Kathy Chow, a leading Hong Kong acting star of the 1990s, has died. She was 57.
The news was carried by Hong Kong’s public broadcaster Rthk and in a Weibo social media posting by Chow mother. She died on Monday from Lupus Erythematosus.
Chow (aka Chow Hoi Mei and Zhou Hai-mei) claimed to be of ethnic Manchu descent. Ashe was Miss Hong Kong pageant participant in 1985 and moved into entertainment as both a singer and actress.
Her early years were attached to Hong Kong’s leading broadcaster Television Broadcasts (Tvb), starring in popular series Time Before Time, Breaking Point and Looking Back in Anger.
Later she switched allegiance and joined rival broadcaster Atv staying with it until 2001, before focusing her attention more fully on new opportunities in mainland China.
In 2008, however, she appeared in Tvb’s sequel to “The Academy” and “On the First Beat.”
She was best known for...
The news was carried by Hong Kong’s public broadcaster Rthk and in a Weibo social media posting by Chow mother. She died on Monday from Lupus Erythematosus.
Chow (aka Chow Hoi Mei and Zhou Hai-mei) claimed to be of ethnic Manchu descent. Ashe was Miss Hong Kong pageant participant in 1985 and moved into entertainment as both a singer and actress.
Her early years were attached to Hong Kong’s leading broadcaster Television Broadcasts (Tvb), starring in popular series Time Before Time, Breaking Point and Looking Back in Anger.
Later she switched allegiance and joined rival broadcaster Atv staying with it until 2001, before focusing her attention more fully on new opportunities in mainland China.
In 2008, however, she appeared in Tvb’s sequel to “The Academy” and “On the First Beat.”
She was best known for...
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Working six years after his impressive action spectacular “Firestorm,” writer-director Alan Yuen hasn’t lost his knack for well-staged mayhem and destruction. But along with co-writers Lei Xu and Kong Yun-cheung, Yuen falls short of the mark when injecting comedy into the mix. that extinguishes suspense and makes it hard for audiences to care about such silly, one-dimensional characters.
Things at least kick off on an exciting note,...
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At the attendance in Beijing, along with Jackie Chan and director Frankie Chan were Cecilia Cheung, Cheng Peipei, Liu Xiaoqing, Kathy Chow and Chen Zihan. Jackie and Frankie have worked on movies together in the past such as Operation Condor, Outlaw Brothers and also Drunken Master 2. You will recognize Frankie manly in the Wing Chun based movie The Prodigal Son.
The action choreographer for the movie is one of my...
Jackie Chan is the producer of the movie and at the premier of the movie he spoke about a certain part he actually wanted to play himself, “It’s a pity I’m a man,” he said, “I really wanted to portray a heroine of the family.”
At the attendance in Beijing, along with Jackie Chan and director Frankie Chan were Cecilia Cheung, Cheng Peipei, Liu Xiaoqing, Kathy Chow and Chen Zihan. Jackie and Frankie have worked on movies together in the past such as Operation Condor, Outlaw Brothers and also Drunken Master 2. You will recognize Frankie manly in the Wing Chun based movie The Prodigal Son.
The action choreographer for the movie is one of my...
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