There are still three weeks to go before the 37th Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony, but this afternoon the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award has been announced, and he is Chu Yuan. However, many young fans may not be familiar with him, and today we will re-acquaint ourselves with this big director.
Chu Yuan was born in 1934 in a film family, and has been affected by the family environment since childhood, and especially likes movies. When he first started as a screenwriter, he became a director at the age of 25, and his debut was "Lakeside Grass". After that, he joined Shaw Film Company and became one of the four major directors of Shaw, the other three being Li Hanxiang, Zhang Che and Hu Jinquan, all of whom are grandmasters in the Hong Kong film industry.
The hottest star in the early 70s was Bruce Lee, who won the Hong Kong film box office for two consecutive years with "Big Brother Tangshan" and "Raptor Across the River", but in 1973, "Dragon Fight and Tiger Fight" lost to Chu Yuan's "Seventy-Two Tenants", a classic comedy that gathered many big names of the Shaw family at that time, Yue Hua, Shen Dianxia, Hu Jin, Jing Li, Tian Qing, etc. Zheng Shaoqiu, who was not yet famous at the time, also made a cameo in it.
Chu Yuan's best is not comedy, but martial arts movies, and there was a saying circulating in the circle that year: those who have not acted in Chu Yuan's martial arts movies are not considered film actors. In the martial arts movies, the best he made was the Gulong Wuxia movie, and The three of them, Gu Long, Chu Yuan and Dillon, were known as the Iron Triangle, and only the three of them could make the best Gulong Wuxia movies.
Director Chu Yuan is the best at and pays attention to the set, creating dreamlike and picturesque scenes, and vividly expressing the artistic conception in Gu Long's novel. At that time, the Iron Triangle cooperated with many classic works: "Xiao Shiyilang", "Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword", "White Jade Tiger", "Three Young Masters' Sword", "Tianya Mingyue Sword", "Chu Liuxiang" and so on.
Later, as Shaw's films continued to reduce production, director Chu Yuan also began to reduce the amount of filming, and with his love for movies, he began to gradually go to the front of the stage to perform as a supporting role in the film. This is really not easy for a successful director, and I have to say that the old man's mentality is good. What's even more rare is that he never points fingers on the set, only does his own actor work, how many people can do it?
Chu Yuan has guest starred in many movies, such as the rich businessman Dai Jiale in "Xue'er", Dr. Chu in "Yuan Zhenxia and Wesley", Watsons in "New Difficult Brothers and Difficult Brothers", "Hardcover Difficult Brothers" himself and so on.
Everyone's deepest impression of Chu Yuan's role should be the villain Zhu Tao in the "Police Story" series, who jumped from the mall chandelier in order to catch him Jackie Chan. In addition to the "Police Story" series, he has also collaborated with Jackie Chan on films such as "Double Dragon Society" and "Miracle".
In addition to movies, Chu Yuan has also participated in many TV series, and is a TVB golden supporting role, such as Rulai in "Journey to the West", Gu Tianle's boss in "Looking for Qin", Cheng Feng's father in "Master Gun Sister", Shen Zhou in "Four Talents in Gold" and so on. Director Chu Yuan always faces everyone with an amiable face, which is a golden green leaf full of joy.
In recent years, director Chu Yuan has long been living in seclusion at home, and as he grows older, his memory has continued to deteriorate, but his wife Nanhong has always taken good care of him.
Speaking of Nan Hong, she is a superstar in the 1960s and 1970s, from an acting family, or the niece of Cantonese opera celebrity Ren Jianhui. At the same time, he is also the first generation of Hong Kong's little dragon girl, Yang Guo is Xie Xian, that is, Tse Tingfeng's father. At that time, the two were known as golden children and jade girls in the Hong Kong film industry. Among them, The one who played Xu Guanjie's mother in "The Working Emperor" directed by Xu Ke was Nan Hong, and later cooperated with Lin Zhengying in the TV series "Zombie Road Chief".
Before Nanhong and Chu Yuan got married, the two formed a film company together, which was a very good partner, and then married in 1967, and now the two have spent a full 51 years, which is really envious of others, and such a loving couple is very rare in the circle.
Finally, congratulations to director Chu Yuan for winning the Hong Kong Film Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, and wish him and his wife Nanhong good health and happiness forever! A tribute to that era of stars, a tribute to the glorious Hong Kong films!