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Cheng Xiaodong

Occupation: Director, Actor, Executive Director, Action Director, Producer and Planning

Region: Hong Kong

Birthplace: Hong Kong

Hong Kong film and television director, martial arts instructor, and screenwriter. Originally from Anhui, born in Hong Kong. His father is Hong Kong martial arts film director Cheng Gang. Graduated from Hong Kong Oriental Drama School. At the age of 17, he was appointed as Longhu martial arts master. His original name is Cheng Donger. A native of Shouxian County, Anhui Province, born in Hong Kong. Graduated from the Hong Kong Oriental Drama School, where he studied Northern martial arts for seven years. Learn Peking Opera and martial arts. At the age of seventeen, he was appointed as the Dragon and Tiger martial artist. At the age of twenty, he worked as a martial arts instructor at a television station. In 1979, he participated in directing the film series "Ma Liu", the movie "14 Heroines", "The Famous Sword", etc. In 1980, he took the opportunity of being the martial arts director of Dangerous Encounter 1 Kind directed by Tsui Hark, and worked on Zu Wanrriors from the Magic Mountain 1983, Peking Opera a Blues 1986, and A Better Tomorrow. 》A Better Tomorrow 1986 and other famous Hong Kong films serve as martial arts instructors.

After 1982, he directed many films. In 1983, he directed "Ducl to the Death" for the first time and became famous. In 1987, he directed "A Chinese Ghost Story", which won the 16th French Science Fiction Film Festival in 1987. The jury received a special win and won the Best Film Award at the Portuguese Science Fiction Film Festival. In 1987, he won the Best Martial Arts Director Award at the 6th Hong Kong Film Awards for the film "Strange Love". He won the Best Martial Arts Director at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards for "Swordsman" in 1991 and "Terracotta Warriors" in 1989. He won the Best Martial Arts Director at the 29th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards for "Dragon Inn" in 1992. Martial Arts Director Award. In 1989, he directed A Terra Cotta Warrior, which won the Paris Fantasy Action Film Award. He was nominated for Best Action Director at the 11th Hong Kong Film Awards in 1991 for "A Chinese Ghost Story III". He was nominated for Best Action Director at the 12th Hong Kong Film Awards in 1992 for three films: "The Deer and the Cauldron II", "New Dragon Inn" and "The Swordsman II: The Undefeated". Because of "Heroic Trio". Nominated for Best Action Director at the 13th Hong Kong Film Awards in 1993.

A popular action director from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, especially in films such as "A Chinese Ghost Story" ⅠⅡⅢ, "The Swordsman" and "The Invincible", which he collaborated with Tsui Hark on. Become a classic.

His design style is elegant and unrestrained, and he is good at handling high-altitude and high-flying movements, so costume films are his specialty. Since he likes to use medium and long lenses to shoot continuous action scenes, he has no knowledge of martial arts at all. Actors are best suited to star in his films. Did you know that in "New Dragon Inn", almost all of Brigitte Lin and Maggie Cheung's action scenes were done by stand-ins, and only a few appearance scenes were done by the actors themselves, but the effect is so Well done, Cheng Zhi’s ability to change his body and change his body is really powerful!

Director's Works

As an actor, films he has filmed:

The Sky in Mong Kok 3: The Ultimate Edge (2000) .... Dongfu

The Deathly Hallows (1990)

Movies that have been produced:

The City of Golden Armor (2006)....Action

The Invincible East Rises Again (1993) .... Director

The Deer and the Cauldron II - The Dragon Sect (1992) .... Screenwriter

Uncle Cai: Sweeping the Thousands of Troops (1991) .... Director

The Way of the World (1990) .... Director

Wind 2 (2005) .... Director

Hero (2002) ....Action Director

The Flying Knife Meets Again (2003) .... Director

The Swordsman 3 (1993) .... Director

The Naked Agent (2002) .... Director

The Ancient and Modern War between Qin Terracotta Warriors (1989) .... Director

The Chinese Gambler (2000) .... Director

Qianlong 3: In the Belly of the Beast (2003) .... Director

Swordsman - The Unbeaten East (1992) .... Director

A Chinese Ghost Story II - The Way of the World (1990) .... Director

The Deer and the Cauldron I (1992) .... Director

Ji Gong (1993) .... Action Director

A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) .... Director

Modern Heroes (1993) .... Director

A Chinese Ghost Story III: Tao Tao Tao ( 1991) .... Director

The King of Adventures (1996) .... Director

The Seven Kingdoms (1994) .... Director

The Seven Kingdoms (1994) .... Screenwriter

A Romance (1985) .... Director

Life and Death (1982) .... Director

Life and Death The Finale (1982) .... Screenwriter

"Moonlight Box" (1994) .... Action

The Invincible East Rises Again (1993) .... .. Planning

The Invincibles of the East Return (1993) .... Action

Super School Bully (1993) .... Action

Destruction The King (1993) .... Action

The Seventh Princess of Martial Arts (1993) .... Action

The Ancient and Modern Battle of Qin Terracotta Warriors (1989) .... Action

The Deer and the Cauldron II-Shenlong Cult (1992) .... Action

Daizi Honglang (1991) .... Action

Uncle Cai: Sweeping Thousands of Troops (1991) ) .... Action

The Way of the World (1990) .... Action

Lucky Star Gongzhao (1990) .... Action

The Bloody Double Hero (1989) .... Action

The Great Sage Marries a Wife (1994) .... Action

Ajin's Story (1995) .... Action

The Three Heroes of the East (1993) .... Action

The Three Heroes of the East (1993) .... Producer

House of Flying Daggers (2004) .... Action

City Hunter (1993) .... Action

Double Dragon Club (1992) .... Action

New Meteor Butterfly Sword (1993). ... Action

Swordsman (1990) .... Action

Seven Diamonds (1994) .... Planning

Heroes of China (2004) ) .... Action

The Best in the World (2005) .... Action

The Best in the World (2005)

The Death Judge (1992) .... Action Design

The Heroic Lady (2001) .... Martial Arts Instruction

Thousand Kings of Rogues (1981) .... Martial Arts Instruction