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Alan Chui Chung-San
Born
Shu Zhong Xin
徐忠信

(1952-08-16)August 16, 1952
Hong Kong
Other namesAlan Hsu
John Chui
Hsu Chung Sin
Tsui Chung San
Chui Jong-Shinn
Occupationactor
Years active1960-present

Chui Chung-San (often known as Shu Zhong Xin, Hsu Zhong-Xin or Alan Hsu; born 16 August 1952[1] is a Hong Kong actor, director, choreographer, martial artists and stuntman. He has been known with being highly solid action director and stuntman. Chui is well known for the movies such as The Rebellious Reign, Kung Fu Vs. Yoga, Two Fists Against the Law and 7 Grandmasters, as well various Television shows from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Chui is mostly in charge for directing various wireless television series.

He is also critically acclaimed for choreograph and co-directing Ching Siu-tung's A Chinese Ghost Story.

Background

While attending to school, he often would get expelled from fighting with other students. At the age of ten, he was sent to Peking Opera school for the acrobatic training and stunts. Soon after finishing his studies at Peking Opera, he soon joined Shaw Brothers to carrying on with his career as an action director.

Throughout his career he made over 130 films including with various stunt work and acting role (usually appear as a villain or old master role). Chui is known for working mostly for the Taiwanese movies as an action director and actor.

Beginning of career

Beginning of 1970, he became a stuntman for the companies such as Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers studios. As well being on screen stuntman, he also worked on various TVB productions of martial art and Chinese historical drama. He would appear as an extra role in the likes of movies such as Hapkido, Enter the Dragon, When Taekwondo Strikes and plenty more. Alongside with Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Ching Siu-tung and others, Chui worked on various extra role or minor roles throughout the 1970s.

He also worked in various independent movie studios and mostly the extra in Shaw Brothers pictures, mostly under Chor Yuen's direction and would frequently appear as a supporting actor or extras until 1978, such as To Kill a Jaguar (1977), The Sentimental Swordsman (1977), Clans of Amazon (1978), The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978) and others.

Action director and major role

Later around 1979 and 1980, Chui became known with for roles such as 7 Grandmasters (1978), Kung Fu Vs. Yoga (1979) and Two Fists Against the Law (1980), as well as being an action director for the first time in the movies such as Shaolin Ex Monk in 1978.[2] and John Woo's Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1978).

Alan would also frequently can be seen in the Taiwanese productions through later 1970s to early 1980s, such as Born Invincible (1978), Revenge of the Shaolin Master (1979), Zen Kwan Do Strikes Paris (1981), The Denouncement of Chu Liu Hsiang (1982), Dragon Lord (1983) and others.

He also helped his long-time friend Ching Siu-tung for the choreography for two films through 1986~1987. He first collaborated with Tung to choreograph the Witch from Nepal' starring Chow Yun-fat and Emily Chu. Along with the collaborations with Tung, Philip Kwok, and Lau Chi Ho, he shared the award for the best action choreography. The second collaboration with Tung was A Chinese Ghost Story in 1987, mainly supervising on the wiring action sequence and the stunt double for the early Leslie Cheung. Along with the previous action choreographer crew members (Tung, Kwok, Ho and Bobby Wu), he was nominated for the best choreographer of 1987. Alan would later help Wilson Yip for the choreography for the same wiring stunt sequence technique on the 2011 remake of the A Chinese Ghost Story.

Alan would also direct his own low budget action movies such as Tough Beauty and the Sloppy Slop (1995) starring Yuen Biao and Cynthia Khan and Bloody Secret (2000) starring Anthony Wong and Ray Lui.

Throughout the 2005 and 2011, Alan would reunite with the director Johnnie To (Who previously worked in two films starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai, The Royal Scoundrel (1991) and Tomorrow (1995)) and would work on some of the critically acclaimed films such as Breaking News, Election 2 and Life Without Principle. After the release of Life Without Principle in 2011, he took a break from the film and focusing on the television series and more wired stunts. Until in 2016, he returned to the big screen in Once Upon a Time in Macau - The Way of the Tiger in 2016.

Present time

Alan is still working on a various Television shows in the recent years. Currently he has been appeared in 2017 Hong Kong drama series known as Line Walker: The Prelude as one of the villain role.

Chui also began to working on as a movie producer as well as working on the martial art movie campaign in 2015.[3]

He also runs his own stuntman association groups, training more than over 100 students with the essence of martial arts and stunts for the action movies.

Personal life

Chui has been married to Taiwanese wife. He has two children whose names are Chui Ea-Luen (son) and Chui Yik-Mei (daughter).

Filmography

Filmography as an actor

Filmography as an action director and assistant action director

Filmography as director

Television series

Drama

Variety show

References

  1. ^ 徐忠信 Chui Jong Shinn - TVB藝人資料 - tvb.com
  2. ^ "Alan Hsu Filmography - hongkongmoviedatabase". hongkongmoviedatabase. Retrieved 2016-01-02.
  3. ^ "Alan Hsu Campaign work - youtube". youtube. Retrieved 2016-01-02.
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