When it comes to the almighty filmmaker, the first thing that comes to mind is naturally Chen Xunqi, in fact, like Xu Xiaoming, Jackie Chan, and Hong Jinbao can also be regarded. Several of them have the highest status in the Hong Kong film industry, which is undoubtedly Hong Jinbao, and is naturally famous in the international arena, but in the Hong Kong film industry, as long as there is a place where Hong Jinbao is, Jackie Chan is always Hong Jinbao's younger brother.
Hong Jinbao also contributed a lot in the film, the originator of the psychic action film "Ghost Fight Ghost" came from his hand, and when the "Best Partner" of New Art City was in the limelight, his "Five Lucky Stars" and its confrontation. At the same time, he also has great achievements in action design, and together with Liu Jialiang, Yuan Heping and Cheng Xiaodong, he is known as the four major martial arts of the Hong Kong film industry. At the same time, martial arts films as a unique Chinese film genre, Hong Jinbao naturally also directed and participated in a lot, let's take a look at it!
1. "Chivalrous Girl": Directed by Hu Jinquan, China's first martial arts film that shines internationally, Hu Jinquan has also received international attention, and has also been named one of the world's top five directors, along with Akira Kurosawa. "Chivalrous Girl" is a martial arts film with the flavor of classical Chinese literature, in which Hong Jinbao starred as the son of Xu Xianchun, a Jinyi guard. Playing Xu Xianchun is Han Yingjie, Yu Zhanyuan's son-in-law, who has the grace to promote Hong Jinbao, and he has a credit for the establishment of Hong Jiaban. Hong Jinbao was also often called by Hu Jinquan to help on the set, pushing the camera or something. In addition, Hong Jinbao also participated in Hu Jinquan's director of "Zhonglie Tu" and "The Yin and Yang Dharma King of Painting Skin". Although "Heroine" has a lot of praise, but it is not ideal at the box office, it still won awards internationally and sold the copyright so as not to lose money.
2. "The Great Eunuch": Hong Jinbao participated in too many martial arts films in the early days, but at that time he was still a dragon and tiger martial artist, or a small supporting role, and participated in luo wei, Sun Zhong, Yue Feng, Huang Feng and other directors. Therefore, to pick a "Great Eunuch" alone, after all, there are still more scenes, and huang Jiada also competed. Hong Jinbao starred in the East Factory Big Block, a bit like the role of Liu Xun in "New Dragon Gate Inn". In the 1960s and 1970s, the villains in Hong Kong movies were more popular in the bald eagle genre.
3, "Legend of the God of War": Andy Lau's Tianmu Production Co., Ltd., invited to Hong Jinbao to direct, the lineup is still very strong, Andy Lau himself starred, as well as Mei Yanfang, Maggie Cheung, Zhong Zhentao, Wang Xiao joined, but unfortunately the box office is not ideal, resulting in serious losses in the company, and The harm of Andy Lau almost went bankrupt, so that later Andy Lau went crazy filming. The main line of this film should be the positive and negative factions vying for the throne, and then Andy Lau Mei Yanfang's love line as a supplement, but it is reversed, only see love, there is no so-called chivalry and pride, it is really a bit regrettable. To say that the most powerful is still the dolphin, I still remember the picture of him and Andy Lau playing.
4, "A knife allure": Hong Jinbao directed martial arts movies are more "declining", "Legend of the God of War" let Andy Lau lose money, almost bankrupt, this time "A knife allure" is more exaggerated, the investor Luo Wei's 18 million coffins have been lost, in fact, this film in the production team, actors are highly matched, and various details are also more elaborate, but unfortunately the birth is not timely, and finally a dismal end. "A Knife In the City" was released in 1993, that year the martial arts films were released in a bunch, Jet Li alone had 6 films, Lin Qingxia also had 4, can fight Jet Li and Lin Qingxia, the two martial artists to carry the odds.
To be fair, "A Knife in the City" is an excellent martial arts film, with exquisite production, large pattern, real action design, intriguing lines, and now it is impossible to shoot such a classic martial arts film. Hong Jinbao made a cameo appearance as Yu Wanshan, a jailer in the Great Interior, and is a more understanding character. I still remember the conversation between Wang Wu and Tan Si in prison, and I can't walk out of the heavenly prison and can't go out of the world.
5, "Yitian Slaughter Dragon Chronicle of the Demon Sect Leader": In 1993 Jet Li released 6 movies, not every one of them sold well, Wang Jing's "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon Chronicles of the Demon Sect Leader" is a box office failure, compared to the "A Knife In the City" of more than 1 million box office, "Yitian Slaughter Dragon Chronicles of the Demon Sect Leader" received 10.43 million, or it is OK, but because the film investment is relatively large, so there is no recovery of cost, and the sequel that was originally ready to start filming is also in vain, so far Zhang Wuji has not gone to most of them to find Zhao Min, It is always a regret in the hearts of movie fans. I heard that Wang Jing is ready to shoot a sequel, and I personally think that I still don't want to shoot it, so that we can also leave a thought and not ruin the classic.
Hong Jinbao played Zhang Sanfeng in it, and he really didn't recognize it when he was a child. Hong Jinbao was the most funny version of Zhang Sanfeng, every time he watched him fan the old nun, he was very enjoyable, what about the Heavenly Sword, he didn't pay attention to it at all. Are you looking forward to Wang Jing's sequel?
6, "Huang Feihong's Western Lion": Xu Ke supervised, hong Jinbao directed, the 6th work of the "Huang Feihong" series, in the plot and Jackie Chan's "Who Am I", in fact, this is also a source, "Huang Feihong's Western Lion" Before the script is "Western Lion", it is Jackie Chan ready to cooperate with the godfather director Francis Ford Coppola, but later the director disagreed, the script was used by Hong Jinbao, changed to Huang Feihong. Jackie Chan's big brother must have also participated in "Lions of the Western Regions" that year, and then changed to "Who Am I". Hong Jinbao finally did not let the box office hit the street this time, and won 30.26 million box office, second only to Jackie Chan's "A Good Man" and Xingye's "97 Happy Things", ranking 3rd in the annual box office list.
7, "New Shushan Swordsman": Referring to the cooperation between Xu Ke and Hong Jinbao, this "New Shushan Swordsman" was relatively early, when Jiahe Film Company invited Xu Ke to direct, which was of great significance to the development of Hong Kong films, explored new ideas for martial arts films, and also created a precedent in the use of special effects, and invited the Hollywood stunt team to help. Hong Jinbao is decorated with two corners in it, one is a soldier and the other is a long-brow Daoist. In addition, there are Zheng Shaoqiu, Lin Qingxia, Liu Songren, Xu Shaoqiang, Yuan Biao, Meng Hai, Li Saifeng, Weng Qianyu, etc., it is worth mentioning that director Xu Ke also made a cameo appearance as a soldier. At that time, Jiahe invested hugely, and the box office did not achieve the expected effect.
Xu Ke has always been mindful of the theme of Shushan Swordsman, after many years, in 2001 he made another "Shushan Biography", Hong Jinbao still starred in the role of Baimei, which is also a tribute to that year. In fact, it is enough to evaluate this movie in one sentence: I thought it was a new beginning of fantasy martial arts, but I didn't expect it to be the peak.
In addition to the above introduction, Hong Jinbao also participated in martial arts films such as "Huang Feihong's Hero Has a Dream", "Di Renjie's Tongtian Empire", "Jinyi Wei", "Three Kingdoms Zhi Zhi Zhi Most of the martial arts films he participated in were relatively miserable at the box office, and the only good ones were "Huang Feihong's Western Lion" and "Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire" cooperated with Xu Ke. Of course, the box office fiasco does not mean that the movie is not good, like "Heroine", "Legend of the God of War", "A Knife In the City", "New Shu Mountain Swordsman", "Yitian Slaughter Dragon Chronicle of the Demon Sect Leader" are classics, as for the box office is not good, it is not that Hong Jinbao has "poison", but some are not born at the right time, some are too avant-garde, then which one do you like the most?