邵醉翁

繁體中文

邵醉翁（1896–1975），又稱邵仁杰，原名同章，浙江寧波鎮海人，係中國同香港著名電影事業家、中國早期現代電影領軍人物，亦係銀行家同律師，邵逸夫長兄。佢1914年畢業於上海神州大學法科，曾任上海地方法院律師同會審公律師，1921年出任中法振業銀行經理；1922年佢合伙集股經營上海著名「笑舞臺」劇場，開演當時所謂「文明戲」，係中國經營現代劇場嘅先驅之一，並自辦劇團演出諷刺時弊嘅劇目。1925年6月佢以笑舞臺演員作班底創辦天一影片公司，任總經理兼電影導演，二弟邵邨人管會計、三弟邵仁枚負責發行、六弟邵逸夫到南洋做發行宣傳；首部故事片《立地成佛》1925年秋在上海首映，其後開拍以民間故事同古典小說為本嘅「稗史片」，開中國武俠片、宮廷戲之濫觴。1932年佢赴香港創立天一影片公司香港分廠，1936年影棚建成，首部粵語片《白金龍》大受歡迎、票房百萬，成為香港史上首部票房過百萬嘅電影。1949年佢退出電影業，1975年在上海逝世，享年79歲。

English

Runje Shaw Shao Zui-weng (1896–1975), also known as Shao Renjie, was born in Zhenhai, Ningbo, and became a leading film entrepreneur in China and Hong Kong, a banker and a lawyer, as well as the eldest brother of Run Run Shaw. He graduated in law from Shanghai's Shenzhou University in 1914 and practised as a lawyer, becoming manager of a Sino-French bank in 1921. In 1922 he took a share in Shanghai's celebrated Xiao Wutai theatre, staging the modern spoken drama of the day and running his own troupe with satirical repertoire, making him a pioneer of modern commercial theatre in China. In June 1925 he founded Tianyi Film Company with those actors as his core, serving as general manager and director; his first feature premiered in Shanghai in autumn 1925 and he went on to make folk-tale and classical-novel films that pioneered Chinese martial arts and palace drama. In 1932 he came to Hong Kong and set up Tianyi's Hong Kong branch, whose studios opened in 1936 and whose first Cantonese talkie became the territory's first film to take a million dollars at the box office. He retired from the business in 1949 and died in Shanghai in 1975, aged 79.