China News Service, February 22. Chu Yuan (formerly Zhang Baojian), a famous Hong Kong director and actor, passed away on the 21st at the age of 87.
Jackie Chan then posted on Weibo to mourn each other.
Screenshot of Jackie Chan's Weibo
"The memory of working with him on the "Police Story" series is still very clear. Looking back, it has been so many years." Jackie Chan said that director Chu Yuan once said, "Anyone, no matter how beautiful you were yesterday, no matter how frustrated you were yesterday. , When you get up tomorrow, you must be a person and live on, tomorrow is better than yesterday, this is life."
"Our younger generation will always remember your words. May you rest in peace. Good journey." Jackie Chan remembered.
As early as 1956, Chu Yuan devoted himself to the work of film screenwriting, under the pseudonym Qin Yu, alias "Zhang Baozai".
In 1958, he assisted the famous director Qin Jian in the filming of "The Autumn of Crape Myrtle Garden", and in the same year he started filming "Lakeside Grass" as his own director.
In 1973, Chu Yuan adapted the play into a Shaw Brothers comedy "The Seventy-Two Tenants". The film broke the Hong Kong box office record and became the Hong Kong box office champion of that year.
What Chu Yuan is most talked about is the adaptation of Gulong's martial arts novels into a series of martial arts films since 1976, such as "Affectionate Swordsman Ruthless Sword", "Three Young Masters Sword", "Meteor·Butterfly·Sword" and "End of the World·Mingyue·Knife". "Chu Liuxiang" and so on.
He also acted in TV dramas later, the most impressive is the TVB drama "Kara House Enterprise".