Bu Wancang, also known by his English name Richard Poh, was a prolific Chinese film director and screenwriter active between the 1920s and the 1960s. He was born in Anhui.
Bu Wancang in 1937
The United Photoplay Service Company was one of the three dominant production companies based in Shanghai, China during the 1930s, the other two being the Mingxing Film Company and the Tianyi Film Company, the forerunner of the Hong Kong-based Shaw Brothers Studio.
Key people of United Photoplay Service (left to right): Lai Man-Wai, Lo Ming Yau, Lim Cho Cho, Mei Lanfang, Ruan Lingyu, Sun Yu, and Jeffrey Y.C. Huang (黃漪磋).
One of Lianhua's most famous films, The Goddess (1934)