Prior to their involvement in the filmmaking business, the Shaw brothers were interested in opera and happened to own a theater in Shanghai; their father also owned a cinema. One of the plays in their theater, "The Man from Shensi", was very popular. The Shaw brothers then bought their first camera, and Runje Shaw made this play into a silent film which turned out to be a success. Runje Shaw and his brothers Runde and Runme formed a film production company in 1925 in Shanghai called the Tianyi Film Company (also known as Unique). The company's earliest films, "New Leaf" (立地成佛) and "Heroine Li Feifei" (女侠李飛飛), were shown in Shanghai in 1925.