In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a number of cutting-edge directors emerged in the Hong Kong film industry, including Hui Anhua, Xu Ke, Yan Hao, Tam Ka Ming, and Fang Yuping. These new directors and their works, with their unstoppable momentum, set off a huge wave in the film circle, opening up an unprecedented new situation for the Hong Kong film industry, which the media at that time called the "new wave". After the Hong Kong New Wave Film Movement, a series of major changes have taken place in the Southeast Asian film market (Vietnam, Thailand, etc.) on which Hong Kong independent production companies depend, and films with strong artistry and ideology and weak commerciality have lost the soil for survival, and Hong Kong films have entered a historical period of more commercialization and more fierce market competition. Hong Kong has a mature creative team, rich production experience and a stable audience in the field of comedy, so the strong local cultural characteristics of Hong Kong "small citizen comedy" has set off a new boom. Founded in 1980, New Arts City Pictures has made extensive, in-depth and diversified attempts in the comedy film genre, ideologically, keen to cater to the Hong Kong people's outlook on life and values, in terms of aesthetic taste, but also strive to cater to the interests of the vast grassroots class in Hong Kong, Happy Ghost was born in such an era environment.
In 1984, "Happy Ghost", directed by Gao Zhisen, starring Huang Baiming, Li Lizhen, Luo Mingzhu, Lin Shanshan, Gao Zhisen, etc., released at the box office of 12 million, the film tells the story of high school girls Lin Xiaohua (Li Lizhen), Lin Qingqing (Luo Mingzhu) and Yan Ruyu (Lin Shanshan) on the way to summer travel encountered a storm, in order to avoid the rain, they broke into the temple where Zhu Xiucai committed suicide. In the panic, Lin Qingqing brought the hemp rope attached to Zhu Xiucai's soul into the living room, but it caused a scream, but with the deepening of communication, they slowly became friends with Zhu Xiucai, and in the mutual help, Zhu Xiucai experienced modern life, and the girls also enriched their life experience under Zhu Xiucai's special ability.
In 1985, happy ghost "happy ghost summer vacation", director Gao Zhisen, starring Huang Baiming, Yuan Jieying, Luo Meiwei, Chen Jialing, Fu Mingxian, etc., released at the box office of 16.6 million, the film tells the happy ghost Zhu Chuncai reincarnated as a human, the name Kang Sengui (Huang Baiming), because of the accumulation of virtue in the previous life, talent superpower, teaching in a girls' high school, in the spirit of love to cultivate talents. In his class, several mischievous girls who love to tease people, Dai Zhuoyi (Yuan Jieying), Jian Jingmei (Luo Meiwei), Yao Qiong (Chen Jialing) and Bao Zhen (Fu Mingxian), set up a "despicable society" that takes pleasure in the whole person, and Kang Sengui is their favorite object of jokes. Kang Sengui likes a female teacher at the boys' school next door, is about to launch an offensive, and finds that the teacher is being pursued by a physical education teacher who is stronger than himself in all aspects, compared to the form, Kang Sengui is depressed and unhappy, and finally gets the story of the beautiful return with the help of his past life.
In 1986, Happy Ghost's "Happy Ghost Bumping Into Ghost", director Du Qifeng, starring Huang Baiming, Maggie Cheung, Yuan Jieying, Chen Jialing, He Pei'er, Lin Yingxian, Xu Ke, Cao Charlie, etc., released at the box office of 15 million, the film tells a series of retaliatory acts caused by the mistake of Kang Sengui, the embodiment of happy ghost, caused by a female singer's reincarnation time, but finally resolved the hatred and became a person again.
In 1990, Happy Ghost's "Happy Ghost Saves Happy Ghost", director Gao Zhisen, starring Huang Baiming, beyond, Yang Baoling, Li Lizhen, Luo Meiwei, Yuan Jieying, Chen Jialing, Cao Charlie, etc., released at the box office of 11.78 million, the film mainly tells the story of Hong Kong history teacher Kang Sengui (Played by Huang Baiming) in his past life is a powerful "happy ghost", with the help of "happy ghost", he has superpowers beyond ordinary people. The story of defeating the evil ghost and saving Kang Sengui with the help of Zhu Xiucai, the "happy ghost" in his previous life.
In 1991, the happy ghost of "Happy Ghost on the Wrong Body", director Huang Baiming, starring Huang Baiming, Ji Si Aquino, Guo Jin'an, Huang Guangliang, Chen Jing, etc., released 7.5 million at the box office, the film tells the story of a happy ghost casting spells to repay the favor.
"Happy Ghost" is the debut of the famous Hong Kong director Gao Zhisen, but also Huang Baiming from behind the scenes to the front of the curtain important film, this play only used about one million Hong Kong dollars to shoot, but got more than ten million box office, so the back of a series of films, and the film will be released in the summer every year, for several consecutive years to become the summer hit of that era, although there are also several directors in the middle, but relative to the production cost, have achieved a good box office revenue, So these series of films are really classic examples of Hong Kong's small-budget films. "Happy Ghost Series" is the 1st, 2nd and 4th Gao Zhisen, the 3rd Du Qifeng, and the fourth Huang Baiming, but 1-5 are starring Huang Baiming. The series of movies has won the popularity of Yuan Jieying, Luo Meiwei, Chen Jialing, Li Lizhen and other young girls. "Happy Ghost Series" has a total of five movies, namely: "Happy Ghost", "Happy Ghost Summer Vacation", "Happy Ghost Bumping Into Ghost", "Happy Ghost Saves Happy Ghost", "Happy Ghost on the Wrong Body", and later Huang Baiming's "Happy Paradise", "Happy Magic", "Happy Magic 2" are no longer part of the "Happy Ghost Series". It is worth noting that in the third film director Du Qifeng's Happy Ghost, Hong Kong's famous Beyond also starred in the four Wen Wu Yingjie, which is also another full appearance of Beyond in the Auspicious Star Arch and Beyond's diary.
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