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A Recipe For the Heart
Chemistry: Poor Relationship: Friends Work Again: Neutral Before entering the film business he was a chemistry student at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou - but he was a son of a famous Cantonese actor, Cheung Wood-yau, and so became a script writer in 1956. His first film as director was Grass by the Lake in 1959. In the 60's he was a major director of Cantonese films - Joys and Sorrows of Youth, The Black Rose, The Spy with My Face - and when the popularity of Cantonese films declined he began making Mandarin films for the Shaw Brothers - Magic Blade and Duel for Gold among them. One of his films - House of 72 Tenants (1973) was highly influential in the re-emergence of Cantonese. He continued directing films until 1990 (Diary of a Big Man, Bloodstained Trade Winds) - and in the mid-80s began taking on small parts and sometimes larger ones. Some other films in which he appeared were Seventh Curse, Born to Gamble, Those were the Days (1997) and Millionaire Cop (Sgt. Lai and he does a parody of Black Rose in it). A Recipe For the Heart No chemistry at all! 
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