Run Run Shaw, pengasas Shaw Brother iaitu sebuah syarikat perfileman yang boleh dikatakan sebagai pengasas industri filem yang terawal dan paling berjaya dan beroperasi di jalan Ampas Singapura. meninggal pada usia 107 tahun, beliau dan syarikatnya melahirkan bakat hebat sepanjang zaman Tan sri P. Ramlee dan seangkatannya. Beliau begitu dihormati di Hong Kong dan mempunyai peranan yang sangat besar dalam perjalanan industri filem Hong Kong sebagaimana yang dilaporkan oleh Bloomberg..
Run Run Shaw, the Hong Kong media mogul and philanthropist whose movie studio exported Chinese cinema to a global audience in the 1960s, has died. He was 106.
The founder of Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Ltd. died at home in the company of his family at 6:55 a.m. today,Television Broadcasts Ltd. (511) said in a statement. According to the Chinese custom of calculating age, he was 107, said the company that was co-founded by Shaw.
Shaw Brothers movies from the 1960s such as the kung-fu film “The One-Armed Swordsman” and the musical “The Kingdom and the Beauty” once accounted for more than half ofAsia’s box-office receipts. “The Magnificent Concubine,” a picture about a Tang Dynasty beauty, became the first Chinese movie to receive an international award when it won a prize at the 1962Cannes Film Festival. Baca laporan terperinci di sini
