The 12th Asian Film Awards recently awarded the "Lifetime Achievement Award", with the winners being 64-year-old well-known actor and director Zhang Aijia .
Zhang Aijia Photo: Visual China
debuted in 1973 filming "Dragon and Tiger King Kong". Zhang Aijia has participated in more than 90 movies so far. "A certain year, month, and day" in 1981 was her debut as a director. Later, she directed many movies such as "Favorite", "Yellow Story", "When Awakening", " Girl Xiaoyu ", "20 30 40".
debuted for 45 years, Sylvia Chang became the film worker with the most number of times in the Golden Horse Awards and Hong Kong Film Awards and . He also won the Hong Kong Film Awards three times (two best actors and one screenwriter) and the Golden Horse Awards three times (two best actors and one female supporting role).
Zhang Aijia's works are mostly based on the perspective of women, and compared with Hong Kong action films that emphasize masculinity from the 1980s to the 1990s, they have a bit more delicate and unique to women. Some of her videos about emotional relationships have also become classics in the hearts of movie fans.
"Favorite" (1986)
A pair of good sisters from twenty years ago recalled the past stories together after their husbands passed away.
Good sisters fall in love with a boy together, but there is a difference between coming first and then coming. Bai Yun and Wu Mingyu's fiancé fell in love, but the two failed to get along with each other. Wu Mingyu has always been aware of it and has made secret interference.
Times have changed, and the two of them talked about their mental journey over the years, and the story ended peacefully.
Netizen comments that the word most used when playing Bai Yun is "intellectuality", and it seems that from then on, Chang Aijia has become synonymous with "intellectuality".
In addition, Bai Yun also helped Sylvia Chang win two actresses in the Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Awards, and was shortlisted for the Golden Horse Awards Best Director.
" Heartbeat " (1999)
The wooden box contains several photos of the sky, and the card in the box says: "These are the days when I miss you."
This scene has been a "classic picture" in the hearts of literary and young movie fans for many years, and Sylvia Chang won the Hong Kong Film Awards Best Screenwriter for "Heart Movement".
story tells the love triangle between Gigi Leung , Takeshi Kaneshiro and Karen Mok, Xiao Rou, Hao Jun and Chen Li. The young and ambiguous feelings and poetic expressions in the film are the most touching aspects of the film.
Zhang Aijia and Taiwanese director Dai Liren play the middle-aged Xiao Rouhe Haojun respectively in the film, and the theme song "Heart Movement" written by Lin Xi and composed by Huang Yunling adds color to the film.
"20 30 40" (2004)
Chinese movies tell the life stories of modern women of different ages, "20 30 40" should be an unquestionable classic.
Li Xinjie,Rene Liu and Zhang Aijia play the role of women in their 20s, 30s and 40s in modern Taipei society respectively. The three of them met on a plane. Think about it (Rene Liu)’s choice among her two boyfriends, Lily (Shang Kai-shek) and seemingly have a happy family, but in fact there are many crises, while Xiao Jie is facing an uncertain future...
"20 30 40" conquered many female audiences because it directly hits the dilemma faced by contemporary women of all ages and delicately portrays the psychological conditions of women at different stages.
Some netizens commented, "The confusion at the age of 20 is a song that suffocates the sound, the distress at the age of 30 is a fish that is out of the water, and the despair at the age of 40 is a thread that cannot be untied." And the most wonderful thing about it is that many viewers say "Every time we reach a new stage of life, we will want to relive this movie" .
This film is directed, written and performed by Sylvia Chang. She was also nominated for the Best Actress Award for the Hong Kong Film Awards for this film.
" Niannian " (2015)
In recent years, "Niannian" also focuses on three people and three unexpected adventures.
One of the three is a Taitung tour guide who is busy with life, the other is a painter who always thinks he is not good enough, and the other is a boxer who will always be a junior. The magic version of the experience gives them the opportunity to re-examine their lives, and they are obsessed with it, will there be any resounding response? Sylvia Chang won the Best Screenwriter Award for "Nian Nian".
" Love Blind Dating " (2017)
This recent directorial work by Sylvia Chang is called "upgraded version of "20 30 40" by many movie fans.
However, compared with the past ten years, the three women have spanned three generations, namely the daughter of marriageable age, the mother who is about to retire and the grandmother who lives alone. Family affection and love collide, and the reconciliation of generations has been truly moving and has gained a very high reputation.
Zhang Aijia once said in an interview: "After the age of sixty, my mentality has really become very comfortable. In the past, I hated the discomfort of certain parts of myself. In the past, I was anxious to prove certain things, but I didn't want to show how anxious I was. After the age of sixty, these things are no longer a matter."