Sohu Entertainment News On February 21, according to the news released by Hong Kong media and director Li Lichi on social platforms, on the 21st, the famous director and actor Chu Yuan passed away at the age of 87. Chu Yuan’s representative works include “Seventy-two Tenants”, “Cher”, “Pity the World‘s Parents”, “Meteor Butterfly Sword”, “No. , won the Hong Kong Film Awards Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.
Chu Yuan’s death was widely circulated in the director’s meeting at dusk, and it was later confirmed. A few months ago, Nan Hong talked about Chu Yuan at a public event, saying that her husband was healthy, but in 2012 it was confirmed that he was suffering from dementia. Regarding Chu Yuan’s death, Hu Feng said that he had not received any news.
Chu Yuan, formerly known as Zhang Baojian, was born on October 8, 1934. His father was Cantonese opera actor Zhang Huoyou and his wife was Nan Hong. At that time, he and the directors Li Hanxiang, Hu Jinquan and Zhang Che were hailed as the “Four Great Handsomes”, and they were the originators of Hong Kong martial arts movies. In 1956, under the influence of his father, Chu Yuan devoted himself to the screenwriting of Cantonese films, under the pseudonym Tai Yu, alias “Zhang Baozai”. Two years later, he assisted Qin Jian in filming “Autumn in Ziwei Garden”, and in the same year he started filming “Lakeside Grass” as his own director, successfully becoming one of the directors. In 2018, Chu Yuan was interviewed on the radio. When talking about the stage name “Chu Yuan”, he said that he chose two children from a dictionary and made it up, and actor Feng Cuifan was his disciple.
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