Li Hsing

Li Hsing graduated from Taiwan Provincial Normal College (台灣省立師範學院; now National Taiwan Normal University) in 1952. He acted in many films and often also served as the assistant director between 1955 and 1958, such as The Assault (血戰; 1958). In 1958 Li Hsing directed his first film, a Taiwanese-language comic film Brother Wang and Brother Liu Tour Taiwan though he did not speak the language. The film features a similar pair of characters like Laurel and Hardy and was released as two installments. They were so popular that it spun many more with the same pair of actors with similar titles, directed by Li Hsing and others. In 1963 Li Hsing began to make his first mandarine film Our Neighbor (街頭巷尾). He was hired by CMPC and co-directed the first color feature film Oyster Girl (蚵女), which together with Beautiful Duckling become the representative films of the "Healthy Realism" (健康寫實主義) promoted by CMPC. Li Hsing then began to adopt short stories by Qiong Yao (瓊瑤) and made Wan Chun (婉君表妹; 1965) and The Silent Wife (啞女情深; 1965). He lost his only son Lee Xian-yi (李顯一), who died in a car accident in 1996. In response to Lee Hsing's effort to promote the interaction and cooperation between filmmakers of Taiwan and Mainland China, the Motion Picture Foundation established Cross-Strait Films Exchange Committee (兩岸電影交流委員會), of which Li Hsing was the first chairperson. The committee has since then organized the annual Cross-Strait Film Festival (兩岸電影展), which is simultaneously held in Taiwan and Mainland China. Li Hsing died on August 19, 2021 at age 91. ==Filmography==