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Nina Li (actress)
Nina Li Chi (born December 31, 1961) is a retired Hong Kong actress. She is married to actor Jet Li. Early life Li was born on December 31, 1961, in Shanghai, China. Her father was a stage actor. Career In 1986, Li was the winner of Miss Asia Pacific Hong Kong. On September 30, 1986, Li was a beauty pageant participant of Miss Asia Pacific Quest 1986, and she placed as third runner up. In 1986, Li's film career began in Hong Kong with the film ''The Seventh Curse''. Personal life On September 19, 1999, Lì married Jet Li Li Lianjie (courtesy name Yangzhong; born 26 April 1963), better known by his stage name Jet Li, is a Chinese film actor, film producer, Chinese martial arts, martial artist, and retired wushu (sport), Wushu champion. He is a naturalized Singapo ..., her co-star from the 1989 film, '' Dragon Fight''. They have two daughters together, Jane Li (b. 2000) and Jada Li (b. 2002). Filmography Films See also * Miss Asia Pageant#Miss Asia Pacific Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dragon From Russia
''The Dragon from Russia'' is a 1990 Hong Kong martial arts action film directed by Clarence Fok and based on the Japanese manga ''Crying Freeman'' and written by Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami, and also produced by Dean Shek, and starring Sam Hui, Maggie Cheung, Nina Li Chi, Carrie Ng, Loletta Lee and guest starring Shek in his second-to-last film appearance before retiring from acting in two years later. Plot Yao Lung and May Yip are orphans who live in Russia with their adoptive family. Through the years, the two fall in love and promise that they will be together forever. One fateful day, Yao witnesses a murder being committed by a mysterious assassin. Shortly after this, he is captured and brainwashed by a mysterious cult of assassins that call themselves "800 Dragons". After losing his memory of his past, he is forced to take very strict martial arts training to become the perfect assassin for the 800 Dragons. During one of his missions, Yao is seen by May, his past lov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1961 Births
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Asia Pageant
ATV Miss Asia Pageant () is an annual Hong Kong-based beauty pageant organized and broadcast by Asia Television (ATV). Originating in 1985 as a local Hong Kong pageant, the contest went on hiatus from the 2000 through 2003, and was re-branded as an Asian pageant in 2004, with contestants spanning the continent of Asia. The pageant was ceased to exist in 2015 with the shutdown of its organizer, ATV. In 2018, ATV announced that they are rebooting the pageant, after their transition from a terrestrial broadcast operation to an online media company. The pageant, which will be partnered with South Korean company CJ E&M, was reported by the media as "ATV's biggest investment of the year". History 1985–2000: Beginnings as local pageant With the success of the ''Miss Hong Kong Pageant'' by rival Hong Kong television station Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), ATV started organizing ''Miss Asia Pageant'' in 1985, searching out Hong Kong's representative for ''Miss Asia Pacific Internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lover's Tear
Lover's Tear (Chinese: 誓不忘情) is a 1992 Hong Kong romance-action film directed by Jacob Cheung Chi-Leung and starring Nina Li Chi and Ngai Sing. Plot Deaf prostitute Fang I Ling (Nina Li Chi) is saved by gangster Lin Wei (Elvis Tsui Kam-Kong) who decides to make her his moll. Although he genuinely cares for her she doesn't feel the same way yet sticks by him. Things begin to change after she witnesses the murder of security official Su Erh (Yukari Oshima) and must help police officer Chung Ao (Ngai Sing) who has been accused of the crime clear his name. The couple soon fall in love while being pursued by the chief lieutenant (Lam Ching-ying) and the police chief (Sammo Hung). Despite the police chief believing in Ngai's innocence he must do him duty by taking him in. Cast *Nina Li Chi as Fang I Ling *Ngai Sing as love interest Inspector Chung Ho *Elvis Tsui as Fang's boyfriend Lin Wei *Lam Ching-ying as Chief Lieutenant Cheng Ying *Sammo Hung as Police Commissioner Kung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twin Dragons
''Twin Dragons'' (also known as ''Shuang long hui'' and ''Brother vs. Brother'') is a 1992 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Ringo Lam and Tsui Hark, and starring Jackie Chan in a double role as identical twin brothers separated at birth. Plot In 1965, a Hong Kong couple ( Sylvia Chang and James Wong) are doting on their newborn identical twin boys. Meanwhile, a dangerous gang leader named Crazy Kung (Kirk Wong) is being transported as a captive in the same hospital. Crazy Kung escapes and attempts to take one of the twins hostage, and in the ensuing chaos the twins are permanently separated. One of the twins, named Ma Yau, is taken to America by his parents and grows up to be a concert pianist and conductor. The other twin, Ma Wan, is found and raised by an alcoholic woman named Tsui (Mabel Cheung), and becomes a street racer and martial artist named Bok Min. For years, neither of them is aware that he has an identical twin brother. 26 years later, the twins' (Jackie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Kid From Tibet
''A Kid from Tibet'' () is a 1992 Hong Kong martial arts-action film directed by and starring Yuen Biao. The film features two more former members of the Seven Little Fortunes: Yuen Wah as an evil sorcerer and a cameo appearance from Jackie Chan. ''A Kid From Tibet'' is the only film to date that Yuen has directed (though he also had a co-directing credit on 1988's manga series: '' Peacock King''). It was filmed in Taiwan, Hong Kong and partly on location in Tibet. Plot When the evil "Black Section of Esoteric Buddhism" had tried to invade Tibet years ago, the Tibetan monks used a powerful magical item, the "Babu Gold Bottle" to expel them. The Tibetan master (Wu Ma) has the bottle's cap and wishes to reunite it with the bottle as the Black Section are stirring once more. He sends a young monk, Wong La (Yuen Biao) to Hong Kong to recover the sacred bottle, which is in the possession of a crippled lawyer. Wong meets and protects a woman, Chiu Seng-Neng (Michelle Reis) who is acti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inspector Pink Dragon
''Inspector Pink Dragon'' is a 1991 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Gordon Chan, written by John Chan, and starring Lawrence Cheng, who produced with Chua Lam. The film is also one of the earliest Hong Kong productions shot in sync sound. Plot Inspector Ma Yue-lung (Lawrence Cheng) bumps into his ex-classmate and longtime lover, Julia (Rosamund Kwan), while catching a thief. They both later go to an alumni reunion and see another ex-classmate, Ma Yau-yau (Tony Leung Ka-fai), who is now Julia's superior. When Yau returns home, he is murdered by Peter (Peter Lai). Heavy Crime Bureau chief Pau Yu Chat (Kenneth Tsang) sends Lung to go undercover to take Yau's job. After Lung goes undercover, he rises in rank and his paychecks increase. Julia also begins to develop feelings for Lung. Lung's girlfriend, Ching (Nina Li Chi), suspects that something is wrong with Lung. Later, Julia brings Lung to meet a land developer, Tang Kwok-kiu (Damian Lau). During that time, another murde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Chinese Ghost Story Part III
''A Chinese Ghost Story III'' ( zh, t=倩女幽魂 III：道道道, j=Sinneoi Jauwan III: Dou Dou Dou) is a 1991 Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ... romantic comedy-horror film directed by Ching Siu-tung and produced by Tsui Hark. It is the sequel to ''A Chinese Ghost Story'' and ''A Chinese Ghost Story II''. Though technically a distant sequel, the plot is more of a retelling of the original ''A Chinese Ghost Story''. Joey Wong reprises her role as a ghostly beauty bound in servitude to the Tree Demon. The Tree Demon's seal, as cast by the monk Yin (Wu Ma) in the original film, only lasts for 100 years. Now 100 years later, the Tree Demon awakens. Plot The film starts with a flashback to the first film with Taoist Yin sealing away the tree demon, but tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stone Age Warriors
''Stone Age Warriors'' (, ''Moh yu fei long'') is a 1991 Cantonese-language Hong Kong action film directed by Stanley Tong. Plot After Hiroshi Nakamura and other treasure hunters in New Guinea are found and attacked by natives, Hong Kong insurance investigator Lucy Wong faces pressure at work for accepting Hiroshi's application for a life insurance policy when the court demands payout of $50,000 in benefits from his $6,500,000 policy within 14 days. Lucy pretends to be Hiroshi's pregnant girlfriend to obtain his whereabouts from the beneficiary, his daughter Eko, an actress in Japan. Together the two head to Indonesia, his last known whereabouts, where Eko forces travel agent Abdullah to reveal that Hiroshi was lost in New Guinea. Once in New Guinea, the three are attacked by natives and Eko discovers that Lucy was faking her pregnancy. The women learn from Abdullah that two tribes on the island are continuously at war over any perceived dispute. They obtain help from Lung Fei, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gambling Ghost
''The Gambling Ghost'' () is a 1991 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Clifton Ko. It stars Sammo Hung in three roles as different generations of the same family - son, father and ghostly grandfather. Hung's co-star, Man Hoi also worked as the film's action director. The opening scene of the film parodies another Hong Kong film, ''God of Gamblers''. Cast * Sammo Hung - Fatty Big Brock / Fat Bao (Fatty's father) / Hung Kau/Gao * Nina Li Chi - Miss Lily (as Nina Li) * Mang Hoi - Hoi Siu-Hon (as Man Hoi) * James Wong - Rich Brother Dragon * Teddy Yip Wing-Cho - Yau Mo-Leung (Kau's Partner) (as Ip Wing Cho) * Wu Ma - Uncle Ng (as Ng Ma) * Corey Yuen - Gambler Wah * Chung Fat - Driver * Stanley Fung - Motorcycle Cop (as Fung Shu Fan) * Lam Ching-ying - Exorcist * Richard Ng - Roadblock Cop #1 (as Ricky Ng) * Billy Ching Sau Yat - Roadlock Cop #2 * Billy Chow - Yau's Bodyguard * Robert Samuels - Yau's Bodyguard * James Tien - Monk Taoist Foster (as Tin Chuen) * Paul Chun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
