Shaw Brothers Studio

Shaw Brothers Holdings Limited
Native name
邵氏兄弟控股有限公司
FormerlyShaw Brothers (HK) Ltd. (1958–2011)
Company typePublic company
SEHK953
IndustryFilm production
Television production
Founded27 December 1958; 65 years ago (1958-12-27)
Defunct28 November 2011; 12 years ago (2011-11-28)
FateMerged with Shaw Brothers to form a new Clear Water Bay Land Company Limited
SuccessorClear Water Bay Land Company Limited
Headquarters
Hong Kong (main; English-speaking)
Macau (main; Portuguese-speaking)
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsFilms
Television shows
SubsidiariesShaw Brothers International Pictures
Websiteshawbrotherspictures.com
Shaw Brothers Studio
Shaw Studios, Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong
Chinese邵氏片場
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinShào Shì Piànchǎng
Wade–GilesShao Shih P'iench'ang
Yale RomanizationShàu Shr̀ Pyànchǎng
IPA[ʂâʊ ʂɻ̩̂ pʰjɛ̂nʈʂʰàŋ]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationSiuh Sih pin chèuhng
JyutpingSiu6 si6 pin3 coeng4
IPA[ɕìːu ɕìː pʰɪ̄n tsʰœ̏ŋ]

Shaw Brothers (HK) Limited (Chinese: 邵氏兄弟(香港)公司) was the largest film production company in Hong Kong, operating from 1925 to 2011.

In 1925, three Shaw brothers—Runje, Runme, and Runde—founded Tianyi Film Company (also called "Unique") in Shanghai, and established a film distribution base in Singapore, where Runme and their youngest brother, Run Run Shaw, managed the precursor to the parent company, Shaw Organisation. Runme and Run Run took over the film production business of its Hong Kong–based sister company, Shaw & Sons Ltd; in 1958, a new company, "Shaw Brothers," was set up. In the 1960s, Shaw Brothers established what was once the largest privately-owned studio in the world, Movietown.

The company's most famous works include The Love Eterne (1963), Come Drink with Me (1966), The One-Armed Swordsman (1967), King Boxer (1972), Executioners from Shaolin (1977), The 36th Chamber of Shaolin and Five Deadly Venoms (both 1978).

Over the years, the film company produced around 1,000 films, some becoming the most popular and significant Chinese-language films of the period. It also popularized the kung fu genre of films. In 1987, the company suspended film production in order to concentrate on the television industry through its subsidiary, TVB. Film production resumed in limited capacity in 2009.

In 2011, Shaw Brothers was reorganized into the Clear Water Bay Land Company Limited; its film production business was taken over by other companies within the Shaw conglomerate. However, the company continues to remain active in producing TV shows under the Shaw Brothers name to this day as of 2022.