Television host Cao Kefan revealed on his Weibo account that Hsia Meng has passed away in Hong Kong at the age of 83. Heralded as a Great Beauty of Chinese cinema in the Fifties, Hsia Meng starred in many films such as The Peerless Beauty, A Widow’s Tears and A Torn Lily.
Born Yang Meng in Shanghai, Hsia Meng began her career at the age of 18 in 1951 in her first film A Nighttime Wife and that led to instant stardom for the beautiful starlet.
She was the longtime muse for acclaimed martial arts novelist Jin Yong (aka Louis Cha) and it was widely rumored that he was also in love with her for a long time. However, his love was unrequited as she married businessman Lin Baocheng when she was 21 years old. They remained friends and Cha even attended the funeral for Hsia’s husband when he passed away in...
Born Yang Meng in Shanghai, Hsia Meng began her career at the age of 18 in 1951 in her first film A Nighttime Wife and that led to instant stardom for the beautiful starlet.
She was the longtime muse for acclaimed martial arts novelist Jin Yong (aka Louis Cha) and it was widely rumored that he was also in love with her for a long time. However, his love was unrequited as she married businessman Lin Baocheng when she was 21 years old. They remained friends and Cha even attended the funeral for Hsia’s husband when he passed away in...
- 11/8/2016
- by Pamela Koh
- AsianMoviePulse
Chinese director Chen Kaige talks to Liz Shackleton about balancing commercial and creative concerns in the world’s fastest-growing film market.
Chen Kaige, who won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1993 for Farewell My Concubine, tackles the martial arts genre for the first time in Monk Comes Down The Mountain, which Sony co-produced with local production houses New Classics Media Corp and Beijing 21st Century Shengkai Film.
Based on a novel by martial arts writer-director Xu Haofeng, the film stars Wang Baoqiang (Lost In Thailand) as a Taoist monk who is forced to leave his temple and live in the big city, where he meets a series of ‘masters’, some well-meaning, some evil, as he attempts to figure out his role in the real world.
Aaron Kwok and Chang Chen play two of the martial arts teachers he encounters, while Lin Chiling plays the cheating wife of his first benefactor.
While the underlying...
Chen Kaige, who won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1993 for Farewell My Concubine, tackles the martial arts genre for the first time in Monk Comes Down The Mountain, which Sony co-produced with local production houses New Classics Media Corp and Beijing 21st Century Shengkai Film.
Based on a novel by martial arts writer-director Xu Haofeng, the film stars Wang Baoqiang (Lost In Thailand) as a Taoist monk who is forced to leave his temple and live in the big city, where he meets a series of ‘masters’, some well-meaning, some evil, as he attempts to figure out his role in the real world.
Aaron Kwok and Chang Chen play two of the martial arts teachers he encounters, while Lin Chiling plays the cheating wife of his first benefactor.
While the underlying...
- 7/13/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
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