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简介

Clifford Choi Kai Kwong is a Hong Kong film director and screenwriter, recognized as one of the pioneers of the Hong Kong New Wave cinema movement in the 1970s. Choi originally hailed from Dongguan, Guangdong province, and grew up in Sham Shui Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong, in a family of 11 siblings where he was the ninth child. He worked in his father's grocery store from a young age, helping with sales, bookkeeping, and deliveries. He received his primary education at Kowloon Tong School and later transferred to St. Francis Canossian English Primary School at his father's insistence on learning English. After completing secondary education at St. Francis Xavier's College and Munsang College, he attended Chu Hai College to study Chinese before traveling to Taiwan in 1965 to study English at National Taiwan Normal University. In 1969, he moved to the United States to study English literature at the University of California, Berkeley, earning his bachelor's degree in 1970. During his time at Berkeley, he participated in student movements and took on various jobs to finance his studies, while also engaging in activities supporting Taiwan. Choi returned to Hong Kong and began his career in the film industry, initially working as a television director before joining Shaw Brothers film production. He achieved a significant milestone in 1983 when he won the Best Original Screenplay award at the 20th Golden Horse Awards for the film "The Man and the Woman." In 1984, he established his own film production company, Long Guang Film, to produce movies. Choi is regarded as one of Hong Kong's most prominent filmmakers who helped shape the cinematic landscape in the 1970s alongside his contemporaries such as Tsui Hark and Ann Hui.