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In this Hong Kong name, the surname is Chow. In accordance with Hong Kong custom, the Western-style name is Stephen and the Chinese-style name is Sing-chi.
Stephen Chow
周星馳
Chow in 2008
Born
Stephen Chow Sing-chi

(1962-06-22) 22 June 1962 (age 62)
British Hong Kong
Occupation(s)Director, actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer
Years activeAs a director:
1994–present
As an actor:
1982–2008
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese周星馳
Simplified Chinese周星驰
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhōu Xīngchí
Bopomofoㄓㄡ ㄒㄧㄥ ㄔˊ
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationJāu Sīng-chìh
JyutpingZau1 Sing1-ci4
IPA[tsɐ́u séŋ.tsʰȉ]

Stephen Chow Sing-chi[1] (Chinese: 周星馳; born 22 June 1962) is a Hong Kong filmmaker,[2] former actor and comedian,[3] known for his Mo lei tau style, comic timing and stunts.

After appearing in many Hong Kong television series, Chow's first major breakthrough was the 1989 comedy series The Final Combat. He then starred in the 1991 action comedy film Fight Back to School, which became one of the highest-grossing film of all-time in Hong Kong.[4] He later reprised his role in its sequels. In 1994, he made his directorial debut with From Beijing with Love.

In 2001, Chow directed and starred in the sports comedy film Shaolin Soccer, which had a successful worldwide theatrical run and brought Chow into the North American mainstream, this commercial success was followed by the 2004 martial arts action comedy Kung Fu Hustle. The film received positive reviews and grossed over US$106 million worldwide, making it one of the highest-grossing foreign-language films in the United States. Chow's final film acting performance, before he became a fulltime filmmaker, was in the 2008 science fiction comedy CJ7.

Early life and education

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Stephen Chow was born in Hong Kong on 22 June 1962 to Ling Po-yee (凌寶兒), an alumna of Guangzhou Normal University, and Chow Yik-sheung (周驛尚), an immigrant from Ningbo, Zhejiang.[5] Chow has an elder sister named Chow Man-kei (周文姬) and a younger sister named Chow Sing-ha (周星霞).[6] Chow's given name "Sing-chi" (星馳) derives from Tang dynasty (618–907) Chinese poet Wang Bo's essay Preface to the Prince of Teng's Pavilion.[7] After his parents divorced when he was seven, Chow was raised by his mother.[7] Chow attended Heep Woh Primary School, a missionary school attached to the Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China in Prince Edward Road, Kowloon Peninsula.[8] When he was nine, he saw Bruce Lee's film The Big Boss, which inspired him to become a martial arts star.[9] Chow entered San Marino Secondary School, where he studied alongside Lee Kin-yan.[9] After graduation, he joined the TVB's acting classes.[10]

Career

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Chow began his career as an extra for Rediffusion Television. Around 1980 he applied for TVB's famous artist training course[11] alongside his friend, Tony Leung Chiu-wai.[12] Leung Chiu-wai won a place in the class, but Chow was rejected and became an office assistant for a shipping company, a job he describes as "so boring."[13] A year later, his friend and neighbor, Jaime Chik Mei-jan, a veteran of the previous year's training course, put in a word for Chow[14] and he was admitted to the 1982 training class.

He captured the attention of the public as host of the TVB Jade children's program 430 Space Shuttle.[15][16] He stayed with the show for five years.[17] Producer and actor Danny Lee signed him to a two year contract with his company, Magnum Films,[18] and cast him in a supporting role in the crime drama Final Justice (1988),[19] which won him the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Horse Awards.

For the next two years, Chow capitalized on that success, working non-stop. He shot to further television stardom in the TVB wuxia series, The Final Combat (1989).[20] In addition to shooting the 30 episodes of The Final Combat, he also appeared in 12 feature films during that same period,[21] most of them triad movies, action films, or dramas. Jeff Lau directed him in the police thriller, Thunder Cops II (1989), and remembered him in early 1990 when producer Ng See-yuen tried to capitalize on the success of the previous year's hit Chow Yun-fat vehicle, God of Gamblers. Chow would not return to shoot a sequel and so, sensing a hole in the marketplace, Ng hired Jeff Lau to direct a parody.[22] Remembering his work with Stephen Chow, Lau hired him to star, pairing him with Sharla Cheung (who would appear as Chow's co-star in 12 more films)[23] and Ng Man-tat, a big star in the Seventies before a gambling addiction wrecked his career. He was then trying to make a comeback as a character actor.[24]

All for the Winner (1990) became the highest grossing Hong Kong film of all time and the number one film for the year.[25] Wong Jing hired Chow to star in the official sequels God of Gamblers II (1990)[26] and God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai (1991)[27] sequels which Wong wrote and directed (Chow Yun-fat would return to the role he made famous in 1994's God of Gamblers Return,[28] also written and directed by Wong). Lau had vowed never to work with Stephen Chow again after All for the Winner[29] and so when it came time to make the sequel to that hit, Stephen Chow only appeared in a brief cameo.[30]

After All for the Winner, Chow had two more major hits, God of Gamblers II and Tricky Brains that grossed HK$40 million[31] and HK$31 million respectively[32] at the box office, but they were followed by what appeared to be a fall from grace as the sequel to All for the Winner, The Top Bet, under-performed at the local box office,[33] and his next films, Legend of the Dragon and Fist of Fury 1991 failed to crack the HK$25 million barrier.[34][35] City Entertainment magazine reported that Chow's career was over and he was repeating himself after the hit that was All for the Winner.[36] Win's Entertainment courted writer and director Gordon Chan to helm Chow's next project, Fight Back to School (1991). Chan claims he was unsatisfied with the script and rewrote the film as an outline with 15 bullet points and the rest of the movie was improvised.[37] The result was a movie that cast Chow in a heroic lead role and the result was HK$43 million at the local box office, a new franchise (there would be sequels in 1992 and 1993), and in what's considered a local benchmark of success, it represented the first time Chow unseated Jackie Chan from the number one spot at the Hong Kong box office.

Over the next decade, Chow appeared in more than 40 films.[38] and wind up taking the number one spot at the box office eight times over the course of his career.[39] Often, more than one of his movies would appear in the top ten, as in 1992 when all five of the top spots were held by Chow's films.[40] (Jackie Chan would not retake the number one spot until 1995.[41])

In 1994, Chow teamed up with director Lee Lik-chi and writer Vincent Kok for Love On Delivery,[42] a movie that would only be the sixth highest-grossing movie of the year, a significant step down in status. Fortunately, Chow re-teamed with Kok and Lee again that same year for a James Bond parody he's credited as co-writing and co-directing, and From Beijing with Love[43] became the number three movie at the annual box office, beaten only by Chow Yun-fat's return to the God of Gamblers franchise and Jackie Chan's return to the character of a young Wong Fei-hung in Drunken Master II,[44] a character he'd last played in 1978 in the first Drunken Master.[45]

Around this time, Chow established his own film production company, Choi Sing Company (variously translated as Caixing Film Company and Hong Kong Color Star Film Company),[46] and approached Jeff Lau about writing and directing his next movie. Lau told Chow that if he kept making the same movie over and over again he would never find popularity with female audiences and he needed to play a romantic lead. In a hotel meeting, he pitched Chow on filming a two-part adaptation of the classic Chinese novel, Journey to the West, and Chow agreed.[47] In order to shoot on Mainland locations the movie became a Mainland-Hong Kong co-production between Chow's Choi Sing Company and Xi'an Film Studios.[48] The remote Xi'an Studios had always encouraged innovation and become home to China's celebrated wave of Fifth Generation arthouse directors like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige[49] and they were reluctant to work with a commercial, Hong Kong production.[50] However, recent cuts in government subsidies forced them to look for new sources of financing and they embraced the co-production model.[51] The resulting shoot was chaotic, with the Hong Kong crew speaking only Cantonese and the Mainland crew speaking Mandarin.[52] Actors like Lu Shuming and Wu Yujin said they had very little idea of what was going on[53] and actor Law Kar-ying described Chow as "arrogant."[54] The two films were titled A Chinese Odyssey Part One - Pandora's Box and A Chinese Odyssey Part Two - Cinderella and released in January and February, 1995 where they underperformed at the box office,[55] leading to Choi Sing Film Company declaring bankruptcy.[56] Chow, however, earned substantial money from the movie over the years through licensing and advertising opportunities[57] and in the late '90s and early 2000s it became a cult favorite in the Mainland[58] with phrases, expressions, and memes from the two films becoming a foundational part of early Chinese internet culture.[59] This also became known in part as the Stephen Chow Phenomenon (周星驰现象).[60][61][62][63]

2001–2010: International stardom

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In 2001, his film Shaolin Soccer grossed over US$50 million worldwide.[64][65][66][67] Chow won Best Director and Best Actor at the 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards, and the film went on to garner additional awards including a Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Picture and Best Director.[68] It was the highest-grossing Chinese film in Hong Kong at the time, grossing $46 million in the Asia region.[15]

Chow promoting CJ7 in Malaysia (2008)

In 2004, his film Kung Fu Hustle grossed over US$106 million worldwide. Chow also won Best Director at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards and Best Picture of Imagine Film Festival as well as over twenty international awards.[69][70] Comedian Bill Murray said that the film was "the supreme achievement of the modern age in terms of comedy".[71]

His final role film CJ7 began filming in July 2006 in the eastern Chinese port of Ningbo.[72] In August 2007, the film was given the title CJ7, a play on China's successful Shenzhou crewed space missions—Shenzhou 5 and Shenzhou 6.[73]

For his work in comedy, he has received praise from notable institutions such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which has called him the King of Comedy.[74]

2010–present: Focus on directing

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Chow at the premiere of The New King of Comedy (2019)

In 2010, he became the executive director and major shareholder of 比高集團(BingoGroup Limited).[75]

In 2013, his film Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons was the highest-grossing Chinese film of all time.[76][77]

In 2016, his film The Mermaid broke numerous box office records,[78] and became the highest-grossing film of 2016 in China.[79] The Mermaid was released in Vietnam on 10 February 2016. On 14 March, it became the third-highest-grossing film of all time in Vietnam. It has now grossed over US$553.81 million worldwide.[80] Chow became the ninth-top-grossing Hollywood Director in 2016.[81]

Chow spent 4 years writing, directing and producing the remake of his 1999 film King of Comedy, the film was titled The New King of Comedy, released in February 2019.[82]

Personal life

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Chow and Jacqueline Law met while filming the TV series The Final Combat in 1989 and began dating shortly thereafter. In the autumn of 1992, they broke up. Law later struggled with depression and recalled mentioning marriage to Chow, only to be dismissed as “crazy,” which left her heartbroken: “I longed to start a family with him, but he treated me like a lunatic.” Years later, when Law announced she had cancer, Chow was working on Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons. Among other memorial references, he named the film’s female lead Miss Duan, referencing The Final Combat, where Chow and Law portrayed Mr. and Mrs. Duan. The film premiered after Law's death.[83]

Chow and Athena Chu started dating after working together on Fight Back to School. Their secret relationship lasted for more than three years, ending due to Chow's alleged infidelity. In a 2008 interview on Be My Guest, Chu recalled the breakup: "One day, after wrapping up work, I went to visit my boyfriend’s room. The door was locked, and when he opened it, he looked flustered. I touched the bed, and it was warm, while the bathroom door was locked from the inside." Chu stated that she didn't know who the other person was and suspected there were more than just one. Despite this, Chu continued to work alongside Chow until the film finished. Karen Mok, the often suspected mistress at the time, denied being involved with anyone during the filming of A Chinese Odyssey.[84]

From 1995 to 1998, Chow dated actress and singer Karen Mok, who has starred alongside him in several films.[85]

Chow had a relationship with Alice Yu Man-fung, daughter of business mogul Yu Ching-Po, for 12 to 13 years until March 2010, during which Yu also assisted Chow with personal investments and was paid a salary based on a written contract from 2002, initially at HK$20,000 a month. Chow had paid Yu HK$19.5 million at her request between 2007 and 2011, and an additional HK$10 million in February 2012 in “appreciation for [her] friendship and support over the years”. In September 2012, Yu filed a lawsuit against Chow, asserting that there was an additional oral agreement purportedly reached around Christmas of 2002 for Chow to pay her a 10 per cent share of net profits on all successful investments she recommended. Yu’s claim for damages of some HK$80 million was based on her purported share of the profits from Chow’s investments in his current luxury home at 12 Pollock’s Path on The Peak, three houses at The Beverley Hills in Tai Po and a private equity fund. In 2021, a lower court ruled the pair never made that deal, a decision that was upheld on appeal.[86]

Political views

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In 2013, Stephen Chow was elected a member of the 11th Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).[87] According to media exposure, Chow often arrives late and leaves early at the conference, and has not put forward any proposals.[88]

Filmography

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As director

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Year English title Director Writer Producer Chinese title Notes
1994 From Beijing with Love Yes Yes No 國產凌凌漆 Co-directed with Lee Lik-chi
1996 Forbidden City Cop Yes Yes No 大內密探零零發 Co-directed with Vincent Kok
The God of Cookery Yes Yes No 食神 Co-directed with Lee Lik-chi
1999 King of Comedy Yes Yes No 喜劇之王
2001 Shaolin Soccer[89] Yes Yes No 少林足球[90]
2004 Kung Fu Hustle Yes Yes Yes 功夫
2008 CJ7 Yes Yes Yes 長江七號
2013 Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons Yes Yes Yes 西遊·降魔篇 Co-directed with Derek Kwok
2016 The Mermaid[91] Yes Yes Yes 美人魚
2019 The New King of Comedy Yes Yes Yes 新喜劇之王

As actor

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Year English title Chinese title
1983 The Nuts (TV series) 黑白殭屍
Crossroads – Pocket Money (TV-Short) 臨歧：零用錢
1987 Back To The Beyond 陰陽界
1988 Behind Silk Curtains (TV series) 大都會
Final Justice 霹靂先鋒
My Father's Son (TV series) 鬥氣一族
Faithfully Yours 最佳女婿
The Last Conflict 刑警本色
He Who Chases After the Wind 捕風漢子
1989 The Final Combat (TV series) 蓋世豪俠
The Justice of Life (TV series) 他來自江湖
Thunder Cops II 贼公差婆
Just Heroes 義膽群英
Dragon Fight 龍在天涯
1990 Love Is Love 望夫成龍
My Hero 一本漫畫闖天涯
Lung Fung Restaurant 龍鳳茶樓
Curry and Pepper 咖喱辣椒
Sleazy Dizzy 小偷阿星
Look Out, Officer! 師兄撞鬼
All for the Winner 賭聖
When Fortune Smiles 無敵幸運星
Triad Story 江湖最後一個大佬
Legend of the Dragon 龍的傳人
The Unmatchable Match 風雨同路
It runs in the Family (TV series) 孖仔孖心肝
1991
Crazy Safari 非洲和尚
God of Gamblers II 賭俠
The Top Bet 賭霸
Fist of Fury 1991 新精武門1991
Fight Back to School 逃學威龍
God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai 賭俠2之上海灘賭聖
The Magnificent Scoundrels 情聖
The Banquet 豪門夜宴
Tricky Brains 整蠱專家
1992 Fist of Fury 1991 II 漫畫威龍
All's Well, Ends Well 家有囍事
Fight Back to School II 逃學威龍2
Justice, My Foot! 審死官
Royal Tramp 鹿鼎記
Royal Tramp II 鹿鼎記2神龍教
King of Beggars 武狀元蘇乞兒
The Thief of Time 群星會
1993 Fight Back to School III 逃學威龍3之龍過雞年
Flirting Scholar 唐伯虎點秋香
The Mad Monk 濟公
1994 Love on Delivery 破壞之王
Hail the Judge 九品芝麻官
From Beijing with Love 國產凌凌漆
1995 A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box 西遊記第壹佰零壹回之月光寶盒
A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella 西遊記大結局之仙履奇緣
Out of the Dark 回魂夜
Sixty Million Dollar Man 百變星君
1996 Forbidden City Cop 大內密探零零發
The God of Cookery 食神
1997 All's Well, Ends Well 1997 97家有囍事
Lawyer Lawyer 算死草
1998 The Lucky Guy 行運一條龍
1999 Gorgeous 玻璃樽
The Tricky Master 千王之王2000
King of Comedy 喜劇之王
2001 Shaolin Soccer[92] 少林足球[90]
2004 Kung Fu Hustle 功夫
2008 CJ7 長江七號

As producer only

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Year English title Chinese title
2008 Shaolin Girl 少林少女
2009 Jump 跳出去
Dragonball Evolution 七龍珠
2010 CJ7: The Cartoon 長江7號愛地球
2017 Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back 西遊伏妖篇
2019 Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons TV 劇版西遊降魔篇
The Mermaid TV 劇版美人魚[93]

Awards

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Awards won
Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival
Asia Pacific Film Festival
Blue Ribbon Awards
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
Golden Bauhinia Awards
  • 1996: Best Actor for A Chinese Odyssey
  • 2002: Best Director for Shaolin Soccer
Golden Horse Awards
Hong Kong Film Awards
Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards
Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild Awards
Hundred Flowers Awards
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards
Utah Film Critics Association Awards
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards
BAFTA Awards
  • 2006: nomination: Best Film not in the English Language for Kung Fu Hustle
Golden Globe Award

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  • Hua, Cheng (2016). 《周星驰：做人如果没有梦想，跟咸鱼有什么分别》 [Stephen Chow: Without Dream, What's the Difference between Men And Salted Fish] (in Chinese). Xicheng District, Beijing: Sino-Culture Press. ISBN 978-7-5075-4635-4.
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