In the 80s, Mai Jia and his friends Shi Tian and Huang Baiming founded New Arts City Pictures, and later joined Tsui Hark, Teddy Robin, Tsang Chi Wai and Shi Nansheng to become the Seven Monsters of New Art City. Recently, some netizens met Mai Jia on the streets of Hong Kong and saw that he was still 80 years old.
Mai Jia's last performance was in 2016 when she made a guest appearance in the movie "Agent Grandpa" starring her friend Sammo Hung. Mak Ka and Wong Pak Ming have met more often, presenting the Professionalism Award together at the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards 2022, and last month, they performed "Crossover Cantonese Opera in Celebration of the Chinese New Year" with Cheng Man-nga and So Chun-mui at the Sun Kong Theatre Grand Theatre.
Recently, some netizens shared a photo with Mai Jia, only to see him in good spirits, full of face, and maintain his signature smiling expression, netizens praised him for being well-maintained, not like an 80-year-old man.
Mai Jia and Xu Guanjie became the best actor in "Best Partner".
Majoring in electrical engineering, he worked as an engineer in a telephone company before entering the industry, but he was always fascinated by film, so he quit his job to study film at New York University, majoring in film production, and joined the film industry in 1973, successively working as a director, screenwriter, actor, producer and producer.
Mak Ka has acted in many classic films, among which "Best Partner" with Hui Guanjie was the most successful, with a total of 27 million in 1982, making it the first film in Hong Kong film history to exceed 20 million at the box office, and it is also the Hong Kong-made film with the highest attendance in Hong Kong to date. Mak Ka also won Best Actor at the 1983 Hong Kong Film Awards for this film, and became the unprecedentedly best twin actor in the history of the Academy Awards with Sammo Hung.
"Best Partner" is also a work of New Arts City, the company has produced many classic Hong Kong films, including "Happy Ghost", "True Colors of Heroes", "A Chinese Ghost Story", etc., but later they closed the company due to different creative concepts, and Mak Jia also faded out of the entertainment industry, but still maintains a friend relationship with everyone and gathers privately from time to time.
Huang Baiming, Mai Jia and Shi Tian are the three stinkers in Xinyicheng.
Mai Jia later invested in the real estate industry, but unfortunately it is rumored that he did not have a good vision in real estate and stocks, and invested most of his wealth in the property market and almost went bankrupt, but fortunately with the help of friends and the company of his family, he got out of the predicament. In an earlier interview, Mai Jia pointed out that he used to work for money, but now he is financially enough to live, and he only works to strengthen his vitality.