01 Lost with "Little Brother Ma"
Speaking of Oshima Yugali, I believe that friends who are familiar with Hong Kong films in the 1980s and 1990s will not be unfamiliar.
The most memorable thing for everyone should be the Xicang Heavenly King she played in "Li Wang": Huang Quan. A black leather coat, short hair of two or eight points, a male voice, excellent kung fu, especially leg skills, left a deep impression on the audience.
This stems from the fact that Oshima Yugali learned karate from Kurata Hosaki from the age of 13 and practiced real kung fu.
Kurata Is also a Japanese action actor familiar to Chinese audiences, who played Japan's first master Fumio Funaetsu in the movie "Jingwu Hero", and had a wonderful duel with Chen Zhen, played by Jet Li.
Later, 16-year-old Yuki Ōshima was admitted to the action actor school founded by Japanese actor Shinichi Chiba, who played the bully in the movie "The Wind and Clouds". After graduating, she only starred in some obscure supporting roles in Japan, until 1986, when an opportunity took care of the 23-year-old Yuki Oashima, and a decision about her acting career was in front of her - to stay in her hometown or to try her luck in Hong Kong, China, where she was not familiar with life?
Because at this time, Master Kurata Hosaki wants to participate in a large-scale movie directed by Hong Jinbao, which gathers more than 40 stars such as Zhong Zhentao, Guan Zhilin, Yuan Biao, Zeng Zhiwei, Lin Zhengying and so on.
Oshima yugali chose to leave his hometown and successfully participated in the film at the recommendation of his master. Since then, she has successfully stepped into the Hong Kong film industry in the golden age, and began a 10-year career of "beating women", and her contemporaries Hu Huizhong, Hui Yinghong, Li Saifeng, and Yang Lijing became one of the most influential female stars in the 1980s and 1990s.
In the same year that Yuki Ōshima was known as a Japanese samurai in "Rich Train", Hong Kong actor Zheng Haonan, who was a year younger than Yuki Ōshima, also faced an important choice in his career as an actor - playing "The True Colors of Heroes" or "Dao Ma Dan"?
Because just the year before, the 21-year-old Zheng Haonan debuted for starring in the love movie "Eros One" with Ye Qianwen, and was nominated for the best newcomer at the 5th Hong Kong Film Awards with this film, which can be described as young and promising, with a promising future.
In 1986, New Art City Pictures began to shoot two films at the same time, "Dao Ma Dan" directed by Xu Ke and "The True Colors of Heroes" directed by Wu Yusen.
There is actually a very delicate relationship and difference between these two films. At that time, Xu Ke was just like the sun in the sky, and Wu Yusen, who joined New Art City Pictures, was depressed because of successive box office failures, so Xu Ke invited his friend Wu Yusen to direct "The True Colors of Heroes" in part because of pulling a lonely brother.
In addition, it can also be seen from the actor team that the female protagonists of "Dao Ma Dan" are Lin Qingxia, Ye Qianwen and Zhong Chuhong, who were red and purple in the whole of Southeast Asia at that time, so the role of the male protagonist "Ning Beihai" is even more appropriate male number one, and the stars are holding the moon.
And "Hero's True Colors", the most popular is Zhang Guorong, who is famous as a singer, before "Hero's True Colors", his film and television works did not have much influence, and Dillon's big brother has also passed the peak period of acting, so the role of "Little Brother Ma" is actually a male number three.
Along with Zheng Haonan, the actor who was included in the two films of "Ning Beihai" and "Little Ma Ge" was Chow Yun-fat, who was also under the huge pressure of "box office poison" at that time. Originally, it was considered that the newcomer Zheng Haonan played the male third "little horse brother", helped people to the end, and let Zhou Runfa, who was sluggish at the box office at the time, play the male one "Ning Beihai".
Therefore, the role of Xiao Ma Ge was originally tailored for newcomer Zheng Haonan, and even the name of the role of "Mark" comes from Zheng Haonan's English name Mark Cheng.
However, in business, New Art City Pictures was more optimistic about Xu Ke's "Dao Ma Dan" at that time, and Zheng Haonan was the artist of New Art City Pictures, and Zhou Runfa was still on TVB at the time, so it was inevitable that he would consider leaving better and more likely roles to become popular with his own people.
So the yin and yang were wrong, Zheng Haonan walked into the set of "Dao Ma Dan", and Zhou Runfa walked into the crew of "The True Colors of Heroes".
But fate sometimes likes to tease people, and no one expected that a "lonely director", a "past star", and a "box office poison". The combination of "Hero's True Colors" was the big hit that year, not only with a score of 34.65 million Hong Kong dollars to beat the second-highest grossing "Rich Train" with 28.12 million Hong Kong dollars and won the box office champion of the year, but also spread throughout Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia.
Zhou Runfa also turned over with the role of "Little Ma Ge".
Zheng Haonan, on the other hand, was surrounded by three female stars who were red and purple, especially Lin Qingxia, who appeared to be eclipsed by the heroic style of women dressed as men in the film, and the film finally won the seventh place of the year with a box office of 17.559 million.
It seems that fate has thus completed a transformation.
Zhou Runfa's aura of film emperors increased his body, and he went more and more smoothly, but Zheng Haonan failed to break new ground on the road of acting by virtue of the aura of winning the best newcomer nomination as soon as he debuted.
And fate seems to be fair, the cause is frustrated, and the love field is compensated.
02 Beauty actress "Harvester"
Bai Anne, a mixed-race beauty who starred with Zhang Guorong in the movies "For Your Love" and "Killing Love", was regarded as a righteous sister by Zhang Guorong and had deep feelings.
She was a well-off bai fumei in the Hong Kong showbiz circle at that time, before "Dao Ma Dan", she and Zheng Haonan co-starred in the movie "Heavenly Spirit Spirit spirit", I don't know if it was in this play that the two met and fell in love.
Zhang Guorong, who is Bo Annie's righteous brother, once said in the "Tonight No Defense" program that he and Bo Annie were close enough to help each other choose intimate clothes, and was asked by the host whether the relationship with him was beyond friendship. Zhang Guorong immediately laughed and said, "Are you dead when Zheng Haonan is dead?" ”
Zhang Guorong's words can be regarded as a confirmation of the relationship between the two. However, Zheng Haonan, who was in his 20s at the time, could not escape the test of handsome and amorous, and in 1987, he and Maggie Cheung co-starred in the movie "Heartbeat One Hundred" and then empathized and finally broke up with Bo Annie. And he and Maggie Cheung did not have any following, but soon Zheng Haonan and another actress had an affair because of the play.
Since 1986", Zheng Haonan, who has also won many starring opportunities, has been tepid in several plays in succession, and by 1990, he has become a proper supporting role in the movie "Dragon and Snake Battle" starring Luo Meiwei, Oshima by Gali and Miao Qiaowei.
But no one expected that in this play, the famous Oshima Yugali and Zheng Haonan sparked love, and what was more unexpected was that the two married the following year.
It can be seen that after marriage, the two have a rather "women singing husband" sweet period, and the names of Ugari and her husband Zheng Haonan appear in the cast list of many movies such as "Black Star", "Gambler Story", "Fire Revenge", "New Dragon Fight" and so on.
But unfortunately, it backfired, and in the absence of one of the many films to achieve the effect of one plus one greater than one, the husband and wife decided to break the boat. Produced by his wife Oshima, Gali, japanese actress Reina Murakami was hired to act in Zheng Haonan's first wind moon film, "One Third Lover".
Since then, Zheng Haonan has also begun to embark on the second path of his acting career. In those years, Zheng Haonan played the role of sex magic lawyer, perverted killer and other unpopular roles, made one movie after another to break the bottom line, and "harvested" many beautiful actresses such as Qiu Shuzhen and Peng Dan in the movie.
Although these alternative roles also impressed the audience, these kinds of roles also made him more and more distant from the type of actor who won the Best Newcomer Award that year, and even disappeared.
Also disappearing was the marriage between him and Yuki Ōshima that lasted only 3 years. When Zheng Haonan finished acting in thirty or forty unpopular wind moon films, his marriage to Oshima Yugali also came to an end in 1994.
According to Japanese media reports, Oshima Yugali remarried to an ordinary office worker after returning to his hometown, and after marriage, the couple gave birth to a daughter, and the family of three lived happily.
Now 58 years old, Ōshima Yugali also opened a kung fu class to teach kung fu and train action actors, with the endorsement of cooperation with Hong Jinbao and Jackie Chan and her own influence, the training class was well organized.
At that time, the 30-year-old Zheng Haonan came to the crossroads of choosing his fate - did he continue to strip in the wind and moon of the market, or did he put on his clothes and wait for another opportunity after the days when no one cared?
Zheng Haonan chose to wait this time, waiting for a role that he could get his hands on as an actor, waiting for an opportunity to fish him out of the muddy waters of this pool of wind and moon films.
03 From "HonanGo" to "Gazenge"
In the same year, Zheng Yijian finished filming the first "Ancient Puzzle Boy", and since then the genre has become popular. After playing supporting roles in mainstream movies such as "Kung Fu Kid Breaks through" and "Dark Flower", Zheng Haonan finally hitched a ride on the last train of the "Ancient Puzzle Boy" series in 1998.
"There is only one Honan in Causeway Bay, and that is me, Situ Honan, you are waiting for retirement!"
In "The Dragon Fights the Tiger", as an anti-one, the Situ Haonan he played became the most widely known classic role of Zheng Haonan.
After returning to mainstream films, Zheng Haonan has participated in "Dragon in the Jianghu", "Knife Hand", "Wesley's Blue Blood Man" and other films, but the type of role is almost all villains affected by the previous, coupled with the emergence of newcomers, it is difficult for him to get a pivotal role.
In 2002, After filming the film Wesley's Blue Blood, Cheng settled in Malaysia and ran a restaurant and bar. In the same year, he married his lover in Malaysia, and after marriage, the two had a son and a daughter, and lived a happy and happy life.
During this period, Zheng Haonan also took over the role scatteredly, but as the older generation of Hong Kong artists, the spirit of dedication has allowed him to act diligently, regardless of the size of the role, can be just enough.
So much so that in the 2006 film "Peace is Precious" directed by Du Qifeng, he did not forget to shout "Add money!" to death. Add money! Although the role of the thug is not much, it has left a deep impression on the audience, and once swept the Internet, and was called "brother plus money" by the audience.
Zheng Haonan is very calm about this, and since 2015, he has gradually reduced his work as an actor and wandered on the edge of the show business circle. Maybe this is a kind of indifference after experiencing the ups and downs of life.
However, Zheng Haonan did not leave everyone's sight because of this, and registered a short video account like the current young people, and the 57-year-old Zheng Haonan often posted videos of his fitness on social platforms. A strong muscle does not change from the past, just look at the figure can not believe that he is about to step into the 6 figure head.
Nowadays, even though he missed "Little Brother Ma", his first marriage has not come to an end, and even we can hardly imagine that the nomination for the Best Newcomer Award he won when he debuted in 1986 was the only award in Zheng Haonan's acting career. But in his decades of acting career, he has honed his amazing acting skills, allowing Zheng Haonan to create one role after another that can be remembered, and as an actor, this is enough.
It is true that we admire Zhou Runfa, who has achieved fame, but in fact, in life, there are more regrets, setbacks, and lows, but Zheng Haonan, who has always done his job. Therefore, we should have a kind of consciousness of "becoming Zheng Haonan".