Rich and famous chow yun fat biography
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Yun-Fat Chow
Biography
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Rich and Famous (1987 film)
This article is about the 1987 Hong Kong film. For other uses, see Rich And Famous (disambiguation).
1987 Hong Kong film
Rich and Famous (Chinese: 江湖情; Jyutping: gong1 wu4 cing4; Cantonese Yale: Gong woo ching) is a 1987 Hong Kong action-crime film directed by Taylor Wong, and starring Chow Yun-fat, Andy Lau, Alex Man, and Alan Tam. The film was concluded by a sequel, Tragic Hero which was also released in 1987. The film is also known as Black Vengeance.[1]
Plot
[edit]In 1967, Yung and his best friend Kwok get into a fight with the local gang running the gambling hall after Yung runs up a large gambling debt. With the help of Yung's sister Wai-chui, another powerful gangster named Lee Ah-chai bails them out and offers them jobs working for him.
Four years later, Kwok and Yung have advanced in Ah-chai's gang and their sister Wai-chui is now Lee Ah-chai's housekeeper.
Ah-chai has been hiding his friend Fan, who has become gravely ill. Fan apparently has crossed the Thailand drug lords and has now stopped any drug shipments to Hong Kong. This draws the ire of the other gangs who demand that Ah-chai kill or turn in Fan. Ah-chai explains that he owes Fan a personal debt and to turn him in would mean dish
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Chow Yun-Fat: The King of Cool
Movie fans all over the world universally agree that Chow Yun-Fat is one of the definitive Asian male leads, right up there alongside western counterparts like Marlon Brando, James Dean and Alain Delon. He captured the look, style and voice of a whole generation and redefined the image of the iconically cool hero. Chow also starred in the classic 'heroic bloodshed' movies that launched the international career of John Woo and peppered the bullet-holes of Hong Kong action forever on the face of cinema.
His acting career started when his application was accepted for an actor trainee course at the famous TVB television station. He subsequently signed a three year contract with the studio and began his acting career appearing in popular soap operas which made him a household name with a domestic TV audience. One of his first major hits was The Bund, a period drama about a gangster in 1930s Shanghai. The series became one of the most popular Hong Kong television series of all time and spawned various sequels and spin-offs, including two feature films and two complete series remakes.
Neverthless, Chow always remained determined to move over to film and had the opportunity to nurture this passion throughout the early 1980s, starring in films like The