RIP > Anita Mui

[tug]

I just found out, and I didn't know she had cancer.

She will be missed.

[Suntzu]

WHAAAAAAT!!

[tug]

Yeah, that's what I said. Apparently, for the last four months she has been battling cervical cancer and finally lost to it yesterday.

Sad day it is.

[WanderingMonk]

Originally posted by tug
Yeah, that's what I said. Apparently, for the last four months she has been battling cervical cancer and finally lost to it yesterday.

Sad day it is.

she passed away 30 dec 2003. what do you mean battling cancer for the last four months?

[tug]

It was something I saw on kungfucinema.com today!

Why would they still be talking about that as if it's new?

Sorry for being such a stooge, but I had no idea she was already gone.

Mods, please close this as I now have my bare a$$ flapping in the wind.

[Starchaser107]

I didn't know also...

[tug]

How could so many of us not know these things?

[MasterKiller]

http://glutter.typepad.com/glutter/2...ll_my_div.html

[GeneChing]

Anita on the Media forum

[tug]

Well, at least we can still celebrate her life and legacy on the first anniversary of her passing in a couple weeks.

[web777]

Holy Sh!! I didn't know either and I'm asian. Must been practicing KF too much!!

[Chum Kil]

Mui Yim Fung, I will miss her. She was one of the first HK actress's I was introduce to in HK flicks.

[GeneChing]

May 27, 2021 4:38am PT
Anita Mui Biopic Completes Production at Edko Films

By Vivienne Chow


Edko Films
A promise made between leading Asian film producer Bill Kong and the late Canto-pop super star Anita Mui will soon be fulfilled. Kong’s Edko Films has finally completed production of “Anita,” its long-awaited biopic of the legendary singer-actress who died 18 years ago.

Recalling a meeting with Mui in 2003, Kong (“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Lust, Caution”) said the beloved Hong Kong icon hoped to make a film that could leave a legacy for future generations. “Director Zhang Yimou and I then designed a role for her in ‘House of Flying Daggers’ (2004). But we could not make her dream come true because she passed,” Kong said in a statement. Mui died of cervical cancer on December 30, 2003.

Kong recalled their decades long friendship and said he has never forgotten their promise. “We met a long time ago. Back then Edko Films was still a small company while Mui was already a super star. But she still helped us to promote ‘Laputa: Castle in the Sky,’ the film that we were distributing at the time. I am still grateful for her support even today,” said Kong.

“I still hope to make her dream come true and to find a way to compensate for not collaborating on ‘House of Flying Daggers’. These are my original intentions to shoot the biopic ‘Anita’,” Kong said. “I also hoped that more people will see the film because Mui’s story and her never-give-up spirit is exactly the attitude of Hong Kong people.”

Kong said it took him three years to find the right cast, director and screenplay for the project across Asia. Eventually Longmond Leung (“Cold War” series) was hired to direct the film and a new face was identified to play the weighty role of Mui. However, Edko Films is still keeping the name of the lead actress who plays the beloved Hong Kong icon a mystery.

The film company has however unveiled the first teaser trailer and poster for “Anita” but the exact release date of will not be known until next month.

Often dubbed the “Madonna of the East” in the English-language media, Mui was one of Hong Kong’s most iconic stars. She came from a humble background and began performing at amusement parks and clubs when she was a child. She became an overnight singing sensation when she won a TVB singing contest in 1982. She then went on to release a number of hit songs and stage many concerts.

Mui was also an accomplished actor. Her performance as a ghost in search of her former lover in Stanley Kwan’s classic “Rouge” won her the best actress titles at the Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan in 1988 and at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 1989.

Leung said “Anita” was not only a story about the star but also a mirror of the 1980s Hong Kong. “To me, Mui was the role model of the daughter of Hong Kong […] she never gave up no matter what the adversities. To a great extent, Mui’s life is also a story of the people of Hong Kong,” said Leung.

I always hated the label "Madonna of the East" - Anita and Madonna are so different and unique that it's an unfair characterization.