胡樹儒

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胡樹儒（1935–2009），廣東中山人，香港漫畫家、動畫製作人、電影導演兼投資者，筆名蝴蝶夢、胡椒、WOO。佢童年喺鄉間已愛上電影，中學時到廣州讀美術中學，後來留港，住上環街市一帶木屋區，受僱畫連環圖，二十歲創立蝴蝶圖書公司自行出版。1960年代佢投身廣告業，創辦香港卡通公司，成名作係1970年代嘅綠寶橙汁電視廣告。1973年佢同羅開睦、黃霑合組寶鼎電影，出品《天堂》同《大家樂》，並投資胡金銓《空山靈雨》，1979年再合組比高電影，出品許鞍華處女作《瘋劫》。1981年佢與謝金塗、蔡志忠聯合執導嘅《七彩卡通老夫子》係香港首部彩色商業動畫電影，獲第18屆金馬獎最佳卡通片；佢亦引入香港首部上映嘅多啦A夢電影《八寶叮噹大電影》。2009年6月7日逝世。

English

Wu Sau-yee (1935–2009), a native of Zhongshan, Guangdong, was a Hong Kong cartoonist, animation producer, film director and investor who also wrote under pen names. He fell for cinema as a child in the countryside, studied fine art in Guangzhou and stayed on in Hong Kong, drawing serial comics in the shack areas around Western Market and founding his own comic-book publisher at twenty. Moving into advertising in the 1960s he set up Hong Kong Cartoon, whose television commercials became landmarks of the decade. In 1973 he formed a film company with Law Hoi-muk and James Wong, producing two features and backing King Hu's Raining in the Mountain, and in 1979 co-founded another that produced Ann Hui's debut feature. In 1981 the animated Old Master Q, which he co-directed, became Hong Kong's first colour commercial animated feature and won Best Animation at the 18th Golden Horse Awards; he also brought the first Doraemon film to Hong Kong screens. He died on 7 June 2009.