The waves run, the waves, the waves never stop.
This familiar song is the classic TV series "On the Beach" from the 80s.
The drama premiered on TVB in Hong Kong in 1980, and once it was broadcast, it quickly became popular throughout Hong Kong, and five years later it was introduced to the mainland, and it swept the country, causing the rating effect of thousands of empty alleys.
Although "On the Beach" has been remade many times since then, this version is considered to be the most classic.
It can be said that "Shanghai Beach" is a classic that carries the memories of generations, and it is also a peak that cannot be surpassed in Hong Kong TV dramas.
Unconsciously, 41 years have passed since the premiere of this classic TV series, so what happened to the actors who stood out with "On the Beach" in these past times?
Today, Xiaobian will talk to you about the 10 main actors of "Shanghai Beach" and see how they are doing now?
01. Chow Yun-fat (as Xu Wenqiang)
The role of Xu Wenqiang is the core character in "Shanghai Beach", so the TV station planned to let the popular Zheng Shaoqiu play that year.
However, when the producers found Zheng Shaoqiu, he refused, because he was too tired during the filming of "Chu Liuxiang", Zheng Shaoqiu wanted to take a break temporarily, but he recommended Zhou Runfa for the crew.
Although Zhou Runfa has acted in many dramas before "Shanghai Beach", the real popularity still relies on Xu Wenqiang, so Zhou Runfa is very grateful to Zheng Shaoqiu, and once knelt down on one knee to thank Zheng Shaoqiu in the show.
Zheng Shaoqiu missed Xu Wenqiang, and later starred in the role of Zhenhai in Chen Jinhong's version of "New On the Beach", which can also be regarded as making up for the regrets of that year.
At that time, in order to better shape the role, Zhou Runfa specially studied the history of Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s.
After the drama was broadcast, Xu Wenqiang, portrayed by Zhou Runfa, was loved by the audience, and the style of the black hat trench coat was even more popular.
Although Zhou Runfa had only been in the circle for four years when he starred in Xu Wenqiang, he vividly interpreted the image of the boss who was both good and evil, brave and resourceful, and personable.
It can be said that Zhou Runfa and Xu Wenqiang are a kind of mutual achievement.
Because Zhou Runfa has one more classic role of Xu Wenqiang on the screen, and because Xu Wenqiang Zhou Runfa is well known to everyone and began to catch fire.
After that, Zhou Runfa officially opened his path to Chinese superstardom.
From "The True Colors of Heroes" and "Dragon and Tiger Storm" to "The Story of Ah Lang", "Across the Sea" to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "God of Gamblers" and other movies, Zhou Runfa has created a classic screen image for us.
Numerous awards such as the Three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor, the two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor, and the 100 Outstanding Actors in Chinese Cinema in the Past Century also prove Chow Yun-fat's title of "God of Acting" in Hong Kong.
In ordinary daily life, as a superstar, Fa Ge has no star aura.
Travel without bodyguards, life without pomp and circumstance, and ordinary people will take the bus subway, go to the market to buy vegetables, use a very "old" mobile phone, do not wear a brand name.
Recognized by fans on the road, Fa Ge will kindly take photos with fans one by one, and sometimes joke that "the boss takes a picture".
Emotionally, it is even more emotional, since marrying Chen Huilian in 1987, the relationship has been stable.
Although he is over 60 years old, Fa Ge is still active in the film and television circle, and the movie "Peerless" starring in 18 years has a double harvest at the box office, and the charm of Fa Ge has not diminished that year.
I look forward to Fa Ge bringing us more wonderful works.
02. Zhao Yazhi (as Feng Chengcheng)
Unlike Zhou Runfa's fame in that year, Zhao Yazhi already had a certain popularity when she starred in "Shanghai Beach".
Zhao Yazhi is a Hong Kong sister, who officially entered the show business circle in 1975 by starring in her first TV series "Riding the Wind and Waves".
He has successively starred in film and television dramas such as "Half a Pound and Eight Two", "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon Chronicles", "Peerless Double Glory", and "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang" starring Zheng Shaoqiu, which is even more popular, and the ratings reached 70% during the broadcast in Taiwan.
Zhao Yazhi not only became the highest paid actress in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but also was named "Hong Kong Man's Best Dream Lover" for 10 consecutive years.
Following Su Rongrong in "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang", Zhao Yazhi ushered in the classic role of her acting career - Feng Chengcheng.
But at that time, Zhao Yazhi almost passed by this role.
When she entered the crew to start filming, Zhao Yazhi found out that she was pregnant, so her husband Huang Hanwei asked her to give up this role and raise a baby at home.
However, the contract has been signed, and Feng Chengcheng's costumes are also made according to her size, and if the shooting of the crew is proposed to break the contract, it will not be able to proceed as scheduled.
After thinking about it, after consulting with the director, Zhao Yazhi finally decided to reduce dangerous scenes such as fighting and explosions, mainly reflecting the gentle elegance of the role.
Although pregnant, Zhao Yazhi still starred in the role very well, shaping "Feng Chengcheng" into a generation of screen classics, and she and Xu Wenqiang, played by Zhou Runfa, also became the classic CP on the screen.
With this role, Zhao Yazhi was selected as one of the five most memorable heroines of TVB in the 20th century, and her acting career has also reached a higher level.
In addition to Feng Chengcheng, Zhao Yazhi's other familiar role is Bai Suzhen.
The white lady she plays is dignified and virtuous, beautiful and elegant, and her eyes and smiles are classics, and this drama has also become a classic masterpiece of Zhao Yazhi.
Since 1997, Zhao Yazhi has slowly faded out of the screen, taking care of her husband and sons with peace of mind.
Now over 60 years old, Zhao Yazhi is still beautiful and elegant, called the immortal goddess of the entertainment industry, sweet and loving with her husband, and her son is even more handsome and talented.
Now she is also active in everyone's sight, doing public welfare, attending events and programs, and acting with suitable scripts.
03. Lv Liangwei (as Ding Li)
In the play, Ding Li is played by Lu Liangwei, Ding Li is a person with a straightforward personality and heavy feelings, but he is also sinister and sophisticated, vain and unconfident.
Lu Liangwei made his debut in the TVB artist training class in the 70s and got the role of Ding Li two years later.
Because Lu Liangwei was a newcomer when filming "Shanghai Beach", many people attributed this to luck.
But in fact, before this, director Zhao Zhenqiang had already noticed the fierceness of Lu Liangwei's body.
Once, when Filming, Lu Liangwei was beaten by a wooden stick and bled, Lu Liangwei did not say anything, treated the wound and continued to shoot.
This fierceness is very similar to Ding Li, who was born in the cold door, so Zhao Zhenqiang invited Lu Liangwei to play Ding Li.
Lü Liangwei also lived up to expectations, interpreting Ding Li's untamed and good and evil very well, and with the role of Ding Li, Lü Liangwei slowly became popular.
It can be said that "Shanghai Beach" not only won the popularity of Zhou Runfa and Zhao Yazhi, but also achieved Lu Liangwei.
After that, Lu Liangwei starred in film and television works such as "First Type Danger", "Friend Over Band", "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" and so on, but the response was mediocre.
In 1989, Lu Liangwei left TVB to turn to movies and ushered in the masterpiece of his acting career, "Lame Hao".
Known as the Chinese version of the "Godfather" and Hong Kong epic, the film grossed more than 38 million after its release, ranking third at the annual box office.
In the film, Lu Liangwei puts the protagonist Lame Hao's transformation process from a low-status thief to a big guy in the limelight.
In order to better fit this role, Lu Liangwei gained 30 pounds in 15 days, and with his wonderful performance in the movie, Lu Liangwei was also nominated for the Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards.
Unfortunately, this role also became the highest moment of Lu Liangwei's acting career, and he never had any impressive works after that.
Compared with his career, Lu Liangwei's love life is more exciting, And Lu Liangwei has been married three times, each time causing a great sensation.
The first two wives were "the most beautiful Zhou Zhiruo" Zhou Haimei and Hong Kong sister Kwong Meiyun, but they were divorced because of personality incompatibility.
The current wife is Yang Xiaojuan, a strong businesswoman worth more than 100 million yuan, who is more than 10 years younger than Lu Liangwei, and the two have a son and live happily.
Today, Lu Liangwei not only does business, but also stars in film and television works, although he is over 60 years old, he is well maintained.
Before participating in the "Spit Conference", the 63-year-old looked like a 36-year-old, and the state was clearly a charming mature man.
People have to sigh that "Shanghai Beach" is really a magical crew, "Feng Chengcheng" and "Ding Li" seem to have eaten preservatives and never aged.
04. Liu Dan (as Feng Jingyao)
The villain in the play, Feng Jingyao, a tycoon of the Shanghai French Concession, is played by Liu Dan.
Many of these names may not be familiar, but his son and former daughter-in-law must have known everyone, that is, Liu Kaiwei and Yang Mi.
Liu Dan, formerly known as Liu Qingji, entered the entertainment industry as a "Shaw Movie" in his early years, and later joined TVB to start starring in TV dramas.
Although he has starred in film and television works such as "Sui and Tang Dynasty", "History of Wulin", "Heroes Without Tears" and so on, liu dan has been tepid because most of them are supporting roles.
Until 80 years, Liu Dan ushered in the most important role in his acting career - Feng Jingyao in "Shanghai Beach", although he was only a supporting role, he was very eye-catching in the play.
Feng Jingyao is a two-sided character, on the one hand, he is fierce for the sake of profit, and on the other hand, he is loving and loving his daughter.
This contrast between the two sides is particularly wonderful under Liu Dan's interpretation, and liu Dan is liked and well known by everyone with this role.
In addition to Feng Jingyao, another role of Liu Dan that impressed the audience was Hong Qigong in the 83rd edition of "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter".
Liu Dan is not only a modeling or a performance, but also highly restores the Hong Qigong in Jin Yong's original work, because it is too classic, and the audience who mentions Hong Qigong immediately comes up with Liu Dan's appearance in their minds.
Since his debut, he has also starred in Hong Qigong 4 times and become the "Hong Qigong Professional Household" in everyone's mouth.
In an interview, Liu Dan said that he did not know if there was a chance to remake "Shooting Eagle", if there was also me playing Hong Qigong.
Liu Dan continued to work in the acting industry after his old age, and last year he also won the "Ten Thousand Stars And Stars Talent Award".
This is also the first time he has won the award in 52 years, coincidentally, it happened to be his birthday that day, and Liu Dan was excited on the stage to tears.
Liu Dan is low-key, in this life, in addition to acting, he has focused his energy on the family, he is not only a good actor, but also a considerate husband, a great father and a loving grandfather.
Such an old drama bone is worth learning.
05. Lin Jianming (as Fang Yanyun)
The social flower Fang Yanyun is played by Lin Jianming, who is a classmate of Xu Wenqiang University, has always loved each other deeply, helped Xu Wenqiang many times, and was finally shot and killed.
Although Fang Yanyun did not play much, Lin Jianming still grasped the characteristics of the role well, and the role left a deep impression on the audience under her interpretation.
Lin Jianming entered the show business circle by participating in the movie "Shenu" and was once one of the leaders of Hong Kong WIRELESS in the 70s.
Lin Jianming has participated in not many TV series and movies, but his strength is not bad, and he was nominated for the best supporting actress at the 9th Hong Kong Film Awards with the wonderful performance of the movie "The First Cocoon".
In addition to acting, Lin Jianming is more as a host, and the ATV gold medal program "Today's True D" is planned and hosted by her.
In 2001, Lin Jianming unfortunately suffered from depression due to a head injury and chose to fade out of the entertainment circle, and his work has slowly decreased since then.
Now she has set up a charity and is the chairman, enthusiastic about public welfare, and spends most of her time eating, drinking and enjoying life in addition to handling charity work.
Over the years of illness, Lin Jianming has a different view of life, old age, illness and death, and gradually looks down on life and death.
Previously, she announced in an interview with the media that she would donate her body and some of her property after her death, hoping to leave her loved ones behind.
06. Zhuang Wenqing (as Wang Yueqi)
Feng Chengcheng's girlfriend Wang Yueqi, with twisted braids and large glasses, is deeply loved by the audience.
Zhuang Wenqing, the actor of female No. 3, was also remembered by the audience at once.
Zhuang Wenqing graduated from the first TVB artist training class in 1972, and she has starred in more than ten dramas since the film, but due to her looks, most of her roles are supporting roles such as Ya Gui.
Zhuang Wenqing's work that is really familiar to the audience is to play the eccentric, lively and cute Wang Yueqi in "Shanghai Beach".
Zhuang Wenqing also became popular with this role, but Zhuang Wenqing failed to make his acting career turn around with this drama like Chow Yun Fat and Zhao Yazhi, and still played supporting roles in some TV series, and has not been able to become popular.
Compared with the tepid acting career, Zhuang Wenqing's real life is actually more unsatisfactory.
Zhuang Wenqing's family was very poor when she was a child, her father abandoned her when she was very young, and her adoptive mother was addicted to gambling and owed a lot of gambling debts.
In order to repay the debt, Zhuang Wenqing was admitted to the first wireless artist training class and embarked on the road of performance.
Her ex-husband is Zhao Zhenqiang, the director of "Shanghai Beach", who ended the marriage after marriage because of the other party's cheating.
After experiencing many blows, Zhuang Wenqing chose to fade out of the show business circle and became a nun in a monastery in Hong Kong in 1991.
07. Tang Zhenye (as Chen Hanlin)
Playing the hot-blooded young Chen Hanlin in the play is actor Tang Zhenye.
Born in Hong Kong, Tang was admitted to TVB's 8th Artist Training Class in 1978 and began acting after graduation.
In the second year of entering the show business circle, Tang Zhenye starred in "Shanghai Beach", in which he played the role of Chen Hanlin, which attracted everyone's attention, which was also his first work to impress the audience.
In 1982, he became popular with the drama "The Prodigal Son of Xiangcheng", and in the same year, he participated in the role of Duan Yu in "Tianlong Babu", which sensationalized the city with the image of a handsome and extraordinary prince and became a classic.
After that, he and Andy Lau, Liang Chaowei, Huang Rihua and Miao Qiaowei became the "Wireless Five Tiger Generals", and were praised by Wireless and became one of the TV stars at that time.
In 1991, Tang Zhenye won the Best Supporting Actor of the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Best Supporting Actor of the Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards for his interpretation of the role of "Anti-Bone East" in the movie "Five Tigers Will Break", and his career was very good.
Because Tang Zhenye was handsome and gentle when he was young, he was very popular with women, but his career was also greatly affected by emotional reasons.
At that time, he and Weng Meiling became friends because of the movie "Thirteen Sisters", and the two fell in love after filming "The Legend of the Eagle Hero".
However, because Tang Zhenye was always filming in other places, and the woman's popularity was good, resulting in Weng Meiling's insecurity, the two of them could not think of a moment during the cold war, weng Meiling chose to kill herself.
After the incident, Tang Zhenye was pointed out by thousands of people, and his career development once fell into a bottleneck.
Although he was still active in the film and television circle after that, his development was not good.
Tang Zhenye experienced two marriages, married atvesta actress Jiang Kun in 1993, gave birth to twin sons and daughters, and divorced peacefully 8 years later.
In 2008, she married 25-year-old Wen Jingfengzi and gave birth to twins again.
Nowadays, perhaps because the pressure to raise children is relatively large, Tang Zhenye has shifted the focus of his work to the mainland, making cameos in film and television dramas every year, and occasionally going around and picking up some offline business activities.
Compared with the development of other Five Tigers members, there is a big gap, and it is the one with the least sense of existence.
08. Ouyang Peishan (as Kako Yamaguchi)
The beautiful and fierce Japanese spy Kako Yamaguchi is played by Ouyang Peishan.
Ouyang Peishan debuted in the 1970s, joined Li's TV in 1975 as the head of Hua Dan, joined TVB in 1978, and returned to ATV in 1989.
In the time since the film, Ouyang Peishan has starred in many popular dramas, such as "Shanghai Beach Dragon and Tiger Fight", "Police Flowers Out of more", "Divine Eagle Heroes", "Seed Scheme", "Waiting for Dawn" and other popular TV series.
Especially playing the role of "Huang Rong" in the 83rd version of "Divine Eagle Hero", the middle-aged Huang Rong itself is a more difficult role, and Weng Meiling's girl version of Huang Rong Zhuyu is in front, and Ouyang Peishan's version will be more critical.
But Ouyang Peishan used her strength to interpret the role very well, and was called the best "middle-aged version of Huang Rong".
In 1993, after Ouyang Peishan filmed "The Three Sisters of the Song Family" and the movie "Serious Case Unit", he chose to quit the entertainment circle to study Chinese medicine.
After that, she became a Qigong acupuncturist and taught apprenticeships in Hong Kong, and many artists were her apprentices or customers.
Her husband Guo Feng is also a classic old drama bone of Hong Kong TVB, and the two have been in love with each other for many years and are a model couple in the circle.
In 2017, Ouyang Peishan died of lung adenocarcinoma at the age of 63.
09. Jing Daiyin (as Ah Di)
The actor who plays Ah Di is Jing Daiyin.
The name Jing Daiyin may not be familiar to everyone, but for people who like to watch Hong Kong dramas, she must be no stranger to her.
Jing Daiyin has loved acting since she was a child, so she was admitted to the eighth artist training class of TVB and became an actress.
Due to her sweet looks, she starred in "Shanghai Beach" shortly after her debut, in which Jing Daiyin played Ah Di in a small but very eye-catching role.
After successfully opening up her popularity with the role of Ah Di, Jing Daiyin has starred in more and more works, and what makes people more impressive is her series of costume roles.
For example, Cheng Lingsu in Lü Liangwei's version of "Snow Mountain Flying Fox", Tie xin lan in "New Absolute Double Glory" and so on.
The most memorable to the audience are Princess Jianning in Liang Chaowei's version of "Deer Ding" and Xue Bing in Wan Ziliang's version of "Lu Xiaofeng's Phoenix Dance for Nine Days".
These roles made her a veritable pawn Hua Dan, known as one of the seven fairies of TVB, along with Lan Jieying, Weng Meiling, Liu Jialing, Qi Meizhen, Zeng Huaqian, and Shang Tian'e.
At the same time as acting, Jing Daiyin also served as the host of the longevity variety show "Happy Tonight", and was called "Happy Three Little Flowers" with Qi Meizhen and Liao Anli, who also hosted the show.
If she has been developing in this way, Jing Daiyin's future is unlimited, but at the peak of her career, she quit the show business circle and married and had a daughter to live an ordinary life.
In 2019, Jing Daiyin appeared on the screen again, making a cameo appearance in a movie, or because of a Korean small fresh meat named Lee Tae-min.
She said bluntly that because her 18-year-old daughter likes him, so she began to like Li Taimin, and for whether to continue to make a comeback, Jing Daiyin said, "Now I don't want to make a drama, I just want to do what I like." ”
10. Liao Qizhi (as Chang Gui)
Playing Chang Gui is actor Liao Qizhi.
Audiences familiar with Hong Kong films are definitely no strangers to Liao Qizhi, who is one of the golden supporting roles of Hong Kong films.
Liao Qizhi was born in a low-class family in Hong Kong, because he liked Feng Baobao from childhood, after graduating from secondary school, he applied for the TVB Artist Training Class, but was eliminated because his appearance was too ordinary.
Liao Qizhi did not give up on continuing to apply for the exam, and finally entered the eighth wireless artist training class, and signed a contract with TVB to become an actor after graduation.
And the first role in his life is Ding Li's horse boy Changgui in "Shanghai Beach".
After that, he filmed a series of film and television dramas, but they were all supporting roles, such as Gongsun Ce in "Bao Qingtian", Ping Si in "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" and Zhou Botong in the 93rd version of "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter".
The place that really makes Liao Qizhi shine is the Hong Kong film industry.
In 1992, Liao Qizhi starred in "Caged People", and with his wonderful performances, he defeated Leung Chao-wai in "Hot Hands Detective" and Zhen Zidan in "Wong Fei Hung 2" to win the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards.
He then starred in films such as Infernal Affairs 2, Kill the Wolf, Witness, Informant, and Disappearing Bullet.
In these films, Liao Qizhi's superb acting skills have led him to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor six times and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice.
Compared with the success of his career, Liao Qizhi's life is a bit bitter.
In 1987, Liao Qizhi and Chen Min'er, a classmate of TVB art training class, got married, and the two had 3 sons after marriage.
But later, the younger son died of blood cancer at the age of 5, his wife Chen Min'er also suffered from depression, and the eldest son was rumored to have feminine tendencies, which made Liao Qizhi mentally exhausted.
What is even more sad is that in April this year, 66-year-old Liao Qizhi unfortunately died of stomach cancer, so hong Kong films have lost a golden supporting role.
Since the film, Liao Qizhi has mostly played supporting roles, but he has played supporting roles as the main roles.
Although he is gone, the classic roles he once played will always remain on the big screen and in the hearts of the audience.
The above is the latest situation of the 10 main actors of "Shanghai Beach", and it has been 41 years since this classic TV series was broadcast unconsciously.
The actors in the play have also undergone a lot of changes, which can be described as a disparity, some have become first-line superstars, some have become nuns, some have married billionaires, and the most regrettable thing is that many actors have passed away.
At that time, the appearance of "Shanghai Beach" was originally just a game and experimental product of Hong Kong TVB, although it was called Shanghai Beach, but the whole process was filmed in Hong Kong, and there was no scene in Shanghai.
Now it seems that "Shanghai Beach" has a lot of rough places in both the shooting standard and the martial arts scenes.
And it is such a rough TV series that has become an insurmountable generation of classics, even after 41 years, it is still endlessly evocative.
And this, perhaps, is the biggest charm of the classic!
Piglet, | in the Editorial Department of Bluestone Films
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