[The Epoch Times, March 30, 2024](Reported by Epoch Times reporter Chung You-chun) Sammo Hung, known as the “Big Brother of Hong Kong Film Industry” and a film actor for more than 60 years, was awarded the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards on March 28 “Lifetime Achievement Award”, the association recognizes his contribution in leading and promoting Hong Kong martial arts action films.
Sammo Hung has been involved in the Hong Kong film industry for more than a decade. As a film producer, director, action director and actor, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the “Asian Film Awards” last year. When accepting the award, he smiled and said that he still hopes to win the award again when he has the opportunity. Movie king. Sammo Hung, who was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Academy Awards, admitted that he has a deep affection for movies and that everything he has now is given by movies.
In 1977, Sammo Hung was recommended by director Huang Feng, one of the founders of “Golden Harvest Films”, and directed and starred in “The Monk of Three Virtues and Chummi Liu” for the first time under his original name. “, making Sammo Hung a unique kung fu comedy star.
Sammo Hung won the Best Actor at the 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards for “Beware of Little Hands”. Six years later, he won the title of Emperor again for his role as a Peking Opera master based on Yu Zhanyuan in “Seven Little Fortunes”. In addition, he serves as an action director for movies, with roles in “The Prodigal Son”, “Ip Man”, “Ip Man 2” and “Sha Po Lang.” “Greed Wolf” won Best Action Design for the fourth time.
Commentators pointed out that Sammo Hung’s unique martial arts style and nimble and agile movements have won the love and appreciation of many audiences. Hong Kong action movies have become popular around the world since the 1980s, and Sammo Hung is indispensable.
Sammo Hung, who is known as the “most flexible fat man”, often filmed movies day and night when he was young. The filming was mainly based on fighting scenes, which left many injuries on his body. The cartilage in the knees of his legs was severely worn. He underwent knee surgery in 2017 and has been using a wheelchair from time to time in recent years.
In an interview, he revealed that he was a “foodie” when he was young. At most, he could eat eight bowls of rice in one meal. Due to being diagnosed with multiple invisible diseases such as diabetes, he suddenly announced in early 2019 that he would work hard to lose weight for the sake of his own health and the love of his family. Later, he lost so much weight that his cheeks were sunken, causing concerns about his health. When faced with the issue of losing weight, he said with a smile in a recent interview: “I was abused by my wife and couldn’t eat too much, so I lost weight.”
Although Hong Kong’s economy is currently in recession and the action movie market is declining, Sammo Hung is still excited when talking about acting, saying that he still has an unfinished movie dream and wants to act in any movie, but he is afraid that no one will ask him to act in it.
Editor in charge: Ye Ziwei
