In the early 60's, Xiang Huaqiang, who was in middle school, and his half-brother Xiang Huasheng were arrested for burglary. The brothers had an idea to find a classmate who owed them a favor to take the blame, and eventually got out of trouble.
This experience allows the brothers to understand the truth: out of the mixed rivers and lakes, "debt of gratitude" is a good tool.
This sharp weapon, for the brothers to do star business later opened up the way, swept half of the Hong Kong entertainment circle, "hit" by Jet Li, Andy Lau, Stephen Chow, Carina Lau, Cecilia Cheung, Anita Mui, and so on.
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Xiang Huaqiang was born in 1948, and his younger brother, Xiang Huasheng, is two years younger than him. The brothers' father was a major general in the Kuomintang's military organization and the founder of Hong Kong's triad gang "New Justice": Qian Qian.
At that time, the former was known as Hong Kong's "Emperor of Kowloon", the power of the hands of the sky, life is extremely luxurious, married four wives, 13 children to even remember the name.
The big drama of the rich family to fight for favor is not uncommon, gave birth to Xiang Huaqiang is the third house wife, due to the character of cowardice, failed to effectively unlock the correct posture of the fight for favor, resulting in the son of Xiang Huaqiang's life, lived more than the other children of the room to be much more bitter.
In 1953, when he was less than five years old, the former was expelled by the British Hong Kong government for being involved in the "black" reason, and moved to Taiwan, his base in Hong Kong, which was left to his eldest son, Xiang Huayan.
The tenth Xiang Huaqiang, hair did not get one, the family was forced to move to the then poor district of "Kowloon City", the days are overstretched, Xiang Huaqiang when he went to school, even a new book are not, so later did a little bit of stealing things, it is not surprising.
The story is about the death of a young man, a young woman who was born to a family of two, and the death of his mother, a woman who was born to a family of two, and a woman who was born to a family of two.
This depressing period of time has become a nightmare in Xiang Huaqiang's memory, and in his own words, his childhood was a "miserable world".
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The resentment of the Xiang Huaqiang, trying to clear his relationship with the other rooms of the Xiang family, but also avoided the outside world to mention the background of his gangster family. The only thing that he does is to sympathize with his younger brother, Xiang Huasheng, who has been left out in the cold, and to interact closely with him.
Eager to change the status quo, Xiang Huaqiang, while touching the walls of Kowloon Tong, dreaming of living in such a rich district, while trying to climb upward, looking forward to their own early success.
However, the dream at that time, did not shine into reality.
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Xiang Huaqiang, graduated from high school, all of a sudden broke two dreams, one is the "dream of studying in the U.S.", broken in the straitened economy. One is the childhood favorite "police dream", broken in his origin.
In desperation, Xiang Huaqiang pulled his younger brother Xiang Huasheng dry up a small restaurant business, but after a few years, not smooth. The brothers later took aim at the rising Taiwanese economy and planned to defect to their father in Taiwan to find a business opportunity.
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In 1970, the 22-year-old Xiang Huaqiang arrived in Taiwan, found that his 63-year-old father was old and confused, and could not be counted on at all, but both came to peace of mind, only to temporarily stay in Taiwan, looking around for a way to get rich.
Xiang Huaqiang, who was bent on doing business, inadvertently opened another window of heaven.
One day in 1973, the Xiang brothers and their friends were having tea at a teahouse when the white, clean Xiang Huaqiang caught the attention of a Taiwanese talent scout who invited him to act in a movie.
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Encouraged by his friends, the 25-year-old Xiang Huaqiang took the road to the movies by mistake.
Xiang debuted at a time when kung fu movies were in full swing, thanks to the influence of Bruce Lee. He was originally trained in martial arts to deal with his alcoholic uncle, which also gave him "wings", and was basically the lead actor in every movie.
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However, the Mandarin bad, bad acting Xiang Huaqiang, acting is very painful, but the co-star of the actresses interested in the movie "Irony", on the sexy, beautiful, a year older than their own Ding Pei secret feelings.
At that time, Ding Pei was in the dark period of his life, because Bruce Lee and his extramarital affair, and died violently in her bed, full of public scorn, the spirit of a collapse.
So, the "24K warm man" Xiang Huaqiang on the line, with a cavity of deep love, saddle the warmth of Ding Pei, and ultimately impressed the heart of the success of the beauty of the return.
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In 1976, 28-year-old Xiang Huaqiang and 29-year-old Ding Pei entered into marriage, two years later, Ding Pei gave birth to a daughter to eternal.
The seemingly happy family of three, in fact, at this time, there has been a crack.
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Xiang Huaqiang and Ding Pei married this year, jumped at the chance to direct and act in two movies, the results of the box office failed miserably, the borrowed money have hit the water.
The debt of Xiang Huaqiang is very disillusioned, but his wife Ding Pei after marriage to the Buddha, his career does not help, at this time the emergence of Chen Lan, Xiang Huaqiang injected a dose of stimulus.
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Chen Lan, formerly known as Chen Mingying, was 11 years younger than Xiang Huaqiang, and was under 18 when she met him.
Chen Lan was 11 years younger than Keung, and she was under 18 when she met him.
Chen Lan, who has a strong personality and is very capable of handling things well, made Keung realize that she had a "helping factor". She also said that Xiang Huaqiang was the only man who made her heart flutter.
So, the two hit it off and married in 1984.
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Perhaps grateful for Ding Pei's fulfillment, the two made a promise to take care of Ding Pei's mother and daughter for the rest of their lives. After the divorce, Ding Pei and Xiang Huaqiang's family still maintain a good family-like relationship.
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In 1984, at the age of 25, Chen Lan gave birth to her first son, Xiang Zuo, and later had another son, Xiang You.
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The Xiangs joined forces to open up the world, with Xiang continuing to act and Chen Lan working in the garment trade in the hope of making her first bucket of money before returning to the movie business.
In 1987, after the capital Xiang Huaqiang couple, combined with his younger brother Xiang Huasheng, founded the "Wing Shing Film Company". The two brothers were responsible for internal decision-making, while Mrs. Chen was responsible for external dealings.
However, when the company opened, the actors invited refused to come, fearing that they would be owed money, and even more so, that they would be in trouble with the mob.
It seems that having money doesn't always make things happen, and from then on, Xiang began to do "favor business", making contacts in the celebrity world.
Of course, the release of the "human debt" will not return, have the ability to return, it involves "risk investment" vision.
And Xiang's in this regard, a unique vision.
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In 1987, 19-year-old Zhang Min was on the street handing out flyers for the "Miss Asia" beauty pageant, and was passed by the Xiangtai Mrs. Chen Lan at once, and discovered into the circle.
Soon after, Zhang Min and the then-married Xiang Huasheng fell in love, and became Wing Shing's "own people", Wing Shing invested in the opening of the theater to support Zhang Min, the cooperation is very happy.
In the first year of its existence, Wing Shing produced a movie called "The Girl Chaser", starring Chow Yun-Fat in the lead role in "Heroes of the Rainbow".
The unknown Zhang Min also played an important role in the movie because of her connection to the family.
But the film, by director Wong Jing, who makes money as a hobby, was made into a nonsensical film that was considered unprofitable by theaters, and had to be shown only at midnight, and, as a result, it unexpectedly gained a high box office and became one of the top ten best-selling films of the year in Hong Kong.
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The film, which inadvertently created the comedy genre of "chasing girls", achieved an entire series, and was later hailed as a "Hong Kong comedy classic". "
The movie is the first of its kind in Hong Kong.
Since then, the leading ladies of Wing Shing's movies have often been Zhang Min and Yau Suk-ching, one being the girlfriend of the boss, Xiang Huasheng, and the other being the girlfriend of the director, Wong Jing.
In 1989, at the age of 28, after being "unfrozen" by TVB and doing a few movies, Lau turned his focus to the movie industry, and was recruited by Xiang to star in the movie God of Gamblers, directed by Wong Jing, along with Chow Yun-Fat, Mandy Cheung and Joey Wong.
Confessedly do not like the shooting of the Xiang Huaqiang, but also in the film cameo a meticulous bodyguard "Dragon 5", the results of the unintentional, accidental popularity, become his most representative role since the movie, and then played the role of many times!
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The God of Gamblers was released in the Southeast Asian box office record, set off a Hong Kong gambling movie boom, "Wing Shing" earned a lot of money, and became a Hong Kong film jianghu rise of the new forces. And Andy Lau's one "entrepreneurial ambition", also began to move.
In 1991, at the age of 30, Andy Lau, by virtue of his own accumulated popularity and reputation, set up the "canopy film and television production company", when the boss.
"Sky Screen" started shooting the first play "Nine One", gathered Anita Mui, Aaron Kwok, Carina Lau and other stars, the film plot is also quite popular at the time of the action movie, written by Wong Kar-wai as a screenwriter, and ultimately a hit at the box office and the audience edge of the double harvest.
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Confidence doubled Andy Lau, and then again, pulling off a luxury production, but a few consecutive films are very poor box office, and some even the cost can not be recovered. 5 years, Andy Lau lost 40 million.
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The boss did not do a good job of Andy Lau, only through the madness of receiving the film to pay off the debt, and even have to grovel around to find people to borrow money.
At this point, has been under the banner of the "China Star Entertainment Group" operation into a listed company of the Xiang's Mr. and Mrs. heard, without saying a word to send the money to Andy Lau in front of, and even a loan note did not ask him to write.
Andy Lau was touched, from then on to join the camp of the Xiang's, to become the mouth of Mrs. Xiang's "own people", Andy Lau also declared: Xiang Huaqiang is the best boss in my life.
During the same period, a kung fu superstar, also due to a sensational Hong Kong events and into the quagmire.
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In 1992, at the age of 29, Jet Li, whose contract with Golden Harvest was due to expire, refused to pay the balance because he hadn't made the full number of films agreed upon in the original contract.
In protest, Jet Li went on strike to shoot half of the movie, "Wong Fei Hung's Men of Honor", which caused a huge uproar.
Later, the "ruthless" Cai Ziming intervened, smoothing out the dispute for Jet Li and securing a higher salary, becoming Jet Li's "protector" agent.
Cai Ziming for Jet Li tailor-made "New Dragon Inn", and is ready to use this film to enter the international market, but also about the female lead candidate Michelle Yeoh, together with dinner to talk about cooperation.
As a result, the day after the meal, Tsai Tzu-ming was shot outside the company and killed on the spot.
Jet Li, who has lost his "protector", is a weakling, and has been forced to take revenge on some of the mobsters he has offended before, and has been forced to shoot.
Xiangtai Chen Lan saw the situation, with the help of the police force, 24-hour protection of Jet Li's personal safety, successfully released the "debt of mankind".
Later, Jet Li and Wing Shing collaborated to shoot "Wong Fei Hung's Iron Chicken Fighting Centipede", "Legend of the Dragon Slayer's Demon Teacher" and many other films, the two sides of the friendship, to the mansion of the family is still prepared to a suite, reserved for Jet Li to live in Hong Kong.
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Reputation Dinglong Jet Li, is a "golden character" money tree, this favor, the future is long.
The eight-faceted Xiang's, not only can skillfully "with the help of" the police force, but also easy to level the "gangster" claws.
Also in 1992, at the age of 29, Anita Mui and a group of friends gathered in a bar, where she met Wong Long Wai, the head of the 14K gang.
During the meeting, Huang Langwei in front of the brothers to show face, out of millions of checks to ask Mui singing, was rejected on the spot, so the two sides had a verbal altercation, Huang Langwei in a fit of pique slapped Anita Mui.
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Anita Mui called Mrs. Xiang in tears, saying she was being beaten up, so Mrs. Xiang stepped in to back up Mui, smoothing out the mob entanglements, and leaving the suspense for the tragic death of Wong Long Wai later.
If Lau Ka Ling suffered a kidnapping, help to Mrs. Xiang, I do not know whether it will also stir up a "shocking incident" big sequel.
However, after the incident, Mrs. Lau was also very attentive to her.
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In 1995, after the "kidnapping door", Liu Chia-ling's popularity plummeted, and she fell into the dark period of no drama to shoot.
In 1995, after the "kidnapping", Lau Ka Ling's popularity dropped drastically and she fell into a dark period.
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And it's quite telling that Stephen Chow, who has always been a man of few favors, is so sold on Xiang's favor.
In the early 90s, Stephen Chow's no-nonsense acting style rose to prominence, and he couldn't help that TVB's pay was too low, so Mrs. Xiang dug Chow up to Wing Shing, and together they co-produced a number of classic films such as Gambler's Warrior, The Complete Expert, and Escape from the Dragon, and Chow's pay went up from $60,000 to $15 million.
So later, when mainland moviegoers clamored that they owed Stephen Chow a movie ticket, Mrs. Xiang sprayed back, "Moviegoers don't owe Stephen Chow a movie ticket because he's paid enough for his movies!"
However, when Mrs. Xiang spewed these words back to Stephen Chow, the two had already torn their faces.
The incident stems from a 2014 article "Why are so many people blacking out Stephen Chow", which mentions that due to Xiang Huaqiang's mob background, Stephen Chow, who worked with him, was labeled as "filming money laundering" suspect, and had two applications to immigrate to Canada were rejected.
More than 50,000 words long article, attracted to the Xiang Mrs. Chen Lan indignation, suspect that this is Stephen Chow behind the instruction of others to write a "whitewash article". So many microblogging reprimanded Stephen Chow's "crime" and asked him to clarify what he said in the article is not true.
However, Stephen Chow did not respond with any words, but triggered a public outcry, and fans from both sides opened a war of words online, and many celebrities in the circle also joined the war.
Xiang's previous release of the "debt of gratitude", but also at this time played a great role. Wang Jing, Johnnie To, Lau Wai Keung and others took the opportunity to express their dissatisfaction and strongly criticized Stephen Chow. Lau Ching Wan, Cheung Ka Fai, Yam Tat Wah and others also said that they are not familiar with Stephen Chow, and Xiang is a good person.
The solidarity of Mrs. Xiang is even more angry words, bluntly said Stephen Chow "too heartless, ungrateful", she also blasted Stephen Chow 5 major crimes, even "King of Comedy" debut of the "Star Lady "Cecilia Cheung, also reduced to too much bombardment of Stephen Chow's a" grenade "
Cecilia Cheung, also reduced to too much bombardment of Stephen Chow's a "grenade".
The reason why Cecilia Cheung is so, from the time of her debut, Mrs. Xiang had stepped in to help her smooth out a gangster "kill order".
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Time back to 1999, 19-year-old Cecilia Zhang with the "King of Comedy", "Star Wish", became the Hong Kong circle of the emergence of the red newcomers.
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Cecilia Cheung, a weak woman, just started out and has not been on the side of what power backing, the only way to help Mrs. Xiang. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world, and you'll be able to do that with the help of your own personal computer. So immediately step in, casting a peach, the level of "rape and murder order".
By the favor of Cecilia Cheung, to return the favor to Li, and put himself into the Wing Sheng this umbrella, Xiangtai wish to become Cecilia Cheung's agent.
Perhaps it was a love affair, and Mrs. Xiang became Cecilia's "guardian angel". In 2001, Cecilia was forced by Stephen Chow to shave her head to shoot "Shaolin Soccer" when she stepped forward, to resist his own strength, Stephen Chow stretched out the hand of shaving the head.
Mrs. Xiang also in 2003, "Feng Zhi love" collapse, Cecilia Zhang self-loathing, career hit rock bottom, made the appearance of the calf scolded Nicholas Tse, and help Cecilia Zhang to "big man has great wisdom" and "can not be forgotten" of the film contract, to save Cecilia Zhang's career.
In 2004, at the age of 24, Cecilia won the "Queen of the Golden Film Awards" for her film "Unforgettable", and her career was revitalized.
However, at this time, the Hong Kong film market has shrunk considerably, the Xiang's couple saw the feast to the downturn, had to find another way to make money, in 2005, quit the film industry.
Perhaps it is the people who are cold, Cecilia Zhang and the couple's "debt of gratitude", there is also a "small account book" in the counting of the number of it, the results of the counting of the counting of the problem.
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Seeing the rise of the mainland market, the Xiang's couple gave up the film industry for ten years, in 2015, with a huge amount of money to return, ready to do something in the mainland film industry.
So, the fantasy mythological movie "Legend of the Sealed God" entered the preparatory period, and the Xiangs' eyeballs turned to Jet Li, Louis Koo, Fan Bingbing, Tony Leung Ka Fai, and Mr. and Mrs. AB to circle in and serve as the green leaf for their 31-year-old son, Xiang Zuo.
The stars of the show are bright, but most of them are harvested as "favors". In addition to "old friends" Jet Li, "godson" Huang Xiaoming, Cecilia Zhang's "debt of gratitude" was also harvested at the right time.
Mrs. Xiang found Cecilia Zhang, let her reverse play "Nezha", and said the role has a little bit of Lin Chingxia playing the feeling of the East, is Cecilia Zhang's opportunity to turn around.
Cecilia, who was upset about Nicholas Tse's reunion with Faye Wong, was impressed by Mrs. Xiang and decided to play the role.
However, not long after the film started shooting, Xiang Huaqiang in Hong Kong during an interview with the media, loud words on Cecilia Cheung "never hired", he denounced Cecilia Cheung missed the appointment to shoot, neuroticism has intensified, and the death of the unchanging nature.
The incident caused an uproar, the 35-year-old Cecilia Cheung was chased by the media, had to protect his position that he does not receive pay, should be treated with special courtesy, the result was cold, so the melon masses have been attributed to the "zero pay".
Xiang too Chen Lan saw the situation, immediately responded, said he sent 2.11 million Hong Kong dollars "work red packet" to Cecilia Zhang, the equivalent of her pay ........ The first time I saw this, I was able to get the money to pay for it, and I was able to get the money to pay for it, and I was able to get the money to pay for it.
This tearing battle between the two sides to tear the face, years of accumulation of "human debt" is also a write-off.
But the Xiang's entrenched in the circle for many years, once issued a "favor card" enough to put together a deck. In particular, some talented directors encountered adversity, to the couple never "short hand".
Johnnie To had been in the doldrums for several years, debt, to the couple to help him pay off his debts, but also invested in his turning point film "Tasteless Detective", opened a new era of To's films.
The film's star, Lau Ching Wan, has become a favorite of Johnnie To's, and the two have become "golden partners in film and television", and even more so in the camp of the Mr. and Mrs. To's.
This is the first time that a movie has been released in the United States, and it is the first time that a movie has been released in the United States.
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The Xiang's couple, who said they started from scratch, are half of the Hong Kong community, and the couple works well together. The couple is a good match, and they are very flexible in their approach. Xiang Huaqiang also as early as in the eighties on the promise of Chen Lan, to be a scandal-free film company boss. But long walk in the river, which can not wet shoes, in the baptism of the years, to the boss is still left in a shame, the rivers and lakes of a variety of hot and spicy legends have, as for the truth or falsehood, that is not known.
Xiangtai Chen Lan read all the entertainment circle floating, counting all the benefits, since it is to understand this inextricably linked. Her attitude in front of the media to prove her husband's innocence is very firm, and the good people are also very willing to believe that the feelings of the two is the only one.
However, the green sky, rolling red dust, in the hearts of the people who eat melon, there is a ruler to distinguish right from wrong!