Tribute to Hong Kong film, the box office champion of Hong Kong film over the years (1980s)

Hong Kong Film (Hong Kong Film) is a pioneer of Chinese film. For decades, Hong Kong has been one of the bases of the film industry and one of the export destinations of films. People call it "Oriental Hollywood". Countless classic Hong Kong movies and classic roles are the pride and spiritual food of our Chinese movies.

In 1980, "Junior Brother", with a box office of 11.026 million, was written and directed by Jackie Chan, starring Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao. It was a very successful costume kung fu comedy by Jackie Chan that year. It was also the only Hong Kong movie with a box office of over 10 million.

​​1981 "Modern Bodyguard", with a box office of 17.769 million, written and directed by Xu Guanwen, starring three brothers Xu Guanwen, Xu Guanjie and Xu Guanying. Xu Guanwen's comedy movie can be described as one of the most representative Hong Kong comedy styles before Stephen Chow. It was also the only Hong Kong film that had tens of millions of dollars.

1982 "Best Partner", with a box office of 26.04 million, was co-directed by Zeng Zhiwei, Lin Lingdong and Liu Jialiang, starring Mai Jia, Xu Guanjie and Zhang Aijia. "Best Partner" is a classic film series in New Art City, which was shot in the 1980s. This film is the first one. The whole series is in the style of comedic action. With this film, the star Mai Jia (nicknamed Bald) won the Best Actor Award at the 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards. This film is also the same year. The only Hong Kong movie with a box office of over 20 million.

1983 "Best Partner's Supernatural Powers", with a box office of 23.273 million, directed by Zeng Zhiwei, starring Mai Jia, Xu Guanjie and Zhang Aijia, this is the second part of the "Best Partner" series, and it is still the first in the overall production. A high standard.

1984 "The Queen's Secret Order of the Best Partner", with a box office of 29.286 million, directed by Tsui Hark, starring Mak Ka, Hsu Guanjie and Zhang Aijia. This is the third part of the "Best Partner" series. The film also started to hit 3000 The horn of the million box office.

1985 "Fortune Stars", box office 30.748 million, directed by Sammo Hung, Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Wu Yaohan, Feng Suifan, Qin Xianglin, Zeng Zhiwei and Hu Huizhong

1986 "The True Colors of Heroes", box office 3,461 thousand, directed by Wu Yusen, Chow Yun-fat Starring, Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung and Li Zixiong, this film turned out to push the gunfights in Hong Kong movies to a new level. Together with Wu Yusen’s unique romantic and violent aesthetics, the film caused a huge shock at the time.

​​1987 "Dragon Brothers and Tigers", with a box office of 35.469 million, was directed by Jackie Chan and Zeng Zhiwei, starring Jackie Chan, Alan Tam and Rosamund Kwan. The top two Hong Kong movie box office charts this year were both Jackie Chan's films, especially "Dragon Brothers and Tigers" "Brother" went to Yugoslavia to be filmed, and a jumping scene made Jackie Chan seriously injured and his life hanging by a thread, so the price Jackie Chan paid for this film was very high.

1988 "The Annunciation of the Eight Stars", with a box office of 37.08 million, was directed by Johnnie To, starring Chow Yun-fat, Cheng Yuling, Jacky Cheung, Huang Baiming, Yuan Jieying and Zhong Chuhong. At that time, Johnnie To had not started shooting unique gang movies, and the Milky Way image was not established, and Huang Baiming In addition to being the lead actor in the film, he is also one of the screenwriters of the film. Many years later, the happy event series of films were also carried forward by Huang Baiming.

1989 "God of Gamblers", with a box office of 36.294 million, was directed by Wang Jing, starring Chow Yun-fat, Andy Lau, Wang Zuxian and Zhang Min. From this year onwards, the genius director Wang Jing made gambling movies a trend, which also made a lot of Variety of follow-up works, but after all, the actor who acted in a gambling film is Chow Yun-fat's temperament and aura. With this film Chow Yun-fat was also nominated for the Best Actor Award at the 9th Hong Kong Film Awards.

Looking at the entire Hong Kong movies in the 1980s, after all, none of them crossed the 40 million box office mark. This difficult task was left to the 1990s.