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Jizhou Yan was a Chinese film director who was born on July 31, 1917 in Changshu, Suzhou, China. He was best known for his work on the films "The Spring River Flows East" (1947) and "The Life of Wu Xun" (1954).
He began his career in the film industry in the 1940s, and his first film was "The Spring River Flows East". The film was a success and was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. He went on to direct several other films, including "The Life of Wu Xun" and "The White-Haired Girl".
Jizhou Yan was married to actress and singer Li Lihua, and the couple had two children. He died on April 8, 2004 in Beijing, China.
Jizhou Yan's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. He earned most of his wealth from his career as a film director.
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director,writer,actor |
| Age |
101 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Leo |
| Born |
31 July, 1917 |
| Birthday |
31 July |
| Birthplace |
Changshu, Jiangsu, China |
| Date of death |
June 21, 2018 |
| Died Place |
Beijing, China |
| Nationality |
China |
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Jizhou Yan Height, Weight & Measurements
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Jizhou Yan Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Jizhou Yan worth at the age of 101 years old? Jizhou Yan’s income source is mostly from being a successful Director. He is from China. We have estimated
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Yan Jizhou (Chinese: 严寄洲 ; Wade–Giles: Yen Chi-chou ; August 1917 – 21 June 2018) was a Chinese film director. Having fought on the frontline during the Chinese Civil War, he made popular war films in the 1950s and 1960s including Struggles in an Ancient City, Tiger Heroes, Heroes at Sea, and Two Good Brothers, which have come to be regarded as "red classic films". He won the Golden Rooster Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2012 and the Outstanding Contribution Award at the 2017 China Film Director's Guild Awards.
After the end of the Cultural Revolution, many of Yan's works came to be regarded as "red classics", although to his disappointment, Early Morning Chill was largely neglected and forgotten. He was recognized with the Golden Rooster Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2012 and the Outstanding Contribution Award at the 2017 China Film Director's Guild Awards.
During the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Yan was denounced as a "counterrevolutionary" and his films were labelled as "giant poisonous weeds". He was subjected to struggle sessions but survived largely unscathed thanks to protection afforded by the senior army general Li Desheng. Li resisted the demand by Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's radical wife, to imprison Yan for 20 years.
He was a director and writer, known for Ye huo chun feng dou gu cheng (1963), The Land Of Rebirth (1983) and Jiao yin (1955).
Yan's 1957 film, Early Morning Chill (五更寒), which he said was made with his "heart and soul", was a drastically different work. Unlike his other films which featured good-looking movie stars, its protagonists are a short, plain-looking man with a limp and a seductive widow of a landlord's son. Because it portrayed traitors of the Communist revolution in a sympathetic light, it was criticized even before the Cultural Revolution began in 1966.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Yan worked as a director for the August First Film Studio of the People's Liberation Army. He directed many popular war films, most famously Struggles in an Ancient City (野火春风斗古城, 1963), Tiger Heroes (英雄虎胆, 1958), Heroes at Sea (海鹰, 1959) and Two Good Brothers (哥俩好, 1962), which are now considered "red classic films". Tiger Heroes, starring Wang Xiaotang and Yu Yang, is regarded as one of the most influential spy films in the history of Chinese cinema. Struggles in an Ancient City, set in a Japanese-occupied provincial city, starred the actor Wang Xingang and actress Wang Xiaotang, who played the double role of two heroic sisters.
In 1947, he fought in the battle to take the city of Datong in Shanxi. His unit suffered heavy casualties, and when the commanders of his company and its two platoons were all killed in action, Yan temporarily assumed leadership of the company for seven days. General He Long publicly praised him after the battle.
During the Chinese Civil War, Yan, armed with musical instruments and simple weapons, was part of a "Seven Person Drama Troupe" which travelled to the frontline in the summer of 1946 to perform propaganda dramas for People's Liberation Army troops. As many soldiers questioned why they were now fighting the Kuomintang after so many years of fighting the Japanese, Yan's troupe performed plays that blamed the Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek for starting the civil war and exalted the bravery of the Communist soldiers.
Jizhou Yan was born in August 1917 in Changshu, Jiangsu, China.
