Ye Weixin

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Early experience

Born in Hong Kong in 1963, he grew up in Lemin village, Kowloon, Hong Kong. After he dropped out of high school, he saw the advertisement of new art city film company in the newspaper and entered the film circle. At first, I worked as an office boy in Xinyi City. After buying a lunch box for three months, Zheng Zeshi paid attention to him, promoted him on the spot, and then made him a deputy director.

Acting experience

In 1985, when ye Weixin worked with Zheng Zeshi on "Why me", he was appreciated by the other side and turned from drama business to field record and deputy director. Since then, ye Weixin has followed Zheng Zeshi and participated in many types of films with different themes. For example, in 1986, the pure and inspirational film "leap antelope", in 1987, the thriller and suspense film "heartbeat 100", and in 1988, the family tragedy film "stray fat cat", etc., in 1989, he served as a field record and assistant director in the film "Mr. natural and unrestrained", and guest star in the film.

In 1990, ye Weixin worked with Zheng Zeshi, Hong Jinbao and Liu Jiarong on "thin tiger and Fat Dragon" as assistant director. Since then, he has been a deputy director in Xinyi City. His works include "under the red flag" produced in 1991, "Flower goods" produced in 1992, "biography of the 1949 posthumous heroes" and "fire butterfly recorded in secret files" produced in 1993.

In 1993, ye Weixin served as the second deputy director of the martial arts film "Tian Long Ba Bu Zhi Tian Shan Tong Lao". Since then, he has cooperated with Qian Yongqiang, the director of the film, in many films, such as the action film "wind dust three women" and "neon tube high hanging women's apartment" produced in 1994. In 1994, he joined Qian Yongqiang's company Xinyu Production Co., Ltd. as the executive director of "sparks of youth".

In 1995, ye Weixin directed one o'clock in the middle of the night, his first film as a director. In November of the same year, he produced his first work, the adulterer, which was officially named as an independent director. The theme of the "real record of strange cases" was at the end of the storm, and most of them were shoddy works. Due to his work, ye Weixin had to stick to his head and shoot them.

In July 1996, he directed the gangster action film Mong Kok, which won the "best screenwriter" and "recommended film of the year" of the Third Hong Kong film review society, making him feel the taste of success again.

In 1997, ye Weixin directed the zombie film "turning around the corpse" and "mistaking people's children". In 1998, he directed the zombie film "biochemical corpse". In 1999, she directed the police and bandit film "crack criminal police", and Roland won the best actress award of the 19th Hong Kong Film Awards. In 2000, he directed the love film "Juliet and Liang Shanbo". The hero Wu Zhenyu won the best actor award of the 7th Hong Kong Society of critics award. The film was nominated for the 20th Hong Kong Film Awards, including the best director. Ye Weixin was nominated for the best director of the Hong Kong Film Awards for the first time.

In 2000, he directed the police and bandit film the next generation of thieves. In 2001, he directed "4 × 100 water surfers" and "supernatural - 2002". In 2002, he directed "five scared teenagers", which won the annual film recommendation of the 9th Hong Kong film criticism Society Award. In 2003, he directed the love film "little things in the big city", and won three nominations for the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards. In 2004, he directed the costume comedy Feixia little white dragon.

In 2005, the action film "kill the wolf", directed by Ye Weixin and starring Donnie Yen, won two nominations for the 25th Hong Kong Film Awards. In 2006, he directed the action film "dragon and Tiger Gate" and won two nominations for the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards. In 2007, he and Donnie Yen jointly directed the action film "fuse", which is known as the prequel of "kill the wolf", and won two nominations for the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards and two nominations for the 44th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards. In 2008, he directed the action film "IP MAN". In 2010, he directed the action film "IP MAN 2". With "IP MAN" and "IP MAN 2", he won the most popular director award of Beijing University Students Film Festival and the best director nomination of the 28th and 30th Hong Kong Film Awards.

In 2010, he was the producer of the costume comedy "Huatian Jishi 2010". In 2011, he directed the film "happy magic" and the costume magic film "pretty girl ghost". In 2013, he served as the artistic director of the film "journey to the West: making havoc in heaven", which earned 1 billion box office in China and broke 19 records in the history of Chinese film.

In 2014, he and Zou Kaiguang co directed the fashion love film "soaring to the sky", which was released in the Spring Festival of 2015. The box office of the film was 150 million in mainland China and 20 million in Hong Kong. In the same year, he was the producer of action movie "kill the wolf 2".

In 2015, he directed the action film "IP MAN 3" and supervised the film "Legend of the gods".

In 2016, he was the producer of the movie "jingtianpo" and directed the third movie "kill the wolf · greedy wolf" in the action movie "kill the wolf" series, which won nine nominations for the 37th Hong Kong Film Awards, including best director and best film.

In 2018, he continued the "IP MAN" series and cooperated with the original team for the fourth time to direct and supervise the production of the action film "IP MAN 4: the end". The film will be released in China on December 20, 2019. In 2020, the film won nine nominations for the 39th Hong Kong Film Awards, including best director.

Main works

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Award winning record

Character evaluation

Ye Weixin is a director who is involved in many kinds of films. He has tried Kung Fu, police, love, comedy, thriller, magic and so on. Ye Weixin made his mark by making ghost films. In his early years, biochemical longevity corpse created a precedent of Chinese zombie films, infusing the bloody scenes of Western zombie films and a large number of elements with local characteristics, enriching the interest of the film. Ye Weixin, with his own innovation and close to the style of Du Qifeng, combines the plot of Hong Kong style with the use of complex lens, and combines the quick and fierce action design with the simple and rough story, creating a fast action dance and a powerful visual effect, so as to create a new century action film. (Sina entertainment review)

The appearance of "dragon and Tiger Gate" officially marks the leading role of Ye Weixin in Hong Kong kung fu films, police and bandit films, marginal commercial literature and art films (he also has such masterpieces as "crack criminal police" and "Juliet and Liang Shanbo"). The Hong Kong flavor in Ye Weixin's works is not so small and conservative. At the same time, the feeling of Hong Kong movies in the 1980s, which are both amiable and sometimes amazing, is completely attached to him. (Information Times review)