Hong Kong filmmaker and actor Stephen Chow Sing-chi\u2019s latest film Kung Fu Soccer held its Hong Kong premiere on Saturday night (Aug 8), with Chow joined by cast members including Carina Lau Ka-ling, Dilraba Dilmurat, Sisley Choi Sea-pui and Louis Cheung Kai-chung. The film will open in Hong Kong on Aug 13 after its mainland China release.<\/p>\n
The surprise appearance of Chow\u2019s mother Ling Po-yee and elder sister Chow Man-kei became one of the highlights of the event. Ling, who appeared in good spirits, waved to reporters as she attended the premiere to support her son.<\/p>\n
Ling raised Chow and his two sisters as a single mother after divorcing Chow\u2019s father. Reports said the marriage ended after Chow, then aged four, allegedly witnessed his father meeting another woman at a cinema and later told his mother what he had seen.<\/p>\n
After the divorce, Ling worked multiple jobs to support her three children. Chow\u2019s upbringing in a single-parent family has often been cited as a major influence on his life and career.<\/p>\n
Chow joined TVB\u2019s acting training programme in the 1980s before becoming one of Hong Kong\u2019s most successful entertainers, earning the nickname \u201cKing of Comedy\u201d. His elder sister Chow Man-kei has also been involved in managing his business affairs after he established his own production company.<\/p>\n
The rare family appearance came as Chow prepares for the Hong Kong release of Kung Fu Soccer, following its successful mainland China run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong filmmaker and actor Stephen Chow Sing-chi\u2019s latest film Kung Fu Soccer held its Hong Kong premiere…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[879,49,48,95,29310,133,29309,43,29312,29311,29313,701,29314,561,82,2225,29308,3275],"class_list":["post-851527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-english-daily","tag-finance","tag-free-newspaper","tag-headlines","tag-hong-kong-media","tag-hong-kong-news","tag-hong-kong-news-media","tag-latest-news","tag-sing-tao","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-the-standard","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}