Du Qifeng grew up in Kowloon City Village, which is a famous three-no-care area in Hong Kong. When he was a child, he liked watching movies very much. At that time, theaters were divided into morning performances and after-hours performances. Usually, in order to save money, Cantonese feature films are shown in the morning, while western films are shown at noon. Du Qifeng only chose westerns, and most of them were action movies and westerns. Later, Du Qifeng's father went to work in Dongle Theatre, and Du Qifeng often watched free performances backstage. I didn't start watching mandarin films until I got to school, and I had the idea of making movies.

Wireless TV station period

Du Qifeng and Chow Yun Fat cooperated in the drama "Talented Persons and Beautiful Women" of the homecoming. This photo should have been taken at the press conference to raise money for the organization when they entered the class reunion around 1990. 1972, 17-year-old Du Qifeng started to do odd jobs in tvbi, and messenger was his first job. 1974 entered the tvbi artist training class, the fourth phase of the artist training class. During this period, he became friends with Chow Yun Fat, Lin Lingdong and others in the third session. Although they are not in the same class and level, they can be said to be classmates in terms of friendship. During this period, I often acted as a walk-on and played the role of some officials. According to his conditions, he can be the third leading actor at most, and there is not much development prospect in terms of actors. Therefore, two months after graduation, at that time, Du Qifeng was very diligent. "I was very diligent. I have tried to sleep less than 40 hours a month, and I can fall asleep standing after work. "

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1980, when the new wave of Hong Kong movies was on the rise, Du Qifeng entered the big screen at the invitation of his good friend DAMIAN LAU, and made his first film "Cold Mountain with Clear Water" for Hong Kong leftist film company Phoenix (later called Yindushe). Although there was little response after the film was released, many film companies invited him to film at that time, but Du Qifeng was deeply inexperienced and chose to return to wireless TV station to continue filming TV series.

In the next five years, Du Qifeng's TV drama career made rapid progress, and soon rose from production assistant to director and producer. He produced classic plays, including A Dream in Beijing, The Legend of the Condor Heroes and The Duke Of Mount Deer. During this period, I got to know Wei Jiahui from the writers group of the wireless TV station.

New art city period

From 65438 to 0986, Du Qifeng was invited by Huang Baiming, the owner of New Art City, to direct the third season of Ghost of Joy. The play was performed by Tsui Hark, directed by Lin Lingdong and directed by Cheng Xiaodong, with a box office income of16 million yuan. Then, Du Qifeng pursued her victory and filmed citizen comedies such as The Seven-Year Itch, Eight-Star Good News, and The Lucky Star Arch Photo. These comedies generally focus on the marriage of the urban middle class, and entertain the audience through various well-designed bridges such as coincidences and misunderstandings between characters, and all of them have achieved good box office results. The New Art City was dissolved on 1990.

During this period, 1988, Du Qifeng and Andrew Kam co-directed "Urban Special Police" produced by Tsui Hark Studio. Although the box office was a fiasco, it was his first time to touch the subject of police and bandits. From 65438 to 0989, Du Qifeng directed the literary film A Lang's Story for the first time, which not only won more than 30 million box office, but also was nominated as the best director in the first Hong Kong Film Awards.

Metropolitan period

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When Fang Yihua was in charge of the metropolis, he attached great importance to Du Qifeng. At this time, Du Qifeng has become a box office highlight in the eyes of filmmakers, and the Metropolitan Film Company (a joint venture between Shaw and Wireless) first signed a long-term contract with him. During his stay in the metropolis, Du Qifeng cooperated with Stephen Chow for three times, among which 1992' s Death Judge earned nearly 50 million at the box office, breaking the box office record of Hong Kong films.

At the same time, TVB also signed a producer contract with Du Qifeng to produce a series of TV movies, such as Tomorrow's End of the World. Most of these films are the follow-up works of heroes and are not successful.

199 1 year, Huang Baiming established Oriental Film Company, and Du Qifeng directed Kick to Treasure, which borrowed some scenes from police films and supernatural films and was still a typical Art Nouveau urban comedy. Soon, Du Qifeng, Huang Baiming and Catherine Hun Ga-Jan jointly established a medium-sized film production company-Baijiafeng, which was mainly presided over by Du Qifeng. Du Qifeng has released The Hero Trio and its sequel The Legend of Modern Heroes. These two films combine many elements, such as science fiction, paranormal, police bandits, female Xia and so on, and create a unique apocalyptic future urban scene. During the period of Baijiafeng, he also directed films such as "If there is love in the sky" and "The Milk of the Beach Boy and Teacher Zhou".

1994, after shooting a large number of different types of films for different companies, Du Qifeng decided to rethink his career as a director, so he took a year off. 1995, Du Qifeng directed The Tasteless Detective, which was written by Yau Nai-hoi and starring Liu Qingyun. This film focuses on the inner world of ordinary policemen under the dual crisis of marriage and responsibility, which is an important turning point in Du Qifeng's film career. "At that time, I suddenly felt like a real director. For the first time, I had the idea of establishing my own film company-Galaxy Image. "

Galaxy image period

Du Qifeng's works

Du Qifeng and his best partner Wei Jiahui 1996, Du Qifeng and Wei Jiahui, Qiu Naihai and others formed the Galaxy Image Film Company. The first film released in Hong Kong this year is "Urgent Need" produced by Metropolitan Company. The film was directed by Du Qifeng, co-produced by Wei Jiahui, written by Qiu Naihai, directed by Tat-Chi Yau and starring Liu Qingyun. It tells the story of Hong Kong firefighters putting out the city fire, which is regarded as the pioneering work of Galaxy Image Team. Later, Du Qifeng and Wei Jiahui collaborated to create many works, such as The Birth of a Prefix, Flowers of Darkness, Unexpected Expectation, Real Hero and so on. These movies are full of twists and turns, black style, fatalism and personal style, but they are all disastrous at the box office. Du Qifeng once faced the dilemma of not being able to pay the rent, which forced him to start thinking about the survival of the company.

1999, Du Qifeng led the Galaxy team to invest in Zhongxing, and formed a century-old film company with directors such as Tsui Hark, which opened a bipedal route for Galaxy filmmakers and commercial films. After that, Du Qifeng cooperated with Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng for many times and made a series of commercially successful films, including Lonely Men and Few Women, Dark War, Slimming Men and Women, Zhong Wuyan, Dragon and Phoenix Fight and so on. Among them, Lonely Man and Widow is not only the box office champion in Hong Kong, but also the best film produced by Galaxy Image so far.

After 2000, Du Qifeng's personal creation tends to be mature, showing a strong personal style, and gradually attracted the attention of the international film industry. For example, Big Guy (mainland name "Big Man with Great Wisdom"), Big Event (attending Cannes Film Festival), PTU, Judo Dragon and Tiger List (attending Venice International Film Festival) and Harmony between Gangdom and Gangdom are the most valuable, attending Cannes Film Festival and Let's Go One by One to attend Venice International Film Festival, and