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Doe Ching

Doe Ching

Directing

Biography

Doe Ching (1915 – 16 May 1969) was a Chinese film director and screenwriter who worked in the cinema of Hong Kong. In 1915, Doe was born in Zhejiang province, China. Doe directed over 51 films between 1952 and 1969. His 1967 film The Blue and the Black was ranked 91st in the 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films by the Golden Horse Film Festival in January 2011. On 16 May 1969, Doe died of stomach cancer in Hong Kong. He was 54 years old.

Known For

Signal Fires of Shanghai
7.8

During the Taiping Rebellion of the mid-19th century, anti-Qing (Manchu) Chinese forces led by Taiping commander Li Xiucheng march on Shanghai. Although the Western powers are officially neutral, the British consul in Shanghai sides with the Qing imperial government, and counter to his own government's policy he retains American adventurer Frederick Townsend Ward to raise a mercenary force of foreigners in Shanghai and oppose the Taipings. Ward's force is routed, with heavy casualties, but since many of the casualties are British, the British army soon is drawn in on the side of the Qings. The only support for the Chinese comes from Japanese in Shanghai and anti-imperialist demonstrations in Japan. A family drama plays out against this historical background. After a Chinese home is destroyed by careless British shelling, killing the father and crippling a daughter, the surviving son vows revenge but begins to see that his true friends may be the Japanese.

Signal Fires of Shanghai

1944Movie