Who is Er Dongsheng?

Er Dongsheng

English name: Derek Tung-Shing Yee, Tung-Sheng Erh

nickname: Xiaobao

Birthday : 1957.12.18

Height: 180cm (please do not modify the actual height)

Shaw Brothers ceased production in 1985, and Er Dongsheng returned to free agency, although he was still 28 years old at the time. Continuously, he was immediately invited to Taiwan with a huge sum of money to film the martial arts series "Flying Swallows Startled the Dragon". However, he believed that as an actor, he could not control his own development direction and could only passively wait for the role that suited him, so he decided to transform. In 1986, he completed his directorial debut "The Story of a Mad Man".

"The Story of a Mental Illness" takes the social problems of mental patients as its theme. It caused controversy at the time and was unable to be released for a time. However, the social problems exposed in it are shocking, and its script and rhythm control and other film skills have also been praised. It was selected into the top ten Chinese films in 1986, and won the best film, best director and best screenwriter at the 6th Hong Kong Film Awards. Nominated for this film, Qin Pei also won the Golden Statue and Golden Horse Supporting Actor Awards. The film grossed nearly RMB 10 million at the box office in Hong Kong, making it the highest-grossing film of its kind.

Between 1986 and 1992, Ye Dongsheng gradually shifted his focus behind the scenes. In addition to launching two directorial works "People's Heroes" and "Goodbye Wang Laowu" in 1987 and 1988 respectively, he also contributed to "Double Dragon Spitting Pearls". " served as cinematographer for seven films including " During this period, Er Dongsheng only starred in a few movies sporadically, such as "Chinese Warrior", "Kawashima Yoshiko", "Destroy Two Heroes", "Painted Soul", etc., as well as Taiwanese TV series "The Woman in the Tower" and "Empress Da Yu'er". The performances are mostly guest appearances.