Sung Tsun-Shou

Sung Tsun-Shou or Song Chun-So (; September 2, 1930 – May 27, 2008), was a Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director. He began his film career as screenwriter and assistant director. He came to Taiwan with Li Han-hsiang in 1963 to join Grand Motion Pictures Co., Ltd. (國聯影業有限公司) Li founded. He began his directorial career in 1966 and made altogether close to thirty films between 1966 and 1978. He was known as “literary director” .

Life and career Sung Tsun-Shou was born in Jiangdu, Jiangsu in 1930. He was the youngest child in his family and had six brothers and sisters. His father ran a little department store. The first movie he watched at nine was Maiden in Armour (1939) starring Chen Yunshang. Sung made his directorial debut film, A Perturbed Girl at Grand Motion Picture in 1966.

Between 1966 and 1982, Sung made altogether twenty-six feature films. The great majority of them are literary romantic films (愛情文藝片). The four most popular actors and actresses of the genre, namely Brigitte Lin, Joan Lin (林鳳嬌), Charlie Chin and Chin Han starred in quite a few of his films, such as Outside the Window, News Hen (女記者), Love In The Green Village (綠色山莊), He Loved Once Too Many (水雲), Love is Smoke(輕煙), Fallen Flowers, Flowing Water, the Spring Is Gone (落花，流水，春去也), and Ask My Love from God (此情可問天). He tried martial arts films once and directed Iron Petticoat in 1969, which led him to believe that he was not good at this popular action genre at all.

A Lily in the Valley (老師．斯卡也答) is the last film Sung directed in 1982, the year when the New Taiwan Cinema movement started.

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