Original title: Famous director He Ping dies aged 65 (theme)
Director of “Swordsman in Double Flag Town” and producer of “Party A and Party B” and other works (subtitled)
Beijing Youth DailyReporter Xiao Yang
According to the China Film Directors Association, after checking with his family, the former vice president and general secretary of the China Film Directors Association, the famous director Mr. He Ping, was suffering from cancer and suffered a sudden myocardial infarction. Beijing in the early morning of January 10 at the age of 65. . As one of the fifth generation directors, He Ping is known for films such as “Swordsman in Double Flag Town”, “Cannonball Double Lantern” and “Heaven and Earth Heroes”.
He Ping was born in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province in October 1957. He started working in films in 1979. He directed his first film “We Are the World” in 1988 and the biographical film “Yoshiko Kawashima” in 1989. In 1991, he directed ” Swordsman in Double Flag Town”, a pioneering work in the history of Chinese martial arts films. It introduced a new narrative approach to traditional martial arts films. Fine Arts Award, 1992 Tokyo 3rd Yubari International Thrilling and Science Fiction Film Festival Best Film Award, 1992 5th “China Times Evening News” Film Awards Annual Mainland Outstanding Film Award in the Commercial Screening Category, 1993 Berlin Film Festival International Critics Awards. The films directed by He Ping also include “Cannonball Double Lantern”, “Sunshine Canyon”, “Heroes of Heaven and Earth”, “Rye Field”, “Back to Every Day of Being Loved” and so on.
In addition to being a director, He Ping is also an excellent producer. In the late 1990s, during the process of reforming the cinema system, He Ping, as one of the first batch of film producers in the film industrialization system Chinese, designed and produced “Party A and Party B”, “Be There or Be Square”, “Mobile Phone”, “Kekexil” and other outstanding Chinese films.
Ping once said that he would focus on artistic creation when he was a director, but when he was a producer, he would pay more attention to issues in the film industry. “I like the individual artistic creation of films and the general industry. I hope to be a professional filmmaker, which includes professional directors, professional screenwriters and professional producers.”
