Home

Runje Shaw (1896-1975)

Alias:
Shao Renjie
Shao Tongzhang
Shao Zuiweng
邵醉翁

Born:
January 1, 1896

Died:
February 17, 1975

Biography from TheMovieDB

Runje Shaw (1896–1975), also known as Shao Zuiweng (C.W. Shaw) and Shao Renjie, was a Chinese film entrepreneur, producer and director. The eldest of the Shaw brothers, in 1925 he founded Tianyi Film Company (also called Unique Film Productions) in Shanghai, which became one of the top three film production companies in pre-WWII Republic of China, and the beginning of the Shaw Brothers media empire.  Under Runje's leadership, his younger brothers Runde, Runme, and Run Run established branches of Tianyi in Hong Kong and Singapore. Runje retired from filmmaking after Tianyi's Shanghai base was destroyed in 1937 during the Japanese invasion, but his younger brothers, particularly Sir Run Run, rebuilt Tianyi's offshoots in Hong Kong and Singapore, of which Shaw Brothers Studio came to dominate filmmaking in Hong Kong. (Wikipedia)

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Film Production

Director:
1926  The Pearl Pagoda
1934  Mourning of the Chaste Tree Flower
1935  Burning of the Efang Palace
1935  Life
1935  The Butterfly Lovers (Part 1)
1935  The Butterfly Lovers (Part 2)
1935  The Country Bumpkin Tours the City
1935  The Country Bumpkin Tours the City (Part 2)
1935  The Country Bumpkin Tours the City (Part 3)
1935  Unworthy of Love
1936  A Woman of Guangzhou
1937  The Deadly Rose
1938  The Flying General

Producer:
1926  The Pearl Pagoda
1933  Baijin long
1934  Mourning of the Chaste Tree Flower
1934  春宵曲
1935  Burning of the Efang Palace
1935  Life
1935  The Butterfly Lovers (Part 1)
1935  The Butterfly Lovers (Part 2)
1935  The Country Bumpkin Tours the City
1935  The Country Bumpkin Tours the City (Part 2)
1935  The Country Bumpkin Tours the City (Part 3)
1935  Unworthy of Love
1936  A Woman of Guangzhou
1937  The Deadly Rose
1938  The Flying General

Screenplay:
1926  The Pearl Pagoda
1933  Baijin long
1934  Mourning of the Chaste Tree Flower
1934  春宵曲
1935  Burning of the Efang Palace
1935  Life
1935  The Butterfly Lovers (Part 1)
1935  The Butterfly Lovers (Part 2)
1935  The Country Bumpkin Tours the City
1935  The Country Bumpkin Tours the City (Part 2)
1935  The Country Bumpkin Tours the City (Part 3)
1935  Unworthy of Love
1936  A Woman of Guangzhou
1937  The Deadly Rose
1938  The Flying General

Writer:
1926  The Pearl Pagoda
1933  Baijin long
1934  Mourning of the Chaste Tree Flower
1934  春宵曲
1935  Burning of the Efang Palace
1935  Life
1935  The Butterfly Lovers (Part 1)
1935  The Butterfly Lovers (Part 2)
1935  The Country Bumpkin Tours the City
1935  The Country Bumpkin Tours the City (Part 2)
1935  The Country Bumpkin Tours the City (Part 3)
1935  Unworthy of Love
1936  A Woman of Guangzhou
1937  The Deadly Rose
1938  The Flying General

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.