Tsui Hark

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Early experience

Tsui Hark was born in Saigon, Vietnam on February 15, 1950, and his ancestral home is Haifeng County, Shanwei City, Guangdong Province. He spent his childhood in Vietnam. In 1960, Tsui Hark and his friends rented a video camera to shoot the magic show and play it on campus. In 1966, the family moved to Hong Kong. In 1969, Tsui Hark entered Southern Methodist University in Texas. One year later, he stopped school and traveled around the United States. Later, he transferred to the University of Texas at Austin to study radio, television and film. During that time, he and his friends CO produced a 45 minute documentary about Asian Americans, the new road of the thousand clocks and ten thousand stitches. In 1975, Tsui Hark graduated from college and moved to New York to take part in the shooting of the movie from spikestospindles about Chinatown. In 1977, Tsui Hark, who returned to Hong Kong, joined TVB as a director and producer, and participated in the production of the family drama family change.

Acting experience

In 1978, Tsui Hark turned to Jiayi TV station and shot his first TV play "the golden sword". In 1979, Wu Guoxue and Xu Siyuan co starred in the film, which was made by Liu Guoxue and Xu Siyuan.

On April 2, 1980, director's action thriller comedy "no way to hell" was released, CO starring Kaohsiung, Xu Shaoqiang and Mi Xue; on December 4, director's action thriller crime movie "type I danger" was released in Hong Kong after being banned, remade and modified.

In 1981, Lin Zixiang, Teddy Robin and Michael McGregor co starred in the black comedy "Guima Zhiduoxing", which won the nomination for best feature film in the 18th Golden Horse Award of Taiwan film, and Xu Ke won the best director award.

On January 16, 1982, the guest action comedy "best partner: bald detective" was released. On March 31, 1983, the action comedy "I love nocturnal incense" was released as an artistic director; on February 5, the fantasy martial arts film "new Shushan swordsman" was released, which was co starred by Zheng Shaoqiu, Lin Qingxia and Li SaiFeng, and was nominated as the best film in the 3rd Hong Kong Film Awards.

On January 26, 1984, the action comedy "the Queen's secret order of the best partner" was released, starring Xu Guanjie, Maijia and Zhang Aijia; in April, Tsui Hark and his wife Shi Nanshan set up a film studio; on October 11, the love comedy "night of Shanghai" was released, which won the best picture nomination of the 4th Hong Kong Film Awards, while Tsui Hark won the first prize He was nominated for best director.

On August 10, 1985, the comedy movie "working emperor" was released, and on November 30, the action movie "Royal elder martial sister" was released, in which Tsui Hark played the role of "escape from hardship" who specializes in making fake passports.

On August 2, 1986, the action crime film "Heroes" was released, which broke the box office record in Hong Kong with a total of HK $34.65 million. On September 6, the love film "Dao Ma Dan" was released, which was co starred by Zhong Chuhong, Lin Qingxia and ye Qianwen.

On March 12, 1987, the feature film "the final victory", CO starring with Zeng Zhiwei, Li Lizhen and Li dianlang, was released. In the film, Tsui Hark played "Dabao", the cruel and cruel big brother of the underworld. With this film, he was nominated for best supporting actor in the 7th Hong Kong Film Awards. On July 18, his costume fantasy film "the ghost of a beautiful girl" was released. On December 17, he acted as producer and screenwriter The action crime movie hero 2 was released.

On July 21, 1988, he supervised the production of the love comedy diary of the great man; on October 22, 1988, he supervised the production of the action movie the net. On July 6, 1989, the crime action film "two men in blood" was released, and on October 20, the action film "Hero 3: Song of the sunset" was released, which was co starred by Chow Yun fat, Liang Jiahui and Anita Mui.

In 1990, he participated in directing and supervising the production of the martial arts movie "Xiaoao Jianghu", CO starring Xu Guanjie, Ye Tong, Zhang Xueyou, etc., which was nominated for the best feature film of the 27th Taiwan Golden Horse Award.

On August 15, 1991, the action film "one of Huang Feihong's top ambitions" was released, starring Jet Li and Guan Zhilin, and was nominated for best film at the 11th Hong Kong Film Awards, while Tsui Hark won the best director award; on November 30, the comedy film "the banquet of the rich" co directed by Zhang Jianting, Zhang Tongzu and Gao Zhisen was released.

On January 25, 1992, the action comedy "double dragon club" shot by Lin Lingdong was released, starring Jackie Chan; on April 16, the action movie "Huang Feihong's second man should be self-improvement" directed and supervised was released, which won the best film nomination of the 12th Hong Kong Film Awards, and Tsui Hark was nominated for best director; on June 26, the martial arts man who supervised and participated in the screenwriting was released On August 27, the martial arts film "New Dragon Gate Inn" was released.

On February 11, 1993, the action movie "Huang Feihong 3: The Lion King" was released; on June 10, the action movie "Huang Feihong 4: the wind of the king" was released; on November 4, the fantasy love movie "green snake" was released, which was co starred by Wang Zuxian, Zhang Manyu and Zhao Wenzhuo.

In 1994, he directed and supervised the production of the ancient costume love film "Butterfly Lovers" led by Yang Caini and Wu Qilong. With this film, Tsui Hark won the best director nomination of the 14th Hong Kong Film Awards.

On January 28, 1995, the Chinese New Year comedy full of gold and jade was released, starring Zhang Guorong, Yuan Yongyi and Zhong Zhentao; on December 21, the action film Dao, directed and supervised by Zhao Wenzhuo, Xiong Xinxin and Sonny, was released.

On February 15, 1996, the director's love comedy "Da San Yuan" was released, starring Zhang Guorong, Yuan Yongyi and Liu Qingyun; on July 13, the Republic of China gangster film "new Shanghai beach" was released; on November 9, the science fiction action film "black man" was released.

On February 1, 1997, the action movie "the lion of the western regions" written and supervised by Tsui Hark was released; on April 4, the action thriller "counterattack king" directed by Tsui Hark was released, which was Tsui Hark's first film to enter Hollywood; on July 26, the first animated film "Xiaoqian" supervised by Tsui Hark was released, which was the first animation in Asia made with 2D and 3D computers.

In 1998, Tsui Hark took over the Hollywood action movie "head on" starring shagg Winton. In 1999, Tsui Hark produced the studio's first comic book, the moon knife at the end of the earth.

In 2000, he directed and supervised the action film "downstream and upstream" starring Nicholas Tse and Wu Bai, which won the future digital film award of the 57th Venice International Film Festival.

On April 5, 2001, the live action film Lao Fuzi 2001 was released; on August 9, the ancient costume fantasy action film Shu Shan Zhuan was released, which won the best film nomination of the 2nd Chinese Film Media Award, while Xu Ke won the best director nomination.

In 2002, he shot the sci-fi action film "black man II" co starring an Zhijie, Tobin bell, Scott Atkins, etc. On May 23, 2003, the horror movie "the Millennium Zombie King" was released.

On January 1, 2004, the action film Sanda, which was supervised and written by the director, was released. In 2005, according to Liang Yusheng's martial arts novel "seven swords down to Tianshan", the martial arts film "Seven Swords" was shot, which won the best film nomination of the 25th Hong Kong Film Awards, while Xu Ke was nominated for best director.

On March 17, 2006, the martial arts drama "seven swords down the Tianshan Mountain" premiered. In 2007, with Lin Lingdong and Du Qifeng, he co directed the action movie iron triangle, CO starred by Gu Tianle, Ren Dahua and sun Honglei.

On June 12, 2008, the suspense love movie "looking for people in the deep sea" was released, starring Li Xinjie, Liang Luoshi and Guo Xiaodong; on December 11, the director's love comedy "women are not bad" was released, starring Zhou Xun, GUI lunmg and Zhang Yuqi.

In 2010, he shot the suspense film "Di Renjie's empire" co starred by Andy Lau, Li Bingbing and Carina Lau, which won the best film nomination of the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards, while Xu Ke won the best director award.

In October 2011, Tsui Hark won the "Asian filmmaker of the year" award at the 16th Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea. On December 15, he directed the first 3D martial arts film "dragon's gate flying armour" co starred by Jet Li, Zhou Xun and Chen Kun, which was nominated for best film at the 31st Hong Kong Film Awards, while Tsui Hark was nominated for best director. On March 8, 2012, the guest starring feature film "sister peach" was released.

On May 24, 2013, the thriller and suspense film "Christmas Rose" was released; on June 15, Tsui Hark won the outstanding contribution award for Chinese films in the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival; on September 18, he participated in the Chinese Film Festival

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