Runje Shaw

Biography

Runje Shaw (1896–1975), also known as Shao Zuiweng (C.W. Shaw) and Shao Renjie, was a Chinese film entrepreneur, producer and director. The eldest of the Shaw brothers, in 1925 he founded Tianyi Film Company (also called Unique Film Productions) in Shanghai, which became one of the top three film production companies in pre-WWII Republic of China, and the beginning of the Shaw Brothers media empire. Under Runje's leadership, his younger brothers Runde, Runme, and Run Run established branches of Tianyi in Hong Kong and Singapore. Runje retired from filmmaking after Tianyi's Shanghai base was destroyed in 1937 during the Japanese invasion, but his younger brothers, particularly Sir Run Run, rebuilt Tianyi's offshoots in Hong Kong and Singapore, of which Shaw Brothers Studio came to dominate filmmaking in Hong Kong. (Wikipedia)

Directed

1. Princess Iron Fan (1927) — Director
2. Mourning of the Chaste Tree Flower (1934) — Director
3. Unworthy of Love (1935) — Director
4. The Country Bumpkin Tours the City (1935) — Director
5. The Country Bumpkin Tours the City (Part 2) (1935) — Director
6. The Country Bumpkin Tours the City (Part 3) (1935) — Director
7. Life (1935) — Director
8. The Butterfly Lovers (Part 1) (1935) — Director
9. The Butterfly Lovers (Part 2) (1935) — Director
10. Burning of the Efang Palace (1935) — Director
11. A Woman of Guangzhou (1936) — Director
12. The Flying General (1938) — Director
13. The Deadly Rose (1937) — Director
14. The Pearl Pagoda (1926) — Director
15. Two Butterflies (1926) — Director
16. Swordswoman Li Feifei (1925) — Director
17. Swordswoman Li Feifei (1925) — Director
18. The White Snake (1926) — Director
19. The Flirting Scholar (1926) — Director
20. The Movie Actress (1926) — Director
21. A Patriotic Woman (1936) — Director
22. Compassion (1936) — Director