Er Dongsheng was born on December 28, 1957, to a prominent artistic family in Hong Kong, China.
His father, Er Guang, was a famous producer and director in the early Hong Kong film industry; his mother was even bigger, she was the film actress Hongwei who was popular all over Shanghai Beach that year. In 1993, the Golden Horse Awards, which represented the most advanced award in the film industry in the three regions across the Taiwan Straits, presented Hongwei with a special award, the Golden Horse Awards Special Achievement Award, to express her gratitude for her outstanding contributions to the film industry.
In addition, the union with Er Guang was not Hongwei's first marriage, she had lived with the actor Yan Hua for many years, and also gave birth to two sons for Yan Hua - Qin Pei (formerly known as Jiang Changnian) and Jiang David.
These two brothers will also be big-man-level figures in the future Hong Kong film industry, one is an old drama bone that everyone praises, almost all types of Hong Kong movies in the 80s and 90s you can see his performance, and the other is the first "Asian film emperor" in the history of Hong Kong film in China.
Er Dongsheng, who grew up under such favorable conditions, may be easier for him than drinking boiled water.
However, at that time, the young and ignorant Er Dongsheng did not seem to be very interested in the kind of profession that wanted to cry and laugh, and when his father and mother usually wanted to take him to the set to play, he would say with a look of disgust: "No, I don't want to play with those idiots." As for the instruments that he was taught, he played them for a few days and then threw them aside, with no intention of paying any attention to them.
Such Er Dongsheng is also a different kind of family in their family, so Er Guang and Hongwei decided to cultivate him to become a reading seed and take the road of career in the future, who knew that this dream was also shattered when Er Dongsheng was 18 years old.
In 1975, Er Dongsheng talked about his first love girlfriend Yu An An for two years in high school and had no intention of continuing to study, so she signed up for an actor training class organized by Hong Kong Radio Television (TVB), and with her good face and tall figure, Yu An An soon stood out from it, and she was invited to officially join TVB and become a basic actor.
Such a good development opportunity came, Yu An'an did not hesitate to accept it, but at this time, Er Dongsheng made a mistake, because his family wanted to send him to study abroad, and then arrange a job for him after returning.
On the one hand, his beloved girlfriend, on the other hand, a brighter future, the young Er Dongsheng encountered the first big choice in his life. After a few days and nights, Er Dongsheng finally made up his mind that he would like to be a "dusk king": he would rather be beautiful than a country. He decided to stay with his girlfriend and join TVB as an actor.
When Er Dongsheng informed his family of his decision, although he was also strongly opposed, he could not stand Er Dongsheng being a "little one", his parents loved him too late, it was still impossible to really lose his temper, he could not withstand his soft and hard bubbles, and Er Guang and Hongwei had to follow his willfulness.
In addition, the family's resources in the entertainment industry can be described as abundant, so it seems that it is also a good choice for Er Dongsheng to inherit his father's business.
Therefore, under a series of operations by his family, Er Dongsheng successfully "exempted" into his girlfriend's department, and the two were together, working while talking about love, which was really envious of others.
However, even if it is a related household, Er Dongsheng's early days in TVB are still inevitably suffering from a little skin and flesh, after all, the low-level actors at that time were notoriously exploited and squeezed.
In the two years he entered TVB, he has been doing miscellaneous work, running on the set as a dragon set, learning to be an assistant with the class, serving tea and water and occasionally making a cameo role as a driver, etc., but Er Dongsheng is happy in it, because he is playful by nature, this environment he is more comfortable, plus he has a superior family, there is no life problem, if the money is not enough, he can go home and take it directly, work is just an experience, and he is happy to be outside.
However, although Er Dongsheng did not have any ambitions, his background did not allow him to continue to be so ordinary.
In 1977, Er Dongsheng was called to play a small supporting role in "Sir's Tiger Gun after Poison", although it was a small role, But Er Dongsheng's very natural acting skills were affirmed by director Chu Yuan. He said to Er Dongsheng: "You practice more, you are very talented, there is a chance for us to cooperate again." If you change to someone else, you will definitely be very excited to leave the director's contact information by the way, a lot of some are gone, but Er Dongsheng just politely replied: "Thank you" and left, which made Chu YuanGao look at Er Dongsheng and think that he can calm down and is a person who does great things.
In fact, he didn't know that at that time, it was just Er Dongsheng who asked his girlfriend to dinner and was in a hurry to leave.
There is a saying that goes well: Don't look at the monk's face and look at the Buddha's face. For the figure of Er Dongsheng, Chu Yuan has always heard about it in the company, although he is not famous, but his two brothers have long been the heroes of the entertainment industry, and he has also witnessed the scene of Er Dongsheng working hard in the company for two years as a rich man. Therefore, in 1977, Chu Yuan introduced the 20-year-old Er Dongsheng to the crew of the movie "The Sword of the Three Young Masters" through his own connections, and finally Er Dongsheng won the role of the male protagonist "Xie Xiaofeng".
At this time, let's not forget what Er Dongsheng's purpose as an actor is, yes, it is love. Therefore, Er Dongsheng, who got the male protagonist role, won the role of the female protagonist for his girlfriend Yu An'an. (I have to admire, having a relationship is good to make.) ）
Although this movie is not very popular, it can also be regarded as making Er Dongsheng and the two of them mixed in front of the audience, at least with a stepping stone to officially enter the film and television circle.
Since then, the two have continued to appear together in works such as "The Book of the Dragon Slayer in the Heavens", which has also attracted the attention of many people. Inside and outside the play are lovers, and the golden boy and jade girl in the eyes of others are rumored to be about to get married.
In fact, this is not only the idea of the media, but also the thought of Yu An'an, she grew up with her parents divorced, she grew up in a single-parent family, she is very insecure, after eight years of love with Er Dongsheng, she feels that it is time to give a perfect account of this relationship. So, she asked Er Dongsheng, when do you plan to marry her? Unfortunately, at this time, Er Dongsheng was just a hairy boy, the word "marriage" had never appeared in his world, he thought more just to eat, drink and have fun, so he replied perfunctorily without any idea: "Wait a minute, the opportunity is not ripe now." ”
Yu An Was dissatisfied when he saw Er Dongsheng's behavior like this, but considering his feelings over the years, he had to suppress his anger and say no more.
But with the slow passage of time, Yu An'an, who still did not see any movement of Er Dongsheng, gradually lost patience, and she gave Er Dongsheng an ultimatum, if the two could not get married during the year, they could only break up.
The final result is known to everyone, in the face of Yu An'an's forced marriage, Er Dongsheng made a very clear refusal, and the two parted ways.
However, emotional matters, such as people drinking cold and warm self-knowledge, no one can criticize the correctness of the person concerned.
After announcing the official breakup with Er Dongsheng, Yu An'an met the new huan Zhou Runfa in less than two months, and at this time, Zhou Runfa was just exposed by the media that he committed suicide because of breaking up with his first love girlfriend Chen Yulian, and the two sad people who were hit by love felt sorry for each other, licking each other's wounds, quite a feeling of being a fallen person in the end of the world.
Maybe it was the same disease, maybe it was to retaliate against her ex, to prove that she was not no one wanted, less than a month after falling in love, Yu An'an and Zhou Runfa, who was four years older than her, flashed marriage.
At that time, everyone was not optimistic about the marriage, and even the parties knew what the basis of the relationship was, but sometimes hatred and jealousy would make people lose their minds. It's just that everything has to pay a price after all, and their price is that the marriage broke down after less than 9 months.
On the other hand, On the other hand, Er Dongsheng's side, he seems very calm, because he does not have time to see Yu An'an's sad autumn moon nights, and he is making the most important choice in his life - to transform into a director.
There has always been a saying in the industry: learning and excellence, acting and excellent guidance. In 1985, due to fierce market competition, the inferior Shaw Group announced the suspension of production, and its artists could only find their own way out. At this time, the 28-year-old Er Dongsheng had two choices, one was to switch to other companies to continue filming, and the other was to become a director himself. After days and nights of deliberation, Er Dongsheng decided to choose the second answer.
In 1986, Er Dongsheng's debut film, "The Legend of the Epileptic Man," revolved around a social worker who was loyal to the cause of helping the mentally ill, and for more than two decades he had been dealing with street homeless people to guide them toward recovery. But his actions, with the support of a female writer, were not reciprocated until a mentally ill person broke into a kindergarten with a knife and caused a bloody case, and social workers were seriously injured and killed. Its cast is also very strong, with a series of big stars such as Zhou Runfa, Qin Pei, liang chao and so on.
The grass boat borrowed arrows, only owed the East Wind, Er Dongsheng confidently sent the film for trial, but what awaited him was a notice of unqualifiedness, on the grounds that the shooting subject matter was too sharp and easy to affect social stability.
In the face of such a result, Er Dongsheng was unwilling and unwilling to accept, in order to make the movie more realistic, he even personally went to the mental hospital to live with the mental patient for more than half a month, where he ate and slept with the patient, communicated together, and experienced the real situation of the mentally ill.
Therefore, Er Dongsheng constantly petitioned, used his connections, and tried everything to make the film pass the trial. After the collective discussion of the review department, the "Epilepsy" was finally released after cutting off part of the footage.
As soon as the film was released, it was quickly popular with Hong Kong audiences, and its continuous improvement in word-of-mouth also broke through the box office of tens of millions, so that the 30-year-old Er Dongsheng was praised by the "genius director".
Young fame is inevitable to be proud, in 1987, Er Dongsheng made a movie called "People's Hero", and "Epilepsy" in general, the same is to take a slight literary, niche route, but this time the audience did not buy it, with the word of mouth and box office both went down, this film on the back of the "bad film" infamy, and for Er Dongsheng, the audience is naturally the higher the expectation, the higher the disappointment, some people even rose to the level of personal attack.
At this time, Er Dongsheng was a little panicked, because it took less than a year to go from heaven to hell.
Just at this moment, Er Dongsheng's enemy appeared. Er Dongsheng is a straight son, which can be seen from "Actors Please Take Place", and frequently makes zhang da self-conscious.
But did you know that when he was young, he was even more "poisonous tongue"? In the face of the reporter's interview, Er Dongsheng once said bluntly: "Maggie Cheung is such an ugly woman, if I were a judge, she would not be able to win the award, let alone the runner-up." "Yes, this beautiful woman who makes many otaku feel moved and can't sleep at night is ugly in Er Dongsheng's eyes."
However, the man's mouth, the deceitful ghost, the mouth says, but the body is still very honest.
Maggie Cheung met Er Dongsheng through Jackie Chan's agent Chen Ziqiang, and after a brief conversation, the two saw each other as usual, left contact information for each other, and soon after, they naturally talked about love.
Talent with beauty, this should be the most used word in the media at that time to describe the couple of Maggie Cheung and Er Dongsheng, but in fact, this relationship is far less sweet and beautiful than it seems.
Some people say that the most comfortable way to love is to run in both directions, and in the interaction with Er Dongsheng, Maggie Cheung has become the most active one. Knowing that Er Dongsheng hated that she looked ugly, Maggie Cheung also specially went to micro-plastic surgery, let the doctor pull out her own small tiger teeth, put on cosmetic braces, and even she who usually did not eat much began to eat meat desperately, which was just that she wanted Er Dongsheng to look at her smoothly.
But this kind of licking dog-style flattery did not exchange For Er Dongsheng's love. In 1989, Er Dongsheng asked Maggie Cheung and Zhong Zhentao to co-produce a movie called "Goodbye Wang Laowu". In order to support her boyfriend's career, Maggie Cheung, who has just won the nomination for "Golden Queen" with "Carmen in Mong Kok", has lowered herself to play the heroine at a salary far below the market price.
However, this film, which Er Dongsheng regarded as his turnaround work, was already doomed from the beginning of filming, because he put too much pressure on himself. On the set, Er Dongsheng is notoriously strict with actors, and for Maggie Cheung, he is even more rude, as long as the filming is not good, he will loudly scold Maggie Cheung on the set, completely ignoring the tears swirling in Maggie Cheung's eyes.
Sometimes because of too many cosmetics and props and slow to clean up, Er Dongsheng also did not have the slightest intention of helping Maggie Cheung, just caring about driving home alone.
Although there are many contradictions, the two have a lot of pleasant time together, so they can maintain it. The crisis appeared after the release of "Goodbye Wang Lao Wu", and it was no accident that this movie "pounced on the street" again, so Er Dongsheng could not accept it for a while and began to wave the skeleton.
Er Dongsheng was addicted to racing. He ran to the car when it was dark, he ran to the car when it rained, he ran to the car on the day off, and no one could stop him if he wanted to go. Because the degree of danger of racing is too high, so Maggie Cheung has always been quite critical of this, before the work was relatively busy, it was fine, Er Dongsheng did not have a lot of time to play, but after successive failures and no drama to shoot, he almost devoted all his time to racing.
Finally, Maggie Cheung couldn't help but take the initiative to have the first fierce quarrel with Er Dongsheng, she said: If you continue to race, you can only break up, because she does not want to be widowed.
But at that time, Er Dongsheng thought that Maggie Cheung was just talking angrily, would not really go, and would be coaxed as usual, so he still secretly ran out.
Unexpectedly, when he left, the two really said goodbye to this.
In 1990, the three-year relationship between the 33-year-old Er Dongsheng and the 26-year-old Maggie Cheung ended.
Talking about the reason for the breakup, Maggie Cheung said bitterly: "He loves racing most rather than me."
Although Er Dongsheng did make mistakes, he also suffered after breaking up with Maggie Cheung. On the day he broke up with Maggie Cheung, Er Dongsheng went alone to find his half-brother Jiang David, but he was busy filming that day.
So, Er Dongsheng sat quietly and waited, waiting from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. When Jiang David finished his work, he was afraid to see his brother looking at the ground with his eyes open, because in his memory, his brother had never been such a person.
After that, the two drank until dawn, during which Time Er Dongsheng only said to Jiang David: "Brother, thank you." ”
It can be seen that Er Dongsheng at that time was also very painful.
Perhaps hit by Maggie Cheung's departure, Er Dongsheng finally woke up and picked up his directing career again. In 1992, the film "New Love" directed by him was just released throughout Hong Kong, with a box office of 30 million, with this film, Er Dongsheng won 6 awards such as best film, best director and best screenwriter at the 13th Academy Awards.
The familiar "genius director" Er Dongsheng is back.
In 1995, Er Dongsheng once again directed the film "Chariot of Fire", although it did not cause a sensation like "New Love", but its box office revenue was also very good.
In the same year, Er Dongsheng and Wang Ruixia, a Taiwanese woman, suddenly married, but the marriage came to an end within half a year.
From marriage to divorce, the two have caught everyone off guard, and all this is a mystery to this day.
The marriage process between the two was very smooth, but the divorce caused a lot of talk. It is said that the divorce was proposed by Er Dongsheng that year, and I don't know what Wang Ruixia did to him, but when he divorced, he took a firm stand: "Don't talk about money, insist on divorce." However, Wang Ruixia refused to let go of her hand and resolutely refused to divorce. Finally, it took half a year to investigate after filing a lawsuit in court before the divorce was officially announced.
Some people speculate that it may be Wang Ruixia's misconduct in marriage that led to such a result, but afterwards, neither party responded positively, and the matter was not resolved.
After this relationship, the prodigal son Er Dongsheng was also silent for a while, except for the news of the work, there was no longer some lace news that could be enjoyed.
This situation lasted until 1999, when Er Dongsheng was photographed by reporters with the same young woman going in and out, suspected of being a couple, and then confirming his emotional state. It was later confirmed that the woman's name was Luo Xiaowen, a very ordinary kindergarten teacher, and Bill Dongsheng was 13 years younger.
Compared with the previous high-profile, this time in love, Er Dongsheng is obviously a lot more cautious, and the reporter can hardly take photos of the two of them walking together, perhaps this is also a sign of his maturity.
The relationship lasted until 2008, when Er Dongsheng and Luo Xiaowen held an unusually simple wedding, when no one was present except a lawyer who testified to the marriage.
However, although the wedding was simple, Er Dongsheng did not attach much importance to this wife, because he entrusted many of the assets under his name to her to manage, which was the highest treatment that all his predecessors had ever had.
Regrettably, although the two were very affectionate, they were unable to have children during the marriage, because Er Dongsheng insisted to his wife Luo Xiaowen that he was a Dink family and did not want to have children.
This is not the best, the best thing is that in 2015, Er Dongsheng and an actress named Wang Ting, a mainland actor named Wang Ting, spread a peach scandal, and in 2017 he divorced Luo Xiaowen. In 2018, he exposed the news that he already had a 2-year-old daughter, but he did not mention who the daughter's birth mother was.
It is said that Luo Xiaowen did not take any property after the divorce, which was equivalent to leaving the house, and all this would eventually be left to Er Dongsheng, the mysterious daughter.