Various articles on “The Warlord”

Yep, opening here tomorrow O_O…I want to watch this movie coz it has Jet Li, Kaneshiro Takeshi and Andy Lau. Don’t know much about the story except it is about 3 sworn brothers who eventually turned against one another, something like that la…

Jet Li plays the villain this time O_O … that should be interesting…

Kaneshiro Takeshi’s interview

Jet Li’s interview

Andy Lau’s interview

Director Peter Chan’s interview

Xu JingLei’s interview

My previous post on their individual posters

The Warlords individual posters

These are individual headshot posters for The Warlords - starring Andy Lau (!), Jet Li (!!) and Kaneshiro Takeshi (!!!). They have already released a trailer in the website here but I haven’t the time to go and watch it. Judging from the cast and the look, it already have me interested in watching it

And I just found out that the only girl in this group, Xu Jing Lei, is a director and actress!

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Dad committed suicide after Andy Lau didn’t give his daughter…

The Chinese News

陪女兒追華仔 千金散盡跳海死

一名30歲的劉德華超級粉絲，放棄學業、工作專職追逐劉德華13年，父親為她賣了房子，幫著她追星，日前還向親友借了人民幣1萬多元，追到香港，因不滿劉德華只和女兒拍照作罷，竟寫下遺書，跳海自殺，遺願是要劉德華再見女兒一面。

借1.1萬元旅費赴港追星

香港媒體今天報導，本周一清晨在尖沙嘴天星碼頭跳海溺斃的68歲男子楊勤冀，死於「追星夢」。楊家三口，均是劉德華的超級粉絲，死者生前為一償30歲女兒的心願，3年前將賣掉房子的4萬元人民幣，全花在女兒追星上。 此次向親友借來1.1萬元旅費來港追星。

劉德華透過經理人公司表示，對楊父過世感到十分愕然。

獨生女楊麗娟，自13年前迷戀劉德華後，便全職追星，不上學、也不工作，雙親為達成她的心願，不惜傾家蕩產，賣屋賣地及借貸，其父為了籌募女兒旅費，曾想賣腎，後因不合用而作罷。楊家的瘋狂行為，曾被傳媒廣泛報道；劉德華也曾透過經理人痛罵其行為不可取，亦表示不會與阿娟會面。

沒聊到天 氣得大罵華仔

楊麗娟的母親表示，她們來自甘肅蘭州，丈夫是退休教師，這次來港是向同事的兒子借的錢，答應以每月領的2060元人民幣退休金，按半年期償還給對方。為的是一償女兒多年夢想，跟劉德華見面。

她們到港後，曾向特首請願，希望安排與劉德華會面，但保安人員建議他們到尖沙嘴文化中心尋求協助；文化中心職員要她們直接往「華仔天地」，後經安排，在25 日的生日會與劉德華見面。哪知跟劉德華拍過合照後，便沒有下文。楊勤冀見女兒無法跟偶像好好聊天，氣得在一樓等劉德華的座車，企圖攔車，仍沒如願。

楊勤冀愈想愈氣憤，25日夜與太太外出，在尖沙嘴天星碼頭旁的快餐店進食，太太倦極伏桌而睡，醒來後已找不到丈夫，只見桌上丈夫寫的遺書。警員接報案後，在天星碼頭附近發現楊勤冀在海中浮沉，送院搶救無效。

留下遺書痛罵劉德華

楊勤冀留下的遺書，開頭就痛罵劉德華「你以為你是誰……你很自私……」，最後寫到心願未償，「我再不忍心看孩子痛苦，我決定以死抗議，我死了，你劉德華還要見我們孩子，不然死不瞑目……」

母女身上只勝1000元

楊家母女表示，身上只餘1000元，不夠買機票回蘭州，今日先回深圳再作打算；，暫時沒想到如何處理後事，希望港府能代為處理，但不願火化，要留全屍。

劉德華經理人公司表示，華仔歌迷會已派員接待其父母兩次，聽取其意見，並讓楊麗娟加入歌迷會；而25日楊女已參加華仔為歌迷舉行的生日派對，並獲安排跟劉德華談話及單獨拍照。

Source: TW Yahoo News

The shorter English news:

A young lady fan of Hong Kong star Andy Lau has experienced an extreme up-and-down of her life. Finally she got the chance to meet her long-time idol, before receiving the news of her father’s death three days later.

Domestic Portal NetEase reports that Yang Li-juan is a 28-year-old girl from northwestern China’s Gansu province. She became a huge fan of Andy Lau twelve years ago. Since then, the only thing she cares about in her life was to meet her Prince Charming someday.

She quit school, and spent day after day watching videos of Andy Lau’s concerts. She wrote letters to him, and traveled to Hong Kong for two times hoping she could meet the famous singer and actor.
Unfortunately, she got no response from him at all. Furthermore, her unrequited love has cost her parents almost everything.

Yang’s father, a retired middle school teacher earning a pension of 1900 yuan per moth, was the one who supported the whole family. Her mother was unable to work for her poor health condition. They tried to persuade her out of the daydream in vain. Thence the family has lived indebted. They even sold their only apartment for Yang’s traveling fee to Hong Kong.

Last week they came to Hong Kong for the third time, and finally managed to see the super star on Sunday with the help of his fans’ association “Andy World Club.”

The girl was too happy to realize it was the last few days she could spend with her father. The old man jumped into the sea early Wednesday morning when his wife and daughter were still asleep in a fast food restaurant open round-the-clock – they could not even afford a hotel room.

He was rescued by the coast guard, but died later in hospital. His last wish, expressed in a letter, was for the local government to take care of the rest of the family.

Andy Lau himself has yet to comment on the case.

Source: CRI English

I have no “heart” to translate this piece of news coz reading the Chinese news really made me angry. Pardon my bluntness but I’m angry at the stupidity of the father and daughter. The father is stupid to act in this way - to die for NOTHING. Committing suicide is NOT the way to solve a problem, which in this case is not that your daughter don’t get the time to talk to Andy Lau, but the problem that you have spent ALL YOUR SAVINGS to meet your daughter’s unreasonable and unhealthy needs. That you have encourage your daughter to let go of her studies, became someone who don’t work for 13 years just so to spend all her 13 years watching Andy Lau, lived off you and your pension money, have you borrowed money from relatives and friends just so she can make the trip to HK, made you attempt to donate your kidney to get the trip money, throwed your life away because she only have a photo picture opportunity with Andy… so so STUPID!

gosh, let’s not talk about the daughter . Did you know what’s the dad wrote in his suicide note?

“Who do you think you are? …You are selfish… “
“I cannot go through it anymore, this pain of watching my daughter suffer. I have decided to die in protest. I’m going to die. You, Andy Lau, have to meet my daughter another time or my death will be a waste…”

Geez, your death IS a waste. You wasted your life for your good-for-nothing daughter! Yes, she is good for nothing - I don’t mind saying it LOUD. You don’t work, you don’t study - what do you do but live off your parents? You even made your dad sold his house to fund your so-called obsessions! Are you really Andy Lau’s fan? If I am Andy Lau, I don’t even want her to be in fan club.

I hope the daughter will repent her actions although it is already too late…