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曹達華
曹達華
Thank you for "Buddhist Palm" and all the black and white wuxia movies. You'd made my childhood afternoon TV worth watching. Looking back, you and your characters looked absolutely ridiculous but I remember how much my childhood classmates and I loved your movies. 曹達華 was an entertainer in the best possible sense of the word.
Yeah, those characters and their mumbo-jumbo or abracadabra bring back a lot of fond memories. I grew up role-playing these characters with my neighbours.
ReplyDeleteI must say you're very well-informed of what happened here in HK, pal.
Like Deliza, you must attend the morning session in your primary school, thus you could watch those B/W moive on TV, for me and my sisters all in the afternoon sessions, we didn't have much chance to watch those B/W movies on TV. After Tsao, who's next ? probably the 80+ Shek Kin, his classic fighting with Bruce Lee, Enter the Dragon DVD, still sold in every parts of the world
ReplyDeleteIt was pure cinematic magic. We all had a good time watching his movies. It was unbelievable how "lemon" passed on his kung fu "Buddhist Palms" by imprinting his palms on the ding thing while dying. You know the ding thing was flying around and all shit. It was totally mesmerizing. And to top it all, the most powerful Palm was imprinted on the inside of the Ding. The whole story was just fucking awesome.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I was the morning kind of pupil. Walking to my village school early in the morning, I think it took me at least 15 or 20 minutes to walk there. Later I rode my bike I think. I rode my bike all the way to secondary school. I did afternoon session once or twice and I remember my mom doing the laundry by hand, using wooden washboard listening to those radio broadcast soap done by a single woman playing all the characters. It's just awesome in a pretty twisted way. I would have my lunch listening to "Siu Sheung" before I went to school ...
ReplyDeleteTaso also played his classic role of "Leung Foon" in the "Wong Fay Hung Series", Leung Foon is the guy also made troubles, his master Wong always shouted at him : "Ah Foon, you made trouble again", very classic statement of Master Wong, very similiar to our respected friend "Lai Foon" now continue to make his troubles in New York, Good morning, Mr Lai Foon
ReplyDeleteWe can talk 10 days and 10 days in a row about Yu Loi Buddha's Palm movies or Cho Tat Wah or Yu So Chau. Yu was so very beautiful back then. I was definitely a secret admirer of hers during my childhood years.
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That one-man-plays-all storyteller on Commercial Radio 1 is Mr Nei Ngo [literally, you me]. Much later he landed a rather significant role portraying a palmist [his assistant was the pretty Miss So] in TVB Jade soap opera or sitcom by the name Hong Kong 87 or something. Still remember the signature black mole on the face of Nei Ngo?
ReplyDeleteI was also fascinated by Cho playing the well-known HK Sherlock Holmes in the B&W Canto-movies. He wore a hat, suit and most importantly, his signature trenchcoat and cracked mysterious crimes for the Royal HK Police. In those days, his rank would have been that of a station sergeant, equivalent to "Mer Jaa" or "Tam Cheung" in Cantonese. But I'm not sure whether his role was indeed called Cho Tam Cheung. He was a star.
Sid
To be more precise, the TV series is "HK 81", then HK82...8X. Also the classic Super Sales or Trader Chan Jack, not Jacky Chan. The rank of "Tam Cheung" should be "Sergeant Major" or you called "Mer Jaa" in Cantonese, which was later replaced by Station Sergeant. I liked the name "Sergeant Major", it's sound more miltary and it's used in some countries
ReplyDeleteI am sure you are right about Nei Ngo, but I also remember a female counterpart by the name of Siu Sheung who does all the characters and narratives on CR1 way back. Does it ring a bell to you guys?
ReplyDeleteYes, it does. After consulting my colleagues, it's been confirmed that Siu Sheung is the wife of Mr Nei Ngo and she also ran a one-woman-plays-all audio soap opera on another radio station in her own right. In a sense, she's a competitor of her husband's. Her talk show was aired in the morning. Perhaps that's the reason why Nei Ngo & Co. decided to take over Siu Sheung & Co. at the end of the day.
ReplyDeleteSid
I knew that many years ago Lee & Siu's son was in prison for a criminal charge. But I didn't know the details. sid may know more
ReplyDeleteI think all those movies were aired in the morning because I watched them all. I went to Ning Xia two years ago because I remembered how Liu Ke Xuan played the king of Xi Xia in those movies. And yes, You and Me is awesome. Also the story of Michael Fung. Those were my happy happy days. I was very poor then, but I was very happy.
ReplyDeleteVincent
Liu Ke Xuan really played with his eyes a lot.
ReplyDeleteYu So Chow spoke the funny Cantonese which I later learned was voiced by another person.