Choui Khoua

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1916-11-23

Deathday 1995-12-16 (79 years old)

Place of Birth Nanjing,Jiangsu Province,China

Also Known As 张水华, 水华, Shui Hua, Sui Wa, 水華, Шуй Хуа, 张毓番

Choui Khoua

Biography

Shui Hua (November 23, 1916 – December 16, 1995), born Zhang Yufan, was a Chinese film director who gained prominence in the 1950s in the early years of the People's Republic of China. Born in Nanjing in 1916, Shui Hua studied to be an attorney at Fudan University in Shanghai. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Shui made his way to the Yan'an where he became a member of the Chinese Communist Party. After the war, Shui became involved in theater while teaching eventually moving into filmmaking with his 1950 debut film, The White Haired Girl. Later in the decade, he directed the critically acclaimed The Lin Family Shop, based on a short story by the author Mao Dun. With the turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s, Shui's filmmaking days seemed behind him. However, upon China's re-emergence from the Cultural Revolution, Shui again began to direct films, including Regret for the Past (1981), based on a story by Lu Xun, and Blue Flowers (1984).

Known For

Director

1984
Lan se de hua

as Director

1981
Shang shi

as Director

1965
Red Crag

as Director

1961
1959
1955
土地

as Director

1951

Writer

1955
土地

as Writer

1951
The White-Haired Girl

as Story Editor

Art

1981
Shang shi

as Additional Construction