Director of new China’s first film with kissing scene dies at 90

By Sinema, Published on February 21st, 2011

Huang Zumo, director of the classic Chinese movie, Romance on Lushan Mountain, died Saturday night in Shanghai.

The 90-year-old director died of heart failure at a local hospital in Shanghai, said a spokesman with the Shanghai Film Group Corporation (SFG).

Picture 3 211x300 Director of new Chinas first film with kissing scene dies at 90,

Huang Zumo is most remembered for shooting Romance on Lushan Mountain, a 1980 blockbuster about two lovers who were forced to separate due to the opposing political views of their families, with the backdrop set in the picturesque Lushan Mountain.

The movie won Huang great fame and popularity and was regarded as a landmark, since it was the first new China-made film that included a kissing scene.

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