Fruit Chan
- January 5, 2024
- Director
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Fruit Chan Biography
| Name | Fruit Chan |
| Birthday | Apr 15 |
| Birth Year | 1959 |
| Place Of Birth | Guangdong |
| Birth Country | China |
| Birth Sign | Aries |
Fruit Chan is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on April 15, 1959 in Guangdong, China. An important figure of an important part of the Hong Kong Second Wave, who’s films, like Made in Hong Kong, brought to light the lives of ordinary people.
His smash film Finale in Blood starred His hit film Finale in Blood starred Andy Lau in the lead role. in the leading role.
Fruit Chan was born in China but in 1969 he immigrated with his parents to Hong Kong. As a child, Chan, watched a Soviet film that sparked his interest and love for movies. In middle school he held a part-time job that allowed him to work in a theatre projection room. His first film screening was of a traditional Chinese opera directed by none other than John Woo. He continued his interest in film later on at the Hong Kong Film Culture Centre, a small film club, where he studied script writing and directing. In 1982, after only one year of working at the Hong Kong Film Culture Centre he started his career in the film industry. He began his career as an assistant director to David Lai Dai-Wai in the film Mid-Night Girls. He later worked as an assistant director to mainstream directors Jackie Chan, Kirk Wong, Ronny Yu, and Shu Kei.
His lucky break came in 1991 when a film he was working with stopped its production. Chan took this as an opportunity; he used the same studio to direct Finale in Blood starring Hong Kong film star Andy Lau. However, the outcome of the first of his own films was highly praised by the critics rather than the public. In 1994 he collected a total of 500,000 HKD and film- materials left over by other productions to begin directing his award winning Made in Hong Kong. After Made in Hong Kong came out he was thought of as the hope for Hong Kong cinema by fellow Hong Kong filmmakers for challenging the stable model of Hong Kong filmmaking. He had become the first filmmaker to, independently of the big studios, challenge the genre of Hong Kong films and make realistic films about the political and social situations going on in Hong Kong at the time. The film was the first part to a trilogy that included The Longest Summer and Little Cheung.
The parents of his son were Chinese immigrants from Hong Kong.
Fruit Chan Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Director |
| House | Living in own house. |
Fruit Chan is one of the richest Director from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Fruit Chan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He was employed part-time in middle school in a projection studio.
He was part of the jury for the 24th Moscow International Film Festival in 2002.
Fruit Chan Gor (Chinese: 陳果 ; born 15 April 1959) is a Hong Kong Second Wave screenwriter, filmmaker and producer, who is best known for his style of film reflecting the everyday life of Hong Kong people. He is well known for using amateur actors (such as Sam Lee in Made in Hong Kong, Wong Yau-Nam in Hollywood Hong Kong) in his films. He became a household name after the success of the 1997 film Made in Hong Kong, which earned many local and international awards. Chan was deeply influenced by the era of sixties film in Japan, for the reason that they were not afraid to produce realistic movies that addressed society’s problems. In particular, the Japanese director Nagisa Oshima was someone who Chan looked up to and thought of when directing Made in Hong Kong.
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Fruit Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Fruit Chan celebrates birthday on April 15 of every year.