Shu Kei

{{short description|Hong Kong film director and screenwriter}}

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Shu Kei ({{zh|c=舒琪|j=syu1 kei4}}) or Kenneth Ip is a Hong Kong film director and screenwriter active during the 1980s and 1990s. A graduate of The University of Hong Kong, he is best known for the 1990 film Sunless Days (沒有太陽的日子),{{cite book|last=Marchetti|first=Gina|title=From Tian'anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens, 1989–1997|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iCX3Q2_LKvcC&pg=PA8|access-date=3 October 2014|year=2006|publisher=Temple University Press|isbn=9781592132782|pages=8–}} a documentary exploring the Tiananmen Square massacre{{cite book|last=Tezuka|first=Yoshiharu|title=Japanese Cinema Goes Global: Filmworkers' Journeys|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lDQwz9h6pOoC&pg=PA178|access-date=3 October 2014|date=1 November 2011|publisher=Hong Kong University Press|isbn=9789888083329|pages=178–}} and its influence on the people of Hong Kong in the days preceding the 1997 handover of the territory to the People's Republic of China. The documentary received an OCIC Award at the 1990 Berlin International Film Festival.

Shu Kei was the dean of film and television at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts from 2005 to 2016.