文化藝術人物 / Cultural figure

桂治洪

Kuei Chih-hung

1937–1999

領域:藝術家 · 作家與觀點論述者

繁體中文

桂治洪1937年12月20日在廣州出生,在香港完成中學教育,其後到國立臺灣藝術專科學校修讀舞台導演。求學期間他已利用有限的器材自拍電影,並製作黑白動畫《武松打虎》,又在台灣參與動畫及副導工作,執導《怪紳士》(1963,聯合導演)等台語片,並曾任潘壘的副導演,協助拍攝邵氏兄弟(香港)有限公司出品的《情人石》(1964)與《蘭嶼之歌》(1965)。1965年,他被派往日本松竹大船片廠受訓;返港後出任井上梅次、島耕二(史馬山)及中平康(楊樹希)等日籍導演的副手。何夢華開拍《西遊記》(1966)時邀他回港加入邵氏。1970年,他接手島耕二未完成的《南海情歌》,改由秦風主演,完成後易名《海外情歌》,是他為邵氏執導的首部長片。此後他拍過《一個愛情的故事》(1970)等片,直到1973年的《憤怒青年》才打開局面,該片雖由張徹掛名聯合執導,實際由他執行。1974年他接連拍出《蛇殺手》、《成記茶樓》與《鬼眼》,其中《蛇殺手》對性與暴力的大膽處理,以及《成記茶樓》改編江之南社會小說的寫實筆觸,都成為邵氏類型片的話題作;1975年的《大哥成》延續茶樓老闆對抗黑幫的故事。1980至1982年,他再以《邪》三部曲、《蠱》與《魔》等片,確立自己在恐怖、邪術題材上的招牌,其中《萬人斬》(1980)是他唯一的古裝武俠片。他在邵氏逾二十年,執導影片四十餘部,擅長在商業類型中放入誇張的鏡頭運動與社會批判,後期移居美國,一度經營薄餅店,1999年10月1日因肝癌離世。

English

Kuei Chih-hung was born in Guangzhou on 20 December 1937 and, after finishing secondary school in Hong Kong, studied stage directing at the National Taiwan Academy of Arts. He shot films in his spare time with limited equipment, made the black-and-white animation Wu Song Beats the Tiger, worked on animation and assistant-directing in Taiwan, directed Taiwanese-dialect pictures such as The Weird Gentleman (co-directed, 1963), and served as assistant director to Peter Pan Lei on Shaw Brothers' Lover's Rock (1964) and Song of Orchid Island (1965). In 1965 he was sent to the Shochiku Ofuna Studio in Japan for training and, after returning, became assistant to the Japanese directors Inoue Umetsugu, Shima Koji and Nakahira Ko. When Ho Moon-hwa began shooting The Monkey Goes West (1966) he invited Kuei back to Hong Kong to join Shaw. In 1970 he took over Shima's unfinished Love Song of the South Sea, recasting Chin Feng in the lead; released as Love Song over the Sea, it was his first feature for Shaw. Further films followed, but it was The Delinquent (1973) — nominally co-directed by Chang Cheh but executed by Kuei — that opened the way. In 1974 he made The Killer Snakes, The Tea House and Ghost Eyes, the first bold in its treatment of sex and violence and the second drawing on Jiang Zhinan's social novels, both becoming talking points of Shaw's genre output; Big Brother Cheng (1975) continued the teahouse owner's fight against the triads. Between 1980 and 1982 he consolidated his reputation for horror and black magic with the Hex trilogy, Bewitched and The Boxer's Omen, while Killer Constable (1980) was his only period wuxia. At Shaw for over two decades he directed more than forty films, using florid camera movement and social criticism within commercial genres; he later emigrated to the United States and for a time ran a pizza shop, and died of liver cancer on 1 October 1999.

人物小檔 Profile

職業Occupation

導演、編劇

年期Active period

1937–1999

代表作Notable works

《蛇殺手》《成記茶樓》《大哥成》《蠱》

獎項及榮譽Awards & honours

邵氏著名類型片導演

資料整理日期 / Compiled: 2026-09-12

主要成就 Key Achievements

1973

執導《憤怒青年》,打開導演局面

Directed The Angry Guest, opening up his career as a director

1974

接連執導《蛇殺手》《成記茶樓》《鬼眼》

Directed The Killer Snakes, The Teahouse and Ghost Eyes in quick succession

1975

執導《大哥成》,延續茶樓老闆對抗黑幫的故事

Directed Big Brother Cheng, continuing the teahouse owner's fight against the triads

影響與傳承 Impact & Legacy

繁體中文

桂治洪是邵氏七十年代最敢於嘗試類型的導演之一。他的《蛇殺手》、《成記茶樓》以至後期的《邪》三部曲與《蠱》,把寫實犯罪與邪術恐怖融為一體,塑造出港產片的另類風格,近年更被影迷重新評價。

English

One of Shaw's most adventurous genre directors of the 1970s, Kuei fused realistic crime with occult horror in films from The Killer Snakes and The Tea House to the later Hex trilogy and Bewitched, forging a distinctive strain of Hong Kong cinema that has been revalued by fans in recent years.

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