Recently, "Dragon Tiger Martial Artist" was released, which allowed us to see a reality, and there was a fault line among kung fu actors.
Hong Jinbao, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Zhen Zidan are all old,
Zhao Wenzhuo, Wu Jing, and Fan Shaohuang also gradually became unable to move.
Zhang Jin, Wu Fan, Wu Yunlong, An Zhijie, Shi Yanneng, Xie Miao, and Shi Xiaolong are all difficult to become a climate.
This is especially true for female hit stars, in the 80s and 90s of the last century, there were many ironclad "female fighters" in the Hong Kong film industry, and most of them have now gone into hiding.
Today, Pigo will talk to you about the 10 action actresses who have created a brilliant era and relive the golden years of Hong Kong films.
1. Zheng Peipei
Speaking of Zheng Peipei, many people now call her "blue-eyed fox", and in the 60s, she had a louder name - Golden Swallow.
On January 6, 1946, Zheng Peipei was born in a wealthy family in Shanghai, studied ballet at the age of 8, and practiced a good body from an early age.
At the age of 15, she left Shanghai for Hong Kong, was admitted to the Southern Experimental Theater Troupe at the age of 17, joined Shaw after graduation, and after acting in several movies, she was accepted as a disciple by Hu Jinquan and starred in the new martial arts masterpiece "The Drunken Man".
In the film, the character played by Zheng Peipei is named "Zhang Xiyan", nicknamed "Golden Swallow".
Due to the great response to the movie, Shaw decided to let Zhang Che take her to make another sequel, called "Golden Swallow".
Since then, Zheng Peipei's films have continued to be from the 60s to the 70s, becoming a sister at the box office in the Hong Kong film industry and "China's first dozen women", and the newspapers called her a "martial arts film queen".
In 1970, Zheng Peipei starred in "Five Tigers Slaying Dragons" directed by Luo Wei.
During the filming of the fight scene, Zheng Peipei suspected that Tian Feng, who played the villain Long Zhenfeng, shot too slowly, so he told the director that he wanted to change the real sword, which scared Tian Feng not lightly, thinking that Zheng Peipei was going to kill her.
This incident later made Zheng Peipei begin to reflect, he played too many chivalrous women, it seems to have gone crazy.
In 1971, Zheng Peipei suddenly announced his withdrawal from the film circle and flew to Los Angeles to marry.
His husband is a wealthy businessman, Wen Tong, the two lived together for 17 years, during which in order to have a son, Zheng Peipei had 8 pregnancies, 4 miscarriages, and gave birth to three girls and a man.
During the marriage, she did not live a stable day, and the husband and wife often had discord.
Such a life was eventually unbearable, and in 1988, she chose to end her marriage and return to Hong Kong to shoot.
Subsequently, she became Cheng Jianxian in "Seven Little Blessings", Madame Hua in "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", and Wu Shi Tai in "Wing Chun".
In 2000, Ang Lee invited Zheng Peipei to participate in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", playing the sinister and vicious evil woman blue-eyed fox.
In the film, she changed the image of the kind eyebrows and good intentions in the past, gritted her teeth when she spoke, and made her shots sharp, which made people hate them and itch their teeth.
With this role, Zheng Peipei won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the road to acting also turned a new page.
In last year's Hollywood movie "Mulan", we saw Zheng Peipei's figure again.
Now that she's 75 years old, her love for movies remains undiminished.
2. Xu Feng
In the same era as Zheng Peipei, the only one who can compare with her is Xu Feng.
Zheng Peipei is a female star that Hu Jinquan strives to praise, in 1966, Hu Jinquan joined the Federation after the masterpiece "Dragon Gate Inn", although Zheng Peipei failed to participate, Hu Jinquan found that the image temperament is not lost to her Xu Feng.
Some people say that Zhang Che likes to shoot men, and Hu Jinquan likes to shoot women.
As the founder of the new school of martial arts, Hu Jinquan has the same "big heroine" complex as James Cameron.
Xu Feng's ancient costume is cold as frost and not angry, which is the heroine image of Hu Jinquan's ideal. Therefore, soon Xu Feng had his own masterpiece, playing Yang Huizhen in "Chivalrous Girl".
Hu Jinquan, who had a difficult fate, has only directed 16 films in his lifetime, 6 of which are in cooperation with Xu Feng, and they are all works from his heyday.
In the past 13 years, Xu Feng has not only won many awards such as the "Golden Crown Shield Award" of the Asia-Pacific Film Festival with her excellent acting skills and the temperament of charming sentient beings, but also become a well-known screen heroine in the two sides of the Straits and three places.
Unfortunately, on the road of Xu Feng's feelings, when he met someone unladylike, his first husband left due to business failures and owed tens of millions of debts.
Xu Feng is upright and responsible, she uses her reputation to guarantee the vote, first to each creditor must pay off the debt, and then through her own efforts, slowly pay off the debt owed, and finally divorce her husband.
Among Xu Feng's many creditors, there is Tang Junnian, the owner of Tomson Curtain Cloth Company, who admires Xu Feng very much and wants to be with Xu Feng despite his family's opposition.
The two fell in love and married in Hong Kong in May 1980, and soon after the marriage, they gave birth to two sons, Tang Zijia and Tang Zitong.
In 1984, Xu Feng stepped back and founded Tomson Film Co., Ltd. in Taiwan, and soon after set up branches in Hong Kong and Shanghai to start making his own films.
And Xu Feng has a unique vision, a very high starting point, and the Chinese movie "Farewell to the King" with the highest Douban score is produced by Tomson Films.
On October 14, 2004, Tang Junnian died of illness, and Xu Feng took over her husband's position as a director of Tomson Group, and now she is 71 years old and has assets of more than 20 billion yuan. Her contributions to Chinese cinema are obvious to all.
3. Hui Yinghong
From Shaw's beating of women, to three Academy Awards film queens; from street begging, to success, now 61 years old Hui Yinghong, the first half of her life is a legend.
Born in Hong Kong on February 2, 1960, Hui Yinghong followed her mother to the pier to sell chewing gum at the age of 3 due to her poor family.
At that time, sleeping on the street every day, no different from a beggar, being able to sell more chewing gum and eat a full meal was the happiest thing she felt.
Later, Hui Yinghong's brother Hui Tianci was sent to the Spring and Autumn Drama School to learn Peking Opera with Pink Chrysanthemum as a teacher, and Hui Yinghong went to the Miramar nightclub as a dancer.
At the age of 14, Hui Yinghong auditioned for Shaw, was appreciated by director Zhang Che, and became a Shaw actor with a monthly salary of HK$500, and soon she got her first role, playing Mu Nianci in "The Legend of the Eagle Hero".
Later, with the motivation to work hard and endure hardships, Hui Yinghong became a female disciple of Liu Jialiang, the martial commander of the Shao clan.
Liu Jialiang created the classic kung fu film "Elders" for Hui Yinghong.
With Hui Yinghong's outstanding skills and excellent acting skills, the film conquered the audience at the same time, but also made Hui Yinghong win the 1st Hong Kong Film Awards, and she is also the only Queen of the Academy Awards to win this award for her kung fu films.
However, since then, Shaw's rivers and lakes have declined, and Hui Yinghong has been in major film companies for many years, and has been injured for many years.
At the end of the 1990s, the Hong Kong film market was in a downturn, and Hui Yinghong's career also fell into a low ebb, once suffering from depression, and even tried suicide, but fortunately in time to save a life.
In 2003, Hui Yinghong, who was reborn in Nirvana, returned to the film and television circle.
She is no longer limited to being a kung fu actress, nor is she forced to be a leading actor, but she is down-to-earth, receives each role, no matter how much the role is carefully shaped, and finally ushers in a new glory of her acting career.
4. Hu Huizhong
In 1978, Hu Huizhong was discovered by a star scout while still studying in the Department of History of National Taiwan University, and starred in the movie "Happy Face".
With a pure image and excellent acting skills, she soon became one of the goddesses of the popular period of Taiwanese romance drama, and was called "Double Forest Three Hu" with Lin Fengjiao, Lin Qingxia, Hu Guanzhen and Hu Yinmeng.
But then Hu Huizhong's development encountered a bottleneck, so in 1985 she left Taiwan for Hong Kong to develop, and joined Hong Jinbao's two films "Fuxing Gaozhao" and "Summer Fuxing", playing a role called Bawanghua.
Unexpectedly, this policewoman role was very popular, so Hong Jinbao developed the "Overlord Flower" series for Hu Huizhong, which quickly transformed her into a female hit star.
In fact, Hu Huizhong, who is a literary and art actress, is certainly not as good as Hui Yinghong, a real actress, but with the spirit of hard work and hard work, Hu Huizhong has also been recognized by the audience.
In 1989, when filming the action film "Hunting Demons", Hu Huizhong was seriously burned by an explosion accident and was not out of danger after a period of treatment.
Although her face was not disfigured, she had some scars on her body since then, and although she still participated in many action movies, she was more cautious than before.
In 1993, Jet Li left Jiahe to set up Zhengdong Film Company, and Hu Huizhong participated in his film "Fang Shiyu" and had a wonderful rivalry with Xiao Fangfang.
After that, Hu Huizhong came to the mainland to develop, and later she met the ophthalmologist He Zhiping.
The two married in 1998, after which Hu Huizhong quit the show business circle, and now she is 63 years old, living in the mainland with her husband and family, and the family is harmonious and happy.
5. Big Island by Gali
There are few real "god-level" characters among Hong Kong female hit stars, and Yuki Oshima is definitely one of the top players.
On the last day of 1963, Yuki Oshima was born in Fukuoka, Japan, and at the age of 13 she studied Karate under Theoaki Kurata, and at the age of 16 she won the Japan Karate Championship.
In 1970, Shinichi Chiba established the JAE office specializing in star-fighting, and Oshima Yugali became the action actress he focused on cultivating.
At the recommendation of JAE, Oshima was developed in Taiwan in 1986 by Gali, and in the same year, he joined Hong Jinbao's action blockbuster "Rich Train" with his master HoshiAki Kurata.
During filming, Oshima's character played by Gary had an action of climbing the wall from the top of the building to the downstairs.
She suggested that she could slide directly to the ground with just one bamboo pole, and the result was the same, but the effect was better. After getting Hong Jinbao's consent, she deftly completed this set of actions without a stand-in, which stunned everyone present.
With his outstanding skills, Oshima Yugali quickly rose to fame in Hong Kong, and because of his good and evil temperament, both positive and villain roles can be competent.
In "Angel Action", she is the sadistic Yang Lin; in "The Force King", she is Huang Quan, the King of Xicang; in "The Secret Order of the Heavens", she is the female inspector Li Liya.
After working hard in Hong Kong for many years, Oshima Yugali gained fame and fortune while also carrying a lot of injuries.
At Jackie Chan's suggestion, she returned to Japan and started a karate class in her hometown, teaching her martial arts to the next generation. Oshima's last work by Gary was "The Army Order of the Female Generals of Yangmen" directed by Chen Xunqi.
She is now 58 years old.
6. Li Saifeng
In 1970, Jin Yong saw Qing RenWeichang's collection of prints", "Thirty-Three Swordsmen's Drawings", and decided to write a short story for him, but he only wrote "Yue Nu Sword" and could not write it.
"Yue Nu Sword" has also become an embarrassing existence independent of "flying snow shooting white deer in the sky, laughing book god hero leaning on the blue duck".
The "embarrassing novel" was later bought by ATV, which launched a 20-episode TV series of the same name in 1986.
The heroine who played A Qing, the shepherd girl of the Yue kingdom in the play, was Li Saifeng, who was only 21 years old at the time, and she got the title of "Pure Beaten Woman".
Li Saifeng was born in a poor family, and the divorce of her parents caused her to taste the pain of life from an early age.
In 1980, at the age of 15, Lee Sai Fung was selected by Siu Hsien Fai, the director of Lai's television station (later ATV), to participate in the TV series "Grace of the Earth", playing Yang Aman in the play.
The reason why Xiao Xianhui chose her was not because she had any superiority, but because Li Saifeng, who had never eaten a full meal since childhood, looked extremely thin and small, which was very suitable for the malnourished image of Yang Aman in the play.
Although Li Saifeng did not play much in this big drama, she was appreciated by director Xu Xiaoming and accepted her as an apprentice, not only teaching martial arts, but also giving her many opportunities to star.
In 1987, Lee Sai Fung starred in "Angel Action" and quickly became one of the Hong Kong actresses in the 80s, releasing more than 20 excellent works in a few years.
In the 1989 explosion accident of "Hunting Demons", Li Saifeng was also injured in the explosion, but her injuries were not as serious as Hu Huizhong. After recovering from injury, she and Hu Huizhong have cooperated many times, but they will also be doubly careful when shooting dangerous shots.
After participating in the TV series "China Big Husband" by his mentor Xu Xiaoming in 1998, Li Saifeng officially withdrew from the film and television circle.
Emotionally, she has had two failed marriages, and now at the age of 56, she is still single, opened a "Li Saifeng Dance Workshop", concentrated on teaching dance, and no longer came out to shoot.
7. Yang Ziqiong
Among the Hong Kong actresses who have developed best in the film industry, Yang Ziqiong is Yang Ziqiong.
She was originally the winner of Miss Malaysia in 1983, but after arriving in Hong Kong, she became a contracted actor of his Debao Film Company because of her love with Pan Disheng, and in 1985, she launched "Royal Sister" produced by Hong Jinbao and directed by Yuan Kui, and together with Lovelo, she created the 80s female star trend.
In order to make Yang Ziqiong a female star of the Debao Dynasty, Hong Jinbao tailored a number of films for her.
Because she learned ballet from a young age, Yang Ziqiong's skills are very good, in addition to some difficult movements that require the use of stand-ins, she even has to do the dangerous movements of jumping off the bridge herself, so she has been seriously injured many times.
In 1988, Yang Ziqiong and Pan Disheng finally registered their marriage, and she also briefly left the film circle.
But the marriage didn't last long, and they divorced in 1991.
After that, Yang Ziqiong came back to filming, more fighting than before, in "Police Story 3: Super Police", she personally completed a lot of extremely dangerous actions, so that Jackie Chan had to obey.
At the end of the 90s, Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat, Jet Li, Wu Yusen and other filmmakers all went to Hollywood to seek development, and Yang Ziqiong, as the only actress, also joined MGM's masterpiece "Empire of Tomorrow".
Nowadays, those Chinese film stars have "fallen leaves and returned to the roots", but Yang Ziqiong still stays in Hollywood to develop, and has wonderful performances in many big IPs such as "Star Trek" and the Marvel Universe.
However, at the age of 59, it is difficult for her to regain the style of "beating women" in that year.
8. Lovelo
Lovelo's original name was Cynthia Roslock, and she was a true practitioner like Yukir Ōshima.
She learned martial arts at the age of 13, studied Chinese martial arts at the Chengdu Institute of Physical Education, and was a black belt of six major martial arts genres such as karate, winning the world karate championship for five consecutive years from 1981 to 1985, and then developing in Hong Kong.
In the "Royal Master Sister" of Debao Movie, Yang Ziqiong, who is "halfway out of the house", does not use a stand-in in the play, and the real hard power depends on Lovelo.
She also tried her best to do her best, and her movements were strong and powerful, which was more than that of the male hit stars in the same period, and the confrontation with Hong Jinbao in "Rich Train" was not inferior at all.
Although she is an American, Lovell has a righteous and awe-inspiring Chinese character face, coupled with her tall image, and most of her roles in the film are positive, and she is often called "sister of the master".
Jiahe's Meng Hai had been in a relationship with Lovello, but in 1990, After Lovelo finished filming "Son of the Sun", he left Hong Kong and returned to the United States, and the relationship was also gone.
In Hollywood, Lovelot has also participated in many B-grade films, but they have played very stereotypical roles, and few of us in the mainland have seen those movies.
Now that Lovelo is 64 years old, she still maintains a slim and good body and a strong fighting spirit, she has never given up on movies, and last year there were new works launched, still playing.
9. Yang Lijing
Yang Ziqiong has acted in two "Royal Sisters", in 1988 she quit the film circle because of her marriage to Pan Disheng, and Debao Film found Yang Lijing from Taiwan to succeed her in "Royal Sister 3: The Male and Female Thief".
Yang Lijing has aspired to be a dancer since she was a child, but after her debut, she became an action actress, and after participating in several movies in Taiwan, she moved to Hong Kong to develop.
Yang Lijing's appearance is not inferior to Li Saifeng, but the image is as tall and tough as Lovelo, so she quickly hit a world in Hong Kong, and her fame at the hottest time is close to that of a sister Yang Ziqiong.
Yang Lijing has been very hard to fight when filming, and has been kicked to shock by Zhou Billy, and has also had broken ligaments in both legs, cracked and almost disfigured face bones, herniated lumbar intervertebral discs, and even bedridden in the worst case.
Later, she received long-term treatment and practiced yoga for a long time before her body gradually recovered.
Yang Lijing was suspected by the media of having had a facelift because of the great change in her image, and she herself firmly denied it, but her acting career was greatly affected.
Now 52 years old, she concentrates on running a yoga studio in Taiwan, occasionally participating in some film and television works, and also playing roles that do not play many roles.
10. Liang Cheng
Among the many female stars in Hong Kong, the latest to debut is Liang Cheng.
She only made her debut in 1992 with the movie "Black Cat", but won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Newcomer at the Hong Kong Film Awards in the same year for her role in the film.
"Black Cat" is also produced by Debao Film Company, Liang Zhen was not selected for Miss Asia in 1990, but was appreciated by director Xian Qiran, who stood out from 200 actresses and became the heroine of the movie "Black Cat".
The film actually copied Luc Besson's Nikita (1990), but the localized adaptation of the story is even better than the original.
Liang Cheng's short-haired image is very stunning, although he is not from a martial arts background, after several months of training, he can also be competent for a large number of action scenes in the film.
The launch of "Black Cat" made Liang Cheng quickly famous, and she went on to make "Black Cat 2: Assassination of Yeltsin", a sequel movie that you know is very fierce when you see the title.
Unfortunately, Hong Kong cinema went into decline in the late 1990s, and Leung chun shifted from the film circle to the development of TV dramas.
Now 51 years old, Liang Zhen is still very active, and Wang Jing's film "New Heavenly Dragon Slayer" also has her participation.
Create people, recall again, these female stars in Hong Kong films, can not help but sigh, now their oldest 75 years old, the youngest is 51 years old, but also out of a different life.
In today's film circle, Zhang Lanxin and Jiang Luxia are action actresses with a good kung fu foundation, they were both born in 1986 and are now in their early 30s. However, they have not yet been able to contribute a masterpiece of personal kung fu films.
Female hit stars face a situation where there is no successor.
In fact, if you think about it, because of the good economic conditions in Hong Kong at that time, as long as the film company controlled the production cost, basically the movies made could make money.
At that time, the film company also liked to dig up new people who were willing to work hard, which was also the reason why there were many talents at that time.
We now feel that there is a fault in kung fu actors, and a big reason is that few companies are willing to take the risk of holding a good newcomer, and in the atmosphere of quick success, movies have become a tool for some people to make quick money.
Now, in addition, the decline of kung fu movies, "chivalrous women" and "beating women", these two words, I am afraid that can only become a good memory for us...
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