prize is named after the professor Joseph Plateau from Ghent and is awarded to Belgian film makers who have made a significant contribution to the Belgian film industry. Later the prize would evolve into the Joseph Plateau Honorary Award, a lifetime achievement award for someone from the international film world. In 1992 Jacques Dubrulle and his team decided to change the name 'Filmgebeuren' into 'Film Festival'. During

2010-584: The Shaw Brothers Studio in 1966, Hu travelled to Taiwan, where he made another wuxia movie, Dragon Inn . Dragon Inn broke box office records and became a phenomenal hit and cult classic , especially in Southeast Asia . This tense tale of highly skilled martial artists hidden in an inn was said to be the inspiration for Ang Lee 's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Zhang Yimou 's House of Flying Daggers (2004). In 2003,

2077-576: The United States, but could not raise the money for tuition. He then worked for the local Voice of America in Hong Kong. After moving to Hong Kong, Hu worked in a variety of occupations, such as advertising consultant, artistic designer and producer for a number of media companies, as well as a part-time English tutor. In 1958, he joined the Shaw Brothers Studio as a set decorator, actor, scriptwriter and assistant director. He acted in

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2144-584: The World Soundtrack Academy in 2001. During the 2001 edition, the WSA presented the first World Soundtrack Awards . None other than the legendary John Williams received the first Film Composer of the Year Award. The purpose of the WSA is and remains to form an international community for film composers and professionals who promote the art of film music through a series of activities, such as

2211-400: The World Soundtrack Awards as well, the most important awards for film music. The Grand Prix is awarded by an international jury and represents a distribution premium of and a media campaign worth . The Georges Delerue Award honours the film with the best soundtrack or sound design. This prize is awarded by an international jury to a film from the international competition. The prize includes

2278-468: The annual presentation of the World Soundtrack Awards. In 2002, the WSA decided to organise an annual composition contest for young talents. The participants write a new score to an existing film or TV fragment. The 2000s also saw many prominent guests at the film festival, including Jean Reno , Juliette Binoche , Jeanne Moreau , Blair Underwood , Maurice Jarre , Paul Verhoeven , Darren Aronofsky , Tom Tykwer and Kathleen Turner . In September 2007,

2345-692: The award-winning Malaysian-born Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang made Goodbye, Dragon Inn , a tribute to Hu, in which all the action takes place during a closing cinema's last show of Dragon Inn . Chief among the films which exemplify Hu's blend of Chan (Zen) Buddhism and unique Chinese aesthetics is A Touch of Zen , which won the Grand Prix de la Commission Superieur Technique in 1975 Cannes Film Festival , and which many regard as his masterpiece. After releasing A Touch of Zen , Hu started his own production company and shot The Fate of Lee Khan (1973) and The Valiant Ones (1975) back to back on tight finances. The action choreography in both these films

2412-510: The beginning of the mass development of the film festival. Both organisationally and financially, the festival evolved into a cultural event of the first order. The significant growth of the event was enabled by a permanent team working on the festival all year round. Moreover, the team managed to develop a long-term vision for the film festival. In search of an identity and a place of its own in an overcrowded film festival calendar, brainstorming sessions were held together with Festival of Flanders ,

2479-501: The blind and visually impaired. Professionals also got more involved by organising 'The Day of the Film Profession' and a physical Press & Industry Office. Meanwhile, film school students could obtain accreditation for the festival, with the aim of stimulating the formation of a new generation of filmmakers. From 2010 onwards, each edition would feature a curated exhibition around an icon of film history. The first exhibition

2546-548: The centenary of Chaplin's iconic character of the tramp with screenings of The Circus (in Kuipke Ghent with live music) and The Gold Rush (in the Stadshal of Ghent). Erik Van Looy 's much hyped film Loft opened the festival and later became one of the greatest Belgian films of all time (in its own country). The annual exhibition was entirely devoted to the oeuvre of Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini . To enhance

2613-416: The central country, promoted itself with Claudia Cardinale on the campaign image. The music section drew attention to the centenary of jazz with a Symphonic Jazz Concert and the laudation of trumpeter and jazz musician Terence Blanchard at the WSA. The 2018 edition of Film Fest Ghent had a Hungarian focus, and a retrospective was organised presenting the films of Miklós Jancsó . That edition kicked off with

2680-635: The classic 1959 film The Kingdom and the Beauty . Under the influence of Taiwanese director Li Han-Hsiang , Hu embarked on a directorial career, helping him on the phenomenally successful The Love Eterne (1963). Hu's first film as a full-fledged director was Sons of the Good Earth (1965), a film set in the Second Sino-Japanese War , but he is better remembered for his next film, Come Drink with Me (1966). Come Drink with Me

2747-528: The closing film The Boy and the Heron. Los delincuentes by Rodrigo Moreno wins the Grand Prix for best film. A Joseph Plateau Honorary Award is presented posthumously to director Terence Davies. For this anniversary edition, past and present come together thanks to Classics curator Patrick Duynslaegher. He delved into the Film Fest Gent archives and distilled a programme of films and filmmakers who have made

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2814-415: The competition to short films from all over the world, giving short films the full attention they deserve. The festival was the first in the world to emphasise the importance of film music. Over the years it has organised classical concerts, silent film projections with live music, seminars on film music and hosted important composers. The festival continued to play this pioneering role in the 2000s. In 2000,

2881-406: The exhibition, a concert was organised with film music by Nino Rota for Fellini's films. The following editions paid special attention to British, Nordic, Italian, Hungarian and Spanish cinema. In 2016, Japan took centre stage and Film Fest Ghent welcomed composer Ryuichi Sakamoto to the World Soundtrack Awards Gala where he received the Lifetime Achievement Award. The 2017 edition, with Italy as

2948-454: The exponential growth of the festival, there was a great desire for a clear structure. Even more so, since the international film landscape evolved rapidly at the time, the event encountered several organisational and financial problems despite the success of the initiative. The festival thus needed a fresh and new organisational structure in order to reach international maturity. Jacques Dubrulle, active in film production and communication, gave

3015-470: The film composer Hans Zimmer was convinced to come to Ghent for his first-ever live performance of his film scores in the presence of Morgan Freeman and Lisa Gerrard . The need to put all the contacts between composers, musicians and agents who attend the festival each year into a fixed structure grew bigger. This is why the festival (led by Jacques Dubrulle, music projects coordinator Marian Ponnet and Brussels Philharmonic conductor Dirk Brossé ) launched

3082-436: The film festival underwent a few changes. Founder Jacques Dubrulle left the organisation and the power within the board was redistributed. The festival underwent a real transformation and celebrated this festive year with a new name: Film Fest Ghent. The very first edition under the new name focused on American Independent Cinema. During the festival Dubrulle received the Joseph Plateau Honorary Award for his years of commitment to

3149-618: The final day of the Ostend Film Festival ; and the Magritte Awards , which were established by the Académie André Delvaux to recognize cinematic achievement in the francophone film industry. This film award–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Flanders International Film Festival Ghent Film Fest Gent , also known as International Film Fest Gent ,

3216-570: The foundation for a film festival that offers a wide-ranging panorama of world cinema. In 1978, 'Het Internationaal Filmgebeuren van Gent' grew into a film festival that presented about fifty films in various sections. Gradually, more and more attention was paid to film education and a festival offer that would appeal to various target audiences. During the year of 1978, cinephiles could find something to their liking among author films by, for instance, Luis Buñuel , Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Bernardo Bertolucci and Alejandro Jodorowsky . However, due to

3283-889: The gala, Film Fest Ghent and the World Soundtrack Academy honoured the renowned Belgian film music composer Frédéric Devreese with a live performance of his music for films such as Un soir, un train and Benvenuta . During the period of 2013 to 2019, the following guests found their way to Film Fest Ghent: Joseph Gordon-Levitt , Bret Easton Ellis , Sergei Loznitsa , Yorgos Lanthimos , Colin Farrell , Sir Alan Parker , Michael Nyman , Craig Armstrong , Alan Silvestri , Ryuichi Sakamoto , Kôji Fukada , Terence Davies , Tran Anh Hung , Ken Loach , Olivier Assayas , Derek Cianfrance , Asghar Farhadi , Isabelle Huppert , Leila Hatami , Geraldine Chaplin , Rian Johnson , Thomas Vinterberg , John C. Reilly , Jacques Audiard , Terence Blanchard and Jayro Bustamante . In 2020, Film Fest Ghent

3350-471: The guest of honour. The Lifetime Achievement Award goes to French composer Bruno Coulais. Eiko Ishibashi receives the Discovery of the Year Award in addition. In 2023, Film Fest Gent celebrates its 50th edition with a make-over. Inspired by the spinning movement of a film reel, the new logo exudes dynamism. The vibrant colours and movement reflect the diversity of the festival programme. On top of that, FFG

3417-665: The last decade of his life in Los Angeles . He died in Taipei of complications from angioplasty . At the time of his death, Hu was attached to direct The Battle of Ono , a project he had spent decades working on. He is buried in Whittier , California. In a 2013 retrospective, the Harvard Film Archive Hu's influence on the wuxia genre as “[what] Kurosawa would do with the samurai film and Minnelli with

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3484-546: The main prize. Under the name 'Het Eerste Internationaal Filmgebeuren van Gent' (or 'Ghent's First International Film Event'), the very first 'Film Fest Ghent' took place from 25 to 31 January 1974. The driving forces behind the initiative were Ben Ter Elst, manager of the Studio Skoop, and Dirk De Meyer of the Ghent University Film Club. Their aim was to programme films that did not get a chance in

3551-486: The musical programme was introduced: in 1993 the festival organised a symposium on film music for the first time. Despite the fact that film music did not immediately steal the spotlight in the media, it was an important step for the International Film Festival of Flanders-Ghent to acquire a pilot function. The festival aimed to support young composers and to safeguard the preservation and evolution of film music. The godfather of Belgian film music, Frédéric Devreese , conducted

3618-477: The organisation of Film Fest Ghent. From this period onwards, the organisation of Film Fest Ghent decided to support a good cause every edition, with the goal of raising money and bringing films to an audience that cannot always afford to go to the cinema. The following year, the festival focused on French cinema. Catherine Deneuve (in Belle de jour ) was on the official festival poster. The festival also celebrated

3685-508: The period of 2007 to 2012: Clint Mansell , Woody Harrelson , Richard Jenkins , Andy Garcia , Kevin Costner , Shigeru Umebayashi , László Nemes , Tim Robbins , Paul Greengrass , Jim Sheridan , François Ozon , Norman Jewison , Seth Rogen , Isabelle Huppert , Ezra Miller , Emmannuelle Riva , Paolo & Vittori Taviani , Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne etc. The 40th edition of the film festival took place in 2013. During this year,

3752-487: The persistence of vision, which became the basic principle behind the idea of “moving images”. King Hu The Harvard Film Archive described Hu a “one of the most influential and important Chinese directors in the history of cinema.” Hu Jinquan ( simplified Chinese : 胡金铨 ; traditional Chinese : 胡金銓 ) was born in Beijing to a well-established family originating from Handan , Hebei . His grandfather

3819-526: The premiere of Girl , one of the most lauded Belgian films with, among others, a Caméra d'Or for director Lukas Dhont at the Cannes Film Festival . There also were some new things to discover in terms of music. Vooruit and Film Fest Ghent presented a unique crossover between film and music called 'Videodroom', which became an annual part of the festival. Guest of honour at the WSA was Carter Burwell , mainly known for his collaborations with

3886-417: The programme expanded to about a hundred films. The modernisation of the festival thus ensured a much broader audience and offer. In 1983, the non-profit organisation changed its name to 'Internationaal Filmgebeuren van Vlaanderen-Gent' (or 'International Film Event of Flanders-Ghent'). The enthusiastic team helped to ensure that the festival figured as a hallmark of high-quality cinema. The year of 1985 marked

3953-496: The regular cinemas because of their content and style. The first small-scale edition had about twenty titles on the menu and was screened in Studio Skoop and in the Capitool. The programme included Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky and Winter Wind by Miklós Jancsó , films that provoke, innovate and cast a different light on what cinema can be. This way, the event launched new names and stimulated interest in arthouse cinema. It laid

4020-477: The very first chairman. In this period, the festival was booming due to further internationalisation and an impressive guest list. Amongst others, King Hu , Maximillian Schell and Bertrand Tavernier paid a visit to Ghent. In 1981, thanks to the inauguration of the Decascoop complex (today's Kinepolis ), Ghent welcomed a new cinema with spacious cinema theatres and state-of-the-art technology. On top of that,

4087-624: Was multilingual , and was known to be fluent in Mandarin , Cantonese , and English, and adept in Korean and Japanese . In 1981, Hu reunited with his nephew in the United States . He asked his nephew where his mother and father were and was told that his mother has not been heard from and his father was in a labor camp in Shanxi , but had since been in a car accident and died. Hu spent

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4154-470: Was able to be followed around the world via livestream . Gabriel Yared performed his compositions live, and audiences could see the reactions from composers such as Alexandre Desplat , Hildur Guðnadóttir and Nicholas Britell . For the occasion, Screen magazine published a supplement to the World Soundtrack Awards, highlighting the history of the awards and guests of honour Desplat, Yared and Michael Abels . The 48th edition of Film Fest Gent explores

4221-405: Was dedicated to the French film maker Jacques ' Monsieur Hulot ' Tati. The following year, former film journalist Patrick Duynslaegher became the artistic director of the festival. In his first edition, Scandinavia took centre stage and the legendary Ingmar Bergman figured as the subject of a retrospective and the annual exhibition. Many renowned talents from the film industry visited Ghent during

4288-755: Was forced to adapt the festival to a different format, due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The team opted for a hybrid festival with both physical screenings and screenings on a VOD platform. The programme focused on German cinema , and also included a new section entitled "Official Selection: Masters & New Voices". The retrospective was dedicated to the Neue Deutsche Welle , with films by Fassbinder , Herzog , Wenders , Margarethe von Trotta , Helma Sanders-Brahms and others. The most important international guests were actor-director Viggo Mortensen , who presented his directorial debut Falling and received

4355-400: Was his first success and remains a classic of the wuxia genre, catapulting the then 20-year-old starlet Cheng Pei-pei to fame. Blending Japanese samurai film traditions with Western editing techniques and Chinese aesthetic philosophy borrowed from Chinese music and operatics , Hu began the trend of a new school of wuxia films and his perpetual use of strong, valiant heroines. Leaving

4422-640: Was the governor of Henan in the late Qing dynasty . His father had studied in Japan and was the owner of the local coal mine, and his mother was a concubine. His uncle was a high-ranking official in the Republican government. Several of his brothers held high positions in the Communist government. Hu grew up in Beijing as a child, and emigrated to British Hong Kong in 1949. at first he wanted to study in

4489-694: Was the work of a young Sammo Hung . Other films include Raining in the Mountain and Legend of the Mountain (both dating from 1979, and shot in South Korea ), which were loosely based on stories from Pu Songling 's Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio . The reason was that the government of South Korea would help sponsor the budgeting should he produce at least two films in the area. Both are now considered classics. Though critically hailed, Hu's later films were less commercially successful than his first two films. After his late comedy masterpiece All

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