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Hsin Chi
Born
Xing Jin-Chuan

(1924-10-23)October 23, 1924
Wanhua district, Taipei, Taiwan
DiedSeptember 22, 2010(2010-09-22) (aged 85)
Occupation(s)Director, screenwriter, actor

Hsin Chi (辛奇)  (23 October 1924 – 22 October 2010),[1] birth name as Hsin Jin-Chuan (辛金傳),[2] was a Taiwanese film director who was known for his Taiwanese-language films in the 1960s, including The Bride Who Has Returned From Hell (地獄新娘; 1965), Foolish Bride, Naive Groom (三八新娘憨子婿; 1967), and The Rice Dumpling Vendor (燒肉粽; 1969). He directed nearly fifty Taiwanese-language films, most of them have a close relationship with plays and literature.

Biography

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Hsin Chi’s birth name was Xing Jin-Chuan (辛金傳). He was born in 1924 in Wanhua District, Taipei City. His home was close to the Wanhua Cinema (萬華戲院), where his neighbour worked, Hsin Chi thus developed had a love for cinema quite early in his life. He only enrolled in high school for a year before he transferred to polytechnic school. He started to develop an interest toward literature, and started to explore theatre. He went to Nihon University, Japan, and studied in the department of theatre in 1942 despite his family’s disagreement.[2]

He dropped out of the university and came back to Taiwan in 1944, which was at the peak of the Japanization movement promoted by the Japanese government. Xing Jin-Chuan joined “Youth Culture Committee” (青年文化常會) and performed “street poetic play” (街頭詩劇). Due to the play’s implied questioning of Taiwan’s Japanese national identity, Hsin was investigated by the government. To him, plays were their media to spread patriotism and resist Japanese colonisation. He later joined the “Taiwan Theatre Committee” (台灣演劇協會) to be in charge of stage design and other works. He engaged in nearly all of the important theatre movements in Taiwan in the period of  WWII until the restoration of Taiwan.[2] When he was the editor of Local Theatre  (地方戲劇), he used the name Hsin Chi as his pseudonym, and the name was kept for all his works afterwards.[3]

In 1956, Hsin Chi adapted Cai Qiu Lin (蔡秋林)’s Xi Shi (西施), which was a script for Taiwanese opera, into film script to be filmed as Fan Li and Xi Shi (范蠡與西施). In the same year,[2] Hsin adapted the play script Yu Ye Hua (雨夜花) into film script for the very first modern Taiwanese-language film of the same title. He founded Zhongxing Taiwanese Experimental Drama Club (中興台語實驗劇社) with Xu Shou-Ren (徐守仁) and Li Chuan (李川).[4] They fostered Yang Ming (陽明), Jiang Nan (江南),  Yu Han-Xiang (余漢祥), Chen Yun-Qing (陳雲卿) and several other stars of Taiwanese-language film.[3]

In 1957, Hsin Chi directed his first film Gan Bao Guo Taiwan  (甘國寶過台灣). That same year, he participated in the first edition of Taiwanese-Language Film Festival (台語片影展) held by the Intelligence News Agency (徵信新聞社) with his Miao Ying Piao Ling Ji (妙英飄零記) and Bo Min Hua (薄命花).[3] In 1965,his Qiu Ni Yuan Liang (求妳原諒) won the Best Film award at the National Taiwanese-Language Film Exhibition (國產台語影片展覽會) held by the Taiwan Daily (台灣日報). Hsin Chi and Wang Yi-Juan(王薏雯) also won the Best Screenplay award for Bei Lian Gong Lu (悲戀公路) and Hsin Chi was selected as one of the top ten Taiwanese-language film directors and awarded the Baodao Award (Taiwan award/寶島獎). His Shuang Mian Qing Ren (雙面情人) released in 1965 was the first science fiction horror film in Taiwanese-Language films. In 1966, Hou Jie Ren Sheng (後街人生) was Hsin Chi 's most satisfying representative work in his film career. That same year, he directed his first Mandarin film Bing Dian (冰點). In 1970, he went to Hong Kong to work on the post-production of Shaw Brothers' Shadow Girl  (隱身女俠) which was shot in Taiwan.[3]

In 1971, Hsin Chi began working in television and became the theatrical instructor for several TV shows, including The Chinese Television Service’s (now Chinese Television System)  Jia Qing Jun You Taiwan(Mr. Jia Qing’s tour to Taiwan/嘉慶君遊台灣), Xi Luo Qi Jian (The seven swords of xiluo/西螺七劍),  Wang Ni Zao Gui (Hope you return soon/望你早歸),  Nü Shen Long(Dragon goddess/女神龍), Shan  Hu Tan Zhi Lian (Love in Coral Lake/珊瑚潭之戀)", and Taiwan Television Enterprise’s Mu Lei Di Di Ai (Mother's tears of love/母淚滴滴愛), etc. In 1972, he went to Indonesia to film Jing Jing Xun Mu Ji (晶晶尋母記), which was not released in Taiwan. In 1978, he won the Golden Bell Award for Best Educational and Cultural Program Award for his educational program Ai Xin (Love/愛心). In 1979, he directed Drunken Shrimp, Crab, and Fish (醉魚醉蝦醉螃蟹), which was his last film.[3]

Beginning in 1990, Hsin Chi assisted the National Film Archive to sort and catalogue Taiwanese-language film materials. In 1996, he acted in TV dramas Chunhua Dream" (春花夢露) and "Dharma " (達摩). He became the president of the "Taiwanese Film and Television Artists Association" (台語片演藝人員聯誼會) in 1997 and organized the "Taiwanese Filmmakers Group" (台灣影人劇團) the following year. In 1999, director Lai Feng-Qi (賴豐奇) made a documentary about him entitled On Hsin Chi and his A-Team for Taiwanese-Language Films (班底/角色-辛奇導演).  In 2001, the "Taiwanese Film and Television Artists Association" expanded and became the "Taiwanese Filmmakers Group" (台灣影人協會), with Hsin Chi serving as the first chairman.[3]

Hsin Chi passed away due to colorectal cancer in 2010.[4]

Filmography

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Year Chinese Title English Title Ref.
1956 甘國寶過台灣 Gan Bao Guo Taiwan/Gan Bao’s journey to Taiwan [5]
1957 薄命花 Bo Min Hua/Ill fated flower
1957 妙英飄零記 Miao Ying Piao Ling Ji/Miao-Ying’s story
1958 恨命莫怨天 Hen Ming Mo Yuan Tian
1963 吻一下 Wen Yi Xia/One kiss
1963 湯島白梅記 Tang Dao Bai Mei Ji
1964 為著五角銀 Wei Zhu Wu Jiao Yin/For fifty cent
1964 河邊春夢 He Bian Chun Meng/Wet dream beside the river
1964 天災地變彼一夜 Tian Zai Di Bian Bi Yi Ye/The night everything changed
1964 恩愛三百六十五回 En Ai San Bai Liu Shi Wu Hui
1965 故鄉聯絡船 Gu Xiang Lian Luo Chuan
1965 女通緝犯 Nü Tong Qi Fan/The wanted woman
1965 難忘的車站 Encounter At The Station
1965 破棉被 Po Mian Bei
1965 求妳原諒 Qiu Ni Yuan Liang/Begging for your forgiveness
1965 雙面情人 Shuang Mian Qing Ren/The two-sided lover
1965 悲戀公路 Bei Lian Gong Lu/Tragic romance on the highway
1965 地獄新娘 The Bride Who Has Returned From Hell
1965 後街人生 Hou Jie Ren Sheng/Life at the backstreet
1966 冰點 Bing Dian/Freezing point
1966 夢中的媽媽 Meng Zhong De Ma Ma/Mother in the dream
1966 死光錶 Si Guang Biao
1966 悲戀關子嶺 Bei Lian Guan Zi Ling/Tragic romance in Guan Zi Ling/
1966 玉面狐狸 Yu Mian Hu Li
1967 酒女夢 Jiu Nü Meng
1967 暗淡的月 An Dan De Yue/Dim Moon
1967 三八新娘憨子婿 Foolish Bride, Naive Groom
1967 南北歌王 Nan Bei Ge Wang/King Of Singing
1967 三聲無奈 San Sheng Wu Nai/Helpless
1968 醉俠神劍 Zui Xia Shen Jian/Drunk Man Excalibur
1968 勿欠賬 Wu Qian Zhang/No Debt Aloud
1968 少女的煩惱 Shao Nü De Fan Nao/Teenage Girl Troubles
1968 阿西返外家 A Xi Fan Wai Jia/A Xi’s Return To Mother’s
1968 處女心 Chu Nü Xin/First Timer Heart/
1968 阿西做大舅 A Xi Is An Uncle
1969 暗光島 An Guang Dao/Dark Light Island
1969 阿西父子 A Xi Fu Zi/A Xi And Son
1969 劉茶古遊台北 Liu Cha Gu You Tai Bei/Mr Liu Goes To Taipei
1969 新烘爐新茶古 Xin Hong Lu Xin Cha Gu/New Oven New Tea
1969 金瓜寮老師父 Jin Gua Liao Lao Shi Fu/Jingualiao Old Master
1969 再會十七歲 Zai Hui Shi Qi Sui/Goodbye My 17
1969 無法度 Wu Fa Du/No Way
1969 燒肉粽 The Rice Dumpling Vendor
1969 危險的青春 Dangerous Youth
1969 妙夫妙妻 Miao Fu Miao Qi/The Amazing Couple
1969 丈夫要出嫁 Zhang Fu Yao Chu Jia/Husband Got Married
1969 鑼聲若響 Luo Sheng Ruo Xiang/The Drumbeat
1970 鬼見愁 Gui Jian Chou/Devil May Cry
1970 盲女勾魂劍 The Seizure Soul Sword of a Blind Girl
1971 大煞星 Da Sha Xing/Bad Luck
1971 隱身女俠 Shadow Girl
1972 晶晶尋母記 Jing Jing Xun Mu Ji/Jingjing’s Adventure Seeking Mother
1979 醉魚醉蝦醉螃蟹 Drunken Shrimp, Fish, and Crab


References

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  1. ^ "Chi Hsin". IMDb. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  2. ^ a b c d "跨越—辛奇的本事". 臺灣影視聽數位博物館.
  3. ^ a b c d e f 國家電影及視聽文化中心. "辛奇". 臺灣影視聽數位博物館 (in Traditional Chinese). Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  4. ^ a b 倪, 有純. "辛奇導演專訪". 台灣電影網.
  5. ^ "導演-辛奇". TFAI-國家電影及視聽文化中心 Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute. Retrieved 2023-06-08.