Editing Chang Cheh (section)

{{Short description|Chinese film director}}
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| birth_name = {{lang|zh-Hant|張易揚}}<br>(Chang Yi-yang)
| birth_date = {{birth date|1923|2|10|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Shanghai]], [[Republic of China (1912–49)|China]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2002|6|22|1923|2|10|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Hong Kong]]
| years_active = 1947–1993
| awards = '''[[Asia Pacific Film Festival]]'''<br>1970 Best Director (''[[Vengeance!]]'')
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'''Chang Cheh''' ({{zh|t=張易揚|p=Zhāng Chè}}; 10 February 1923 – 22 June 2002) was a [[Chinese people|Chinese]] filmmaker,<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|title=Chang Cheh|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/84801/Chang-Cheh/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702054708/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/84801/Chang-Cheh/biography|url-status=dead|author=Jason Buchanan|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=2015|archive-date=2015-07-02}}</ref> screenwriter, [[lyricist]] and producer active in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Chang Cheh directed more than 90 films in [[Greater China]], the majority of them with the [[Shaw Brothers Studio]] in Hong Kong. Most of his films are action films, especially ''[[wuxia]]'' and ''[[kung fu]]'' films filled with violence.

In the early 1970s he frequently cast actors [[David Chiang]] and [[Ti Lung]] in his films. In the late 1970s he mainly worked with a group of actors known as the [[Venom Mob]]. Chang Cheh is also known for his long-time collaboration with writer [[Ni Kuang]].