Liu Weiqiang

essential information

Acting experience

After graduating from middle school in 1980, Liu Weiqiang joined the Shao family. The first film he participated in was Liu Jialiang's eighteen martial arts, a small photographer.

He was a photographer in 1985, and his works include "dragon and tiger" and "Mong Kok Carmen".

In 1988, he was in charge of photography in Wong Kar Wai's "Mong Kok Carmen" and was nominated for best photography at the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards.

In 1990, he began to direct the film and made the first film "friends" as a director. Li Xiuxian and Zhang Jiahui were invited to play the leading roles.

In 1992, Liu Weiqiang won the best photography nomination of the 11th Hong Kong Film Awards for his "500 million detective Ralph: Thunder Tiger".

In 1994, Liu Weiqiang and Wong Kar Wai cooperated again to produce "Chongqing forest". With this film, Liu Weiqiang was once again nominated for best photography at the 14th Hong Kong Film Awards.

In 1995, Wen Jun and Wang Jing set up "best partner film production company" and adapted the comic book Gu Huo Zi into a series of "Gu Huo Zi" films. Since then, Liu Weiqiang has organized a basic image production company to make films adapted from other comic works, including Chinese hero and so on.

In 1996, he directed "the best partner" in his pioneering work "the man in the quack", which won a high box office of 21.11 million Hong Kong dollars in the Hong Kong film industry at that time. Later, he filmed the movie "the dragon of the ancient puzzle boy crossing the river", which took 11 days to finish. Later, he rushed to the later stage and took the spring schedule at that time, successfully winning the box office of HK $22.49 million.

From 1996 to 1998, Liu Weiqiang and Wen Jun, the writer of his best partner company, successively released six "Gu Huo Zai" films, all of which were adapted from the popular cartoons of Niu Lao. Most of his "guhuozai" films are shot with shoulder resistance, shaking, moving and other motion scenes, which not only coincides with the youth and manic psychology of guhuozai, but also has a good control over the rhythm of the whole film. The film period of "Gu Huo Zai" is the first stage of Liu Weiqiang's creation.

In 1998, Liu Weiqiang for the first time combined computer special effects with animation effects, and shot "the wind and cloud dominates the world" (1998) (finally won the local box office of HK $41.53 million, successfully won the annual champion of Hong Kong produced films), "Chinese hero" (1999) and other animation ancient martial arts films. On the basis of comics, pruning, deleting many branches, simplifying some complex plots. The creation of animation special effects action film is the second stage of Liu Weiqiang's film.

In 2000, two of Liu Weiqiang's films made it to the top 10 box office in Hong Kong. One was "the top of the Forbidden City" starring Andy Lau, Zheng Yijian and Zhao Wei, and the other was "love at first sight" starring Liming and Maggie Cheung.

In 2001, he cooperated with Andy Lau, Anita Mui, and Wu Junru in the love movie "love you as a dream" with the theme of national standard dance, which made it into the top 10 box office list in Hong Kong.

In 2002, Liu Weiqiang set up his own "basic image production company", and his first film was Infernal Affairs. From 2002 to 2004, Liu Weiqiang and Mai Zhaohui directed the Infernal Affairs trilogy, which pushed Liu's career to the peak. At the same time, Liu's business line gradually changed to the literary line.

In 2003, Infernal Affairs won the best director award of the 22nd Hong Kong Film Awards for its dual roles as a photographer and director. Meanwhile, the film also won the best film award of the 22nd Hong Kong Film Awards. The film focuses on innovation in both content and form. For example, the film no longer focuses on the traditional narrative mode driven by violent actions and the loyalty of the Jianghu, and no longer focuses on the underworld and the police The opposite surface meaning to interpret, but with delicate inner anatomy and humanized plot to find another way.

In 2005, Liu Weiqiang invited Jay Chou, Yu wenle, Edison Chen and others to star in the film "Touwen D", which was adapted from Japanese cartoonist hidichi Ono's cartoon of the same name. He won 100 million box office in Hong Kong and the mainland market. Compared with the original cartoon, the film highlights the indomitable spirit of the protagonist Fujiwara Tuohai, and also shows the emotional level of family, friendship, love and so on It's a noodle thing.

In 2006, he cooperated with Korean filmmakers in the film Daisy, which has a strong artistic flavor. The film hybridizes the love film and the action film, and packs many commercial elements in the Hong Kong type film, such as the police and bandit action scenes, creating a suspense atmosphere, which further enhances the appeal of the plot; in addition, it also uses three clues to enhance the tragic color and theme of "wrong love" from the respective perspectives of the three people.

In 2007, he won the best Photography Award of the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards for his film "Shangcheng". In this film, he still followed the commercial packaging of literature and art film route. The film tried to cure the deep sadness of the city with the classic legendary mode of "the fallen man and the fallen woman". In the same year, Liu Weiqiang directed the Hollywood film "the flood" for the first time.

In 2008, Liu Weiqiang took over from Huang Yuetai as the president of the Hong Kong Society of photographers and became the honorary president of the society forever. In January 2009, Liu Weiqiang directed and cooperated with Andy Lau and Shu Qi to release "You Long Xi Feng". In September 2010, Liu Weiqiang directed the action movie "Jingwu Fengyun", cooperating with Donnie Yen, Huang Qiusheng, Shu Qi and Huang Bo. In May 2011, the love movie "no longer let you alone" directed by Liu Ye and cooperated with Shu Qi was released.

In December 2012, Liu Weiqiang directed the first hot-blooded youth martial arts 3D film in ancient costume, and released "blood drop" in cooperation with Huang Xiaoming, Ruan Jingtian and Yu wenle. In 2014, Liu Weiqiang directed the crime movie Revenge of the green dragon, supervised by Martin Scorsese, who won the best director Oscar in 2007 for Infernal Affairs (adapted from Infernal Affairs), and released in North America in October. In 2015, directed by Wang Jing and supervised by Liu Weiqiang, Macao Storm 2 was released on the new year's eve of the Spring Festival, and the box office on the fifth day of its release has exceeded 300 million. In 2017, he directed the new martial arts magic film "Wulin monster"; in the same year, he directed the release of the historical film "the great cause of the army".

In December, 2018, Ke Rui, the latest director of Shaoxing monster, won the most influential film award. In September 2019, his film "captain China" was released. On the 16th day of its release, the box office of the film broke through 2.5 billion, making it one of the top ten Chinese films at the box office. It won the best director award of the 11th Macau International Film Festival and the best director nomination of the 35th popular film Hundred Flowers Award.

On October 1, 2020, the film "doctor in China" will be launched, and on December 23, the official will kill the youth.

Main works

Directing movies

Supervised production

Photographic works

Award winning record

Character evaluation

Andrew Lau is not like a serious director. The box office is his ideal, and photography is his essence. He always likes to sit in the position of a photographer and play the world in the control mirror like a game fan. He is a typical Hong Kong man, pragmatic, shrewd, diligent, hard-working and hard-working, but only as a job (Tencent Entertainment review).

From photographer to director, Liu Weiqiang has dabbled in gangster films, police and bandit films, love films, suspense films, martial arts films and so on. It is with his rich experience, keen perspective, solid foundation and unique thinking that Liu Weiqiang broadens the vision of Hong Kong films with diversified types of blending variations, and his unique narrative style makes him unique While he is familiar with the rules of commercial film games, he pays special attention to the spiritual core and cultural characteristics of the characters. His in-depth analysis of human nature makes his works full of philosophical thinking. As a result, Liu Weiqiang's films have not only won the audience's recognition, created huge box office value, but also won universal respect in the industry, which can be said to lead the development trend of Hong Kong films (review of film literature magazine).

As a photographer, Liu Weiqiang's hand-held photography can be regarded as a masterpiece. He was not only praised by Du Kefeng, but also commented by Hong Kong Photographer Huang Yuetai that "Liu Weiqiang's hand-held photography is immersive, so that the audience can not feel the lens is a good photographer" (review of contemporary film magazine).

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