陳銅民

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陳銅民（1931–2023），原名陳養民，係香港電影導演、編劇、資深傳媒人，其子為香港著名導演陳可辛。佢祖籍廣東潮州，父親為泰國華僑，幼年隨母親移居泰國，七歲曾返鄉求學，因日軍侵華再度返泰，曾在當地中學任中文教師。1956年佢到北京進修電影導演；1957年加入香港長城製片公司任編劇，後轉投袁仰安自組嘅新新影業公司，編寫劇本包括《十夜柔情》、《浪子雙娃》及《追車記》。新新結業後佢再轉投鳳凰影業，惟未獲委派工作，遂於1963年轉行到《明報》任編輯。1968年佢加入國泰機構，為電影《千手佛》任編劇和助導，完成後轉任宣傳部副主任，兼編輯國泰官方刊物《國際電影》，不久轉入邵氏兄弟任宣傳主任。1972年佢與家人陳養素、陳養黎自組大同影業公司，親自執導公司首部電影《大地雙英》，其後執導《奪命客》、《狼女》、《赤膽好漢》；其中《奪命客》獲第19屆亞洲影展最佳女主角「魚獅」獎，《赤膽好漢》亦啟發其子陳可辛監製《十月圍城》。1977年佢與日本導演聯合執導由千葉真一主演嘅電影後不再執導；1980年代息影後一直定居泰國，為《泰國世界日報》執筆寫社論，2023年2月9日凌晨在泰國家中午離世，享年92歲。

English

Chan Tung-man (1931–2023), born Chan Yeung-man, was a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter and veteran media man, and the father of the celebrated director Peter Chan. Of Chaozhou ancestry, he was born to a Thai-Chinese father and moved to Thailand with his mother as a child; he briefly returned to China for schooling at seven but went back to Thailand when Japan invaded, later teaching Chinese at a local secondary school. In 1956 he went to Beijing to study film directing, and in 1957 joined Great Wall Film Company in Hong Kong as a screenwriter before moving to a new studio founded by the producer Ng Yan-on, for which he wrote several screenplays. When that company closed he joined another studio but was given no work, so in 1963 he changed careers and became an editor at a leading Hong Kong newspaper. In 1968 he joined the Cathay organisation, writing and assistant-directing a film before becoming deputy head of publicity and editing Cathay's official magazine, and later became publicity chief at Shaw Brothers. In 1972 he and family members founded a production company, for which he personally directed its first film and several more, one of which won a best actress prize at the 19th Asian Film Festival; another later inspired Peter Chan's Bodyguards and Assassins. He stopped directing after a 1977 Japan co-production and, from the 1980s, lived out his life in Thailand writing editorials for a Thai-Chinese daily. He died at home in Thailand in February 2023, aged 92.