In the past Hong Kong movies, there is a more "special" type of actor, many times, they do not need to show too much acting skills, just a body of muscle is enough to attract attention, Chen Zhiliang from Malaysia is one of them.
On the screen, he has always played roles such as thugs and mangy men in a burly and strong body, which has become an unforgettable color of Hong Kong films in the 80s and 90s.
Chan Chi-leung, alias Chan Chi-leung, was a bodybuilder who went to the Hong Kong film industry by chance in the early 1980s. At that time, it was the most prosperous era of Hong Kong films, so Chen Zhiliang took over seven films such as "Mr. Developed", "Best Boyfriend", "Fishing Crocodile", "Exquisite Pursuit of Girls 3 Wolf Family" in 1989, which can be described as "the most prolific debut".
The following year, Chen Zhiliang was invited to cooperate with different directors, and starred in two fantasy films in a row, "Exorcism Policeman" and "Zombie Lucky Star Boy", of which the role of Eddie the walking dead controlled by Michiko Ofsa Nishikai in "Exorcism Police" was the most prominent, and in the same year, Chen Zhiliang was also photographed by Mai Jiaban, and formed a "big guy group" with Chen Rongzong, who is also a muscular actor, to play brothers on the screen.
From 1991 to 1992, Chen Zhiliang produced the most outstanding two years of actors, at this stage, he starred in one of the small shrimps who accompanied Wu Guohao to Hong Kong in the Masterpiece of the Hong Kong-style Gangster Film "Crippled Hao", but the final fate was also quite tragic, he was ambushed into a vegetative person and then suffocated by Lame Hao with a pillow, and later, he starred in the Japanese manga adaptation film "Li Wang" in the Kitakura Tianwang Ah Hai, and the "pan intestine war" he launched with Fan Shaohuang is still talked about today.
At the same time, he also played the twelve teenagers played by Andy Lau in "Temple Street Twelve Young", switching to the anti-bone boy "Peter Pan" under the Brother Li Ming, and the rude and manic "Judge" under the "Crazy Man" in "Rogue Goofy", with a unique play path, a high photogenic rate and outstanding body shape, making him even more impossible to be ignored.
As a bodybuilder, Chen Zhiliang also did "true performances" on the screen, such as in "Scorpion Warrior", he played a silly wave is a fitness coach; in 1995's "Peter Pan", he incarnated as a physical education teacher in the school, in order to highlight the strength of the protagonist Xie Miao and create a witty and humorous comedic effect, director Lin Weilun also designed a scene where he was easily lifted by Xie Miao, of course, this is only the plot of the movie.
During the development of the Hong Kong film industry, Chen Zhiliang has cooperated with many artists who are now regarded as the King of Heaven, such as Chow Yun Fat and Ren Dahua in the "Rogue High Fly" period, Andy Lau during the "Temple Street Twelve" period, and Zhen Zidan in the "High Voltage Line" period, etc., which also left a beautiful and profound memory for Hong Kong film fans.
Since the late 1990s, chen Zhiliang's production volume has decreased sharply, which makes people speculate that this is related to the downturn in the Hong Kong film market at that time, and the only one with a good impression among his few works is the role of the big guy who was infected and turned into a zombie in "Biochemical Shou Corpse", and after filming Xia Zhanshi's "Fighting Power" in 2005, Chen Zhiliang has disappeared.
Later, there was news that Chen Zhiliang changed his career to the catering industry after returning to Malaysia, and was willing to fade away the old glory and return to ordinary life, but the specific recent situation is unknown, and I wish him all the best!