Hsu Feng

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Hsu Feng ( Chinese  徐楓  /  徐枫 , Pinyin Xu Feng ; * 1950 in Taipei ) is a Taiwanese actress , film producer and entrepreneur . She was one of the most famous actresses in Hong Kong and Taiwan cinema in the 1970s . After ending her acting career in 1981, she later became a successful producer. Her work as a producer has received several awards, including a Golden Horse Award (1990) and a British Academy Film Award (1994).

Childhood and youth

Hsu Feng was born in Taiwan in 1950 as the first child of her parents. Her father was originally from Fujian and her mother from Manchuria . After her father died when she was only 6 years old, her mother remarried and had 3 more children. The family was poor and, as the eldest daughter, Hsu Feng felt a responsibility to help support the family from an early age. When she read an advertisement for an actor's agency in a newspaper, she applied at the age of 15 and later got a supporting role in King Hu's film Die Herberge zum Drachentor (1967).

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Two years later, at the age of 19, she got a leading role in the classic film A Touch of Zen , again directed by King Hu. In this film she plays the general's daughter Yang, who, after the murder of her father, flees to the provinces by the captors of the imperial eunuch and is tracked down by them again. The film has had a lasting influence on the wuxia genre and is considered the masterpiece of King Hu. The American film critic Richard Corliss ( Time ) later wrote about Hsu Feng's portrayal of the general daughter Yang that she remains the most important and gorgeous portrayal of a female warrior on screen ("she remains the screen's gravest, most ravishing woman warrior") Hsu Fengs her own attitude towards films was fundamentally changed through her participation in A Touch of Zen . At first she saw films as purely commercial products, but after she visited the Cannes Film Festival to present the film there with director King Hu, she began to see films as an art form.

She became a cast member of King Hu over the next decade, for whom she again took on the role of swordsman in the films The Last Battle of Lee Khan , The Brave, and Rain in the Mountains . She received a 1979 Golden Horse Awards nomination for best actress for her role in the ghost story Legend of the Mountain , also directed by King Hus.

In addition to her collaboration with King Hu, she appeared in over 40 other films, in which she often played a swordsman. For her portrayals in Assassin (1976) and The Pioneers (1980) she was honored with a Golden Horse Award for best actress.

At the beginning of the 1980s she retired as an actress from the film business and instead began a career as a producer from the mid-1980s. With the Tomson Film Company she founded her own production company with which she specialized in the production of artistically demanding film projects. Films she has produced include Red Dust (1990), Five Girls and a Rope (1992), Lebewohl, Meine Konkubine (1993), Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker (1994) and Temptress Moon (1996). For Red Dust , she received a Golden Horse Award for best film. The two multiple award-winning international successes Lebewohl, Meine Konkubine and Temptress Moon were both directed by Chen Kaige . For Farewell My Concubine Hsu Feng received the BAFTA award, in addition, the film also was Golden Palm and a Golden Globe and was nominated for a César and an Oscar .

Hsu Feng was a member of the jury for the 1994 Berlinale and the 2004 Venice Film Festival . In 2017 she received a Golden Horse Award for her life's work.

In addition to her work as an actress and producer, Hsu Feng was also active outside the film industry in her husband's company, for example, in Shanghai she managed the construction of the luxury complex Tomson Shanghai International Club . After her husband died in 2004, she took over the management of the company and stopped working as a producer.

Private

In 1976 she married entrepreneur David Tong Cunlin, whose family is from Shanghai. She has two sons with him and currently (1998) lives with her family in Shanghai.

Filmography (selection)

actor

  • 1967: The hostel to the Dragon Gate (龍門 客棧)
  • 1969: City Called Dragon
  • 1971: The Invincible Sword
  • 1971: A touch of Zen (俠女)
  • 1973: White Butterfly Killer
  • 1973: Win Them All
  • 1973: End of the Black
  • 1973: Lee Khan's last fight
  • 1973: My Wife, My Love And My Maid
  • 1974: First Come, First Love
  • 1974: The Looks of Hong Kong
  • 1974: Dragon Fury
  • 1974: Chase Step by Step
  • 1974: Sex, Love and Hate
  • 1974: Everlasting Glory
  • 1975: Chinese Amazons
  • 1975: Dragon Gate
  • 1975: Great Hunter
  • 1975: Shaolin Disciples
  • 1975: Eight Hundred Heroes
  • 1975: The brave
  • 1976: A Saturday Date
  • 1976: Assassin
  • 1976: Seven Spirit Pagoda
  • 1976: Shaolin Kung Fu Mystagogue
  • 1976: A Residence in the Mountains
  • 1977: Pai Yu-Ching
  • 1977: The Chivalry, the Gunman and Killer
  • 1977: The Greatest Plot
  • 1977: The Face Behind the Mask
  • 1977: Woman of the Hour
  • 1977: Deadly Silver Spear
  • 1977: To Kill with Intrigue
  • 1977: Shaolin Kung-Fu - The Yellow Tiger
  • 1979: The Battle of Guningtou
  • 1979: rain in the mountains
  • 1979: Legend of the Mountain
  • 1980: Mr. Kwong Tung and the Robber
  • 1980: Magnificent 72
  • 1980: The Lost Kung Fu Secrets
  • 1980: The Revenger
  • 1980: Eight Escorts
  • 1980: The Pioneers
  • 1981: The Last Duel

producer

  • 1976: A Residence in the Mountains
  • 1985: Funny Face
  • 1985: The Young and Old Wanderers
  • 1986: Young Dragons - Kung Fu Kids II
  • 1986: The Woman of Wrath
  • 1986: Young Dragons - Kung Fu Kids
  • 1986: Spring Outside of the Fence
  • 1987: The Game They Called Sex
  • 1988: Kung Fu Kids Part V: The Adventure of Kung Fu Kids
  • 1988: My Dream Is Yours
  • 1989: Kung Fu Kids Part VI: Enter the Young Dragon
  • 1990: Red Dust
  • 1992: Five Girls and a Rope
  • 1992: Let Me Speak Up
  • 1993: Farewell, my concubine
  • 1996: Temptress Moon
  • 2004: Shanghai Story

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Joan Dupont: For Hsu Feng, Films of Her Homeland Are a Passion: Tribute to a Chinese Producer. In: New York Times . May 23, 1998.
  2. ↑ Richard Corliss: A Touch of Zen - The 100 best films of all time based on a selection by Time Magazine
  3. ↑ Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Clara Wing-chung Ho: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women. Volume 2, ME Sharpe, 2003, ISBN 0-7656-0798-0 , pp. 231-233. ( Excerpt in the Google book search)
  4. ↑ Christie Chen: Actress-producer Hsu Feng to receive Golden Horse lifetime award . Focus Taiwan, August 1, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Hsu, Feng
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Xu, Feng (pinyin); 徐楓 (Chinese - traditional character); 徐枫 (Chinese - abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Taiwanese actress, producer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Taipei , Taiwan