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Njoo Cheong Seng is a Director and Scriptwriter Indonesien born on 6 november 1902 at East Java (Indonesie)

Njoo Cheong Seng

Njoo Cheong Seng
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Nationality Indonesie
Birth 6 november 1902 at East Java (Indonesie)
Death 30 november 1962 (at 60 years) at Malang (Indonesie)

Njoo Cheong Seng (Perfected Spelling: Nyoo Cheong Seng; Chinese: 楊章生; pinyin: Yáng Zhāngshēng; 6 November 1902 – 30 November 1962) was a Chinese-Indonesian playwright and film director. Also known by the pen name Monsieur d'Amour, he wrote more than 200 short stories, novels, poems, and stage plays during his career; he is also recorded as directing and/or writing eleven films. He married four times during his life and spent several years travelling throughout southeast and south Asia with different theatre troupes. His stage plays are credited with revitalising theatre in the Indies.

Usually with

Fifi Young
Fifi Young
(4 films)
Fred Young
Fred Young
(2 films)
Ali Joego
Ali Joego
(1 films)
Dhalia
Dhalia
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Njoo Cheong Seng (5 films)

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Director

Djantoeng Hati
Directed by Njoo Cheong Seng

Two students – the traditional Karina (Rr Anggraini) and metropolitan Roesdjana (Ariati) – are in competition for Karina's husband Sobari (Chatir Harro). Eventually Karina wins out.
Air Mata Iboe
Directed by Njoo Cheong Seng
Actors Fifi Young, Ali Joego

Soegiati (Fifi Young) is the loving mother of four children: sons Achmad (Rd Ismail), Idris (S Poniman) and Soemadi (Ali Sarosa), and a daughter named Soepinah (Soelami). She loves them all, but Soemadi receives the most of her attention because he receives little from his father, the merchant Soebagio (Ali Joego). As the children grow, they marry and move away, and eventually only Soemadi is left. Although he begins a relationship with a young woman named Noormala (Soerip), he does not marry her as his income is not enough to support them.
Kris Mataram
Directed by Njoo Cheong Seng
Actors Fifi Young

A young noblewoman from Kartasura, R. A. Roosmini (Fifi Young), falls in love with a commoner named Bachtiar (Omar Rodriga). She wants to be with him, but her father R. M. Hadikusumo insists that she marry a man from a similar background. The two run away together, but Bachtiar is recalled by his family and forced to marry a woman he does not love. Roosmini, rather than marry a man she does not love or live alone, stabs herself with her sacred kris and dies.
Zoebaida
Zoebaida (1940)

Directed by Njoo Cheong Seng
Actors Fifi Young

A love story set in Timor, in which Zoebaida and her lover are forbidden from marrying by those in power. They can eventually unite as husband and wife.
Pantjawarna
Directed by Njoo Cheong Seng
Actors Fifi Young, Dhalia, Anastasya Soerip

A young woman must raise her two daughters, despite several hardships, while her husband is in prison. She is ultimately taken in by the nobleman Raden Gatot, and the two fall in love. After she divorces her former husband, she and Gatot are married. Her former husband, however, upon release from prison, decides to challenge Gatot. Later in the film the mother must choose a good suitor for her daughters.

Scriptwriter

Djantoeng Hati
Directed by Njoo Cheong Seng

Two students – the traditional Karina (Rr Anggraini) and metropolitan Roesdjana (Ariati) – are in competition for Karina's husband Sobari (Chatir Harro). Eventually Karina wins out.
Air Mata Iboe
Directed by Njoo Cheong Seng
Actors Fifi Young, Ali Joego

Soegiati (Fifi Young) is the loving mother of four children: sons Achmad (Rd Ismail), Idris (S Poniman) and Soemadi (Ali Sarosa), and a daughter named Soepinah (Soelami). She loves them all, but Soemadi receives the most of her attention because he receives little from his father, the merchant Soebagio (Ali Joego). As the children grow, they marry and move away, and eventually only Soemadi is left. Although he begins a relationship with a young woman named Noormala (Soerip), he does not marry her as his income is not enough to support them.
Kris Mataram
Directed by Njoo Cheong Seng
Actors Fifi Young

A young noblewoman from Kartasura, R. A. Roosmini (Fifi Young), falls in love with a commoner named Bachtiar (Omar Rodriga). She wants to be with him, but her father R. M. Hadikusumo insists that she marry a man from a similar background. The two run away together, but Bachtiar is recalled by his family and forced to marry a woman he does not love. Roosmini, rather than marry a man she does not love or live alone, stabs herself with her sacred kris and dies.