Er Dongsheng

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Early experience

In 1967, er Dongsheng moved to Taiwan with his father and his family. After three years of primary school in Taiwan, he returned to Hong Kong. Er Dongsheng graduated from high school in 1975. His family had hoped that he would go to Canada to study. His elder brother, David Jiang, was also willing to support Er Dongsheng's studies. However, er Dongsheng decided to join the film industry with Qin Pei and David Jiang to become a basic actor of the Shaw family.

Acting experience

In 1977, er Dongsheng took part in the first film "a sir, the tiger gun after poison"; later, he was appreciated by the director Chu Yuan and played the villain Tang Yu in the film "white jade tiger"; in the same year, he co starred with Yu An'an and Ling Yun in the martial arts film "the sword of the third young master" and played Xie Xiaofeng, the third young master of Shenjian villa.

In 1978, he co starred with Yu An'an in the martial arts movie "the story of relying on heaven to kill the dragon", playing Zhang Wuji, the leader of the Ming religion. In 1979, he starred in the movie full moon machete adapted from the martial arts novel of the same name by Gu Long. In 1981, he cooperated with Qin Pei and Jiang Davide in the spoof martial arts film owl, and served as the screenwriter of the film. Early roles

In 1982, he starred in the action film "Tathagata palm". In 1985, er Dongsheng acted as a planner in his starring Shao's comedy "wrong point mandarin duck"; in the same year, Shao stopped production, and ER Dongsheng resumed his freedom, and was invited to Taiwan to shoot the martial arts series "flying swallow and startling dragon". However, er Dongsheng thought that he could not master his own development direction as an actor, so he decided to become a director.

In 1986, er Dongsheng directed the first film "the story of the insane". Before the shooting of this film with the theme of mental patients, er Dongsheng spent several months reading materials and interviewing social workers to understand the real situation of mental patients. The film not only won the nomination of the best film in the sixth Hong Kong Film Awards, but also won the Hong Kong Film Awards Nominations for best director and best screenwriter.

In 1987, he directed his second film "people's Heroes", starring Dilong, Liang Chaowei and Qin Pei. The film followed the line of police and bandit film, but the film only received more than 3 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office in the market. Therefore, er Dongsheng slowed down the pace of film director and rejoined the ranks of actors.

In 1988, Lin Qingxia, Lin Zixiang and Wu Dawei co starred in the love movie "stars shine tonight". In 1990, she played Kawashima Fangzi's first love shanjiaheng in the movie Kawashima Fangzi starring Anita Mui and Andy Lau. In 1992, er Dongsheng starred in the costume drama "a generation of empress Da yu'er" produced by Taiwan CCTV, playing Prince Rui Dorgon.

In 1993, he directed the love film "new no love" starring Liu Qingyun and Yuan Yongyi. During the shooting of "new no love", because the theme of the film was so unpopular that the boss refused to invest, er Dongsheng had to take out his savings to shoot. After the film was released in Hong Kong, the box office reached HK $30 million. In 1994, the film won six awards including best film, best director and best screenwriter at the 13th Hong Kong Film Awards.

In 1995, he directed the racing theme movie "chariot of fire", which is an attempt of Er Dongsheng on commercial film after "new love". In 1996, he directed the film "pornographic men and women". With this film, er Dongsheng won the best director nomination at the 16th Hong Kong Film Awards and the 33rd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards.

From 1997 to 2002, er Dongsheng was busy with the administrative work of film production supervision. He directed only one film "truth" in 1999. In 2003, Xiang Huaqiang of China Star Company found Er Dongsheng, hoping that he could help her artist Cecilia Cheung transform. Therefore, er Dongsheng launched the film "never forget", which tells the story of female minibus drivers. With this film, er Dongsheng won the nomination for best director at the 23rd Hong Kong Film Awards.

In 2004, er Dongsheng changed the mild style of his previous films and made a sharp and realistic police film night in Mong Kok. With this film, er Dongsheng won the best screenwriter and best director awards of the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards.

In 2005, er Dongsheng launched the film "precocious puberty" and the romantic comedy "a thousand cups are not drunk", both of which have made tens of millions of box office achievements. In 2006, I worked as the producer of the high-definition film "the words of going back in time" produced by satellite TV.

In 2007, he directed the film disciples, which reflects the drug problem. The story of the film was rewritten by Er Dongsheng based on a large number of real data. In addition, er Dongsheng, who has not acted for ten years, took part in the performance of the film as a senior police officer because he could not find an actor temporarily.

In 2008, er Dongsheng adapted his film "new love" into a TV series of the same name, and asked Chen Kun and Xue Kaiqi to star in the drama. In the same year, he directed the literary film "Shinjuku Incident", which describes Japanese Chinese immigrants, which was released in Hong Kong on March 22, 2009.

In 2010, he directed the shooting themed movie king of guns, which is an upgraded version of Er Dongsheng's movie king of guns. In 2011, he directed the film "the great magician" starred by Liang Chaowei, Liu Qingyun, Zhou Xun, etc.; in the same year, he was the producer of the film "the lost bullet".

In 2013, he directed the film I am a passer-by, which tells the story of Hengdian mass actors. The film was invested and shot by Er Dongsheng. The film started in March 2013, and the first half of the film was shot by the end of June. cinematographic works

In 2016, he directed the film the sword of the third young master. On October 12, 2019, the supervised film "crime scene" will be released.

In September 2020, he joined the Tencent video director in the second season of the reality show cast in place as a program mentor.

Personal life

family life

Er Dongsheng's father, er Guang, is a Hong Kong film producer and director. He has worked as a producer in Yonghua, Shaw, Cathay Pacific and other film companies. Er Dongsheng's mother, Hong Wei, is an actor and a dubber. Hong Wei married actor Yan Hua and had four sons and one daughter. Her three sons Qin Pei and four sons Jiang David are all Hong Kong actors. Therefore, Qin Pei and Jiang David are Er Dongsheng's half brothers. In addition to her parents and brothers, er Dongsheng's family has more than 20 people engaged in film related work.

Love life

Er Dongsheng's first girlfriend is Shao's actress Yu An'an. They met before joining Shao. Er Dongsheng, 16, fell in love with Yu An'an, only 14 years old. After that, they worked together in films such as "the sword of the third young master" and "the story of killing the Dragon by relying on heaven". Both in and out of the play were lovers, and they broke up after eight years of love.

Er Dongsheng's second girlfriend is a female producer. In 1987, er Dongsheng and Maggie Cheung fell in love. The relationship lasted for three years. Because Maggie Cheung could not stand Er Dongsheng's male chauvinism, they broke up in 1990.

In 1995, er Dongsheng married a woman surnamed Wang in Taiwan, but less than half a year later she divorced. In 1999, he met Luo Xiaowen, a kindergarten teacher. After nine years of love, they finally registered for marriage in 2008.

In 2017, Luo Xiaowen, his second wife and a kindergarten teacher 13 years younger than him, formally divorced.

Amateur Racer

Er Dongsheng was keen on racing when he was Shao. Whenever he was free, he would take part in racing activities in Macao, Taiwan, Japan and Southeast Asia. He also organized teams with Qian Xiaohao, Wu Dawei and other friends to compete in Japan many times. In 1990 and 1991, er Dongsheng won the first place in the two Macau Grand Prix touring car rookie races. In addition, he was also a commentator of F1 racing on TV.

Main works

Director's works

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Supervised production

Take part in the film

Take part in TV series

Photographic works

Award winning record

social activities

public benefit activities

On December 15, 2018, the public welfare party "love it warm winter meeting" sponsored by its foundation was held in Beijing Wangjing Museum. Er Dongsheng was awarded the director's certificate and began to serve as the director of its foundation. Through the heart warming links such as the award of love it, the evening looked back on the past "love it" efforts, and at the same time, with the common appeal and advocacy, it opened the prelude to the action of caring and rescuing stray animals in the new year.

On December 8, 2019, Kanghui and ER Dongsheng jointly presented Ren Dahua with the "pioneer of treating animals well" award at the "warm winter Club of loving it". Director Er Dongsheng, host Kanghui, singer Han Hong and actor sun Ning shared their stories with animals on the scene, and jointly called for and advocated a world of respecting and treating animals well.

Character evaluation

Er Dongsheng is an all-round filmmaker in Hong Kong. He is handsome in appearance. From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, he was a martial arts student of Shaw film company. Later, he successfully transformed into a screenwriter and director. Er Dongsheng, who was born as an actor, was good at exploring the characteristics and potential of an actor after he became a director. His films have been successful in employing new people for many times. Among them, "new love" makes yuan Yongyi the winner of the gold medal, and "pornographic men and women" makes Shu Qi's transformation successful (review of new express).

Er Dongsheng's films have always been full of delicate humanistic care. He likes to depict the real faces of all kinds of people in the society in the films, such as the buskers and water song boats in new love, the secret recipe of minibus drivers in forget, the faces of all living beings in the film circle of pornographic men and women, the rich but low-key drug lords and drug addicts in disciples

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