Xie Jin (Chinese: è¬æ™‰; 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.
Xie Jin Biography / Wiki
| Name | Xie Jin |
| Also Know | 谢晋, è¬æ™‰, Che Chun, Се Цзинь, Цзинь Се, Xie Jin |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Zhejiang, China |
| Date of Birth | November 23, 1923 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 84 |
| Deathday | 2008-10-18 |
Xie Jin Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Visions Cinema: Cinema in China – An Account by Tony Rayns | Himself | 1983-09-14 | History of filmmaking in China from its beginnings in the 1920s to 1982, featuring Shanghai cinema of 1930s; the progressive filmmakers; the organisat… |
| Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema | Himself | 1998-06-04 | An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively explor… |
Xie Jin Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Chunmiao | Director | 1975-01-01 | 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 … |
| Hibiscus Town | Director | 1987-03-05 | 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 Cul… |
| Two Stage Sisters | Director | 1964-02-07 | In pre-revolutionary China, two young girls, Chunhua and Yuehong Xing, rise through the ranks of Chinese opera, but with their artistic success comes … |
| Legend of Tianyun Mountain | Director | 1980-12-01 | 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 brea… |
| The Opium War | Director | 1997-06-30 | 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… |
| Penitentiary Angel | Director | 1996-04-12 | 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 inmat… |
| The Herdsman | Director | 1982-01-01 | 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… |
| The Last Aristocrats | Director | 1989-08-19 | In 1948, four young girls, daughters of Shanghai’s elite, attending college in America find themselves unable to return after the Communists take Shan… |
| Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain | Director | 1984-10-01 | 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-Viet… |
| The Red Detachment of Women | Director | 1961-01-30 | Qiong Hua is a slave girl of Nan Batian, a big landlord in Yelinzhai Village on Hainan Island. She has tried many times but cannot escape from the lan… |
| Bell of Purity Temple | Director | 1991-01-01 | 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 bec… |
| Qiu Jin | Director | 1983-01-01 | Biopic of Qiu Jin (1877-1907), early Chinese womens’ liberationist and martyred revolutionary…. |
| An Old Man and His Dog | Director | 1993-10-07 | An Old Man and His Dog is a 1993 Chinese film directed by Xie Jin…. |
| Woman Basketball Player No. 5 | Director | 1957-08-01 | 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… |
| Huang Baomei | Director | 1958-01-02 | The film introduces the famous national model worker, textile worker Huang Baomei, who is played by the real Huang Baomei herself…. |
| Big Li, Little Li and Old Li | Director | 1962-06-17 | Sports gain acceptance among workers at a meat processing plant…. |
| On The Docks | Director | 1972-01-29 | Adaptation of a lesser known to Western world, yet wildly popular Peking Opera developed during the Cultural Revolution under the leadership of Jiang … |
| The Cradle | Director | 1979-01-01 | 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… |
| A Wave of Unrest | Director | 1955-06-01 | 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…. |
| Youth | Director | 1977-01-01 | After her senses are surgically restored, a formerly deaf mute teenager enlists in the army and is assigned to communications work. But her inexperien… |
| Morning Star | Director | 1992-04-01 | A man must take care of his terminally ill son…. |
| 望穿秋水 | Director | 1948-01-01 | … |
| A small story in a big storm | Director | 1958-01-01 | … |
| 水乡的春天 | Director | 1955-01-01 | … |
| è“桥会 | Director | 1954-01-01 | … |
| 大跃进ä¸çš„å°ä¸»äºº | Director | 1958-01-01 | … |
| 控诉 | Director | 1951-01-01 | … |
| Pan shi wan | Director | 1976-02-05 | … |
| 盛大的节日 | Director | … | |
| 春节大è”欢 | Director | 1956-02-11 | … |
| Woman Soccer Player #9 | Director | 2002-06-18 | Chinese movie… |
| Director | … | ||
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Two Stage Sisters | Writer | 1964-02-07 | In pre-revolutionary China, two young girls, Chunhua and Yuehong Xing, rise through the ranks of Chinese opera, but with their artistic success comes … |
| Hibiscus Town | Writer | 1987-03-05 | 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 Cul… |
| Big Li, Little Li and Old Li | Screenplay | 1962-06-17 | Sports gain acceptance among workers at a meat processing plant…. |
| Woman Basketball Player No. 5 | Writer | 1957-08-01 | 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… |
| Qiu Jin | Writer | 1983-01-01 | Biopic of Qiu Jin (1877-1907), early Chinese womens’ liberationist and martyred revolutionary…. |
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