In 1985, the 33-year-old "Dragon and Tiger Martial Arts Master" Lin Zhengying had accumulated a lot of experience and ushered in the pinnacle of his acting career in "Mr. Zombie". In 1985, Lam Ching-ying made the first zombie movie, but all the actors in the movie had bad luck.

In the 1980s and 1990s, when Hong Kong films were at their peak, there were three people whose films had the most personal labels: Jackie Chan's kung fu films , Stephen Chow's spoof films and Lin Ching-ying 's zombie films.

In 1985, the 33-year-old "Dragon and Tiger Martial Arts Master" Lin Zhengying had accumulated a lot of experience and ushered in the pinnacle of his acting career " Mr. Zombie ".

In a word, this film is the originator of the definition of "Chinese zombies".

Secondly, he defined the equipment for fighting zombies: a mahogany sword, a few yellow paper talismans, a tip of the sword, a stamp of one foot, and the action was "authentic ghost catching style".

has a unibrow, a cold sense of humor, a good face, and is agile, even drawing charms and reciting incantations is stylish.

Wearing a yellow Tai Chi robe and a Bagua scarf, there are always two "brainless" and "unhappy" apprentices around him: the handsome one is called Qiu Sheng, and the dull one is called Wen Cai.

A mahogany sword, a few yellow paper charms, a lift of the sword tip, a stamp of one foot, and the move is "authentic ghost catching style".

He is Mao Xiaofang , also Lin Jiu, known as Uncle Jiu.

He is Lin Zhengying, the famous and powerful "zombie killer" for a long time.

Uncle Ying was born in 1952, and his original name was Lin Genbao.

It is said that he had some adventures while making the movie, so he changed the name - "正" means to shock, "英" means that the grass is pressing down on the person in the coffin;

"正英" means evil does not suppress the good.

Of course, this statement cannot be verified, and it is mostly speculation, but it casts a layer of mystery on Uncle Ying's life.

The young man's family was poor. After studying for two years, Uncle Ying switched to Liyuan.

Hong Kong Peking Opera master Pink Chrysanthemum is his master, Zun Long and Luo Jiaying are fellow disciples.

The troupe practiced boy skills. Although Uncle Ying's Peking opera career only lasted five years, this experience set the direction for his acting career.

In the early 1980s, members of the Hung Family Band headed by Sammo Hung created the field of fantasy kung fu films with " Ghost Fighting " , which was very popular, and Uncle Ying also starred.

In 1982, Hong Jiaban released "The Scary Man". This was the first time that Uncle Ying appeared as a Maoshan Taoist priest in a movie.

"Mr. Zombie"

In 1985, Lin Zhengying made the first zombie film, but the actors in the film were all ill-fated.

"Mr. Zombie" was released in 1985, starring Lin Zhengying, Xu Guanying, Qian Xiaohao and others.

When the film was released in Hong Kong, the box office reached 20 million . No film of the same type has broken this record. At the same time,

has also attracted countless follow-up works.

According to incomplete statistics, between 1986 and 1991, more than 100 zombie movies were filmed in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

But none can reach the level of brilliance of "Mr. Zombie", let alone surpass it.

This also makes "Mr. Zombie" a veritable pinnacle of Hong Kong zombie films.

"Mr. Zombie" plot: Wealthy country squire Renfa (Yellow Shrimp)'s late father used coercion and inducement to obtain a Feng Shui treasure land. After being instructed by Mr. Feng Shui, his father was buried twenty years later and the grave was moved to benefit his descendants.

However, Uncle Jiu (played by Lin Zhengying) inspected the tomb and learned that Mr. Feng Shui had a personal grudge with the Ren family and had done something in the tomb. Twenty years later, the corpse of Mr. Ren had become malignant.

Uncle Jiu proposed to be cremated on the spot, and the bones were moved to Yizhuang at the request of Master Ren. Despite careful care, Mr. Ren turned into a zombie and killed his son Ren Fa.
Uncle Jiu concluded that Mrs. Ren and Ren Fa’s zombies would reappear, so he ordered his apprentices Qiu Sheng (played by Qian Xiaohao) and Wencai (played by Xu Guanying) to deal with them carefully.

This work is said to be Lin Zhengying’s most satisfying work.

won the following nominations at the 5th Academy Awards: Best Original Film Music: Best Picture/ Best Director/ Best Screenplay/ Best Supporting Actor/ Best Supporting Actor/ Best New Actor/ Best Cinematography/ Best Editing/Best Art Direction/Best Action Design/Best Original Film Song and other honors.

At first, before the movie was released, Ho Guanchang and Sammo Hung, the then bosses of Jiahe Film Company , expressed that they were under a lot of pressure. Director Liu Guanwei even thought that this would be his last work before being laid off.

Why?

spent a full cost of 8.5 million, especially in the Hong Kong film market that pursues low cost and high returns, this number is quite astonishing.

At that time, the box office was predicted to be up to 6 million, and we were prepared for a loss of 2 million.

But in fact, "Mr. Zombie" was not only not that miserable, but it was unexpectedly a huge success.

20 million 's box office performance. So far, no one has been able to break this record for movies of the same type.

A capable master paired with a trouble-making apprentice is a great tradition in Hong Kong movies, and it is also essential in "Mr. Zombie".

The apprentice in the drama is Xu Guanying in "The Heroes of Civil War",

He has starred in many classic Hong Kong comedy movies, such as "Half a Category", " Ghost Horse Double Star ", "Mr. Zombie", " Best Partner: The Queen's Secret Order ", etc. etc., are all works that are familiar to movie fans.

Among them, the apprentice "Wen Cai" in "Mr. Zombie" is the most impressive. The scene where he has to jump on glutinous rice to avoid turning into a zombie after being poisoned by corpse poison is a classic. Since then, the character of "Wen Cai" has become a The representative character of the unlucky guy in Hong Kong movies, "Mr. Zombie" also set off a zombie movie craze that year.

Although Hui Guanying's stardom is not as bright as that of his elder brother Guanwen and younger brother Guanjie, he fully devotes himself to playing his small role in every movie. No matter how many roles he plays, it will always be unforgettable, such as "Half a Category Eight Liang" "Chi Pao" and Ah Ying in "Money Makes Trouble" were never the protagonists, but they brought laughter to the audience and dedicated most of their artistic lives.

is most familiar to mainland audiences for his role as Lin Zhengying's apprentice "Wen Cai" in "Mr. Zombie" in 1985. The scene where "Wen Cai" was infected with corpse poison and had to jump on glutinous rice to avoid turning into a zombie is a classic. .

What’s even more interesting is that at the 5th Hong Kong Film Awards, Xu Guanying was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for "Mr. Zombie", but was rejected by himself because he felt that he was the starring role, and he became a Hong Kong actor. The only actor in history to refuse an Academy Award.

Xu Guanying was born in 1946. Before entering the industry, he worked at AFP as a reporter and editor.

In the mid-1970s, as Xu Guanwen and Xu Guanjie left the " Double Star Announcement " column group and founded Xu's Pictures Co., Ltd. with the support of Jiahe Company's boss Zou Wenhuai, Xu Guanying also logically left the Shaw Brothers He ran away to pursue a career in show business with his brother.

However, as the Hong Kong film landscape was reshuffled in the 1990s, Xu Guanying's acting career also suffered a great impact, and it quickly fell from its peak to a trough.

From 1990 to 2000, he only filmed 8 movies including "Water Margin", "Hua Tian Xi Shi " and "The Big Winner".

almost exclusively plays supporting roles, and even for a long time, he couldn't get any roles.

At that time, the blockbuster comedies in the Hong Kong film industry were almost monopolized by Star and . However, Xu Guanying never collaborated with Star once, which is quite incredible.

It was not until the sad news came that he died of a sudden heart attack in 2011 that the media disclosed more details about him: Xu Guanying, 65, had no wife or children in his life. He had always had a good Japanese girlfriend. But he did not appear at his funeral.

's eldest brother Xu Guanwen said that many people thought that Xu Guanying was very lonely in his later years, but he had always been optimistic and open-minded and enjoyed freedom very much, so he did not have many regrets in this life.

Unlike many artists, Xu Guanying's ashes were not placed in the cemetery, but were scattered into the Saigon Sea, where the four Xu brothers often fished together when they were children.

There is another apprentice in the play who is Qian Xiaohao.

Qian Xiaohao, whose real name is Qian Jiahua, was born in Hong Kong on January 26, 1963. When he was 10 years old, Qian Xiaohao, who had poor academic performance, began to learn the Kung Fu of the Great Sage from his neighbor Xian Linxu.

When he was 14 years old, Qian Xiaohao was spotted by a film company because he won a bronze medal in a kung fu ring competition.

In 1979, when he was 15 years old, Qian Xiaohao enrolled in the Shaw Brothers martial arts actor training class for two months.

happened to be director Chang Cheh casting for " Shaolin and Wudang ". Among the sixty or seventy actors, he was selected as an actor and entered the Zhang family class, becoming the fifth generation disciple of Zhang Che and the last disciple of Zhang Che.

In 1979, he was selected by director Chang Cheh to participate in the first movie "Shaolin and Wudang", playing the role of Wei Xinghong.

Although this is his first movie, the salary is higher than the annual salary of an ordinary worker.

In the same year, although Qian Xiaohao was lucky enough to enter the industry, it was a pity that he was born at the wrong time and had not yet become popular and established his position. His mentor Chang Cheh was in decline, and there were only a few years left before Shaw Brothers ceased production.

In 1980, he participated in the movie "Ten Tigers of Guangdong and the Last Five Tigers" directed by Chang Cheh;

In the same year, with his outstanding performance in "Ten Tigers of Guangdong and the Last Five Tigers", he starred in the action movie " Flying Fox Gaiden" directed by Chang Cheh. The first time he played the leading role.

In 1985, Qian Xiaohao, who was in a bottleneck period, was invited by Sammo Hung to star in "Mr. Zombie".

This work became a career turning point for Qian Xiaohao, and his "action combination" with Lin Zhengying was also loved by many viewers.

In fact, Sammo Hung originally chose Qian Xiaohao to play the role of "Qiu Sheng" because he had good action skills and did not need to spend money to arrange a substitute. Qian Xiaohao also performed the jumping stunts and fighting scenes in "Mr. Zombie" very well.

After "Mr. Zombie", Qian Xiaohao began to cooperate frequently with "Hong Family Ban".

He and Lin Zhengying have also appeared in works such as "One Eyebrow Taoist Master", "Destroy Two Heroes", " Zombie Supreme " and other works.

In 1992, Lin Zhengying and Qian Xiaohao once again acted as masters and apprentices in the film "New Mr. Zombie ". Unexpectedly, this film became the last film collaboration between the two.

After "The New Mr. Zombie", "The Hung Family" began to decline. The two film companies under Sammo Hung's name, "Depot" and "Baohe", successively ceased production, and the "zombie film market" also declined rapidly.

At this time, Lin Zhengying was in a situation where there was nothing to film.

After starring in "Zhong Kui Marries His Sister" in 1994, Lin Zhengying bid farewell to the movie screen and entered the TV screen.

As the career of "The Hung Family Ban" declined, Qian Xiaohao also ended his cooperation with Sammo Hung and began to appear in the works of "Zhengdong Films".

In "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng" and "Fist of Heroes", the fighting performances between Qian Xiaohao and Jet Li have won the love of many audiences.

As the cooperation with Jet Li began, the on-screen cooperation between Qian Xiaohao and Lin Zhengying also came to an end.

In 2000, Qian Xiaohao left a bad reputation in the entertainment industry because of the candid filming incident. In addition, he had a hot temper and was difficult to get along with. From then on, no one approached him for filming. He had no choice but to move to the mainland. Seek breakthrough development.

At this time, the mainland film and television market has been booming, and the iteration and update speed is very fast. It is no longer the film market of Hong Kong in the 1980s and 1990s. It is already extremely difficult for Qian Xiaohao to get a share of the mainland film and television market. Starring Most of them are just soy sauce characters, and they are easily forgotten by people.

Qian Xiaohao's appearance when he was young

In 2013, in order to commemorate the 16th anniversary of Lin Zhengying's immortal life, a movie called "Zombie" directed by Mai Junlong was released. This movie brought together Qian Xiaohao, Chen You, Wu Yaohan , Lou Nanguang and other actors of the golden generation of zombie movies. This movie was released in Hong Kong and achieved good box office results, but it has also become the highlight moment of zombie-themed movies in recent years.

Seeing these people, I remembered the all-powerful Uncle Nine and the familiar plots in the movie. Nowadays, zombie movies have declined, and seeing these actors who have shown their age makes people feel deeply moved. Thousands of people burst into tears.

Later, Qian Xiaohao starred in some online dramas and movies about zombies, but the quality was not satisfactory.

Let’s go back to Lin Zhengying.

In 1983, before Lin Zhengying became famous, he had a marriage with Zheng Bingbing, an outsider. After the marriage, the two gave birth to a pair of children. But for some reason, the marriage only lasted five years. It ended in divorce.

A pair of children were left to Lin Zhengying.

Lin Zhengying was only 36 years old that year. After experiencing a failed marriage, Lin Zhengying seemed to have no hope for love anymore. Until 1995, "Pomegranate Sister" Yuan Qiongdan appeared...

At that time, they were like everyone else Like a couple, they do a lot of interesting things together, and even plan to go to the mainland together to develop a second career. Their love can be said to be a good story in the 1990s.

But the good times did not last long. Just when the two were preparing to talk about marriage, Uncle Ying, who had always been in good health, was diagnosed with liver cancer. In order not to drag down his lover Yuan Qiongdan, Uncle Ying hid his illness and "cruelly" proposed to his lover. request to break up.

But despite this, his illness could not be hidden from Yuan Qiongdan. She understood him and knew what Lin Zhengying wanted. After all, he was an actor, and actors always wanted to present their best side to the audience. At the same time, he also loved Yuan Qiongdan. He doesn't want his lover to see his illness and feel sad.

htmlIn the winter of 1959, Uncle Ying passed away quietly amid the reluctance of everyone.

Looking back on Uncle Ying's life, it can be said that he was lucky and ups and downs at the same time - he was lucky in his career and ups and downs in his love. When he was in his 40s, he just met a beauty, but she suddenly passed away.