A film buff who worked in his youth as a cameraman at Unique, he also possessed a lot of business savvy, which can be seen by his decision to leave Shanghai with Runme to build a cinema empire in Singapore and Malaysia.
邵逸夫就完全不一樣了，他年少時在「天一」做過攝影師，本身對電影就有興趣，又有很高的領悟力，這可從他離開上海，和五哥邵仁枚到星馬闖出一大片事業看出來。