Sally Yeh (葉蒨文, pinyin: Yè Qiànwén) sometimes written as Sally Yip or Sin-Man Yip (born September 30, 1961) is a major star in both Hong Kong pop music and movie scenes.
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, she grew up in Canada. Yeh's singing career started in the early 1980s and gradually expanded in the following decades with a total of thirty albums, plus forty-odd compilations and live recordings. Yeh speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. Her jazz-trained vocals allow her to handle a wide range of musical genres. Apart from a good record track of original hits, Sally Yeh has, through the years, covered a number of Western songs, ranging from Madonna to Céline Dion by way of the Titanic theme song. She has also collaborated on a number of soundtracks (mostly on Tsui Hark's movies with scores by Wong Jim), including "Lai Ming But Yiu Loi" from A Chinese Ghost Story (1987), which won the Best Original Song award at the 7th Hong Kong Film Awards.
Oddly enough, Yeh's mastery of written...
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The Killer (Traditional Chinese: 喋血雙雄, Simplified Chinese: 喋血双雄; Cantonese IPA: [tɪp 22 hyt 33 sœŋ 55 həʊŋ 11], Jyutping: dip6 hyt3 seong1 hung4; Mandarin Pinyin: Diéxuè shuāngxióng; literally: Bloodshed of Two Heroes) is a 1989 Hong Kong thriller starring Chow Yun-Fat as the hitman Ah Jong, Danny Lee as the cop Li Ying and Sally Yeh as the singer Jennie. John Woo directed the film, which brought him wide-spread recognition in the West. The film was produced by Tsui Hark.The Killer is considered a classic of the Asian heroic bloodshed genre of action cinema.[citation needed] It is a very popular and well regarded film, not only for its stylised violence, but for its themes of honor, love and friendship, which, coupled with the religious motif of salvation (not uncommon in the heroic bloodshed genre) is used to evoke powerful emotions. The film also asserts a higher morality that is above the law of man, which makes the cop question his motivations.[citation needed] The film is...,
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Peking Opera Blues (TC: 刀馬旦, SC: 刀马旦, pinyin: Dāo Mǎ Dàn) is a 1986 Hong Kong film directed by Tsui Hark. The movie combines comedy, Hong Kong action, and serious drama with scenes involving Peking Opera.The film is set in 1913 Beijing, during Yuan Shikai's presidency of the Republic of China. It depicts the adventures of a team of unlikely heroines: Tsao Wan (Brigitte Lin), a patriotic rebel who dresses as a man; Sheung Hung (Cherie Chung), a woman in search of a missing box of jewels; and Pat Neil (Sally Yeh), the daughter of a Peking Opera impresario.The Chinese title translates as Knife Horse Actresses, a term used in Peking Opera to refer to male actors playing female warriors (See Dan article for details). It is sometimes erroneously translated as Knife Horse Dawn, due to the fact that both words are represented by the same Chinese character.The film grossed $17,559,357 HKD in Hong Kong.[1]In his introduction to the Region 1 DVD of Wong Kar-Wai's Chungking Express, Quentin...,
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