On October 21, 1989, "City of Sorrows" was officially released in Taiwan
Exactly thirty years have passed
A month before that, on September 15, 1989, "City of Sorrows" won the Golden Lion Award, the highest honor at the 46th Venice Film Festival
But at the Golden Horse Awards a month after its release, "City of Sorrows" lost to Guan Jinpeng's "People in New York", and Hou Xiaoxian won the best director award
At the age of 42, he was full of spirits as Uncle Ah Xiaogu
Thirty years have passed, and the biggest change is not the times, but people
At that time, "City of Sorrows" used a huge narrative and closely linked character relationships to slowly outline the fate of the KeelungLin family
"City of Sorrows" also has a commendable group performance, as well as their own wonderful personal performances, highlighting Hou Xiaoxian's directing skills in the film circle for more than ten years
Thirty years later, where have the actors gone, are they still performing? What kind of life is there?
I try to come one by one
In fact, the male protagonist of "Sad City" is Lin Wenxiong, the son of Lin's parents, played by Chen Songyong. The experience of upheaval and displacement in the early years allowed Chen Songyong to be immersed in the big brother style of jianghu temperament, which was vividly reflected in the role of Lin Wenxiong
That year, "City of Sorrows" won the Golden Lion Triumph, and Chen Songyong lifted the Golden Lion Trophy
He defeated Niu Chengze of "Banana Paradise" and Jackie Chan of "Miracle" and won the Golden Horse Film Emperor of the year
However, Chen Songyong's personal fate is like Lin Wenxiong's, very bumpy
Before and after winning the Golden Horse Awards, he was the peak of his acting career, and then went to Hong Kong to develop
"Supreme Champion Talent", the male protagonist who sits on an equal footing with Andy Lau and Tan Yonglin
"Prison Storm 2: Fugitive" is a confrontation with Zhou Runfa
The "Four Lakes and Four Seas" cooperated by Hong Kong and Taiwan has gathered a number of Taiwanese film emperors and red students, and Chen Songyong is one of them
Of course, "Fang Shiyu's Lei Hu's "subduing people with virtue" is his most influential label
"New Shaolin Five Ancestors" Ma Dashan is also quite famous
However, after the mid-1990s, Chen Songyong's performances gradually decreased until they finally disappeared completely. It turned out that he was ill and had to leave the acting industry. In 2012 he began to make a comeback to act in TV dramas
When Chen Songyong left the film industry, he was in his prime at the age of 50, and when he appeared in the Taiwanese movie "Reverse Victory" in 2014, he was already a 70-year-old man, which made people lament the ruthlessness of the years
2015 Cameo in Taiwanese comedy film "Our Whole Family Is Not Familiar"
Chen Songyong has been in poor health, over the years often because of stroke and other sudden illness hospital admissions, he is alone, there is no wife and children, only an Indonesian woman to see the passport to him, he also said that after death will leave her a sum of money (is this not the drama of "Fallen Man"? ）
In the Spring Festival of 2018, Chen Songyong also stabbed a big basket, and when attending the year-end dinner of the old artists, he suddenly scolded the gold medal producer Zhou You and his wife for "people don't want faces, the world is invincible", which made the scene very embarrassing
Playing the younger son, Lin Wenqing, was Hong Kong actor Leung Chao-wai, who was only 27 years old at the time
Oh, except for the beauty of the world, there is no other language that can describe Liang Chaowei
At that time, Leung Chao-wai was about to end his contract with TVB, and in the eight years of TVB, he became the most popular TV star in Hong Kong. At this time, he began to turn his focus to movies, and before "City of Sorrows", he had twice won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actor
"City of Sorrows" is a career node of Liang Chaowei, and the following year he officially left wireless and began a brilliant film career of nearly 30 years
Liang Chaowei has won three Golden Horse Awards, seven Golden Film Awards, and one Cannes Film Emperor, and is the actor who has won the most film emperors in the Chinese film industry
At this year's GQ festival, the stars fought for the rankings, but Liang Chaowei, who was the finale, withdrew halfway - only an actor in his position did not care about what coffee position he was fighting for
Regarding liang chaowei's glorious history, an article cannot be written, so it stops
Liang Chaowei is also 57 years old, and you walk slowly
Playing Lin Wenqing's wife Wu Kuanmei was Xin Shufen, who was only 24 years old at the time
The number of Chinese-language actresses Liang Chaowei has worked with is uncountable, but what he admires most is Xin Shufen
Xin Shufen is certainly not the kind of actress who is absolutely beautiful, but she can shine on the screen
Being an actor, for Xin Shufen, is just an adventure in life
Xin Shufen went shopping when she was a student and met Hou Xiaoxian to hand over business cards, so she had the first cooperation of "Childhood Past"
Xin Shufen played Wu Sumei, who was pursued by Ah Xiaogu when he was a teenager in "Childhood Past", and his role was very small, but Hou Xiaoxian found that she was very suitable for the big screen
In 1986, Xin Shufen became the heroine of Hou Xiaoxian's "Love wind and dust" Jiang Suyun, and the head logo that has never changed [Yinghua Taiwan] is the classic railway shot of Xin Shufen and Wang Jingwen in the film
In 1987, Xin Shufen acted in "Looking Forward to You Growing Up" directed by Hou Xiaoxian's close comrade-in-arms Liao Qingsong Liao Sang, with cute short hair
In 1987, Hou Xiaoxian filmed "Daughter of the Nile", Xin Shufen only made a cameo appearance, not the heroine
When filming "City of Sorrows", the original heroine Yi Nengjing disappeared, and Hou Xiaoxian had to find Xin Shufen to play, but he did not expect that Liang Chaowei's appearance and acting feeling were very compatible
But "City of Sorrows" became Xin Shufen's last film so far, and she went to the United States to marry her husband, and never returned to the film circle, and it was rumored for many years that her family was doing computer business in the United States and had two children
Xin Shufen's wedding
On the 20th anniversary of "City of Sorrows", the actors reunited, and Xin Shufen still did not appear
Let such a classical and quiet woman stay on the screen and in her memories
In the movie, Yuyo Nakamura, who plays Shizuko, a friend of Kanmi, sings "Red Dragonfly" for a glimpse of the amazing, so beautiful, although there is no such person now
Wu Kuanmei's brother Wu Kuanrong and Lin Wenqing are good friends, so these three people have more scenes together, and Wu Kuanrong is played by Wu Yifang
Wu Yifang was 26 years old at the time, and "City of Sorrows" was his only film
However, Wu Yifang's achievements and influence in the dance industry are not lower than Liang Chaowei's in the film industry, and he danced the "Nine Songs" in Lin Huaimin's Cloud Gate Dance Collection for 18 years. He later founded the "Dance of the Wind" dance troupe and taught at Taiwan Normal University, Beijing University of Fine Arts and other schools, and is a well-known Chinese dance master
After the age of 50, Wu Yifang still maintains a lean dancer figure
Aunt Mei Fang, who plays Kuan Mei and Kuan Rong's mother, is the eternal mother in Hou Xiaoxian's films
But the only Golden Horse Award Mei Fang won was the best supporting actress in 2008's "囧 Boy"
Mei Fang is still acting every year, and also plays Nie Yinniang's grandmother in "Assassin Nie Yinniang"
Hou Xiaoxian, Shu Qi and Mei Fang
Gao Jie played Lin Wenliang, the third son of the Lin family, when Gao Jie's eldest brother was 31 years old
Gao Jie can be said to be an actor discovered by Hou Xiaoxian, and his first work is "Daughter of the Nile", which seems to be able to take the route of a handsome little student
But later, Gao Jie became a gangster professional on the Chinese screen, and some people commented that the big brother he played was "without a trace"
In recent years, Gao Jie has filmed across the mainland and Taiwan, shooting a lot of films, and he can often be seen on the big screen, such as the recent "Longest Shot"
Li Tianlu, who plays Lin Alu of the Lin family, is a master of cloth bag opera in Taiwan
Since "Childhood Past", Li Tianlu has cooperated with Hou Xiaoxian many times, including "Love Wind and Dust", "Nile Daughter", "City of Sorrow", "Southern Country, Goodbye South Country" and so on
Li Tianlu and Wang Jingwen at the classic ending of "Love Wind and Dust"
In 1993, Hou Xiaoxian filmed "Drama Dream Life", and Li Tianlu dictated his life story. The film was shortlisted for the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival
In August 1998, Li Tianlu died at the age of 88
Chen Shufang, who plays Lin Wenxiong's wife Mei Dai, is a veteran Actress in Taiwan, just 80 years old this year, and she is also one of Hou Xiaoxian's royal actresses
She also played the female boss of the heroine Cai Qin in "Qingmei Bamboo Horse" directed by Yang Dechang and starring Hou Xiaoxian, and this shot just blurred her
Although she is 80 years old, Chen Shufang is still the kind of actor who still works tirelessly, and she was nominated for the Taipei Film Award for Best Supporting Actress this year with "The Poetry of the Wild Sparrow"
Playing the second sister-in-law is Ke Suyun, another actress who spans the universe of Hou Xiaoxian and Yang Dechang, who appeared in Yang Dechang's "Green Plum Bamboo Horse" in her early years (this still is opposite Hou Xiaoxian)
Ke Suyun later played the first love of N.j in "One Eleven", Ari, and the two traveled to Japan hand in hand but could not find the feeling of that year
In recent years, Ke Suyun can be said to be a more active middle-aged actress in Taiwan, with one play a year and a steady fight
In 2018, the acclaimed mini-series "Your Child Is Not Your Child" in "Mom's Remote Control", she played the mother
The wife of the third brother Lin Wenliang in "City of Sorrows" is Lin Liqing, who was originally a stage actor in the performance workshop, and later in lai Shengchuan's "The Juvenile Murder Incident on Muling Street", she played the wife of her cousin played by Jin Shijie
Lin Liqing is also one of the main cast of "Treasure Island And a Village" that has been touring the mainland for many years
Lin Liqing has not starred in many film and television works, and the more famous one is Ding Minjun, an Emei disciple of Ma Jingtao's version of "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon"
He Yaoyun, who plays the eldest brother and concubine, has changed his name to He Yaoyun, not only is he still acting, but he also works as a yoga teacher, promotes fitness, and calls himself "Taiwan Zheng Duoyan"
This taiwanese vernacular drama stills of her can also be seen to be over 50 years old and also maintained
Tai Bao, who plays the concubine's brother, is a legendary actor who can cross Taiwan and Hong Kong, fluent in Hokkien and Cantonese, and is already the best supporting actor in Golden Horse, and this year he won the Hong Kong movie "Uncle. Uncle" competes for the Golden Horse Film Emperor
And Lin Yang, who plays Mr. Xu, is the most legendary and least known Golden Horse Film Emperor, who has played a supporting role all his life, starring in Wan Ren's "Super Great National" after a stroke paralysis, Wan Ren pushed him in a wheelchair to receive the Golden Horse Trophy. He was paralyzed in bed for the next ten years and died in 2006, and after his children had dealt with the aftermath, they told the outside world, extremely low-key
"Super National" was once a movie that many fans and researchers were looking for, and a 2K restored Blu-ray version was finally released a few years ago
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Hou Xiaoxian also invited Apibo to play the underworld sister Ah Pick Sister in "City of Sorrows", Which is one of the most influential figures in the history of Taiwanese television and has also guest starred in many film roles, from the arts for 70 years. In 2004, Apiba won the Golden Horse Award for Lifetime Achievement. She died in January 2009 at the age of 91
Hou Xiaoxian also found several veteran actors who have worked in the show business circle for many years to make cameo appearances, such as Lei Ming, Lu Qing, Lin Zhaoxiong and so on
Even came to find Zhan Hongzhi, Zhang Dachun and other cultural masters cameo, Zhan Hongzhi is too important for this movie, he pulled the film tycoon Qiu Fusheng's investment, "City of Sorrow" can be started
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【First published in Yinghuataiwan) Author: Falling Mountain Wind]