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A native of Hepu, Guangdong, Pan was born with the name Pan Rongsheng in Haiphong,Vietnam. As the only son of the family, he fled to Kunming with his sister and brother-in-lawduring the Second World War. Pan enlisted in 1943, and stationed in India and later at theSino-Indo-Burmese front. He changed his name to Peter Pan Lei around this time. He waspromoted to lieutenant when the war ended. The Indochina War broke out not long after Panretired from the army and returned to Vietnam. He was again forced to leave his home countryand enrolled in a medical college in Shanghai as an overseas Chinese student. It was then thathe started writing modern poetries , proses and short stories. Upon graduation, he worked in acommercial organisation owned by Kuomintang and thus moved to Taiwan. In May 1949, hefounded the first literary magazine in Taiwan. Pan won a major Chinese literary award for threeconsecutive years from 1955 to 1957.He joined the production department of Central Motion Picture Corporation as a script editorand taught screenwriting and directing at the Taiwan Academy of Arts. His was first creditedas the screenwriter in the Taiwanese-dialect title, A Girl with Leprosy (1957). He left CentralMotion Picture in 1957 and directed On Mount Hehuan for an independent company, followedby The Golden Age (1959). He then made Typhoon (1962) and Sea Gulf Weather (co-directed with Akinori Matsuo, 1963) for Central Motion Picture. Typhoon, an entry at the 7thAsian Film Festival, caught Run Run Shaw’s attention and Pan was recruited into Shaw Brothers(Hong Kong) Ltd in 1963. He returned to Taiwan in the following year to script and direct Lover’sRock (1964 ) and Song of Orchid Island (1965) for Shaws, and directed the action film DownhillThey Ride (1966) written by King Hu. Pan’s works were refreshing in style and of diverse genres.His subsequent productions for Shaws included the detective title Poison Rose (1966), romanticfeature Fallen Petals (1968), wuxia film The Fastest Sword (1968 ) and melodrama Love WithoutEnd (1970). He once faded o ut from the cinematic scene and focused on writing. In 1975 , hereturned to Shaws , scripted and directed films such as Evil Seducers (1975 ) and Cuties Parade(1975). The Crooks (1977) wa s the las t fil m he made fo r Shaws . Pan the n formed his ownproduction company and wrote scripts for directors such as Lo Wei. He later dedicated himselfto the study of antique jades and released his autobiography. Pan passed away on 22 July 2017in Taiwan.