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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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Young Rock |
1959 |
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Young Lady's Escort Army, The |
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Wu Song's Bloody Fight At Double Pavilion |
1949 |
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Woman In Grief |
1953 |
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Where Shall We Meet Again |
1950 |
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When The Poles Meet |
1961 |
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When Beauty Fades From The Twelve Ladie's Bower |
1954 |
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Walking Corpse Of An Old Temple |
1950 |
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Virtuous Girl From A Humble House, A |
1958 |
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Vengeance Of The Vampire, The |
1959 |
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Valley Of The Love Birds |
1958 |
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Two Roaming Orphan Girls |
1950 |
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Two Drug Addicts Sweep A Long Dike |
1948 |
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Till Death Us Do Part |
1955 |
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Swordsman Of Shu Hill |
1949 |
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Sweet Girl In Terror |
1958 |
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Swallows' Return |
1953 |
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Story Of Little Cabbage And Yang Naiwu, The |
1956 |
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Stepmother |
1963 |
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Solving The Copper-Netted Trap |
1950 |
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Snow White And The 7 Dwarfs |
1955 |
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Silver Phoenix |
1955 |
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Shilin Offers Sacrifice to the Leifeng Pagoda |
1955 |
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Shi Xiu's Uproar In Cuiping Hill |
1949 |
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Scholar In A Buddhist House, A |
1953 |
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Return On A Snowy Night |
1957 |
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Red Chamber Dream |
1949 |
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Pursuers, The |
1960 |
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Princess Jade Lotus |
1958 |
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Pretty Girl's Love Affair, A |
1958 |
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Pearl Of The Island |
1957 |
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Pak Kam Lung And His Impersonator |
1956 |
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Night Hanging Of Bai Furong |
1949 |
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Native Scholar, The |
1948 |
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My Beloved Grandchild |
1952 |
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Mother's Broken Heart |
1958 |
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Mother |
1961 |
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Mo Tsung's Adventure Of The Lion Pavilion |
1948 |
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Master Adou, A Native Of Darling |
1952 |
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Marriage On The Rocks |
1958 |
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Marriage Between The Quick And The Dead, The |
1957 |
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Love On The Lonely Bridge |
1959 |
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Love Knot (Part 2) |
1960 |
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Love Knot (Part 1) |
1960 |
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Love And Chasity |
1960 |
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Life Of Life |
1960 |
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Joy And Success |
1948 |
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How Song Jiang Slew His Mistress Yan Poxi |
1950 |
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Her Difficult Life |
1954 |
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Helping Hand, The |
1960 |
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Happiness Is A Well-Defended Home |
1937 |
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Great Wall, The |
1949 |
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Grand Reunion, The |
1956 |
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Good Mother And A Hooker, A |
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God's Punishment To The Good Man |
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Glowing Pearl, The |
1937 |
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Ghost That Created An Uproar In Guang Changlong, The |
1952 |
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Furry Rat, The |
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Fragrance Of Durians, The |
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Fool on Honeymoon, The |
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Female White Golden Dragon, The |
1953 |
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Female Prince, The |
1964 |
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Feather Fan Under Spring Lantern |
1956 |
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Fan To Remember |
1961 |
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Fairy Sleeves, The |
1957 |
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Every Thing Goes My Way |
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Ever-Blooming Waterlilies, The |
1960 |
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Eternal Peony |
1955 |
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Elopement, The |
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Eight Immortals In The World Of Men |
1951 |
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Dances Of Charm, The |
1957 |
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Crime Of Passion In The Hotel |
1958 |
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Colorful Tokyo |
1956 |
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Chen Shimei Betrayed His Wife |
1949 |
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Chase |
1961 |
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Case Of The Female Corpse, The |
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Bride From Another Town |
1959 |
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Beseiged |
1959 |
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Beautiful Matching |
1952 |
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Beating The Match-Maker |
1949 |
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Another Chance For Love |
1953 |
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Amorous Lotus Pan, The |
1964 |
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