Ying Yunwei

YING Yunwei (1904 - 1967, China) was a Chinese film maker and screenwriter. He directed three black-and white films, among which The Eight Hundred Heroes (1938) about the 1938 Shanghai battle in which 800 Kuomintang soldiers resisted the Japanese. This film is an example of a style of film making that was intended to mobilize the masses against the Japanese invaders.