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Born June 14, 1954 in Xian, Shanxi Province.
The creative biography of Huang Jianxin is a rare (if not unique) example of adherence to the genre of social comedy and satire for the PRC cinema. After serving six years in the army (1970 - 1976), Huang Jianxin began working as a photographer and then as an editorial staff member for a literary magazine. Soon he entered the Faculty of Philology of Xi'an Northwest University, after which he was enrolled in the staff of the Xi'an Film Studio - one of the largest in China. Here he quickly progresses from editor to second director and, firmly resolved to follow the path of filmmaking, in 1983 he applied to the Beijing Film Institute.
Huang finished his short course in directing in 1985. In the same year he managed to direct his debut film, the full-length comedy "The Black Cannon Incident." Far from being typical for the Chinese distribution, the picture produces a considerable public outcry and immediately attracts the attention of Western critics. Of course, its success was largely due to the political trends of that time (the peak of economic reforms and liberalization). The comedy, which was a satirical look at the stagnant order in Chinese enterprises, where "political vigilance" still blocked the way to technical innovations, was quite consistent with the official slogans of the day. But in his irony Huang Jianxin went beyond opportunistic playing along with the officialdom. In the absurd struggle of the factory collective with a loner acting for its own benefit - a puny, eccentric, bespectacled translator, certain Kafkaesque motives were also guessed.
Putting the same hero in the boss's chair and equipping him with a robot-double in his next comedy ("Substitution"), Juan clearly tried to continue moving towards the Kafkaesque grotesque, but the not very successful script and censor bills left the film in the framework of "socialist satire".
In 1988, the director takes on the production of a psychological drama ("Samsara") and achieves a significant result in a new genre for himself. "Samsara" (a Buddhist term meaning a chain of continuous rebirths) told about the fate of the newly-made private businessman Shi Ba, who chased the ghost of a wealthy and free life, but was driven into a dead end by fate and committed suicide. Having become the owner of a spacious parental apartment, Shi devotes time not so much to business as to burning through life and communicating with dubious people, which is the reason for his tragic end. But both pictorially and plotally, the film went beyond the framework of a moralizing teaching. Shi Ba's subtle, artistic nature also breaks down under the pressure of new economic realities, as his parents could not resist the press of ideology, and, apparently, the same fate awaits his newborn son, who was born after the death of his father.
"Samsara" was received quite coldly by official critics and film officials. Huang Jianxin staged his next painting only four years later. The heroes of the comedy "Stand up straight, do not bend" were young spouses - "new Chinese", who first aroused hostility, and then obsequious respect from the neighbors.
Staged in Taiwan, the drama from the patriarchal life "The Wife of the Wooden Man" lacked the topical context and satirical dominant so appreciated by the director, but, nevertheless, he still managed to place in the center of the plot the grotesquely surreal image of a wooden statue for which the heroine is forced to marry ... The witty and contemporary films "Face to face, back to back" and especially "Signal to the left, turn right", where the most characteristic types of the new Chinese society are collected in a small group of heroes - students of a driving school, leave no doubt that Huang Jianxin is the largest in mainland China as a master of social comedy. However, in his 1997 film Observation, irony and satire fade into the background,

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