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South China Morning Post
30-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
How Legend of the Condor Heroes inspired Hong Kong film director's Brave Archer trilogy
Adapting a novel for the big screen is always a challenge. This is especially true of books by martial arts novelist Louis Cha Leung-yung, better known as Jin Yong. Advertisement Cha's multifaceted, multi-volume works, first serialised in newspapers including Ming Pao, are not only extremely long but have complicated plots involving many characters, scenarios and locations. This is why his books have often been considered more suitable for television adaptations – of which there are numerous examples in Hong Kong and mainland China – as they can be long enough to represent the entire arc of a story. When Cha's works have been successfully adapted for film, these have generally taken a single storyline from a book. A still from The Brave Archer (1977), adapted from a book by Louis Cha. The story in Tsui Hark and Tony Ching Siu-tung 's classic Swordsman II , for instance, is taken from the novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer – but the tale that Tsui tells is based on just 12 pages of the book. Advertisement
South China Morning Post
21-02-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
‘Strong' Hong Kong actress Hui Ying-hung reveals 89 facial stitches from stunts
Published: 6:10pm, 21 Feb 2025 Famous Hong Kong actress, Hui Ying-hung has revealed that she received 89 stitches on her face due to stunt injuries during filming. The news sparked a wave of sympathy online from people who also praised her dedication to her craft. Hui, 65, launched her acting career at the age of 17 in the film The Brave Archer , in which she played the role of Mu Nianci, subsequently earning the title of Hong Kong's 'top female action star'. In 1979, Hui won her first leading role as Cuihong, who worked in a brothel, in the movie Dirty Ho . She was chosen because many other actresses had quit due to the physically demanding scenes, as she had to be punched multiple times without protection. Hui Ying-hung won numerous top awards during her long, and painful acting career. Photo: Baidu Throughout her career, she won numerous awards, including the Best Actress Award at the 1st Hong Kong Film Awards for her role as Cheng Dainan in the film My Young Auntie , directed by Lau Kar-leung.
