#lee hsing

LEE Hsing

- Jade Goddess

We continue our discussion of the GOLDEN DECADES: CINEMATIC MASTERS OF THE GOLDEN HORSE AWARDS with a chat on He Never Gives Up (LI Hsing, Taiwan, 1979). Li won the Golden Horse Award for Best Director for his films Beautiful Duckling (1965), Execution in Autumn (1972), and He Never Gives Up (1978) setting a record in Taiwan’s film history that remains unbroken, marking the pinnacle of Li Hsing’s…

It might seem strange that a director from Taiwan borrows a typically Western topos like imprisonment as the only way to cast out pride and its inveterate demons. Anyway, Lee Hsing picture shows a certain consistency in terms of dramaturgical principles, even though I would have liked it to have less focus on childhood psychological damages.

Preview- Execution in Autumn (Masters of Cinema Special Edition Bluray)

Referred to as “the godfather of Taiwanese cinema”, the films of director Lee Hsing (who passed away in 2021 at the age of 91) combined Western realism with the neo-Confucian ideals advocated by the nationalist government in Taiwan. Director of a number of masterpieces, presented here is the film he considered his personal favourite of all his films―and certainly his most successful―Execution in…