Mou Tun-fei
Chinese filmmaker
Mou Tun-fei (Chinese: 牟敦芾; pinyin: Móu Dūnfèi; Wade–Giles: Mou2 Tun1-fei4) (May 3, 1941 - May 25, 2019) was a Taiwanese filmmaker known for directing the infamous 1988 horror film Men Behind the Sun.
Biography
Mou was born on 3 May 1941, in Shandong, China. His family left China for Taiwan in 1949 due to the Chinese Civil War. Mou attended the National School of Arts (now National Taiwan University of Arts) that could not even afford equipment for the students. Mou thus was forced to learn filmmaking by theory alone, mainly by watching films numerous times in theaters and identifying how many cuts the films contained. After graduation, Mou was assistant director on an anti-communist propaganda film called Give Back My Country and then directed numerous Taiwanese films in a style akin to the Italian neorealist movement. His first and second feature, I Didn't Dare to Tell You (1969) and At the Runway's Edge (1970) were both banned by the Taiwanese government, especially the latter film for containing homosexual overtones.
In 1977, Mou settled in Hong Kong and joined Shaw Brothers Studio. His first film, Gun, was part of an exploitation true crime anthology The Criminals. While at Shaw Brothers, Mou would dabble in crime films (Bank Busters), romance (Melody of Love), horror (Haunted Tales) and kung-fu (A Deadly Secret).
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