In the 1990s, Hong Kong-made spiritual films were popular for a while, not only Wang Zuxian's "most beautiful Nie Xiaoqian", but also a female star with a beautiful pear vortex, but also created an unforgettable "little fox fairy" image on the screen -
She is Ni Shujun.
Ni Shujun and Wang Zuxian are both Taiwanese female stars, and the two have many similarities:
Not only were they all born in 1967, but they also had the classic "female ghost" and "little fox fairy" roles, but her winning fortune was much better than Wang Zuxian's, and she won the Golden Statue Female Supporting Role at the age of 17 with the Spirit Film, and then obtained the Golden Horse Female Supporting Role at the age of 27, but retired at the age of 32 due to the lack of follow-up;
The two great beauties are both classical and fresh temperaments, and the love road is also relatively bumpy, both have been trapped by scandals with married men, and have not been married so far.
On November 30, according to media reports, 53-year-old Ni Shujun's recent photos were exposed, and it was surprising that the years did not seem to bring her much change, she was still fairy fluttering, black hair flowing, wearing a white dress, light posture, let people feel like returning to the moment when she first saw her acting in a movie.
Ni Shujun was born on November 8, 1967, with excellent temperament, pure and lovely appearance, and immortality.
In 1983, at the age of 16, she became a hit with a supernatural film "Yin and Yang Mistake" with Tan Yonglin, in which she played the eccentric "female ghost" Zhang Xiaoyu.
I believe that people who have seen this movie will be unforgettable to her: a long black hair, wearing a white shirt, a shallow smile and very moving.
At that time, the routines of Hong Kong-made spiritual films were very similar, and the story of "Yin and Yang Mistake" directed by Lin Lingdong was very similar to the "Heavenly Gift" starring Maggie Cheung later starring Jacky Cheung:
Zhang Xiaoyu lost her life in an accident and became a female ghost, she appeared in the home of the male protagonist "Gu Zhiming" played by Tan Yonglin, the male protagonist has a fiancée (played by Ye Tong), but the two male and female protagonists secretly have feelings in the process of getting along... Helplessly separated by yin and yang, people and ghosts are different, and eventually become regrets.
A song of "Phantom" sung by Tan Yonglin, encounters in the rain, so poignant and mournful love, that many years later, the audience continues to revisit.
In the film, the female second leaf child plays Tan Yonglin's fiancée, although it is a role destined for cannon fodder, but the short-haired Ye Tong, whose appearance is almost "crushed" by Ni Shujun.
Interestingly, the role of "Zhang Xiaoyu" was obtained by Ni Shujun in the competition with Maggie Cheung by "defeating" Maggie Cheung.
At that time, Maggie Cheung had not yet participated in the Hong Kong sister, ran to the new art city company to apply for the heroine, and the director Liang Puzhi who helped the actor of "Yin and Yang Wrong" interview actor was the director Liang Puzhi, although she had a good chat with Maggie Cheung, but still gave up Maggie Cheung and chose Ni Shujun, who was also a newcomer.
However, it turns out that the choice of Ni Shujun is right, more than 30 years later, some netizens left a message on Douban saying: "Ni Shujun is really more suitable for this role than Maggie Cheung" "I like this pure female ghost, and that kind of appearance cannot be found in the entertainment circle where the current plastic surgery face accounts for half of the country."
After the release of "Yin and Yang Mistake", "Phantom" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Film Song, and the film also ranked sixth at the box office of the year, which can be said to be quite successful.
From left in the picture above: Tan Yonglin, Lin Lingdong, Ni Shujun, Lin Qingxia
As a result, Ni Shujun became a popular fried chicken in the film, and the filmmakers rushed to hand her the script, and in the second year of the release of "Yin and Yang Mistake" (1984), she had three films released, including "Ghost Informant" with Leung Ka Fai.
Although this movie is not a good work, the Douban score is only 5.5 points, but it won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Ni Shujun, and the 17-year-old showed a handsome and free side in this movie, and her acting skills were convincing.
In this year (1984), 17-year-old Wang Zuxian starred in her first film "This Year's Lakeside Will Be Cold" and entered the entertainment industry.
Coincidentally, Wang Zuxian's first film was also playing a beautiful female ghost.
Subsequently, Ni Shujun cooperated with Zhang Guorong and Lin Yilian in 1985 on "Dragon And Phoenix Wisdom and Multiple Stars", which not only successfully challenged the play, but also became close friends with Zhang Guorong.
Above: Ni Shujun and Zhang Guorong
However, the pair of golden children and jade girls in the eyes of everyone did not come together, Ni Shujun was at her peak, she had to make four or five movies a year, and after she and Chen Xunqi cooperated in "Yiren Goodbye" and "Little Fox Fairy" in 1985, they also made the two spread the gossip of "fake love and truth".
Chen Xunqi is a famous talent in the circle, a director and a screenwriter, but he is already a husband with a wife.
In the media report, Ni Shujun and another female staff member, Qi Qi, fell in love with Chen Xunqi, and the triangle relationship dog blood love affair spread so much that Ni Shujun had to publicly deny her relationship with Chen Xunqi, and at the same time, in order to prove her innocence, she no longer cooperated with Chen Xunqi.
Above: Stills of Ni Shujun and Chen Xunqi
Unfortunately, Wong Kar-wai's "Little Fox Fairy", which is written by Wong Kar-wai, can be said to be another masterpiece of Ni Shujun's acting career after "Yin and Yang Mistake", not only the plot is very nonsensical comedy style, Ni Shujun's beauty has been shown in this movie.
After watching the movie, some fans became fascinated by Ni Shujun: "I love Ni Shujun! Love her innocent looks! Love her quirky freaks! Love her big smile! Love her naughty slut! Love her eyebrows locked! Love her affectionate style! Love her innocence and kindness! Love her arrogant cold charm! ”
Indeed, the beauty of Ni Shujun, unlike the beauty of the four beauties at that time, "Xia Yu Fang Hong", is not a heavy ink, but a light and wise beauty, and there are not many actresses suitable for playing fox fairies, ni Shujun is one of them.
Above: Stills from "Little Fox Fairy"
Ni Shujun debuted not long ago, because of the urgent need for money at home, resulting in her rush to accept a lot of work offers, who knows the schedule conflict, there is no way to finish filming, the film company had to ask her to refund the deposit, Ni Shujun can not come up with so much money at all... Fortunately, Yongjia Company came to the rescue and solved her urgent needs.
The boss of Yongjia Company is Chen Xunqi, and "Dragon and Phoenix Wisdom and Multiple Stars" is also filmed by Yongjia, but because the two were rumored to have extramarital love, Ni Shujun no longer filmed with Chen Xunqi, and a career turn occurred and began to decline.
From 1985 to 1988, Ni Shujun basically did not shoot much for three years.
Wang Zuxian, who was next door, first starred in "Ghost of Qiannu" in 1987 and was nominated for the Best Actress of the Golden Statue. What is less known is that Xu Ke and Cheng Xiaodong originally planned to find Ni Shujun to play "The Ghost of Qiannu", but Wang Zuxian found Xu Kemao and recommended himself, and as soon as he tried to shoot, Xu Ke made a decision on Wang Zuxian!
In 1988, Ni Shujun returned to Taiwan to develop and filmed her first TV series "Their Story", partnering with Weng Jiaming.
Subsequently, she filmed films such as "Kitchen Knife and Six Friends" and "Baby Spirit"; in 1990, she no longer had acclaimed and popular big screen masterpieces, and in 1991, she made a cameo appearance in "The Juvenile Murder Incident on Muling Street", playing "Little Nerve", a chivalrous woman.
Until 1993, she returned to the Hong Kong film industry with "The Blood Contract of the Sword Slave", a film starring Mo Shaocong and Chen Baolian, known as the dark version of "Meteor Butterfly Sword", which now seems to be a very cult film style, but the reputation of that year was not ideal.
In 1993, Wang Zuxian once again left a stunning mark on his film career with the film "Green Snake" directed by Xu Ke.
Above: Green Snake
In 1994, Ni Shujun exerted her strength, and four movies were released in the same year: "Magic Map", "Wild Shop", "Moonlight Boy", "Independent Era" ("Love Era").
Among them, the horror film "Magic Map" is paired with Lin Wei and Cheng Kui'an, the horror index is not low, and the thriller pictures in the film have also become the "childhood shadow" of many people.
This return brought Ni Shujun a second career peak: she was not only nominated for the Golden Horse Best Actress for "Independent Times", but also won the Golden Horse Best Supporting Actress for "Moonlight Boy", and took over the Hong Kong-made comedy "Golden Jade ManTang" the following year (1995).
Above: The Age of Independence
Perhaps it is downhill after the peak, she was once regarded as a golden boy and jade girl with Zhang Guorong, but in the movie "Golden Jade Mantang", she has become a foil for Yuan Yongyi - at that time, the newly promoted golden statue queen Yuan Yongyi was the hot fried chicken.
And Wang Zuxian, in the year of the release of "Golden Jade Mantang", has begun to slowly fade out of the entertainment circle at the age of 28. The reason is that the relationship with the rich Lin Jianyue was exposed, and the top female star became the third person pointed out by the thousand husbands for a while.
Since 1995, Ni Shujun has made several more films, but none of them have a big splash, and she quit the film industry after filming "Different Feelings" in 1999, when she was only 32 years old.
Until 2009, Ni Shujun, who had not appeared on the screen for a long time, made a cameo appearance in the TV series "A Thousand Rivers and a Thousand Rivers and a Thousand Rivers", and since then it has completely disappeared from the screen.
For more than a decade, there are always fans who still worry about her, and Yi Xingshan said the reason why Ni Shujun withdrew from the circle: on the one hand, the stars of Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 90s changed too quickly, on the other hand, although she had excellent acting skills, but the resources were weak, and it was difficult for big directors and good scripts to be handed to her.
Speaking of Ni Shujun now, who remembers that she once won the Golden Statue Actress at the age of 17, and was a newcomer actress who was even more dazzling than Maggie Cheung and Wang Zuxian?
Like Wang Zuxian, Ni Shujun had a rough love road and had an affair with Li Zhixi, but he also failed to cultivate positive results.
It is said that there were suitors who came to ask her out, and Ni Shujun left a "famous saying": "If it was ten years ago, I might have fallen into a love network very quickly, and now I just want to make more money by my own strength, which is more realistic." ”
Some media asked Ni Shujun why she delayed getting married, and she replied quite calmly: "I have experienced too many things, so everything is not willing to force, what should come will come, not your demand is useless."
Missing "Qiannu Ghost" and regrettably leaving the circle early, Ni Shujun's acting career left too many regrets, but the "Little Fox Fairy" she starred in was so unforgettable, and in "Yin and Yang Mistake", the shadow that stared at the eyes in the rain also existed in the world of light and shadow forever.
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