[2024.03.29] YUEN BIAO RECALLS SHAKING IN HIS BOOTS WHEN HE SAW ELDERS EARLY IN HIS CAREER

Chin Kar Lok, Yuen Biao and Andrew Pong attend a film 4K restored edition premiere
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Yuen Biao is working behind the scenes and would leave his on screen career up to fate
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Yuen Biao, Chin Kar Lok, Joe Cheung Tung Cho, Andrew Pong King Fai, Alice Lau Nga Lai and her mother two nights ago attended the film ZU: WARRIORS FROM THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN (SUN SHOOK SHAN GIM HUP)'s 4K digital restored edition premiere. Yuen Biao recalled when he took part in the film he was only 22 or 23, just signed to Golden Harvest as a basic actor when he received the company's nurturing and worked on a movie with a group of big stars like Adam Cheng Siu Chau, Brigitte Lin (Lam Ching Ha) and Damien Lau Chung Yan. Only Mang Hoi, Moon Lee Choi Fung and he were new. However Mang Hoi passed away, he inevitably got a little sentimental. Brother Biao remembered when working on the movie with big stars he really was shaking in his boots. "Back then Sister Ha (Lydia Shum Din Ha), Chau Guoon and Brother Chung were all big stars who were very busy and had no room on their schedule. Chau Guoon had the most scenes. As soon as he arrived on the set when I saw Sister Fei (Shum Din Ha) following him to take care of him, I would get very nervous. Brother Chun was very busy, Yung Sin Yuk had the Japan market and even had a special schedule booked for her to return from Japan for the shoot. I had to be on call 24 hours a day on the set." Brother Biao also revealed that Director Tsui Hark could be considered record breaking while making the film, as he took over the year. At the time when the boss saw them "burning money" he got a headache, but it was that era had made a group of new wave directors including Tsui Hark, Chiang Kwok Ming, Ann Hui On Wa and others.

Brother Biao looked at making movies back then and said every experience was memorable. Every movie was made through a lot of difficulty. He was even fortunate enough to work with Shintaro Katsu, who was very popular at the time. "Few actors were able to work with so many big stars. At the time Golden Harvest strongly pushed me and gave me a lot of opportunities." Now would he still have the acting bug? Brother Biao said that as long as it was suitable and friends would appreciate it, he could accept returning to make movies. Now he is working as a film producer at a Guangzhou production company. "Only after work I would go home and don't like appearing on camera. I don't need to boast how great I am. No matter how great you are you should put it in the movie, viewers would be able to see how serious you are."