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On October 14, according to reports in the Hong Kong media,
the radio show hosted by renowned producers Yang Shaohong and Jiang Meiyi recently aired an episode,
which featuring veteran actress Nan Hong and Cantonese opera star Long Guantian.
They talked about the days when they were acting together.
Nan Hong, who barely shows up, is 85 now.
Time has left its mark on her.
The skin on her face was loose and wrinkled, and she was showing her age.
But she was in good spirits, and her face was rosy.
Long Guantian also put on a lot of weight.
In particular, his face has put on a lot of weight.
His hairline receded.
He was almost unrecognizable.
They should be familiar to the ATV audience.
Nan Hong once played a gentle and kind master's wife in "The Good Old Days."
Long Guantian has appeared in "The Pride Of Teochew."
Talking about the feeling of filming "The Good Old Days" Nan Hong laughed and said that the scriptwriter killed her role too early.
But the scriptwriter had no choice.
Because it was only going to be 30 episodes, but it turned out to be over 100.
She also pointed out that many people still remember her character's name.
Speaking of her experience in the industry, Nan said she started work when she was a teenager.
She failed to get into her ideal school at that time, so she went to learn opera from Hong Xiannv.
Her stage name Nan Hong was given by her master.
Later, Nanhong followed Hong Xiannv to make movies and started as an extra.
Recalling this experience, Nanhong said that there was a scene to play Hong Xiannv‘s nanny, actors needed to lie on her master chest and said dialogue.
Most of them were afraid of her master.
But she could cry and finish her lines without a stop.
Even the director thought she was great.
Soon, Nan Hong became popular.
She signed with a film company and worked with Xie Jian, Jialing and so on.
It is worth mentioning that Nan Hong once played The First edition of "The Condor Heroes with Xie Xian."
In the play, Xie Xian plays Yang Guo and Nan Hong plays Xiao Longnv.
Unfortunately, because of its age, few people have seen the film.
When asked if Xie Xian, Hu Feng, and Zhou Cong had ever pursued her, Nan hong said no.
She emphasized that it was no joke.
Xie Xian said very clearly, he does not like people of Nan Hong's type.
And Nan Hong doesn't like his type of people.
And Hu Feng has already married.
Talking about her current husband Chuyuan, Nanhong said she had known him when she was an extra.
At the time, he had just joined the studio as a screenwriter.
They often chatted to each other as they were about the same age.
But they haven't held hands in nine years.
They didn't know what dating is.
Yang Shaohong and Jiang Meiyi could not help laughing after hearing this.
They counldn't believe it and joked that she kept making romantic movies and she didn't know what dating was.
Nan Hong went on to say that they were in love in that nine years, but they treated each other in a good manner.
They were so innocent that they only went to the theater for fun.
Although Nan Hong and Chu Yuan's love was very pure when they were dating,
in 53 years since they were married, they are quite affectionate.
They often attend events together.
"Hold your hand and grow old together," it should be about them.
Chu Yuan is remembered not as a film director but as a veteran supporting actor on TVB.
He played Cheng Feng's father in "Armed Reaction" and a director in "The Legendary Four Aces."
He is often seen in the series as affable and humorous.
Chu Yuan's significance to the Hong Kong film industry is not just a simple creator or artist.
Chu Yuan's own filmmaking experience is almost half of Hong Kong film history.
The direction of Chinese cinema at the time can be measured by the films he directed.
Chu Yuan has a solid foundation in literature and rich genres of films.
Although his heyday as a director came in the 1970s when he was making martial arts films at Shaw Brothers,
when he first got into the business, he was making feature films.
City movies, whose aim is to show Cantonese and Hong Kong life, adapted from sky novels were popular in the 1950s.
Chu Yuan's early representative works, "Grass by the Lake" and "The great devotion" are among the best.
In 1973, "House of 72 Tenants"
which brought together popular stars such as Yue Hua, Jing Li, and Shen Dianxia, which beat Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon"
It becomes the box office champion and one of the most classic Cantonese city love films.
In 1956 he had not yet met his wife, Nan Hong.
At that time, Nanhong was a young actress who made her debut in "The seventh Heaven" with Guangyi Film Company.
Two years later, Chu Yuan directed his first film, "Lake Grass" independently at Guangyi.
Nan Hong is one of the leading ladies.
They met through the film and spent more than half a century together.
In the late 1950s, due to limited funds, Guangyi Film company could not spend as much money as Shaw Brothers to make elaborate costumes or build a studio.
Therefore, they focused on small character comedies.
Huang Zhuohan appreciated Chu Yuan's talent and invited him to join Lingguang.
Chu Yuan shot "The Diary of a Big Man" and "Doomed Love" as expected.
"The Diary of a Big Man“ was reshot in the late 1980s, in which Zhou Runfa, Ye Qianwen and Wang Zuxian starred and directed by Chu Yuan.
It grossed tens of millions at the box office.
At the time, it was a big hit.
In the late 1960s, Cantonese films went from bad to worse.
Chu Yuan joined Cathay Film to make mandarin films.
Later, he joined Shaw Brothers to make martial arts films and his career reached its peak.
In the 1970s, there was a saying that Zhang Che, Chu Yuan and Hu Jinquan were the troika of Hong Kong martial arts films.
But there is a clear difference between Chu Yuan's martial arts films and those of the other two.
Let me make an analogy that's not quite right.
Zhang Che and Hu Jinquan were Jackie Chan or Donnie Yen in Chinese cinema at the time.
They can be identified directly with the labels Kung Fu, martial arts, and masculinity.
Chu Yuan was Ang Lee of today.
He attached more importance to literary drama than to martial arts.
Ang Lee made "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," but he also made "Brokeback Mountain" and "Lust, Caution."
Chu Yuan made Jin Yong and Gu Long's films, but he also made "Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan."
In this period of martial arts films, Chu Yuan's literary foundation once again established recognition for him.
Since the mid-1970s,
Chu Yuan has brought Gu Long's novels as "The Magic Blade" "Chu Liuxiang" " Jade Tiger" "Against the Blade of Honour" and "Sword Master" to the screen.
He made Di Long, Er Dongsheng and many other actors famous.
Gu Long's novels are very difficult to film.
Because his novels are too trivial and too bouncing.
Had his novel's moon descriptions been given to unimaginative directors,
they might have hung a fake moon the size of a pancake in the studio and shot close-ups for a few seconds.
Chu Yuan popularized the gorgeous novels of Gu Long without losing the natural temperament of the original works.
Anyone who has read the novel "The Magic Blade" probably remembers the meaningless questions at the beginning of the novel.
Chu Yuan deleted those questions.
Instead, he let Fu Hongxue to come out of the darkness as he read the poem.
"Some people come home late in the world. People are always sad at night. The world should also be sad."
This sentence was originally written by Chu Yuan, not in Gu Long's novels.
It's not hard to see why he could write "Ignore the issues in the world, laugh and be at ease."
Chu Yuan won the best action director award at the "Asia Pacific Film Festival" in 1979 for his work Murder Plot, which is adapted from Gu Long's "The Swordsman."
The film stars Jiang Dawei and Yu Anan.
After this film, Chu Yuan's career showed signs of slipping.
In the late 1970s, Hong Kong's new wave rose.
Hong Kong films were becoming increasingly diverse in subject matter and genres.
Shaw Brothers' martial arts films took a hit as audiences had more options.
Chu Yuan joined TVB as an actor after making several comedy films in the late 1980s.
Then there were images of white-haired old men with charming simplicity on the screen.
He's been in the film business for the better part of a century, and he hasn't won many awards.
Compared with Li Hanxiang and Hu Jinquan, Chuyuan did not have much luck.
He said in his acceptance speech, "Life has its ups and downs.
Whether you had a good day or a bad day, get up tomorrow and move on. Your luck will be different in different places."
The people he worked with in the 1990s began to become mainstays.
But he did supporting roles on TVB.
In his acceptance speech, he quoted "How the Steel Was Tempered"
"When you look back on the past, you will not regret for a mediocre life, you will not be ashamed for a wasted life."
After the new century, the two old people have lived in retirement.
Nan Hong gradually withdrew from show business.
She spent more time on other interests such as Guzheng,Erhu and painting.
Chu Yuan was also rarely seen in recent years.
He prefers to watch TV, eat and sleep at home.
In 2014, it was rumored on the Internet that Chu Yuan had brain degeneration.
Later, Nanhong clarified her husband's spirit is very good, just do not want to go out and do not want to participate in social gatherings.
He was photographed looking depressed simply because he didn't wear makeup.
He traveled on crutches because he was worried about safety.
Nan Hong and Chu Yuan are the model couple in the entertainment circle.
They lived together for 50 years and had a golden wedding, which was very admirable.
They showed us what true love is.
Wish them good health and a long life.
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