Chen Qian/Shanghai Daily news

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.