Minwei Li

Director | Actor | Writer

Date of birth : 09/24/1893

Date of death : 10/26/1953

City of birth : Yokohama, Japan

Born in Japan, of Xinhui, Guangdong origin and raised in Hong Kong, he joined Sun Yat-sen's Kuomintang party in 1911 and helped make anti-warlord movies. He was an active director during the golden years of the Shanghai movie industry from 1921 to 1928. In 1923, he founded the Minxin Film Company in Hong Kong which later relocated to Shanghai, By 1930, he co-founded one the giant studios of the 1930's, Lianhua Film Company with Law Ming-yau. In 1938, he returned to Hong Hong and retired.