Hong Kong cinema had a long golden age, and one of the more special types of films during this period was action films.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Hong Kong's action films rose to prominence.
Moreover, it has cultivated a large number of action stars, such as Bruce Lee, Hong Jinbao, Jackie Chan, Zhen Zidan, etc., and has also established a number of famous martial arts teams such as Hong Jia Ban, Liu Jia Ban, And Cheng Jia Ban.
At the same time, the heroic beating girls in the film also left a deep impression on people, who not only have unworldly beauty, but also have a solid foundation in martial arts.
In the film, he was not afraid to fight with men, and truly interpreted the "scarf does not let the eyebrows" add a bright color to the action films of that era.
But with the decline of Hong Kong films, these actresses have gradually faded out of people's vision. Today, let's take stock of the 12 beautiful and sassy female stars in the Hong Kong film industry and review the glorious era of that year.
01, Mao Ying
Mao Ying is the first dozen women of Jiahe Film Company, known as the female version of Bruce Lee, and has starred in many classic action films.
When she first entered Jiahe, Mao Ying participated in the film "Tianlong Eight Generals", with this film, she was recognized by the audience and also attracted the attention of Zou Wenhuai, the boss of Jiahe.
With the explosion of Bruce Lee, Zou Wenhuai gradually developed the idea of packaging a female star, and Mao Ying was the most suitable candidate, and the two also collaborated on "Dragon Fight Tiger Fight".
In 1972, "Aikido" was released, Mao Ying played the female number one Yuying, and her signature action series kick in the film made her out of the circle smoothly. The film also entered the American theater line the following year and was well received.
Subsequently, Mao Ying starred in dozens of classic action films, broke through the Hong Kong film industry, and quit the show business circle in the 90s.
It is worth mentioning that the image of Chunli in the Japanese game "Street Fighter" is designed with the image of Mao Ying in "Broken Ring".
02, Zheng Peipei
When it comes to Zheng Peipei, the first image that comes to mind of many people is Madame Hua in "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", and even Zheng Peipei himself has said, "It is Zhou Xingchi who let more than a billion people know me as Mrs. Hua."
In fact, as early as Lady Hua, Zheng Peipei was a famous star of Shaw's, with the title of "Shaw's First Woman".
After joining Shaw, Zheng Peipei starred in the two films of "The Drunken Man" and "Golden Swallow", the female dressed as a man, the heroic Zheng Peipei was stunning, and she also quickly went out of the circle and became a well-known star.
But she chose to get married at her peak and left for another country. After marriage, she was not happy, divorced her husband after giving birth to 4 children, and chose to make a comeback, "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang" is her first work after her comeback.
Today, Zheng Peipei is still active in the show business circle, and once won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
03, Yuan Qiu
Yuan Qiu is one of the members of the "Seven Little Blessings", who has been training with her master Yu Zhanyuan since she was a child, and she entered the show business circle at the age of 17, starting from a stand-in.
He has starred in films such as "Five Great Disciples", "Brave without Fear", "Silkworm Change", "Thunderbolt Ten Jie" and so on, but they have not aroused much splash, and then they have gradually faded out of the show business circle and are satisfied with taking care of the family.
In 2004, she was originally interviewed with her sister, but she was accidentally photographed by Zhou Xingchi and starred in the role of the chartered wife in "Kung Fu", and became popular and ushered in the peak of her career.
Later, he formed a partnership with his disciple Yuanhua and starred in many movies together, but it was difficult to surpass the two roles of "Yang Guo xiaolongnü".
It is worth mentioning that she will star in "Seven Little Blessings" with other brothers, paying tribute to Master Yu Zhanyuan, the film will be starred by Leung Ka Fai, and Jackie Chan will also make a cameo.
04, Hui Yinghong
Hui Yinghong's experience can be called legendary.
She was originally a descendant of the Manchurian Zhenghuangqi, but due to her father's gambling and family morality, she followed her mother to the street to beg at the age of 3, and went to the dance hall to be a dancer while going to school at the age of 12.
Fortunately, at the age of 17, he was favored by Zhang Che and became Zhang Che's dry daughter, followed him into the show business circle, and participated in "The Legend of the Eagle Hero", playing Mu Nianci, the starting point can be described as not low.
Subsequently, she was appreciated by Liu Jialiang, entered Liu Jiaban, and won the Best Actress Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards with cheng dainan in "The Elders", which is also the only actress who won the Academy Awards by playing.
But her life did not go smoothly, and at the height of her career development, a set of sexy photos made her controversial, coupled with emotional blows, which made her suffer from depression for a time, and even swallowed drugs to commit suicide.
Hui Yinghong, who has resurrected, lives more transparently, not only won the Academy Awards three times, but also lived out herself, and now at the age of 61, she is still dashing and more and more popular.
05, Yang Panpan
Born into an artistic family in Taiwan Province, Yang Panpan was sent by her father to learn Peking Opera singing and martial arts since she was a child actress, and she starred in her first film role at the age of 10.
After entering the show business circle, with solid kung fu and rich performance experience, Yang Panpan successfully joined wireless at the age of 17 and participated in the filming of "Book of Swords and Vengeance", "A Sword of Heaven", "Thirteen Sisters", etc., but the role that really made her pay attention was Mu Nianci in the 83rd edition of "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", and her heroic and gentle image in the play surprised many audiences.
Subsequently, the broadcast of "The Prodigal Son of jianghu" and "Yang Jiajian" made Yang Panpan's popularity to a higher level, and after joining Taiwan Television, she also counter-stringed the male protagonist Jiang Xiaoyu in "New Absolute Double Pride".
But at the peak of his career development, Yang Panpan chose to get married and faded out of the screen until he came back after the marriage broke down, attending events, shooting TV series, and was seriously injured during filming.
Today, Yang Panpan is still single, and has successfully turned to a martial arts school to send talents to the film and television circle.
06, Hu Huizhong
At the beginning of Hu Huizhong's debut, he was known as "Xiaolin Qingxia", whether it is appearance or temperament, Hu Huizhong is quite similar to Lin Qingxia.
She debuted at the peak, co-starred with Zhang Guozhu in the literary film "Happy Face", which became a hit, and also won the nomination for best actress with this role, and called "Taiwan University Erhu" with Hu Guanzhen.
But fans are more familiar with her performance in the Hong Kong film industry, the "Overlord Flower" of the "Five Lucky Stars" series, heroic and beautiful, has gained a large wave of fans, until now she is still the most beautiful "Overlord Flower" in the minds of the audience.
In her acting career, Hu Huizhong encountered an accident, when filming "Hunting Demons", because of the mistakes of the staff, she was burned li Saifeng and Lu Liangwei, of which she was the most seriously injured.
Fortunately, he did not hurt his face, and continued to shoot after recovery, Li Xiaohuan who fought jet Li in "Fang Shiyu" and Wu Jing's mother in "Kung Fu Boy Breaks through", all of which left a deep impression on us.
As we all know, she is Sun Li's aunt and grandmother, some time ago, Hu Huizhong registered a social account, and Sun Li made a joke, which triggered heated discussion among netizens and successfully aroused netizens' nostalgia for classic Hong Kong films in the 80s and 90s.
07, Yang Ziqiong
Yang Ziqiong once won the championship of "Miss Malaysia", with high appearance and graceful style.
When she first entered the Hong Kong film industry, there was the financial blessing of jeweler Pan Disheng, coupled with the praise of Hong Jinbao, Yang Ziqiong's debut work, that is, Hong Jinbao's "Owl and Dumbo", although she was [specially recommended] in the film, but in the Hong Kong film industry with a hundred flowers, her "vase" seems insignificant.
Later, Yang Ziqiong offered to try action movies. It's really not a try, a try is amazing.
After experiencing the tempering of Hong Jiaban, Yang Ziqiong starred in "Royal Master Sister", on the screen, she is no longer a soft and weak "vase", but a heroic and cool beating woman, good looks, healthy hands, so that Yang Ziqiong surprised everyone as soon as she appeared.
With this film, Yang Ziqiong was on fire and was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards. After that, she took advantage of the chase, "Royal Warrior" is still a big hit, and the next few films are also high at the box office, and Yang Ziqiong has also established her status as a beating woman.
At the peak of her career, Yang Ziqiong retired from the circle to marry, came back after the failure of marriage, and co-starred with Jackie Chan in "Police Story 3", which established the status of the first dozen women in the Hong Kong film industry in one fell swoop, and later starred in Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which was recognized by the Hollywood market.
Not long ago, she cooperated with Liang Chaowei in "Shangqi", and her popularity further climbed, and I look forward to meeting the audience as soon as possible in the "Avatar 2" she participated in.
08. Gao Lihong
In 1984, after winning the miss Hong Kong title in one fell swoop, Gao Lihong stepped into the film and television circle. Her first film was "Ghost Hunting" with Wang Zuxian, in which she played an exorcist, but the response was mediocre.
There has always been no shortage of beautiful women in the Hong Kong film industry, and Gao Lihong decided to change directions, so she worshiped Hong Jinbao as a teacher and transformed into a beating woman.
Gao Lihong's transformation proved to be very successful, she starred in the film "Oriental Condor" starring Hong Jinbao, played a dirty but heroic guerrilla, and with this role, won the nomination for the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 7th Hong Kong Film Awards.
Subsequently, she participated in "Ghost Kicking", "Royal Female General", "Dragon and Phoenix Thief Catch" and so on, and her clean and neat skills have attracted much attention.
The interpretation of these films not only gave her a certain degree of popularity, but also made her harvest love.
In 1991, Gao Lihong married Hong Jinbao and became a big brother woman, and has since faded from the screen.
09. Li Saifeng
Because of her sweet looks, Li Saifeng was praised as an "angel in action movies".
Li Saifeng has lived in a divorced family since childhood, and the lack of father's and mother's love has made Li Saifeng develop a strong and resolute character. Because she likes to sing and dance, she often goes to the stage to perform.
It is also in this way that she was favored by a TV director, and invited the 15-year-old student to star in the TV series "The Land of Grace in the Pearl River", which was unanimously praised by the audience and the leaders of the TV station.
Subsequently, he successively starred in TV series such as "Drunken Boxer No Taboo" and became the head of the TV station.
When acting in TV dramas was booming, Li Saifeng wanted to break the bottleneck of the vase and seek higher development, so she terminated her contract with the TV station, learned From Xu Xiaoming as a teacher, learned Beipai Kung Fu, and started her own action film career.
It is also with this spirit of desperation that Li Saifeng is still thriving in the field of action movies, a "Angel Action" made her a first-line female hit star, and then "Red Storm", "Gold Medal Master Sister", "New Dragon Fighting", "92 Overlord Flower and Overlord Flower" made her fire out of the circle.
At the peak of his career, Li Saifeng chose to breathe and devote himself to the dance career he loved, which shows how transparent Li Saifeng lives.
10. Yang Lijing
A few days ago, the news of Yang Lijing's beating in the hospital rushed to the hot search, allowing the once-famous actress to return to people's vision.
Yang Lijing's popularity is also thanks to another beating girl, Yang Ziqiong. Before going to Hong Kong, Yang Lijing had already been involved in the film and television circle, and film and television dramas such as "The Legend of the Great Banner Hero" and "The Legend of cicada wings" made her a little famous.
After being invited to Hong Kong, coinciding with Yang Ziqiong's marriage, the heroine of "Royal Master Sister" appeared vacant, just at this time Yang Lijing came to Hong Kong to make up for Yang Ziqiong and starred in "Royal Master Sister 3: Male and Female Thieves".
Unexpectedly, this film made Yang Lijing a hit, and then she participated in the Royal Master Sister series of films, completely gaining a foothold in Hong Kong.
Since then, the actors Yang Lijing has cooperated with are jacky Cheung, Ren Dahua, Maggie Cheung, Hong Jinbao and other big-name actors, and as a star, Yang Lijing is also very desperate, so she has been injured countless times.
After performing "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan", Yang Lijing's old injury recurred, which also made her rethink her life, began to recover her body through yoga, and fell in love with the sport and actively developed her yoga career.
11. Lovelo
Lovelo has been practicing martial arts since he was 13 years old, not only proficient in taekwondo and karate, but also won championships in many competitions, which can be described as a strong martial arts foundation.
In 1985, he was excavated by Wu Siyuan and went to the Hong Kong film industry to shoot films, and the first Hong Kong film he participated in was "Royal Master Sister", which played on the same stage with Yang Ziqiong, in this film, Lovello showed his fierce stick technique and strong kung fu, so that the audience saw different styles of fighting scenes.
Since then, Lovell has started his action film career in Hong Kong, and has been loved by directors, starring in many action films, such as "Rich Train", "Law Enforcement Pioneer", "Overlord Flower", "Across the World" and so on.
And during her time in Hong Kong, Lovelo also gained love, she and Meng Hai, a member of the Hong family class, came together, and the two were also very sweet, but with The return of Lovelo, this relationship also came to an end.
After returning to China, Lovelo did not give up martial arts, and after participating in many B-grade films, he also opened a martial arts gym and opened classes to receive apprentices.
12. Big Island by Gali
Among the actresses in Hong Kong movies, Yuki Oshima is a top player.
Ōshima Yugali began learning Gunjuku-ryū Karate at the age of 13 and won the Japanese Karate Championship at the age of 16.
In 1986, through the introduction of "Master" Kurata Hosaki, Oshima Yugali starred in the film "Rich Train" directed by Hong Jinbao, and began his acting career in Hong Kong.
With his outstanding skills, Oshima Yugali soon became famous in Hong Kong, and also shot many films, such as "Angel Action", "Dream Awakening Blood Does Not Stop", "Power King", "Bahai Hongying", "Bombardment Secret Order" and so on.
One of the most classic characters is the Nishikura Tenno in "The Force King", a cult kung fu, fierce and fierce, which is the childhood nightmare of many classmates.
At the same time, like Lovelo, she also gained love in the Hong Kong film industry, and had two failed marriages with "Brother Plus Money" Zheng Haonan and action actor Gao Fei.
After the hong Kong film market fell lonely, coupled with the failure of marriage, she returned to China to develop.
In 2011, he was invited by Chen Xunqi to return to participate in "The Military Order of the Female Generals of Yangmen", and there were no works since then.
Today, most of these 12 beat girls have faded from the screen and run their own lives, but the contributions they have made to Hong Kong kung fu films will always be a highlight in the history of Hong Kong films. (Author: West Window Snow)