[20214.12.17] WU MA'S WIDOW THANKS SAMMO HUNG FOR YEARS OF CARING

Wu Ma's widow Wu Yan (right) and daughter Fung Chi Wai (left) attended a memorial screening for Wu Ma

Chin Kar Lok, Sammo Hung and Chin Siu Ho were present to relive Wu Ma's classic film.
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The late director and actor Wu Ma left everyone 10 years ago. The night before yesterday, his widow Ma Yan held a commemorative screening of A CHINESE GHOST STORY (SIN NUI YAU WON), Wu Ma's former friends including Sammo Hung Kam Bo, John Chiang Dai Wai and his wife, Chin Siu Ho, Chin Kar Lok, Yeung Pan Pan and Jade Leung Jung and others were present to remember their old friends.

Wu Ma's daughter Fung Chi Wai also appeared to accompany her mother the night before. She shared her impression of Papa, saying taht when she was little she watched Papa's movie MR. VAMPIRE. She admitted that although she did not spend much time with her father when she was a child, she would visit the set and tried to take the notice for her father. She said that because she was too young at the time, she did not try to run the lines on the script with her father. "I feel he was a great Papa, at work and in life he was very kind and positive. He appreciated him for his spirit of living in and enjoying the moment. So he would always be my role model."

Mrs. Wu Ma said that after her husband's passing, she wore black until this year when she finally changed back to casual clothes. She was particularly grateful to "Big Brother Big" Hung Kam Bo. She said that Wu Ma passed away early in the Lunar New Year, but she was afraid of taboo so she would not pay New Year visits and bother other people. Since Wu Ma's death, he would invite her and her daughter to celebrate the festival together every Lunar New Year and accompanied them through the most difficult moments. Louis Koo Tin Lok, Chin Kar Lok, Chin Siu Ho, Yuen Biao and others have always been concerned about them. She said that film was Wu Ma's lifelong love. She in order to enter his world learned to be a producer. As for whether Wu Ma's daughter was interested in joining the film industry, Mrs. Wu Ma smiled and said that of course she wanted her daughter to inherit the mantle, and she has also obtained the certificate of the relevant courses. However, her daughter said that obtaining the certificate was to fulfill her mother's wish. She was currently satisfied with her baking job and had no intention of entering the film industry for the time being.

Hung Kam Bo joked that actually Mrs. Wu Ma was the one who came to him every year to celebrate the New Year. He said, "It's what I should do. Wu Ma helped me a lot when he was alive. Now I am just contributing a little." Speaking of his good brother in the past, Hung Kam Bo Hung praised Wu Ma's amazing tolerance for drinking. His drinking manner was great and he was very loyal. Hung Kam Bo appreciated the avant-garde thinking of Wu Ma and his ability to live in the moment. Chin Siu Ho and Chin Kar Lok also shared their past with Wu Ma. "The two of us got into the business as teenagers, we didn't turn out bad because we were lucky to have run into Wu Ma."