News out of Hong Kong is reporting the passing of Nansun Shi at the age of 75. Shi is credited with up to as many as thirty films, spending decades contributing to the success of Hong Kong cinema at home and abroad with her work at Cinema City, as well as her label Film Workshop Co. Ltd. with ex-husband and partner Tsui Hark.
Shi’s credits partly include Jean-Claude Van Damme headliners Knock Off and Double Team, Hark’s Time And Tide, and Wellson Chin’s Vampire Hunters which Hark also wrote, as well as Donnie Yen headliners Seven Swords, Dragon Tiger Gate and Flash Point among others. She also won several awards at festivals, including the Best Independent Producer Award at the 67th Locarno Film Festival.
Some of Shi’s latter credits were Legend Of The Condor Heroes, and the commemorative productions of The Battle of Lake Changjin and The Battle of Watergate Bridge, both which Hark co-directed next to Chen Kaige and Dante Lam. Film Workshop’s official statement can be read in the image below, which also details the cause of Shi’s passing which reads as follows:
We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Ms. Nansun Shi, who died peacefully at Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital on Monday, 13 July, at 20:51. She was 75.
Ms. Shi had been in declining health since 2022 due to complications affecting her immune system. In recent months, recurrent infections resulted in multiple organ dysfunction. She was surrounded by her family and loved ones in her final moments.
Details regarding memorial and funeral arrangements will be announced in due course.
Film Workshop
Our condolences at Film Combat Syndicate go out to Shi’s friends, family and colleagues.
Read more at HK01
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