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Liu Zhenwei's directorial debut, incorporating Western horror elements, Jacky Cheung's character is named Wong Kar-wai pen name

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In the 1980s, after Century Pictures, which was led by Liu Zhenwei, ceased to operate, he also became a "free man". In 1987, Deng Guangrong and his brother Deng Guangzhou established Da Rong Film and Television Production Co., Ltd., and they admired Liu Zhenwei's talent, so they invited him to join the company.

At that time, Liu Zhenwei put forward a proposal and a condition to Deng Guangrong: first, "Da Rong" was reorganized into "Shadow Master", and second, he wanted the company to support him to sit on the director's seat and pull in his old friend Wong Kar-wai, who had been fired by "New Art City" and "Yongjia", to help him.

Liu Zhenwei's directorial debut, incorporating Western horror elements, Jacky Cheung's character is named Wong Kar-wai pen name

Therefore, Liu Zhenwei's directorial debut, which is also the first work of "Shadow Master" since the renaming, came out in 1987, which is "Meng G Chaguan", which is called "Kuixing Kick Fight" in Taiwan.

Liu Zhenwei's directorial debut, incorporating Western horror elements, Jacky Cheung's character is named Wong Kar-wai pen name

The film tells the story of a police station police officer Kim Mai Kee (Jacky Cheung) and his partner Meng Chao (Hui Guanying) and the walking corpse of Japan's Issey Misaya (Zuo Songsheng), who committed suicide decades ago because of defeat in the war, and after its release, it easily earned more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars at a low cost, and also became a hit of the fame of "Shadow Master".

Liu Zhenwei's directorial debut, incorporating Western horror elements, Jacky Cheung's character is named Wong Kar-wai pen name

The success of "Mammoth G Chakan", although with the help of the east wind of the psychic comedy at that time, Liu Zhenwei also knew that without his own ideas, imitating others according to the script would not work in any way, and perhaps because of this, he and Wong Kar-wai designed the film's villain Daisaku Miyake into a "vampire" wearing a cloak and green fangs.

Liu Zhenwei's directorial debut, incorporating Western horror elements, Jacky Cheung's character is named Wong Kar-wai pen name

Although the Taoist priest Zhong Fabai, played by Zhong Fa, also used the chicken blood yellow charm peach wood sword, but at the critical moment, it could not play a role at all, and finally even ended up with a difficult ending, from this point, it is enough to show that Liu Zhenwei wants to walk out of a new way of "Mixing Chinese and Western" that is completely different from Hong Jinbao and Liu Guanwei's spiritual fantasy films through this film.

Liu Zhenwei's directorial debut, incorporating Western horror elements, Jacky Cheung's character is named Wong Kar-wai pen name

In terms of corpse drops, its plot is also interesting enough, it not only "has a good idea" to explain the "skills" of "garlic to ward off evil spirits" and nail the heart and limbs of vampires with coffin nails, and later introduced "Kuixing Kick Fight", although its rationality needs to be examined, but it makes the whole film lively and rich, in addition, Lou Nanguang was teased by several "ghost king laoqian", and it was also quite wonderful.

Liu Zhenwei's directorial debut, incorporating Western horror elements, Jacky Cheung's character is named Wong Kar-wai pen name

However, to talk about the most impressive scene of the whole film, when Several Jacky Cheung and Xu Guanying were surrounded by zombies in the cattle farm, they had to disguise themselves as zombies to stand out. A few years later, the United Kingdom made a "Shaun of the Zombies", which also had a similar plot, and I doubted that the inspiration here was taken from Liu Zhenwei's "Fierce G Chaguan".

Liu Zhenwei's directorial debut, incorporating Western horror elements, Jacky Cheung's character is named Wong Kar-wai pen name

In terms of the protagonist, the most surprising thing about the film is Jacky Cheung, who plays Kim McKi, who originally did not have any martial arts background, but insisted on not having a stand-in when filming the fight scene, and played a set of swordplay actions with a tiger and tiger style, which is extremely dashing, which shows that Jacky Cheung is also very agile in addition to singing, perhaps because of this, Wang Jing will later find him to perform the kung fu superstar Long Wei in "Rat Guts dragon power".

Liu Zhenwei's directorial debut, incorporating Western horror elements, Jacky Cheung's character is named Wong Kar-wai pen name

From this film, director Liu Zhenwei also began his "cameo dragon set" career, and reached the peak until the time of Bodhi Laozu in "Journey to the West". It is worth mentioning that the "Golden McGee" played by Jacky Cheung in the film was originally the screenwriter pen name that Liu Zhenwei took for Wong Kar-wai, but later Wong Kar-wai did not use it.

Liu Zhenwei's directorial debut, incorporating Western horror elements, Jacky Cheung's character is named Wong Kar-wai pen name

A year later, the original team continued to launch the sequel to the film "Fierce Ghost Academy", playing more than the first episode, and after the release of the film, it still received millions of box office, but then Liu Zhenwei also quickly left the Film Company, and cooperated with different film companies, and then launched a series of similar fantasy films with the word "Fierce G", in fact, all of this stemmed from the self-confidence brought to him by the success of "Fierce G Chaguan".

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