Cheng Gang

Cheng Gang

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Cheng Gang was separated from his family at the age of 13 and once lived in an orphanage. He joined Xin'an tour group in 1938. In 1942, he joined the Chinese drama society in Chongqing. In 1948, he first wrote the play "empty court night rain", and in 1949, he entered Shanghai Academy of fine arts to study art design. He soon went to Hong Kong as director of Shaw company. He has written more than 300 plays, and his representative works include "little angel on the road", "back door", etc. In 1951, he directed the Cantonese film heartbroken mother and son, and later directed the Mandarin film. In 1973, he won the 11th Golden Horse Award for outstanding feature film and best director for "Fourteen heroines". In 1980, he left Shaw company and directed films for many companies in Taiwan. He has set up grace film company.

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Name: Cheng Gang Occupation: Director / screenwriter date of birth: April 4, 1924 gender: male place of birth: China native place: Shouxian County, Anhui Province

Personal profile

Cheng Gang, born in Shouxian County, Anhui Province on April 4, 1924, came to Chongqing in 1942 to join the Chinese Art Troupe. The first play was "rain at night in the empty court" written by Cheng Gang when he was 24 years old, which caused a sensation. In 1949, Cheng Gang came to Hong Kong and began to work as a screenwriter. "Heartbroken mother and son" released in 1951 was Cheng Gang's first film directed. Since then, he has made many Cantonese, Mandarin and Minnan films. Cheng Gang is the father of the famous martial arts director Cheng Xiaodong, who is known as "slow work produces fine goods". Cheng Xiaodong studied Peking Opera and martial arts since childhood. Before he was 20 years old, he was an extra actor and a stand in in the movie. His father Cheng Gang's "Fourteen female heroes" is his debut work in the name of martial arts guidance.

Brief introduction

Shao's great director Cheng Gang has always been famous for his realistic themes and rigorous production. Both Skynet and call list are excellent works. Although he started as a screenwriter in the early days, why did Meng Hua and Wu Hui create many excellent works? As a director, he also had quite good achievements. For example, the first episode of "Hong Kong's strange case" which was introduced earlier, "corpse hidden at the bottom of the stove" is a rare masterpiece. "Fourteen heroines" is the classic martial arts film of the most glorious period of "Shaw" in the 1970s. It was prepared for one year and shot for two years. All the actresses of "Shaw" participated in the performance. It cost 4 million yuan to produce. The war scene is huge. This film is the crystallization of the talent and painstaking efforts of the ghost director Cheng Gang. Every scene processing and characterization can show Cheng Gang's painstaking efforts. The battle plays, including "Double Dragon Mountain assault", "tiger roaring forest annihilation", "forced crossing plank road bloody battle" and "Five Dragon platform duel", all have their own characteristics. The group fight or solo fight are carefully designed, especially the human flesh bridge special effect scene, which creates the Hong Kong and Taiwan film Amazing special effects and visual effects. At that time, Cheng Xiaodong (the son of Cheng Gang), who was only 15 years old, served as the Deputy Wuzhi in the film. When the film was first released in 1972, it was a big hit. In the 11th Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan, he won the best director (Cheng Gang), best supporting actress (Lu Yan), best recording (Wang Yonghua) and excellent feature film. And Red Star Lily Ho was awarded the title of special surpassing actress in the 19th Asian Film Festival. The "gambling king scam" is known as the first gambling movie in the history of Hongkong film. Director Cheng Gang has collected China's different gambling factions and the essence of thousand skills. The film also became one of the top ten blockbusters of that year

Award winning record

Son inherits father's career

Cheng Gang's son, Cheng Xiaodong, is his biggest pride except for films. Under the influence of his father, Cheng Xiaodong, who graduated from Hong Kong Oriental drama school, began to be a dragon and tiger martial arts teacher at the age of 17 and a martial arts director on TV at the age of 20. In 1979, he took part in directing the movie series the monkey out of the cage, the movie fourteen heroines and the famous sword. In 1980, he took the opportunity of martial arts guidance of "the first type of danger" directed by Ren XuKe, and served as martial arts guidance for Hong Kong business cards such as "new Shushan swordsman", "Dao Ma Dan" and "hero". Later, he participated in films such as the ghost of a beautiful girl, Xiaoao in the lake, the war between ancient and modern Qin figurines, the New Dragon Gate Inn, the deer tripod, the three swordsmen of the Orient, heroes, ambush on all sides and the golden armour in the city.

Conduct style

Cheng Gang is a pure artist. His behavior is just like that of "village Master Cheng playing in the world". He is also fickle in his friends. Sometimes he is a little over enthusiastic, sometimes he is cold-blooded. Some people say he is irresponsible, others say he is cynical. In fact, he is totally emotionalist. Cheng Gang started writing scripts very early. He wrote at least 200 Cantonese movie scripts during the period of Zoomlion. When he came to Shao as a director, he made blockbuster films such as Skynet. Since Cheng Gang made the 12th gold medal, he became the best-selling director of Shao company at that time. His first round income in Hong Kong was 1.56 million, breaking Shao's record over the years, so he was very elated and complacent. Later, the box office blockbuster "gambler's big scam" was the first real gambling film in Hong Kong, which directly led to the trend of Wang Jing and others in the future. In addition, Cheng Gang's "twelve gold medals", "call list", "80000 sinners" and other films, though of different types, are popular and elegant, but they all have good repercussions. In the late 1970s, Taiwan's Deng Guangrong invited Cheng Gang to direct a play for his newly founded "Darong" film company. As a result, the great director made the old mistakes again. Although he had a serious work attitude, due to his personality, he not only overstepped his time, but also was inhuman. Finally, Deng Guangrong couldn't bear it and slapped Cheng Gang in the face! As a result, Cheng Gang was humiliated and furious, and would never continue to work for Deng Guangrong. Naturally, the film was not made, and boss Deng suffered heavy losses.

Gradually disappear

After that, no one dared to film with Cheng Gang. Director Cheng soon went to Taiwan. Although he mainly did behind the scenes planning and did not really direct any works, he trained an apprentice, Zhu Yanping, and later became the mainstay of Taiwan's commercial films. In the 1980s, Cheng Gang suffered from stroke for a time, then recovered, but in recent years, he gradually disappeared.

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