Chan Man-kwai

Chinese screenwriter

Chan Man-kwai

Born|  (1948-04-01) April 1, 1948 (age 75)

Xiamen, Republic of China

Occupation(s)| Screenwriter, occasional actor, property master
Years active| 1983–present
Awards| Shanghai Television Festival
Magnolia Award for Best Writing
2014 The Orphan of Zhao

Chinese name
Traditional Chinese| 陳文貴
Simplified Chinese| 陈文贵
| Transcriptions

Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin| Chén Wénguì
Musical career
Also known as| Man Kwai (文龜), Si Ting (思婷), Bo Ren (伯仁), Agui (阿貴)
Origin| British Hong Kong

Musical artist

In this Chinese name, the family name is  Chan.

Chan Man-kwai (born 1 April 1948[1]) is a Chinese screenwriter who began his career in Hong Kong. He has written over 40 films and TV series in Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China.

Chan was born and grew up in Xiamen.[2] During the Cultural Revolution he laboured as a sent-down youth in the mountains of Yongding in southwestern Fujian.[3] After the Cultural Revolution, he migrated to British Hong Kong in 1978, doing odd-and-end jobs for 3 years before deciding to write fiction. One of his works was published in the magazine Southern Movies (南國電影), run by the renowned Shaw Brothers Studio, which hired him as a screenwriter shortly thereafter.[4]

## Filmography (incomplete)[edit]

### Films[edit]

Year  | English title  | Chinese title  | Notes

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1983 | Sketch | 血中血 | co-writer, with Wong Chi (黃志)
Portrait in Crystal | 水晶人 | co-writer, with Wong Ying (黃鷹)
Young Heroes | 自古英雄出少年 | writer
The Home at Hong Kong | 家在香港 | writer
1984 | Yellow Peril | 黃禍 | co-writer, with Lee Dang (李登)
The Company | 孖襟兄弟 | co-writer, with Lee Dang
Shaolin vs Manchu | 還我少林 | writer
1986 | On the Red | 紅外線 | writer
The Haunted Madam | 師姐撞邪 | writer
1987 | Toothless Vampires | 無牙殭屍 | co-writer, with Cheung Kwok-yuen (張國源)
1988 | Ruthless Family | 法律無情 | co-writer, with Bat Fung (畢鋒)
1989 | Devil Hunters | 獵魔群英 | co-writer, with Lu Chin-ku (魯俊谷)
1990 | A Woman and Seven Husbands | 販母案考 | co-writer, with Terry Tong (唐基明)
1992 | China | 燒郎紅 | writer
1993 | Bloody Revenge | 風塵十三姨 | writer
1996 | The King of Masks | 變臉 | original story
2017 | The War of Loong | 龍之戰 | co-wrote with Xing Yuanping

### TV series[edit]

Year  | English title  | Chinese title  | Notes

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1992 | The Legend of Liu Bowen | 劉伯溫傳奇 |
1993 | Justice Pao | 包青天 |
1994 | The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants | 七俠五義 |
Brotherhood | 兄弟有緣 |
1995 | Justice Pao | 包青天 |
1997 | The Strange Cases of Lord Shi | 施公奇案 |
1998 | Gods Are Watching from Above | 舉頭三尺有神明 |
The Kingdom and the Beauty | 江山美人 |
Legends of Earth God | 土地公傳奇 |
Old House Has Joy | 老房有喜 |
1999 | God of Fortune Arrives | 財神到 |
Flying Dagger Li | 小李飛刀 |
2000 | Long Rope in Hands | 長纓在手 |
Imperial Aunt Tian Guihua | 皇嫂田桂花 |
2002 | The Eloquent Ji Xiaolan | 鐵齒銅牙紀曉嵐 |
2003 | The Plebeian Emperor | 布衣天子 |
Wesley the Young Adventurer | 少年王衛斯理 |
2005 | The Prince of Qin, Li Shimin | 秦王李世民 |
2006 | Iron General Agui | 鐵將軍阿貴 |
The Young Jiaqing Emperor | 少年嘉慶 |
Liu Bowen | 神機妙算劉伯溫 |
2007 | The Ming Dynasty: Evening Storm | 大明帝國之夜來風雨 |
I Love Sister Furong | 我愛芙蓉姐 |
2008 | Warriors of a New Empire | 壯士出征 |
2010 | The Invisible General | 隱形將軍 |
Miracle Doctor Tao | 神醫大道公 |
2013 | The Orphan of Zhao | 趙氏孤兒 | Won—Magnolia Award for Best Writing, Shanghai Television Festival
2014 | Native Place | 原鄉 |
Prequel to Miracle Doctor Tao | 神醫大道公前傳 |

## References[edit]

1. ^ 作家簡介 [Biographical Notes on the Authors]. HK Authors (in Chinese).
2. ^ Liu Yun (刘筠) (2008-11-28). 想把苏厝街拍进电视剧 [He Wants to Include Sucuo Street in a Television Drama]. Xiamen Daily News (in Chinese).
3. ^ Chan Man-kwai (2011-12-10). 永定，当年我插队的地方。 [Yongding, where I was sent down to.]. Sina Weibo (in Chinese).
4. ^ Li Qiao (李乔) (2013-05-06). 陈文贵：说故事的隐者 [Chan Man-kwai: The Invisible Storyteller]. Circle Magazine (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2017-04-02.

## External links[edit]

* Wengui Chen at IMDb
* Chan Man-Kwai at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
* (in Chinese) Chan Man-kwai on Sina Weibo (in Chinese)