Spring Subway
Spring Subway is a 2002 Chinese romance film directed by Zhang Yibai and starring Xu Jinglei and Geng Le. Sixth Generation director Zhang Yang also plays a role.
The film represents a relatively new genre in China, the artistic" commercial film" with its international urban sensibilities designed to appeal to young middle- class Chinese.
" Spring Subway" is a stylistic film that plays with chronological conventions and flashbacks, and with characters that often break the fourth wall to directly address the audience.
The film was produced by China Youth Film Studio and the independent Electric Orange Entertainment( run by screenwriter, Liu Fendou).
Distribution was handled by Media Asia Entertainment Group.
Beaumont Smith
Frank Beaumont" Beau" Smith( 15 August 1885 – 2 January 1950), was an Australian film director, producer and exhibitor, best known for making low- budget comedies.
Smith made his first film in 1917," Our Friends, the Hayseeds".
He went on to become one of the most prolific and popular Australian filmmakers of the silent era.
Among his films were adaptations of the works of Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson.
His 1933 comedy" The Hayseeds" featured the first screen appearance of Cecil Kellaway.
Smith was famous for making his films quickly – sometimes he would complete shooting and post production within one month for budgets ranging from £ 600 to £ 1,200.
His wife Elsie would comment on his scripts and his brother Gordon looked after company finances.
He was sometimes known as" One Shot Beau" or" That'll Do Beau".
Zhang Yibai
Zhang Xiaoling, better known by his stage name Zhang Yibai( born 1963, in Chongqing, China) is a Chinese film director.
Captain Thunderbolt
Frederick Wordsworth Ward( 1835 – 25 May 1870), better known by the self- styled pseudonym of Captain Thunderbolt, was an Australian bushranger renowned for escaping from Cockatoo Island, and also for his reputation as the" gentleman bushranger" and his lengthy survival, being the longest roaming bushranger in Australian history.
The Gentleman Misbehaves
The Gentleman Misbehaves is a 1946 American musical film.
Matt Corboy
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.
Tan Zhuo
Tan Zhuo( born 25 September 1983) is a Chinese television and film actress.
She appeared in the films" Spring Fever"( 2009, banned in China)," Dying to Survive"( 2018, one of the highest- grossing films in China) and the 2018 TV series" Story of Yanxi Palace".
The Gentleman from Nowhere
The Gentleman from Nowhere is a 1948 American crime- drama film directed by William Castle.
Xu Jinglei
Xu Jinglei( born 16 April 1974) is a Chinese actress and film director.
She was hailed as one of the Four Dan Actresses in China.
In 2002, Xu won the Huabiao Award for Outstanding New Actress for her performance in I Love You and the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress for Spring Subway.
The same year, she won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Far From Home.
The Gentleman Bushranger
The Gentleman Bushranger is a 1921 Australian film melodrama from director Beaumont Smith.
Bushranging films were banned at the time but Smith got around this by making the plot about a man falsely accused of being a bushranger.

Question: Do both films Spring Subway and The Gentleman Bushranger have the directors that share the same nationality?
Answer: no