Mentioning Hong Jinbao can not fail to mention the 1987 "Oriental Condor", which is not only a rare film in the history of Hong Kong cinema that collects almost all martial arts stars in the 1980s, but also proves that Hong Jinbao was "unified" in the field of action movies at that time, but unfortunately Jackie Chan was unable to participate in the performance due to injury at that time, otherwise the film would be more of a god in the god work. However, this does not prevent it from becoming a classic in the hearts of fans, after all, the film not only has international ambitions, grand perspectives, wonderful action scenes are also one link after another, and some people call it "Hong Kong version of "First Blood"" ." So 32 years later, how are the martial arts actors in the film, let's talk about it today. In the film, there are still some actors who have more literary dramas and are not from martial arts, and the articles are deliberately not mentioned, and I hope that everyone will forgive them.
1. Tong Mingxin: Hong Jinbao
Tong Mingxin, played by Hong Jinbao, is a core member of the mercenary army, and the most impressive thing about him in the film should be the killing with leaves and the final fight with the villains Zhou Billy and Yuanhua, and the "most flexible fat man in the world" is not a white name. Many people said that the scene where he jumped off the cliff from the truck was Qian Jiale's stand-in, in fact, Hong Jinbao also did this action, and later because he was injured and afraid of affecting the shooting progress, he let Qian Jiale fight. Hong Jinbao's status in the film industry naturally needless to say, his Hongjia class has brought fire to many people, and his contribution to Hong Kong films is also very large, so he can get the reputation of "big brother in the film industry", which is well-deserved. Although he is nearly seventy years old and his legs and feet are not convenient, he really loves movies, so he still has no plans to retire, and his new works include "Fuxing Tour", "Notes on Dissection" and "Heaven Action".
2. Mouse Jie: Yuan Biao
Playing Mouse Jie in the film is Hong Jinbao's disciple Yuan Biao, and his shot of turning around and kicking and kicking Kurata's chin with a strong kick is very beautifully completed. During the period of Qixiaofu's study of art, his relationship with his brother Hong Jinbao was relatively good, and later Yuan biao's fame was also thanks to Hong Jinbao's promotion, and in this group portrait of "Oriental Vulture", it is also obvious that Yuan Biao is very popular with his brother, and the role has been equivalent to male number two. From the 1980s to the early 1990s, Yuan Biao and Hong Jinbao Formed the "Three Musketeers" and cooperated in many classic films such as "Fast Food Truck", "Summer Lucky Star", "Plan A", "Flying Dragon Fierce", etc., but when his acting career was in full swing, he died because of his family. Although the popularity after the comeback is not as good as it was then, his family is happy and happy, and he has accumulated a solid family foundation, which can also be described as a winner in life.
3. Hu Dizhu: Yuan Kui
Hu Dizhu is one of the mercenary members, killed in the Battle of Shouqiao, the human set is a sentient old smoking gun, especially the picture of him smoking a cigarette before his death, but also let the audience deeply remember this role. His actor Yuan Kui is no stranger to many people, he is one of the action designs of this film, in the 1990s he and Jet Li cooperated with the "Fang Shiyu" series and "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard" and many other classics, and later accompanied Jet Li to Hollywood, is one of his golden partners in the film career. In 2016, after directing the TV series "The Legend of Du Xin Wu", Yuan Kui did not take on the role for the time being, but cultivated and recuperated to prepare for a new appearance.
4. Eight Masters: Yuan Heping
Hu Dizhu was also killed in the battle of guarding the bridge, and his touching last words before his death proved that Yuan Heping was still very good at acting. However, his highest achievement is not in front of the curtain but behind the scenes, his action design style is like a "sponge", not only absorbing the strengths of hundreds of families, but also having his own personal style, which makes him feel comfortable in doing martial arts for whether it is martial arts films, kung fu films, action movies, or breakdancing movies, such as fish in the water, can get the reputation of "the first Chinese martial finger" is worthy of the name. Although the current Eight Masters are over seventy years old, they are still immortal and are still active in the field of directing and martial arts.
5. Lieutenant Colonel: Lin Zhengying
The lieutenant colonel in the film is played by Uncle Ying, who is also a tough guy, who is generously killed by the enemy army with a gun and without thinking, and is worthy of being a mercenary leader. Regarding Uncle Ying's personal experience, Xiaobian has written many articles to introduce him, and will not repeat it here, it is worth mentioning that Lin Zhengying also participated in the action design work of "Oriental Condor", and the next year he was nominated for the Academy Awards Action Design Award with Hong Jinbao, YuanKui, Yuan Biao, Yuanhua and others, but finally lost to the family class in "Plan A Sequel". However, in general, Uncle Ying's achievements in the field of martial arts cannot be underestimated, and later with the decline of zombie films, people directly triggered people's lasting nostalgia for him.
6. Guerrilla big sister: Gao Lihong
The guerrilla's big sister is played by Gao Lihong, and finally died with the enemy thug Di Wei with the deadly scissor foot, and died a more tragic death. We all know that Gao Lihong is a Hong Kong sister champion, after acting in several films, she began to have a strong interest in martial arts action movies, so she learned kung fu for Hong Jinbao, and this "Oriental Condor" was her first challenge on the big screen. Later, in the process of getting along with Hong Jinbao, the two gradually became in love, became her wife, and died after marriage, and the last film was a cameo in "A Good Man" in 1997. Although Gao Lihong and Hong Jinbao have no children, they have raised several children born to him and his ex-wife, and are one of the representatives of the "model wife" in the entertainment industry.
7. Guerrilla Shunying: Xia Zhizhen
Playing the guerrilla "internal traitor" is Xia Zhizhen, she also studied kung fu and martial arts, in addition to starring in "Oriental Condor", she also played the martial arts instructors of Xu Guanjie, Zhang Guorong and others in "New Best Partner", the section chief in "Women's Prison" and the big sister in "Royal Flying Phoenix" and so on. Xia Zhizhen also took the route of playing women after entering the industry, but perhaps because there was no Yang Ziqiong, Yang Lijing, Li Saifeng and Hui Yinghong looking beautiful, she has been playing supporting roles, not red, as early as 1993, she quit the show business circle, the reason is unknown.
8. Guerrilla Pretty Girl: Zhao Wenyin
The three important female characters in "The Condor of the East" all received bento boxes, including the guerrilla girl. Its actor Zhao Wenyin also faded out of the film world very early, leaving fewer film and television works than Xia Zhizhen. In addition to "Oriental Vulture", she also played Shi Tian's granddaughter in "Uncle Cai's Sweeping Thousand Armies", and there are many shots of dancing guns and sticks in the play, which is enough to show that her martial arts skills are very solid. However, after filming "Uncle Cai", she disappeared into the audience's field of vision, and there was no following, and the film industry lacked a strongly malleable beating woman.
9. Ma BuQiu: Chen Long
Ma did not ask, one of the mercenaries, but his bento was very poor, and when he went to "convenience", he was unfortunately ambushed by the enemy. Its actor Chen Long, formerly known as Chen Huilong, is the brother of the well-known director Chen Huiyi, and is also one of the martial artists of the Hongjia class at that time, because his appearance is very characteristic, so he often plays the role of a solid servant and a follower in the movie, and also plays some unscrupulous Dao chiefs, although his role is basically a supporting role, but it is also very brilliant. Since 2005, before Chen Longtan was introduced, he helped his younger brother Chen Huiyi to do behind-the-scenes work on the film directed by Chen Huiyi.
10. Strong leak: Liu Qiusheng
Leaky Strong is the first of the mercenaries to take a bento, his death is very comedic, this old man because of stuttering, when he jumped the wrong number, the result of the parachute did not open on time, causing him to fall to the ground. It is played by Liu Qiusheng of Hongjiaban, the flower name "Curry", who participated in the creation of many Hongjiaban films in the 1980s and 1990s, and often appeared in front of the stage to play some small roles, although the role is not heavy, but it can still leave a deep impression on the audience. Later, as the limelight of the Hongjia class was overpowered by the Chengjia class, Liu Qiusheng was once useless and gradually retired after the late 1990s.
11. Ogawa: Qian Jiale
Ogawa's death is similar to that of a horse, he joked about "convenience", did not expect a word, and finally was shot and fell to the ground. When filming this film, Qian Jiale was not yet in Hongjiaban, so the role was also very short, and the biggest credit he made for this film was to complete the thrilling jump for Hong Jinbao. It is precisely because of the courage to fight, when Qian Jiale was very much valued by Hong Jinbao, many dangerous scenes in Hongjiaban movies were doubles made by him, and later Qian Jiale climbed from Wuxing to the film male number one step by step through behind-the-scenes precipitation and accumulation, and now he has long been a director and martial artist who can stand alone, and has also formed his own "Qianjia class". In reality, Qian Jiale is versatile and has done a very good job in hosting, and in recent years, he and Zheng Yijian, Chen Xiaochun and other brothers have toured the country, proving that he can also sing and perform on stage.
12. Fan Wenlong: Hou Yaozong
Playing Wen Long in the play is Xiaohou Hou Yaozong. He and Lin Zhengying, Dong Wei and other teachers out of the same door, the master is a pink chrysanthemum, and later through Liu Jialiang to enter the industry, became his disciple, that year's "Crazy Monkey" is Liu Jialiang tailor-made for Xiao Hou a kung fu film, but did not let him like Liu Jiahui, Wang Yu became popular. Later, Shao's suspension of production, Xiao Hou turned to the Hong family's class account, for a number of movies as a joint martial arts director, "Oriental Condor", he is also one of the action design, Xiao Hou's ability to conquer the film world, not only lies in his martial arts achievements, the beauty and fluency of its flip action is also one of the best in the film world, compared with Yuanhua can be described as indistinguishable. However, it is a pity that "Oriental Vulture" did not give him too many opportunities to show his skills in front of the stage, which can also show that Hong Jiaban was really a fierce general, plus Hong Jinbao was committed to giving everyone the opportunity to perform, so it was not alone to highlight Xiao Hou, it is also reasonable, in 1994 for "Shaolin Heroes" to do martial arts, Xiao Hou left the show business circle, the recent situation is unknown.
13. General: Yuanhua
The villain general in the film is played by Yuanhua, the image is feminine and morbid, but the martial arts are very high, and in the end, if it is not Yuan Biao who consumes his physical strength first, it is difficult to say that Hong Jinbao cannot beat him. I believe that Yuanhua should not need too much introduction by the editor, he has hardly played the main role in this life, but he has conscientiously played many supporting roles to the extreme, in fact, he is the widest one in the "Seven Little Blessings", whether it is a hero, a comedy role or a sinister villain, he can be vividly interpreted by Yuanhua, in 2004, he ushered in the second spring of his acting career with Xingye's "Kung Fu", and has continued to this day. Although Yuanhua is already a senior senior in the show business circle, he has always adhered to the principle of "putting good acting first" no matter how much he has done in filming, and the asking price is also reasonable. It is said that he only received 100,000 pieces of remuneration for his cameo appearance in "Tang Detective 2", which is not worth mentioning at all compared with the film remuneration of small fresh meat, but Yuanhua is such an actor with such a high cost performance, it is no wonder that he is still a film appointment today.
14. Thug: Goofy
Goofy plays an enemy thug who ambushes mercenaries in the jungle, but is killed by Hong Jinbao not long after he comes out. In fact, in reality, he is also a member of the field of action movies, earlier in Taiwan to teach karate, and then by the director Hu Jinquan to discover, with "Dragon Gate Inn" into the film circle, after he made dozens of sword and sword martial arts films and kung fu films in Hong Kong and Taiwan, accumulated a relatively popular, but later with the popularity and rise of fashion action films, Goofy can only play the role of jianghu characters, killers and other negative roles in such works, in addition to Gao Fei has also been a producer, director and screenwriter, but it is not successful, which also makes him disheartened, Decided not to touch drama again for a while. A few years ago, the news of Goofy came again, but it was the bad news that he died of illness at the age of 65.
15. Thug: Deewe
The other enemy thug in the film is played by Di Wei, who ends up with Gao Lihong. Before his debut, Di Wei was a karate and taekwondo instructor, he was a real kung fu, after retiring from the hong Kong film circle to develop and join the Hong jia class, and with "Plan A", "Fu Xing Gao Zhao", "Flying Dragon Fierce" and other movies to rise to fame, but due to more roles such as thugs and martial artists, the drama path was restricted, and even after the Decline of Hong Jinbao's films, he could only frequently take bad films to maintain his livelihood, and did not contribute to the roles that were widely recognized and influential. In addition, Dewell also established his own film company "Weili" in the late 1980s, but because most of its works did not sell well, it was soon disbanded. From 2004 to 2014, Di Wei did not shoot again for ten years, and after his comeback, he was almost no longer paid too much attention, and his works were mainly low-cost small productions.
16. Thug: Yasuaki Kurata
Kurata Yasuaki also played an enemy thug in the film, although the kung fu is very strong, but in the end he was taken down by Yuan Biao. Kurata Isabi can be said to be an old friend of Chinese audiences, his figure has been throughout the 1970s kung fu films, and he has worked with all the kung fu actors in history who can be called "superstars", Bruce Lee is an exception, but the private relationship between the two is very good. Today, Kurata Hosaki is more than seventy years old, but because he has been practicing martial arts for many years, his body bones are tougher than many of his peers, and in addition to continuing to run his karate martial arts gym, he also continues to shoot Chinese movies, such as "Golden Brothers", "Fat Man Action Team", "Frozen Man's Time Walker" and so on.
17. Thug: Billy Chow
The fourth enemy thug is played by Billy Chow, who is finally ko by Hong Jinbao. As early as before entering the industry, Billy Zhou has already won the Canadian lightweight free fighting championship and the world light middleweight free fighting championship, is a veritable "boxing king", and the ability to achieve it is naturally needless to say. Later, he was selected by Hong Jinbao to enter the Hong family class, officially opening his career as a "screen thug". Hong Jinbao spoke highly of him, calling him "the person who can respond to hitting among all the action actors", but for Billy Chow, acting is only a side business, and boxing is the main business. Therefore, he later put all his energy into the game, and when he was more than half a hundred years old, he also created many brilliant results in the ring. Today, Billy Chow has lived in Canada for a long time and runs his own Chow Billy Martial Arts Museum. The last time I saw him on the screen was last year's "Golden Brothers", and he played a thug again.
In addition to the actors mentioned above, there is also a role in this group drama that is easy to be overlooked is Yuan Biao's father Yang Long, who is played by Wu Hanrun, a Cambodian Chinese living in the United States. Before filming The Condor of the East, he had already won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for 1984's Killing Fields. In order to make the film more international, Hong Jinbao invited Wu Hanrun to participate in the performance of this film, and by the way let him go to Cambodia and Vietnam as a guide for the crew, but unfortunately, in 1996, because of a robbery, Wu Hanrun was shot in the head and died at the age of 56.
There is no doubt that "Oriental Condor" represents the pinnacle of Hong Kong action films, and the reason why it is difficult to be copied is not only because there are many excellent martial arts fingers to escort its action design, but also the addition of many combat martial arts actors, and the stunt clips that stunned the audience are all exchanged for their hard work. Now that some of them have passed away, some of them have retired, and all of them have aged, is this a sign of the golden age of Hong Kong action movies, which is getting farther and farther away from us?