| | Tsen Fen, in 1945 he joined a professional acting company and appeared in a wide variety of plays. Along with Zhu Shilin, he came to Hong Kong in 1946 where he studied film production under Zhu, and worked as an actor. He was Zhu's assistant director on "Sorrow of the forbidden cith" (1948). His first screenplay was "Life and death" (1953), directed by Zhu Shilin. He acted in "A bachelor is born" (1952) and "Marriage affair" (1953), both of which directed by Li Pingqian.
He returned to China in 1951 and worked for Beijing, August First, and Shanghai Film Studios. Many of Cen's films were opera films. In 1959 he co-directed "The opium war" with Zheng Junli. "The true story of Ah Q" (1981) was chosen for competition section in Cannes Film Festival. (Quoted from HKIFF 1983)
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