In the 1990s, during the booming period of Hong Kong cinema, many Hong Kong actors became superstars overnight because of a movie.
At the same time, many actors in the mainland have also taken a fancy to Hong Kong, a treasure of feng shui, and have come to Hong Kong to start their own acting careers.
Twenty years have passed, and some of them have gained fame and fortune, some have committed suicide in depression, and some have died of cancer.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > Wang Xiao</h1>
Wang Xiao is a famous villain actor in the Hong Kong film and television circle, the villains before Wang Xiao appeared were fierce and evil, and the villain played by Wang Xiao was anti-conventional, and his handsome face that was both good and evil was really loved and hated.
Wang Xiao's most famous villain role is the big villain doctor boss in "Rats and Dragons", and his sentence "You must rely on yourself to be a man" has become a classic line in Hong Kong movies.
However, Wang Xiao, who has always been considered a Hong Kong actor, is actually a Fujianese who came to Hong Kong by chance.
Before playing the villain, Wang Xiao once starred in an Oscar-nominated movie " Beijing Story " .
This movie is Wang Xiao's screen debut, but this movie did not bring him heat, until he played the Hunan circle informant smuggled to Hong Kong from the mainland and Pierre in "Police Story 3" in "Soaring City", which gradually came to the hearts of the audience.
In addition to acting, Wang Xiao also served as the host of satellite TV Chinese, and after returning to China in 2000, he directed and acted in the TV series "Love Evidence".
After the filming of "Love Evidence", Wang Xiao was found to have liver cancer and finally died in 2004.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="100" > Zhao Wenzhuo</h1>
Born in a martial arts family, Zhao Wenzhuo has had solid basic skills since he was a child, and when he grew up, he won the championship of various martial arts competitions and was successfully admitted to the martial arts department of Peking University.
When he was in college, Zhao Wenzhuo was very obsessed with martial arts actors in Hong Kong movies, and gradually had the idea of going to Hong Kong to break in.
After graduating from university, Zhao Wenzhuo came to Hong Kong alone and started from the lowest level.
When he first entered the industry, Zhao Wenzhuo experienced many twists and turns, but he did not give up.
In the end, the emperor did not pay off, and Zhao Wenzhuo was favored by the director Xu Ke, who let him play the protagonist in "Kung Fu Emperor Fang Shiyu".
Zhao Wenzhuo seized this opportunity to show the agility and enthusiasm of this character to the fullest.
After that, Xu Ke also began to let him try new roles.
In 1993, Zhao Wenzhuo starred in the protagonist Huang Feihong in "The Wind of the King of Huang Feihong", which was loved by the audience, and the role of Huang Feihong also established Zhao Wenzhuo's position in Hong Kong martial arts films.
During the filming of the work "Golden Jade Mantang", he met his brother Zhang Guorong and fell in love with Mei Yanfang.
Mei Yanfang's personality in love is particularly sticky, insecure, coupled with the difference in social status between the two people, in the end Zhao Wenzhuo still chose to break up with Mei Yanfang.
After the breakup, Zhao Wenzhuo also talked about several relationships one after another, but finally came together with actor Zhang Danlu, who now raises three children and has a happy and happy family.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="101" > Gongli</h1>
Since Li Lian's outstanding performance of "Shaolin Temple" exploded, many mainland actors have begun to enter Hong Kong, including Gong Li.
Before going to Hong Kong to develop, Gong Li was already an internationally renowned actor, although Hong Kong actors looked down on mainland actors, but no one dared to look down on Gong Li.
When she first arrived in Hong Kong, Gong Li participated in the "Generation of Demon Queens" co-produced by the Pearl River Film Company and Hong Kong Yindu, and Gong Li was partnered by Liu Xiaoqing, Chen Daoming and others.
Later, he participated in the filming of Chen Kaige's "Farewell to the Overlord", which caused a huge response in Hong Kong, and Gong Li's value also rose with the water.
Then Zhou Xingchi found Gong Li again and wanted to use her to open up the international market, so Gong Li starred in Qiu Xiang in "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang".
Although this film did not open the international market, Zhou Xingchi met Gong Li as a friend.
In Gong Li's eyes, Zhou Xingchi is a very humorous person, often making the crew full of laughter and laughter, but he is also a particularly dedicated person, as long as he enters the state, Zhou Xingchi will be immersed in the plot.
Gong Li also cooperated with Zhou Runfa in Hong Kong on "The Golden Armor in the City" and "Spy in the Sea", in which she and Zhou Runfa played a husband and wife.
Gong Li and Zhou Runfa are very tacit understanding, playing a husband and wife very similar, Zhou Runfa often ridicules why Gong Li has to "betray" herself every time.
After the Hong Kong film industry was mixed up, Gong Li returned to the mainland and engaged in the development of mainland films.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="102" > rhyme</h1>
If it were not for Luo Lie, the actor wang Xifeng in the 87 version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" that we see now must be Le Yun.
At the age of seventeen, Le Yun came out of the blue, and was quickly favored by the director, thus entering the highlight moment of her life.
Because of starring in "Meet on the Caravan", Le Yun became the audience's favorite movie star at that time, and later in the feature film "Wanted", Le Yun starred in the villain of the play, Dan Fengyan Ma Da.
After the TV broadcast, everyone did not feel disgusted by Le Yun's role, but liked her appearance in the play more.
In 1984, when casting the TV series "Dream of the Red Chamber", she took a fancy to Le Yun, her pair of Dan phoenix eyes, curved and thin eyebrows, is simply Feng Jie herself, even Deng Jie, who ran with her, felt that it was not "fair" after seeing her appearance.
However, Le Yun still missed the role because she was fascinated by a man named Luo Lie, and a middle-aged man who was 27 years older than her.
It may be that Le Yun grew up in a family environment without father's love, so she was particularly dependent on Luo Lie, and under Luo Lie's sweet words, Le Yun gave up the role of Wang Xifeng and decided to follow Luo Lie to Hong Kong.
But when she arrived in Hong Kong, Le Yun found that she had been deceived, and there was no movie dream here.
Luo Lie hid her in the villa under his name, without any social activities, and later worried that Le Yun would be discovered by his wife and children, so he changed her to a new name, Le Hui, and introduced her to a director friend he knew.
Le Yun is tall and tall, and his appearance is moving, which attracts many directors, but because Le Yun can't speak Cantonese and speaks Mandarin is not standard, he can only play some supporting roles.
The career touched a nose of ash, and Le Yun could only put her happiness on Luo Lie and began to force Luo Lie to get married.
Luo Lie always evaded, and later until Luo Lie's wife came to the door, at that time Le Yun realized that he had been deceived, and at this time Luo Lie abandoned Le Yun for his own reputation.
His reputation was damaged, and he fell into the low tide of Hong Kong movies, and Le Yun's life reached the point of poverty.
Later, the mother came to Hong Kong to join Leyun, originally thinking that her daughter was living in Hong Kong as Mrs. Kuo's life, but found that she was living so poorly, but the mother's first reaction was not to comfort her daughter, but to worry that her son's tuition fees were not settled.
Under the blows of life and the insults of her mother, Le Yun was miserable, depressed for a while, and finally, in pain, she stood on a tall building and jumped down, only 23 years old.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="103" > Qiu Jianguo</h1>
After "Shaolin Temple", the hottest martial arts movie in Hong Kong is "The King of Southern Boxing", and the star of this movie is Qiu Jianguo.
In the movie, he is a dark-skinned, strong and powerful Guangdong hero, plus it was the trend of martial arts films at that time, and Xu Xiangdong, the champion of Hebei Martial Arts and Eagle Claw Boxing, also participated in the filming, so the film fight scene is very exciting, and Qiu Jianguo also took root in Hong Kong from Guangdong because of this movie.
After that, Qiu Jianguo starred in movies such as "Thirteen Sisters of The Heroine" and "Chinese Martial Arts", but the results have always been very flat, and there is no longer the glory of "Southern Boxer".
It was not until he starred as the Shahe gang leader in "Huang Feihong" that Qiu Jianguo officially stepped into Hong Kong film films.
Although the role of the Shahe gang leader has improved Qiu Jianguo's career, because this role is a villain, and the hero image he originally played on the screen is too different, many fans cannot accept such a change, and even Qiu Jianguo himself is very distressed.
In the end, Qiu Jianguo decided to remake "The King of Southern Boxing", I don't know if it is because of insufficient funds, the acting skills of the actor who played Lin Zexu are particularly embarrassing, and he has to play the hero lin Zexu like a wooden chicken.
After the film was screened, there was no huge response, and Qiu Jianguo had to return to his old business and continue to serve as a villain, working for a long time, and finally crushing Qiu Jianguo.
In April 1998, nasopharyngeal cancer recurred in the middle of filming, and finally died at the age of 37 due to failed surgery.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="104" > Jet Li</h1>
In 1979, Jet Li was invited by the State Council to play the male lead of "Shaolin Temple". After hearing this news, Jet Li jumped up with joy.
So he came to the shooting scene and met Zhang Xinyan, a director from Hong Kong.
Seeing Jet Li's handsome appearance and good skills, Zhang Xinyan concluded that Jet Li would definitely break through the world in Hong Kong movies.
It turns out that Zhang Xinyan is indeed right, after the release of "Shaolin Temple" in the mainland, it was greatly loved by the audience, and Jet Li's three words were also remembered by the audience.
Zhang Xinyan brought the film back to Hong Kong for screening, which immediately caused an uproar in Hong Kong, and Jet Li became a star in the martial arts world at that time.
Before arriving in Hong Kong, Jet Li was red in Hong Kong, such an opportunity will not be easily missed, just like this, Jet Li began to step into the Hong Kong film and television circle under the advice of Zhang Xinyan.
In 1983, Li Lianxing starred in "Shaolin Kid", which won 22.29 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong, ranking third in the annual box office list in Hong Kong, and Jet Li attracted the attention of the Shaw Group with this film.
Under the arrangement of his agent, Jet Li met director Luo Wei and filmed the movie "Dragon in the End of the World" with Stephen Chow in the United States, in which Jet Li met Li Zhi.
In the day and night together, Jet Li gradually fell in love with Li Zhi, completely abandoning ethics, principles, responsibilities, and even property.
In order to help Li Zhi pay off his debts, Jet Li and Yongsheng signed a big contract for 3 years and 6 plays to Tai Chen Lan, and gradually had in-depth cooperation with Wang Jing.
Counting jet Li's films shot in Hong Kong, from "Fang Shiyu" to "Jingwu Hero", the quality of these films is good and bad, only "Huang Feihong's Western Lion" produced by Yongsheng Company has achieved a high box office, and there has been no splash after that.
After completing Xiang Tai's bet, he decided to leave Hong Kong for Hollywood, starting from scratch, after 4 years of study, jet Li returned to the mainland and starred in the martial arts film "Hero" at the invitation of Zhang Yimou.
The film opened up visibility for Jet Li, which topped the North American film charts in just one week of its release. In the same year, Jet Li appeared on the cover of Time Magazine.
After returning to the mainland, Jet Li's value began to soar, and in 2007, he won the Best Actor nomination at the 13th Hong Kong Film Critics Association Awards and the Best Actor nomination at the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards for "Huo Yuanjia"; in 2008, the magical film "King of Kung Fu" with Jackie Chan made Jet Li once again appear on the cover of Time Magazine.
Looking back at the fame history of these 6 actors, we see the rise and fall of Hong Kong films, see their hardships in those years, and in the blink of an eye, the stars we like are old, and that good time may become a common memory for us and these stars.