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Chuan King

Hu Jingquan

Hu Chin-chuan

Chin Chuan

King Chuan

King Ho

Jinquan Hu

Cheun King

胡金铨

金銓

金铨

King Hu, Directing

Beijing, China | 1931-04-29 | 1997-01-14

Hu Jinquan (29 April 1932 – 14 January 1997), better known as King Hu, was a Chinese film director and actor based in Hong Kong and Taiwan. He is best known for directing various wuxia films in the 1960s and 1970s, which brought Hong Kong and Taiwanese cinema to new technical and artistic heights. His films Come Drink with Me (1966), Dragon Inn (1967), and A Touch of Zen (1970–1971) inaugurated a new generation of wuxia films in the late 1960s. Apart from being a film director, Hu was also a screenwriter and set designer.