She is known as "the last actress in the era of Hong Kong restricted films", and completed the final "stubborn" performance for Hong Kong restricted films at the peak of her appearance;
She has twice turned around and retreated from the circle, but because of the compulsion of life, she has to fight again;
Today, at the age of 51, she has settled in the mainland and makes a living from commercial acting, but she still has an ageless face and a girlish heart;
Let's talk about the 90s Hong Kong restricted actress Yan Qianwen.
In the 1970s, when Hong Kong's economy took off, the entire region flourished and prospered.
Therefore, the young people who grew up in that era had a positive attitude, and Yan Qianwen was one of them.
In the 1980s, when Hong Kong's entertainment industry was booming, Yan Qianwen was graduating from secondary school and had a lot of youth.
Outstanding appearance, natural beauty, she and many dream-chasing girls of that era, hope to become a big star.
To this end, she applied for TVB's acting training class, and successfully graduated, becoming a signed artist of TVB, and also gave herself the stage name of "Yiling", hoping that one day she will also be popular all over Xiangjiang.
As a newcomer actor, Yan Qianwen was much luckier than his predecessor Zhou Xingchi when he debuted.
In 1990 alone, she had the honor to participate in 7 TV series works produced by TVB, including the TV series "Man on the Edge" starring Liu Qingyun and Li Ming, the family feud hit "I Am Kind" and the xingye fresh meat period work "Xiao Zai Xiao Xin Liver".
Although in these TV series, most of the roles played by Yan Qianwen are not much, compared with Zhou Xingchi, who ran the nameless dragon set for six years, Yan Qianwen's Yi classmates, Zhao Girl and Ah Ling are already roles that can leave an impression on the audience.
Judging from the beginning, Yan Qianwen's "actor" job bowl is stable, which also makes her more active in the following years.
In order to take advantage of the victory and chase, the second year of work, Yan Qianwen was more diligent, connecting 12 TV drama works.
In the heyday of tv development, TVB's production capacity was comparable to today's network dramas, but there was no shortage of fine products under the mud and sand.
As a result, Yan Qianwen has participated in such a phenomenon-level hit as "Moon Bending and Bending to Illuminate Kyushu", and also appeared in "Old Friend Ghost" and "Three Eight Beautiful People" and other less well-known flowing water works.
However, no matter what the quality of the series is, Yan Qianwen does not dare to relax at all, and strives for each role, which is quite a job posture of fresh graduates.
Standing today and looking back at the Hong Kong entertainment industry in the 90s, another way of saying that a hundred flowers are blooming is that the competition is fierce.
Actors, idols, stars, no matter which label you carry, if you want to survive, you must kill yourself, and the industry environment cannot be compared with today's entertainment industry.
For industry chicks such as Yan Qianwen, if you want to successfully become an actor, in addition to having a natural beauty appearance and a talent for more blossoms, "waiting" for a destined role and "boiling" a chance of success in one fell swoop are two compulsory courses that cannot be escaped.
In the middle of this, what you can do is fill your time with countless small roles and consolidate your acting skills.
Therefore, after TVB participated in nearly 20 TV series, Yan Qianwen, whose acting skills were becoming more and more mature, finally ushered in an opportunity to be electrocuted on the big screen in the second year of her debut, that is, the feature film "Modern Call Girl", which had been discussed for a while.
Speaking of this movie, the life is quite twisted and confused.
The film is a remake of legendary Hong Kong director Lung Kong's "Call Girl", which is the sequel to "Call Girl 1988".
Because the box office and word-of-mouth of the previous work were quite good, the directors Huang Zhi and Lin Delu spilled blood and invited a number of top stars at that time, including Feng Baobao, Zhou Huimin, Luo Meiwei, Liu Jialing, Chen Baolian and other top stars at that time to join the team.
And the actors Xu Zhi'an, Zheng Yijian, Wu Qihua and other actors who played with them were even more tender enough to pinch out the water.
Among them, the most interesting is the small fresh meat Zheng Yijian.
At that time, he had just become famous for the TV series, and he was a rising representative of the students, and he was almost a hit, and "Modern Call Girl" was his film debut.
I don't know if it is a rare opportunity, too excited, Zheng Yijian did not even read the script on the hasty signing, halfway to find that he still has a bed drama part, almost put the intestines to regret.
It can be seen that "Modern Call Girl" was so attractive and influential to actors at that time.
Therefore, for Yan Qianwen, who has played a small supporting role in TVB for two years, being able to participate in such a high-quality film is of great benefit to both for future development and his career.
The film tells the story of the bustard mother Hongjie played by Feng Baobao and a group of young girls who devote themselves to sex work for their own reasons, Yan Qianwen played a girl named Guo Yuefeng in the film, although the role is not much, but many people have seen her beauty.
In terms of themes, "Modern Call Girl" is a film with both entertainment and humanistic temperament, which is not only profound in subject matter, but also full of educational significance.
Whether it is the current Douban 7.2 rating score, or Luo Meiwei's nomination for the Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Horse Awards for this film, it proves the excellence of this sequel.
If it is developed in a good direction, Yan Qianwen's acting road after that should have shifted from the TV screen to the big screen, and the role should also be driven by "Modern Call Girl" to set a higher tone.
However, if people want to succeed, they must have luck in addition to hard work.
Yan Qianwen did not expect that Guo Yuefeng, a small supporting role, would become the peak of her film works in this life.
After the debut of the movie, Yan Qianwen, who returned to TVB to shoot TV series, became more and more indistinguishable, and the TV series he participated in also greatly reduced production.
The original famous and surnamed characters basically did not take her turn, and were replaced by dragon sets such as nameless colleagues, prostitutes, and flying women.
Although during that time, TVB good dramas such as "The Royal Court of No. 1", "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", "Criminal Investigation Files", and "Marriage Story" continued, as far as Yan Qianwen's personal development was concerned, she had basically become a cannon fodder actor, not even licorice.
To make matters worse, due to too many cameos in TV series, Yan Qianwen was tired of hepatitis and had to stop working to recuperate.
During this period, she felt the coldness of the entertainment industry for the first time, and she also learned more and more about the difficulty of the actor's profession.
In 1996, Yan Qianwen had no works to produce except after Liu Weiqiang's "The Ancient Confused Boy in the Jianghu" ran through the dragon set.
In view of the fact that the road of actors has been impossible, Yan Qianwen had no choice but to withdraw from the circle and turned to find a secretary job to return to the life of ordinary people.
However, what Yan Qianwen did not expect was that the huge impact of the economic crisis had caused a considerable impact on Hong Kong, which is the Asian financial crisis, and all walks of life were immersed in the economic quagmire and could not extricate themselves.
Even Asian television, which has been fighting with TVB, has encountered unprecedented challenges.
At the critical moment of imminent closure, the top management of ATV released 51% of the shares in time, which made ATV return to blood, and then launched the science fiction drama "I Have a Date with Zombies", which has been enshrined so far, which makes ATV revitalized and also provides Yan Qianwen with the opportunity to "re-employment".
In 1998, under the introduction of his friend Chen Mingjun, Yan Qianwen, who was already 28 years old, re-emerged from the jianghu and signed an ATV contract.
However, back at HOME, Yan Qianwen still has no drama to shoot, only a variety show co-hosted with Luo Jiaying.
The only thing that can comfort her in life is to become acquainted with actor Du Mou.
The two were in a public relationship in 1998, and the other was Yan Qianwen's only publicly acknowledged boyfriend in the entertainment industry.
However, even so, after a year of dating, the relationship ended because of the intervention of others.
Although Yan Qianwen's jokes were a thing of the past many years later, this incident brought her a huge blow at the time.
In order to get out of the failure, Yan Qianwen, who had been in atvection for two years without results, decided to break through himself and take the initiative.
To this end, she secretly learned from other female artists of the same period, such as Chen Wei, Han Junting, Miao Feilin, etc., and took a set of large-scale photos for a magazine, hoping to open up her popularity in this way.
Unfortunately, after the photo was released, before it won the public's attention, it first angered the attic executives of ATV and immediately fired Yan Qianwen.
In the face of the dismissal of ATV, Yan Qianwen, who has not been valued for a long time, was quite aggrieved, after all, ateVIS actresses who took such photos at that time were everywhere, and ATV's handling method was nothing more than persuasion and warning.
Only when he arrived at Yan Qianwen's place, he ended up being fired, which made Yan Qianwen angry and turned his head to shell the old owner.
However, after all, a person's strength is limited, not to mention an unknown actress like Yan Qianwen.
Just when Yan Qianwen was completely reduced to "self-employed" and desperate, his friend Chen Mingjun once again took a timely shot and invited Yan Qianwen to participate in the movies he starred in, "Seven Lives" and "Naked Red Lips".
In 2000, Yan Qianwen, who had been away from film and television dramas for 4 years, finally had a work output again.
Although "Seven Lives" and "Naked Red Lips" play the edge of the restrictive film on some bridges, in essence, these two works are actually just ordinary small-budget thriller suspense films.
This also alludes to the development trend of the Hong Kong film and television market at that time, and the rough films with low cost, large revenue and simple plot are more popular with the majority of audiences.
And "Seven Lives" and "Naked Red Lips" are the typical representatives of this kind of Hong Kong-made small-budget film in that historical period.
At this time, although Yan Qianwen was not classified as a star by the audience for participating in these two films, her beautiful appearance and bold performance have been remembered by more and more audiences with the spread of the film, and at the same time, she has gradually opened up the situation for herself in the industry.
At the time of the success of the two films, agent Lee Shau Kee approached Yan Qianwen and set out to create a star development route for her.
Although hong Kong-made restricted films have gradually declined after the millennium, the production company headed by Wang Jing has still launched many good works.
For example, Lin Xilei's "Uniform Temptation 2 Underground Courtroom" and Zhu Yin's "QJ2 Uniform Temptation" have become rare good works in erotic movies under the impetus of large-scale performances.
And Wang Jing has always adhered to the code of conduct of "abiding by Xiao Ya in the big customs", "respecting women" and "never making the heroine lowly" is the most important place for him to shoot "restrictive films".
In the same year, the hard-working Yan Qianwen immediately took over the sexy performance of "The Evil Flower Of The Living Man", and his first restricted film "Beast New Human".
In "The Evil Flower Of Living People Don't Approach", she partnered with the film emperor Ren Dahua and actress Zhang Wenci to play a mysterious woman Xianna.
Because this film is a thriller movie with Thai overtones, Yan Qianwen, who has never played a serious role, has soared in the movie, fully performing the mysterious and sexy temperament of Xena.
Although the film now seems to have a naïve plot and sparse editing, it achieved good box office results that year, so that Yan Qianwen once had the title of "evil flower".
Perhaps because of this, in the next "Beast New Human", although Yan Qianwen is still the female number two, he is regarded as the villain female number one by the audience because of the curious content and bold performance.
"The New Human of Bestiality" tells the story of Arwen, who is not good at words, and is often bullied by colleagues in the company because of his gloomy and unkind words.
Only the heroine Ah Ling showed kindness to him, so that the two became good friends.
One day, Arwen stumbled upon a book called the Poison Sutra left by his grandfather, and based on the recipe in the book, he made a magical drug that could intimidate people's hearts.
This made Arwen feel like opening a life plug-in, and immediately found Winnie, who often bullied himself, to try the medicine and turn the other party into his own slave.
In terms of the quality of the film, although "Beast New Human" has not become a classic of Hong Kong-made restrictive films, it has found Tan Junyi, a member of the original "Happy Girl Group", as the protagonist, which is a pleasing work.
After the above films are at the bottom, Yan Qianwen finally has the opportunity to play the role of a big heroine.
Works such as "Power Generation Pretty Baby", "Chat About the Evil Desire of Zhiyi", "Ultimate QJ2" and "Beast New Humanity 2" are all representative works starring Yan Qianwen during that period.
Among them, in "Power Generation Pretty Baby", jane, who can generate electricity, is sometimes pure and cute, sometimes witty and funny, and with a clever setting, making this film a screen player on the front page of major restrictive websites.
And Yan Qianwen has also become the leader of hong Kong's third generation of stars in the eyes of the audience because of this work.
Since then, she has challenged the thought-provoking "Ultimate QJ2" on the story.
Don't look at the title of the film is very explicit, and full of vulgar temperament, but as far as the content of the film is concerned, it fully reflects the helplessness and rebellion of urban people in the face of modern industrial society in that era of economic depression.
As Yan Qianwen said, Hong Kong's restrictive movies are not only full of screen hand-to-hand combat, but if so, it is not as practical as watching island movies on the otaku's hard drive.
Although Hong Kong's restrictive films require actors to have bold and eye-catching performances in the film, they are more likely to use this expression of human desire to serve the plot.
Just like the "Liaozhai" series that was popular in the 1990s, on the surface, it uses the images of the protagonists to enjoy themselves to stimulate the audience's excitement, but in fact it uses a story of causal cycles to show the concept of frugality in Confucian thought.
Unfortunately, after the millennium, Hong Kong-produced restrictive films gradually declined, and no matter how diligent Yan Qianwen was, he could not usher in the glory of Ye Yuqing, Weng Hong, Shu Qi, and Li Lizhen.
In 2004, due to the continuous tightening of restrictive themes, Yan Qianwen once again gave up the entertainment industry and instead opened a clothing store with a friend.
Although it was not easy to start a business, she persevered and entered into marriage in 2008 with her boyfriend Ah Lo.
It is said that at that time, the husband and wife sang and opened a restaurant in Sai Kung, Hong Kong, which can be regarded as a happy life.
However, no one expected that when Yan Qianwen was 46 years old, she would suddenly change her marriage, and even choke up tears in an interview, and could only rely on taking drugs to maintain her emotions.
That is, shortly after the marriage change, Yan Qianwen once again came out of the mountain as a star, re-entered the entertainment circle, and returned to his old business at the age of approaching 50 years old.
It can be said that in Yan Qianwen, in addition to letting people see the decline of Hong Kong's restricted films, it also makes people feel the bitterness and bitterness of actresses in the era of decline.
After her comeback, Yan Qianwen has regained media attention in Hong Kong, and more people will understand the real reason why she chose to go to the sea to become a star.
Shortly after ATV dismissed her, Yan Qianwen's father was diagnosed with cancer, which plunged the Yan family into a double dilemma of economy and grief.
Because Yan Qianwen's younger siblings were fashionable and were twelve or thirteen years old to study and go to school, as the eldest daughter in the family, she had to shoulder the burden of supporting the family, and it was for this reason that for a long time, the outside world was rumored that Yan Qianwen made movies only for money.
At the same time, due to his father's traditional concept, Yan Qianwen's shooting of restrictive films has never been accepted by his family.
Externally, although Yan Qianwen frankly said that her family did not oppose her decision, knew her measure of doing things, and also boasted that she never relied on men to raise and earned clean money, in the end, her family never faced her movies squarely.
In 2017, Yan Qianwen, who restarted her career, participated in a number of major works on the Internet, and when the reporter asked her about her future career plans again, Yan Qianwen was a little cramped, but she still admitted that she would focus on movies.
And the "movie" here is nothing more than reminiscent of the restrictive films of the past.
In this regard, in the face of the media's long guns and short guns, Yan Qianwen was embarrassed and laughed, and the movie was still mainly restrictive, after all, the star was inseparable from her.
In order to be able to present the performance perfectly, she is also actively slimming down and exercising, hoping to bring a good visual experience to the audience.
In 2019, Yan Qianwen participated in the costume family drama "Big Sauce Garden" prepared by TVB, at this time it has been exactly 23 years since she left TVB.
For this re-enactment of the main drama, Yan Qianwen laughed and talked about it in order to have a drama addiction, and she also became a part-time artist of TVB during that time through "Big Sauce Garden", and participated in the performance in the show "Woman Forty" and "To All Those Who Loved".
Today, the 51-year-old Yan Qianwen is still well-maintained, full of girlish feelings, and makes a living in the mainland as a commercial performance.
Perhaps after entering another stage of her life, she seems to have opened up her identity as a star, so she directly travels to major night events in the name of Hong Kong stars when she is active in the mainland.
Even if you casually flip through her news, most of them are labeled as "restricted" movie actresses.
Recently, her own uploaded ear licking video of playing with the cat owner has been lamented by many netizens, the last stubbornness of Hong Kong stars, Yan Qianwen is still sexy, extraordinarily sexy.
In March 2011, with the closure of Hong Kong's last restricted cinema, the official Chung Theatre, the era of all overheated, all crazy was completely over, and the stars who once belonged to that era became unique to our memories.
Although from the result point of view, the third generation of Hong Kong stars represented by Yan Qianwen failed to make Hong Kong-made restricted films continue to shine, but it is precisely with the protection of these dedicated actors that more people have the opportunity to appreciate the last different style of Hong Kong movies in that era.
Finally, I hope that Yan Qianwen, who made his debut again, will have a smooth career and all the best.