In the Chinese film industry, there have been household names on the screen "five bad guys", one of which is Liu Jiang. The popular phrases on the Internet, "I'm Back Again" and "High, Really High", are his classic lines in the movies "Shining Red Star" and "Tunnel War". Today, the Si people have passed away, and there is no longer "Hu Hansan" in the world.
Old photo of Liu Jiang
Born in 1925 in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, Liu Jiang joined the Harbin Beidou Amateur Experimental Theater Troupe at the age of 16 and began performing dramas. At the age of 21, he joined the Songjiang Military Region Cultural and Labor Corps of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army (the predecessor of Shiye) and played Huang Shiren in "The White-Haired Girl".
Once, in a performance, a soldier was too involved in watching the play, and in anger, he raised his gun on the stage, but fortunately was stopped by others. After the performance, the leader of the troupe told Liu Jiang: "Your boy is lucky enough, he almost died." "Since then, the troops have had regulations that you can bring guns but not bullets when you watch the show.
In 1958, Liu Jiang was transferred to the Bayi Film Studio and began his career as a film actor.
"Shining Red Star" Hu Hansan
Liu Jiang is 165 cm tall, but weighs more than 80 kg, due to image problems, he is always arranged by the director to play some villain roles. The movie "Hero Tiger Guts" is his screen debut, although he played a bandit with only one line, he still impressed the director, the director said: "There is no place for him to act, he has performed, he thinks very specifically and carefully." ”
Journey to the West, King Yama
Since then, Liu Jiang has created various villains in films such as "Sea Eagle", "Chifeng", "Breakthrough wujiang", "Ordos Storm", "Bitter Cauliflower" and other films, especially "Tunnel Warfare" and "Shining Red Star" are the most famous.
Liu Jiang is very dedicated. During the filming of the movie "Breaking Through the Wujiang River", Liu Jiang, who played the chief of staff of the enemy army, had a blessing scene and needed to set up several tables of banquets. Liu Jiang put a plate of sauce meat in front of him, and he picked it up like a decent one and ate it until the director shouted to stop, and then he turned around and spit it out. He later described the sauced meat: "Smell the coffin board on your nose." ”
"Tunnel Warfare" Tang Binghui
Contrary to the image of the screen, Liu Jiang in life is amiable and calm. He has had cancer three times, stomach, prostate and liver.
In the face of illness, Liu Jiang had a very good mentality, and he said to everyone: "We must treat every day as the last day, so that people can live freely and happily." People always have to die, don't get cancer, scare yourself to death. 2015 is the Year of the Sheep, Liu Jiang quipped to himself: "Others are 'three sheep Kaitai', I am 'three cancer Kaitai'." ”
In his later years, in addition to actively fighting cancer, Liu Jiang will also have a drama addiction from time to time. In 2011, Zhu Shimao asked him to play his father in "Quit Smoking and Not Drinking", he said: "I sat in a wheelchair, and after the performance, I gave the wheelchair to me." In 2012, in Zhang Yang's "Flying Over the Old People's Home", Liu Jiang also extended his iconic "big thumb brother" in the film.
Some netizens commented on Liu Jiang: "Actors who often play negative characters on the stage and screen are often affected by the role and leave an unpleasant impression on the audience. However, as long as you have a little contact with them, you will find that these fierce gods on the stage or screen are vicious and stubborn enemies, and in real life, they are actually some very decent, kind, and amiable good people! Liu Jiang, the actor of the big local tycoon Hu Hansan in the film "Shining Red Star", is such an actor. ”
In the eyes of Liu Jiang's wife, his wife "has played a bad guy all his life and is a good person in life." Liu Jiang himself once said: "We villain actors should be clean and self-righteous in life." ”