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15 july 1968 film director shanghai , china 200px 蔡楚生 12 january 1906 1930s -- 1960s cai chusheng 01.jpg cai chusheng
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cai chusheng

cai chusheng -lrb- january 12 , 1906 -- july 15 , 1968 -rrb- was a chinese film director of the pre-communist era , and was the first chinese director to win an international film award at the moscow international film festival .
best known for his progressive output in the 1930s , cai chusheng was later severely persecuted and died during the cultural revolution .
his ashes are kept at the babaoshan revolutionary cemetery in beijing .
