The 1970s and 1980s were the golden age of Hong Kong-made kung fu films, which not only created a lot of stars, but also cultivated a lot of "professional gangsters", and Feng Ke'an, who often portrayed the evil boy and thug type in movies, was one of them.
Perhaps many young audiences are not familiar with Feng Ke'an's name, but when it comes to the "ground remnant" of the piano demon in "Kung Fu", Master Zheng, the bagua palm who lost the competition with Ip Man in "Ip Man 2", did he think of him instantly?
Feng Ke'an was born in an acting family, his father is the famous director Feng Feng, his sister Feng Subo is a senior artist in Hong Kong, his sister Feng Baobao, although not Feng Feng's own child, but later became a well-known actor, Feng Ke'an, who grew up in such a family environment, played a cameo as a child star in the Cantonese film directed by his father, and later when hong Kong's martial arts style once flourished, Feng Ke'an also learned the white crane palm and Bagua fist, etc., laying the foundation for future casting in the shadow circle as a martial artist.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Feng Ke'an, as a martial artist in Liu Jialiang and Tang Jia's martial arts team, successively participated in the performance and stand-in work of zhang Che's "Bodyguard", "New One-Armed Knife", "Thirteen Taibao", "Revenge", "Shaolin Disciple" and "Hong Fist and Wing Chun", although he did not worry about having no work to open, but during the Shaw period, Feng Ke'an did not play a famous role, so in the late 1970s, he decided to switch to Jiahe and Xieli two film companies, and sure enough, he was promoted to action director as soon as he arrived, when Wu Yusen's "Fa Qian Han" The three works of "Big Fire Star and Little Sister Head" and "Hero" are all martial arts by Feng Ke'an.
In 1978, when filming the movie "Fat Powder Star", Feng Ke'an and Hong Jinbao were the same martial finger of the film, and the relationship between the two was thus closer, so there were many Hong Kong film fans who knew the story of "Feng Ke'an encouraged Hong Jinbao to embark on the road of directing", and Hong Jinbao's directorial debut "Sande Monk and Scoop Mi Liu" was conceived and completed with him, and the subsequent "Tiger Field Chicken", "Mr. Zan and Finding Money", "Fat Dragon Across the River", behind the scenes, there were Feng Ke'an's full help, on the basis of fame at that time, In fact, Feng Ke'an is not under Hong Jinbao, but he is willing to be a deputy for others, which also reflects his helpful side of his personality.
However, Feng Ke'an did not stay in the Hongjia class for long, but soon went to Jackie Chan's family class and became the second generation member of the team, because a "Bao Bao Break Eight Passes" that year made the two talk very speculative, so it was sooner or later to continue to cooperate. During this period, Jackie Chan's "Master and Disciple Out of the Horse", "Young Master Dragon", "Police Story" series, etc., Feng Ke'an participated in the action design, and the Chengjia class was able to win the best action design of the Ninth Academy Awards with "Miracle", which also had a credit to Feng Ke'an.
The friendship between Feng Ke'an and Jackie Chan can be seen from a small story told by the latter, when Jackie Chan was injured in the head when filming "Brother Dragon and Tiger Brother" in Yugoslavia, Feng Ke'an cried when he heard the news that he was going to open the knife, as the saying goes, "not a brother but better than a brother", perhaps this is the explanation.
There is one to say one. Although Feng Ke'an outside the play has excellent martial arts ability, but his appearance is also destined to be able to only do adulterous roles in the play, in fact, in the early days of his film career, he played more villains and thugs, and in the later "Sande Monk and Scoop Mi Liu", because the role of Bai Anfu, a clumsy disciple who was not a villain, was too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it was even more "framed" Feng Ke'an's play path, so the later "Master and Disciple Out of the Horse", "Dragon Young Master", "Strange Tricks five lucky stars", "Police Story", "Flying Dragon Fierce General" and so on, Feng Ke'an's role is inseparable from the above types.
The 1980s coincided with the most vigorous hong Kong cinema, when a group of martial artists took advantage of the good times to transform into directors, and Feng Ke'an was also one of them. He has directed a total of four films, "Rat Street", "The Edge of the Trap", "Miss Spirit", and "Fire Vengeance", especially "Miss Spirit" has the ambition to become a female version of "Mr. Zombie", and has also invited iconic actors such as Wang Yuhuan, Lou Nanguang, and Zhong Fa to participate, but unfortunately the above works are not as successful and widely known as Feng Ke'an's screen treacherous roles.
After 2000, the decline of traditional kung fu films made it difficult for Feng Ke'an and other martial arts fingers to have the opportunity to show themselves, at this stage he also began to try a large number of literary and opera supporting roles, and later won the Hong Kong Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination with "Anti-Collection Task Force", which is also the only time in his film life that he is closest to the film awards, but relatively speaking, the audience seems to be more willing to accept his martial arts roles, so Feng Ke'an in "Kung Fu" and "Ip Man 2" is obviously more impressive.
Feng Ke'an loves movies, and has devoted his life to the film industry, when he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, he was still filming Liu Zhenwei's "Fairy Ball War" with illness, and his acting path did not officially draw a rest until he was taken away by the disease, at the age of 68.
At his funeral, Dillon, Yuanhua, Yuanbiao, Zeng Zhiwei, Xu Shaoqiang, Lin Guobin and other friends in the circle came to bid farewell, and the four words of "heavy love and heavy righteousness" are also the unanimous evaluation of Feng Ke'an by friends.
Although Feng Ke'an has played a lifelong adulterous green leaf, he was able to "wander" between the three major film martial arts teams, and his character and talent need not be said much, and Zeng Zhiwei called him "the representative of several generations of Hong Kong action films", which can also be regarded as deserved, after all, Feng Ke'an's footprints have run through more than half a century of kung fu films, which will surely remain in the vast shadow sea.