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Chow See Luk was a film director, producer and director of photography whose career spans from the 30s to the early 60s. In the 50s he was one of the two managers of the Shaws' Cantonese Film Group, a post which enabled him to produced numerous films as well as to discover many talents in front and behind the camera.
Born in 1914, Chow originated from Guangdong. He steps into the Shanghai film industry as a teenager and is already an assistant cinematographer at 13 for the Unique studios run by the eldest of the Shaw brothers Runje . At 17 he becomes director of photography. He notably takes part in the productions of Unique's first talking film Nightclub Colours/ Gechang Chunse (1931) and to the first Cantonese dialect film ever made, also produced by Unique, The Platinum Dragon (1934). When Unique moves his movie-making operations to Hong Kong, Chow comes along and keeps working for the studio up until at least 1941.
Around 1947, Chow Sze Luk becomes a director with the film Joy And Success. In nine years, he has directed about seventy films for several Hong Kong studios including Qinhua, Wangfang and Longfeng. The best films of that time are Cantonese opera movies as well as comedies. He directed films in all kinds of dialects: Mandarin and Cantonese of course but also Chaozhou and Anoy.
In 1955, Shaw's second brother Runde, Shaw And Sons, Ltd studio's boss, sets up a Cantonese dialect production unit and appoints two seasoned filmmakers to run it: Fung Fung Goh and Chow Sze Luk. The later owes his new job to his own Cantonese background, his work in the Cantonese film industry as well as his decade long associsation with the Shaw brothers. As head of the unit Chow produces more than fifty films and directs about twenty. He discovers and uses many young new stars such as Patricia Lam Fung, Cheung Ying Tsoi, Mak Gei and Lui Kei (1). Talents behind the camera are also revealed by Chow like Ng Daan and Lung Fong, who are to become two important directors in the 1960s Hong Kong Cantonese cinema.
Early 1960s, Chow starts working more on Mandarin productions for the newly established Shaw Brothers, which probably contributes to the slowing down of the Cantonese Production Unit's pacing. For the Shaw Brothers, Chow directs The ChaseWhen The Poles Meet, Stepmother (1963), The Amorous Lotus Pan (1963) and The Female Prince (1964). Chow is assigned to direct the new wuxia production Temple Of The Red Lotus but dies of liver cancer on September 7, 1964. His final film The Female Prince is released on December 10 of that same year. The Shaw's Cantonese production unit is shut down shortly after Chow's death.
Written by Yves Gendron (January 2007). Source : The Shaw Screen a Preliminary Study. |
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Amorous Lotus Pan, The |
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Another Chance For Love |
1953 |
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Beating The Match-Maker |
1949 |
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Beautiful Matching |
1952 |
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Beseiged |
1959 |
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Bride From Another Town |
1959 |
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Case Of The Female Corpse, The |
1959 |
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Chase |
1961 |
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Chen Shimei Betrayed His Wife |
1949 |
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Colorful Tokyo |
1956 |
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Crime Of Passion In The Hotel |
1958 |
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Dances Of Charm, The |
1957 |
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Eight Immortals In The World Of Men |
1951 |
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Elopement, The |
1954 |
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Eternal Peony |
1955 |
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Ever-Blooming Waterlilies, The |
1960 |
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Every Thing Goes My Way |
1948 |
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Fairy Sleeves, The |
1957 |
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Fan To Remember |
1961 |
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Feather Fan Under Spring Lantern |
1956 |
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Female Prince, The |
1964 |
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Female White Golden Dragon, The |
1953 |
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Fool on Honeymoon, The |
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Fragrance Of Durians, The |
1959 |
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Furry Rat, The |
1941 |
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Ghost That Created An Uproar In Guang Changlong, The |
1952 |
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Glowing Pearl, The |
1937 |
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God's Punishment To The Good Man |
1948 |
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Good Mother And A Hooker, A |
1950 |
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Grand Reunion, The |
1956 |
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Great Wall, The |
1949 |
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Happiness Is A Well-Defended Home |
1937 |
Production Manager |
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Helping Hand, The |
1960 |
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Her Difficult Life |
1954 |
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How Song Jiang Slew His Mistress Yan Poxi |
1950 |
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Joy And Success |
1948 |
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Life Of Life |
1960 |
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Love And Chasity |
1960 |
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Love Knot (Part 1) |
1960 |
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Love Knot (Part 2) |
1960 |
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Love On The Lonely Bridge |
1959 |
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Marriage Between The Quick And The Dead, The |
1957 |
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Marriage On The Rocks |
1958 |
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Master Adou, A Native Of Darling |
1952 |
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Mo Tsung's Adventure Of The Lion Pavilion |
1948 |
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Mother |
1961 |
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Mother's Broken Heart |
1958 |
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My Beloved Grandchild |
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Native Scholar, The |
1948 |
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Night Hanging Of Bai Furong |
1949 |
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Pak Kam Lung And His Impersonator |
1956 |
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Pearl Of The Island |
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Pretty Girl's Love Affair, A |
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Princess Jade Lotus |
1958 |
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Pursuers, The |
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Red Chamber Dream |
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Return On A Snowy Night |
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Scholar In A Buddhist House, A |
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Shi Xiu's Uproar In Cuiping Hill |
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Shilin Offers Sacrifice to the Leifeng Pagoda |
1955 |
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Silver Phoenix |
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Snow White And The 7 Dwarfs |
1955 |
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Solving The Copper-Netted Trap |
1950 |
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Stepmother |
1963 |
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Story Of Little Cabbage And Yang Naiwu, The |
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Swallows' Return |
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Sweet Girl In Terror |
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Swordsman Of Shu Hill |
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Till Death Us Do Part |
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Two Drug Addicts Sweep A Long Dike |
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Two Roaming Orphan Girls |
1950 |
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Valley Of The Love Birds |
1958 |
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Vengeance Of The Vampire, The |
1959 |
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Virtuous Girl From A Humble House, A |
1958 |
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Walking Corpse Of An Old Temple |
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When Beauty Fades From The Twelve Ladie's Bower |
1954 |
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When The Poles Meet |
1961 |
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Where Shall We Meet Again |
1950 |
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Woman In Grief |
1953 |
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Wu Song's Bloody Fight At Double Pavilion |
1949 |
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Young Lady's Escort Army, The |
1952 |
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Young Rock |
1959 |
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