A series of movie tributes and other remembrance activities will be held this week for famed Chinese film director Xie Jin, whose funeral will be held on Sunday.

Xie died at age 85 on Saturday. The exact cause of his death was not immediately reported, but it was known that Xie had been suffering from heart problems. A mourning hall was set up in Xie's study at his home on Nanjing Road W.

The Shanghai Film Group Corp, where Xie worked, will choose several films for a review of the director's masterpieces that will air around Sunday, according to a report posted on Sina.com.

CCTV-6 will also broadcast eight of Xie's most famous works, including "The Red Detachment Of Women," which won the best picture and best director honors at China's Hundred Flowers Awards, and "Legend of Tianyun Mountain," winner of China's Golden Rooster Award.

A Xie Jin Museum is expected to be opened to the public in three months at Shanghai University. Xie served as the head of the university's School of Film and Television Technology for 13 years.

The museum will display Xie's photos, scripts and other articles related to his life. Famous scholars from home and abroad will be invited to the museum to research Xie's films next year, the university said.

Xie's own words were recorded early this year for the television record "Master Xie Jin."

The director of the documentary, Shanghai Film Association Vice Chairman Shi Chuan, told Guangzhou Daily that Xie wanted to tell audiences he was an ordinary person. The program will be shown in the first half of next year.

Xie kept working in spite of his age, traveling between Shanghai and Sichuan. His last work was a public service film. In it, kindergarten children pray for the victims of the May earthquake.

(Shanghai Daily October 22, 2008)