In the 1970s and 1980s, martial arts stars were very popular. At that time martial arts movies were very popular. Therefore, as long as actors who know martial arts can play important roles in movies. But as the popularity of kung fu movies diminished, the later martial arts actors also took a very difficult path. Speaking of martial arts champions in the entertainment industry, Jet Li and Wu Jing must first come to the minds of the audience, but the one we are talking about today, who won the martial arts champion 6 times, was not as famous as Jet Li, and became popular for acting as a villain. He was sick of nasopharyngeal cancer relapsed and died while sleeping during filming when he didn't want to be a bad guy. He was Qiu Jianguo.
In every era, there are representatives of Kung Fu that audiences like in that era, such as the early Fu Sheng and Luo Lie. Although they have passed away, they have left many classic works to the audience. Speaking of the classic Kung Fu movie "Huang Feihong "Maybe many people have filmed it, but in the hearts of the audience, the most classic is the "Huang Feihong" series played by Jet Li, in which Qiu Jianguo is famous for playing the Shahe Gang. Qiu Jianguo was born in 1960 in a farmer’s family in Guangning County, Guangdong Province. Due to his poverty, he began to practice martial arts as a child. Before graduating from junior high school, he entered the gate of youth sports school. He began to practice Nanquan in 1972 and only learned. In just two years, he won the Nanquan Championship in the National Wushu Competition in 1974. When he was in the Guangdong Sports School, he won the National Wushu Championship 6 times and was known as the "South China Tiger". In fact, Qiu Jianguo was a martial arts athlete at the same time as Jet Li. Unfortunately, he was not as famous as Jet Li and died young.
Nowadays, many audiences are very unfamiliar with the name Qiu Jianguo, but after seeing the stills he participated in, he can definitely remember that he is also a martial arts actor who accompanied many people through childhood. Qiu Jianguo was already very well-known in the martial arts world. He went to Vietnam and Ghana to perform martial arts in more than ten countries. In the early 1980s, Qiu Jianguo went to Hong Kong to develop. At that time Jet Li’s "Shaolin Temple" had just hit the screen, so Hong Kong filmmakers I specially conceived a movie to show his Nanquan Kungfu. The name was "Southern Boxing King". I wanted to take advantage of the heat to package Qiu Jianguo. The image and temperament of Qiu Jianguo at that time matched the legendary hero. He was not tall but physically. Strong, with healthy dark skin, vividly resembles the image of a Guangdong hero. In order to reflect Qiu Jianguo's superb martial arts, the actors who fought against him were all athletes from the martial arts team. Therefore, when Qiu Jianguo made a big fight in the movie, the scene was very exciting and realistic.
After the release of "Southern Boxing King", although it was not as popular as Jet Li's "Shaolin Temple", it was significantly better than the Kung Fu movies of the same period. The audience was always excited by the climax of the film. It’s just a pity that Jet Li’s career has soared with "Shaolin Temple", but Qiu Jianguo was not so lucky. Then he participated in film and television films such as "Xia Nv Thirteen Sisters", "Chinese Martial Arts", "Tie Qiao San", but All the results were mediocre, which eventually made Qiu Jianguo gradually fade out of people’s vision. Perhaps it was because the kung fu movies at that time were no longer popular, or Qiu Jianguo’s choice of roles was wrong. For example, "Tie Qiao San" described the head of the "Ten Tigers of Guangdong". Liang Kun’s story, but Qiu Jianguo was a stuntman in the play at best. He played a few unsuccessful fights and remained silent inexplicably for the rest of the time, so the audience was not impressed. In "Qiu Jianguo is not the protagonist, and there are not many scenes, so it is normal to be forgotten by the audience.
Qiu Jianguo came into the audience’s field of vision again in the early 1990s, when Jet Li began to shoot the "Once Upon a Time" series. In 1991, Jet Li shot "Once Upon a Time in the Clouds", which is a classic that audiences will never forget. At that time, whether it was Jet Li or Guan Zhilin, they were all that young. In this movie, the villain Shahe Gang played by Qiu Jianguo was the villain who made the audience gritted. With the help of a group of thugs in Yurouxiang, bullying the weak and charging The protection fee, colluded with foreigners, and finally the thirteenth aunt almost fell into his hands. In this movie, Qiu Jianguo performed the evil face to the extreme, which impressed the audience, but at the same time, it also made him go nowhere. Several subsequent movies are all bad guys, and perhaps he hates such roles. Qiu Jianguo then tried to correct the evil and revert to the right, and continued to film his famous film "Southern Boxing King", called "Majestic Mountains and Rivers", but in the end he failed, and the response was far worse than the first one.
In fact, there is another classic work by Qiu Jianguo that audiences are familiar with. It is after the unsuccessful attempt to change "Majestic Mountains and Rivers"Qiu Jianguo realized that the villain he played before was too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so he could only accept this kind of role and played the role of the thief Ren Zhongheng in Wu Jing's "Tai Chi Master". Unfortunately, after finishing the filming of "Tai Chi Grand Master", when I was receiving the new drama "New Shaolin Temple", one day I drove in the car and rested with air-conditioning. I suffered a stroke while lying asleep. During the treatment, it was found that nasopharyngeal cancer had recurred and I was sent to the hospital for surgery. It was found that the cancer cells had spread to the cavities of the skull and head. The operation failed and died. He was only 37 years old. At the time of his death, his wife and two sons were with him. At the time, the family did not want to make public, so the audience did not know Qiu Jianguo's death until later.
The passage of years will always make many things disappear, especially in the entertainment industry. Nowadays, many actors of that era have passed away. If they were not looking back at these classic TV movies, many audiences would not know that they brought them. Wonderful work. Qiu Jianguo’s life has not been smooth, nor has he become famous, but his resume is not simple. He was as famous as Jet Li, but failed to become popular for many reasons. He died young at the age of 37. He died, I believe he was also unwilling. When I recalled him again, even though the role he played made the audience scold, it is undeniable that he did a wonderful job. Thank him for bringing us those wonderful works.
