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  "description": "Ren Pengnian 任彭年(1894-1968.2.23) .  Director.  Native of Shanghai.   Trained at the Anglo-Chinese Book Guild, then joined the Shanghai  Commercial Press at age 16.  In 1918, transferred to theCommercial Press's new Motion Picture Division.  Directed first film in  1919, a two-reel comedy titled \"The Gambler.\"  In 1921, Ren directed  his first feature film, the highly successful \"Yan Ruisheng\"  for the China Shadow Play Research Society.  In 1926, started the  Orient Film Company, to direct \"The Worker's Wife.\"  Became one of  China's first generation of swordsman film directors in 1928, when he  formed the Bright Moon film studio and directed its 13 part serial  \"Northeast Hero.\"  (His future wife and business partner Wu Lizhu,  had the female lead, becoming one of the first swordswomen heroines.)   In 1935, directed the anti-Japanese film \"Dark Violence,\" after which he  returned to directing such martial arts epics as the six-part \"Mistress  of the Spear.\"  As did many in the Chinese film community, Ren and Wu  left Shanghai after the Japanese invasion, arriving eventually in Hong  Kong, where they remained after the war.  In Hong Kong, Ren became known  for making Cantonese dialect martial arts and sword films in both  classical and modern settings and usually featuring the martial exploits  of heroines, with Wu Lizhu often cast in the lead role.  After being  semi-retired in the 1950s, Ren and Wu in 1960 resurrected the Bright  Moon studio to make such movies as \" Three Covert Female Investigators\"  and \"Flying  Heroine Huang Yingqiao Cracks the Diamond Theft Case.\"   Their working partnership usually took the form of Ren Pengnian  producing and directing the movie, with Wu Lizhu editing and often  starring.  Wu Lizhu retired after making her final screen appearance in  1961 and Ren Pengnian's last directing effort was in 1963, after which  he also retired",
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  "deathDate": "1968-02-23",
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    "任彭年",
    "Pang-Nin Yam",
    "Peng-nien Yan",
    "Жэнь Пэн-нянь",
    "Жэнь Пэннянь",
    "Пэннянь Жэнь ",
    "Yan Peng-nien ",
    "Pangnin Yam ",
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