Hsin Chi

Chi Hsin has directed more than 50 Taiwanese Hokkienlanguage films including romance realistic wuxia comedy crime thriller Taiwanese opera and even softcore pornography but only eight of them survived In the late 60s when the production of Hokkienlanguage films started to decline Xin tried to make Mandarinspeaking films He even went to Hong Kong and there he made some wuxia films for the Shaw Brothers in King Hus style but the collaboration terminated prematurely In 1971 he moved to the television industry by writing and directing for companies owned by the state Until his retirement in 1990 he made numerous dramas and education programmes After the 1990s he worked on the preservation of Hokkienlanguage films by assisting the Chinese Taipei Film Archive now renamed to the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute and creating an association for actors once working in the Hokkienlanguage films His numerous interviews are the significant historical resources helping us understand the development of Hokkienlanguage cinema in Taiwan