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Stephen Chow - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Born June 22, 1962, Hong Kong is a Hong Kong comedian, screenwriter, director and producer.
After graduating from high school in 1982, Stephen enrolled in an acting course on TVB. A year later, he landed the role of host on the children's television show "Space Shuttle 430", which was hosted by Tony Leung. During his six years in this capacity, he developed the comedic style mo lei tau, which is based on absurd phrases and actions, parodies, ambiguities and jokes about aspects of Chinese culture. In the late 1980s, Chow began to appear in many films. His breakthrough on the big screen was the crime thriller Last Justice, in which he won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 1988 Taiwanese Golden Horse Film Festival for his role as a petty rogue.
The late 1980s and early 1990s were very busy for Chow. In 1989, he starred in John Woo's gangster film Just Heroes and played an unlucky fan of the hero Jet Li in the action movie Dragon Fight. Chow played his first major role in the 1990 film Winner, which was a parody of God of the Players starring Chow Yunfat. This film began the collaboration of Stephen Chow with Ng Mangtat, who then played supporting characters in many of Chow's films. In 1991, Chow starred in the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong film history, "Fight Back to School," spawned two sequels and earned Chow a Hong Kong Film Award nomination. This was followed by comedies parodying the classic Chinese martial arts films (Fist of Fury), costumed historical films ("King of the Beggars", "Guardian of the Forbidden City") and Chinese epic ("Chinese Odyssey").
While working on the 1993 film The Mad Monk, Chow, who was trying to tweak the script during filming, had creative differences with director Johnny To. The film flopped at the box office, and Cho decided he needed more control over his films. In 1994, he made his directorial debut in two films at once - "Delivery of Love" and "From China with Love" (a parody of the James Bond films), which were accompanied by great commercial success. Chow later set up his own production company, Star Overseas, which produced three of his films.
In the late 1990s, Chow was credited with triads along with other prominent figures in the Hong Kong film industry. He repeatedly denied these connections, but the charges were enough for Canada to deny Chou a residence permit in 2001 on the basis of his possible connections with criminal gangs.
In the 1990s, along with Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow was one of the highest grossing actors in the Asian market, but his films were almost unknown to Western audiences. The situation began to change in 2001, when his new film, Shaolin Football, was released, the plot of which is based on the participation of traditional Chinese martial artists in the football championship. The film grossed $ 46 million in Asia and earned Chow two Hong Kong Film Awards (for Best Actor and Director). In 2003, Miramax Films acquired the distribution rights for Shaolin Football in the United States. American critics began to write about Chow, and director Quentin Tarantino called him one of the best comedians in cinema.
Chow's next film, a parody of gangster action and martial arts films, Kung Fu Showdown, was released in 2004 and received widespread worldwide distribution for the first time. In total, he grossed more than $ 100 million, was nominated for a British Film Award for Best Foreign Language Film and earned Chow the Golden Horse Award for Directing. Both Shaolin Football and Kung Fu Showdown won the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Film.
In 2008, Chow directed the sci-fi comedy Seventh, about a small alien who came to Earth. In this film, he played a major role for the last time, further focusing on the work of a producer and director. In 2013, Chow's new comedy, Journey to the West: Conquering Demons, was released, based on a classic from Chinese literature. The film set several box office records, earning the best box office gross of any Chinese-language film. Chow's next film, the fantasy comedy Mermaid, released in 2016, was critically acclaimed and set a new box office record for Chinese films, grossing over US $ 500 million worldwide.
