Wu Hsing-kuo

Wu Hsing-kuo
Born	(1953-04-12)12 April 1953 Taiwan
Awards	Hong Kong Film Awards–Best New Performer 1994Temptation of a Monk
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	Ngô hưng quốc
Simplified Chinese	Ngô hưng quốc
Transcriptions Southern Min HokkienPOJ Ngô͘ Heng-kok

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Wu Hsing-kuo(Chinese:Ngô hưng quốc;Pe̍h-ōe-jī:Ngô͘ Heng-kok) is a Taiwanese actor of the silver screen and theater, known for both his performance of complex movie roles as much as for his innovative adaptations of Western classics into traditionalPeking Opera.

Life and career

Wu was trained in classicalPeking Operasince the age of 11 inTaiwan's state-run Fu-Hsing Chinese Opera School, specializing inwu sheng(male martial) roles. He was admitted with honors into the Theatre Department ofChinese Culture UniversityinTaipei,trained under master Chou Cheng-jung (Zhou Zheng-rong) and became the leading dancer ofLin Hwai-min'sCloud Gate Dance Theater.However, his teacher Chou Cheng-jung (Zhou Zheng-rong) considered him as a pretentious student who didn't focus on study and finally abandoned him in 1989. After that, Chou Cheng-jung (died in 2000) never met him again. In addition, most traditional Chinese opera audiences do not recognize him as a qualified actor.

In 1986, he and a group of enthusiastic friends founded theContemporary Legend TheatreinTaipei,seeking to revitalize traditional Chinese theatre by adapting Western classical plays to the style and techniques ofPeking Opera.He was the leading actor and director of fourShakespeareadaptations, including the critically acclaimedKingdom of Desire( dục vọng thành quốc ), an adaptation ofMacbeth,andKing Lear( lý nhĩ tại thử ), in which Wu plays all the parts.

In 1992, Wu was awarded aFulbright Scholarshipto study in New York with Richard Schechner. That year, he also won theHong Kong Film Awardfor best new actor.

Wu is currently artistic director of the Contemporary Legend Theatre, and continues to take on challenging roles in both the modern theatre and Chinese Opera. He crosses the fields of traditional opera, dance, modern theatre, cinema, and television.

Filmography

Films

Year	English title	Original title	Role	Notes
1993	18		Weirdo
	Temptation of a Monk	Dụ tăng	Shi Yansheng
	Green Snake	Thanh xà	Xu Xian
1994	The Great Conqueror's Concubine	Tây sở bá vương	Yu Ziqi
	Rock N'Roll Cop	Tỉnh cảng nhất hào thông tập phạm	Wong Kun
	Right Here Waiting...	Đẳng ái đích nữ nhân	Dickson Koo
	God of Gamblers Return	Đổ thần ２	Chao Siu-chi
	What Price Survival	Độc tí đao chi tình	Wang Ning
	Red Rose White Rose	Hồng mân côi bạch mân côi
1996	Shanghai Grand	Tân thượng hải than	Fung King-yiu
1997	The Soong Sisters	Tống gia hoàng triều	Chiang Kai-shek
2000	Comeuppance	Thiên hữu nhãn
2001	The Accidental Spy	Đặc vụ mê thành	Lee Sang-zen
2009	Who Rules Over the Destiny of China	Thùy chủ trầm phù	Chiang Kai-shek
2011	Four Hands	Diện dẫn tử	Sun Hou-cheng
2012	Love on Gallery Bridge	Ái tại lang kiều	Lin Changtian

TV series

Year	English title	Original title	Role	Notes
1996	Love, Sword, Mountain & River	Tình kiếm sơn hà	Zhao Kuangyin
	The Story of the President	Tổng thống đích cố sự	Lee Teng-hui
1997	China at War	Phong hỏa trung quốc
1999	Holiday	Giả kỳ	Chu Chen-hsiang
	Dangerous Games	Nguy hiểm du hí	Guan Luochuan
2000	Tiger's Tenderness	Lão hổ đích ôn nhu	Huang Ho-chun
2001	Master Swordsman Lu Xiaofeng	Lục tiểu phượng chi quyết chiến tiền hậu	Ye Gucheng
2003	Flaming Romance	Thiên mệnh nhân duyên	Su Jifei
2005	Lovelorn High Heels	Thất luyến cao cân hài	Ma Ta-cheng
2006	To Live to Love	Trường hận ca	Li Puzhi

Awards

• Awarded Best New Performer at theHong Kong Film Awardsin (1992).
• Nominated for Best Actor at the13th Hong Kong Film Awards(1994) for his role inTemptation of a Monk

External links

• [1]
• Wu Hsing-kuoatIMDb
• HK cinemagic entry