Chan Man-kwai

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Chan Man-kwai
Born (1948-04-01) April 1, 1948 (age 73)
OccupationScreenwriter, occasional actor, property master
Years active1983–present
Awards Shanghai Television Festival
Magnolia Award for Best Writing
2014 The Orphan of Zhao
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Musical career
Also known asMan Kwai (文龜), Si Ting (思婷), Bo Ren (伯仁), Agui (阿貴)
Origin British Hong Kong

Chan Man-kwai (born 1 April 1948 [1] ) is a Chinese screenwriter who began his career in Hong Kong. He has written over 40 films and TV series in Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China.

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Chan was born and grew up in Xiamen. [2] During the Cultural Revolution he laboured as a sent-down youth in the mountains of Yongding in southwestern Fujian. [3] After the Cultural Revolution, he migrated to British Hong Kong in 1978, doing odd-and-end jobs for 3 years before deciding to write fiction. One of his works was published in the magazine Southern Movies (南國電影), run by the renowned Shaw Brothers Studio, which hired him as a screenwriter shortly thereafter. [4]

Filmography (incomplete)

Films

YearEnglish titleChinese titleNotes
1983Sketch血中血co-writer, with Wong Chi (黃志)
Portrait in Crystal水晶人co-writer, with Wong Ying (黃鷹)
Young Heroes自古英雄出少年writer
The Home at Hong Kong 家在香港writer
1984Yellow Peril黃禍co-writer, with Lee Dang (李登)
The Company孖襟兄弟co-writer, with Lee Dang
Shaolin vs Manchu還我少林writer
1986On the Red紅外線writer
The Haunted Madam師姐撞邪writer
1987Toothless Vampires無牙殭屍co-writer, with Cheung Kwok-yuen (張國源)
1988Ruthless Family法律無情co-writer, with Bat Fung (畢鋒)
1989Devil Hunters獵魔群英co-writer, with Lu Chin-ku (魯俊谷)
1990A Woman and Seven Husbands販母案考co-writer, with Terry Tong (唐基明)
1992China燒郎紅writer
1993Bloody Revenge風塵十三姨writer
1996 The King of Masks 變臉original story
2017The War of Loong龍之戰co-wrote with Xing Yuanping

TV series

YearEnglish titleChinese titleNotes
1992The Legend of Liu Bowen劉伯溫傳奇
1993 Justice Pao 包青天
1994 The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants 七俠五義
Brotherhood兄弟有緣
1995Justice Pao包青天
1997The Strange Cases of Lord Shi施公奇案
1998Gods Are Watching from Above舉頭三尺有神明
The Kingdom and the Beauty江山美人
Legends of Earth God土地公傳奇
Old House Has Joy 老房有喜
1999God of Fortune Arrives財神到
Flying Dagger Li小李飛刀
2000Long Rope in Hands長纓在手
Imperial Aunt Tian Guihua皇嫂田桂花
2002 The Eloquent Ji Xiaolan 鐵齒銅牙紀曉嵐
2003The Plebeian Emperor布衣天子
Wesley the Young Adventurer少年王衛斯理
2005 The Prince of Qin, Li Shimin 秦王李世民
2006Iron General Agui鐵將軍阿貴
The Young Jiaqing Emperor少年嘉慶
Liu Bowen神機妙算劉伯溫
2007The Ming Dynasty: Evening Storm大明帝國之夜來風雨
I Love Sister Furong我愛芙蓉姐
2008Warriors of a New Empire壯士出征
2010The Invisible General隱形將軍
Miracle Doctor Tao神醫大道公
2013The Orphan of Zhao趙氏孤兒Won—Magnolia Award for Best Writing, Shanghai Television Festival
2014Native Place原鄉
Prequel to Miracle Doctor Tao神醫大道公前傳

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References

  1. 作家簡介 [Biographical Notes on the Authors]. HK Authors (in Chinese).
  2. Liu Yun (刘筠) (2008-11-28). 想把苏厝街拍进电视剧 [He Wants to Include Sucuo Street in a Television Drama]. Xiamen Daily News (in Chinese).
  3. Chan Man-kwai (2011-12-10). 永定,当年我插队的地方。 [Yongding, where I was sent down to.]. Sina Weibo (in Chinese).
  4. Li Qiao (李乔) (2013-05-06). 陈文贵:说故事的隐者 [Chan Man-kwai: The Invisible Storyteller]. Circle Magazine (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2017-04-02.