On September 13, 2005, "Bright Sword" premiered on CCTV, with a compact plot and distinctive characters, which is very different from the style of previous dramas, which made the audience's eyes shine, and soon this film and television work with the theme of the Anti-Japanese War became popular all over the streets and alleys.
Li Yunlong attacked Ping'an County in order to save Xiuqin, Ding Wei and Kong Jie surrounded the point to help, Chu Yunfei's 358 regiment helped the field in time, the lines of scolding the mother continued, golden sentences came out frequently, Da Biao fell his hat, Baoqing skated, Yousheng parade, Nai Chao ran, the second battalion commander's Italian artillery and other famous scenes continued, "Bright Sword" rekindled many audiences' love for anti-Japanese war dramas.
To this day, it is still regarded as a ceiling-like existence by the audience, and it is still unfinished after countless times.
Time comes to 2024, 18 years have passed in a flash, things are not people, the protagonists in the play are popular with this drama, Li Yunlong (Li Youbin) went out of the house to marry a beautiful wife, career and love win-win, Chu Yunfei (Zhang Guangbei) trained his daughter to become an actor, and the monk (Zhang Tong) became more and more skilled in acting.
Chu Yunfei, Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, monk.
In addition to these well-known protagonists, many supporting characters in "Bright Sword" are also outstanding in the play, 18 years later, what have become of them?
Mr. Peng (Zong Liqun).
has a strong and fiery personality, has prestige, and his momentum suppresses Li Yunlong, and there are not many scenes to be brilliant enough.
Playing Mr. Peng is Zong Liqun, a soldier, a national first-class actor, who entered the film and television industry as a special actor in the 90s, and has played the role of "Mr. Peng" in more than 60 film and television works, the only regret is that he has not played this role as an official protagonist.
Representative works include "The Great Battle", "On the Taihang Mountain", "The Fate of the Country", "The Great Turning Point", "The East", "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic", etc., all of which are film and television works of the Anti-Japanese War with similar themes.
On April 14, 2023, Zong Liqun passed away due to illness at the age of 74.
Lynx (Yao Rongqin).
The second master of Heiyun Village, a character hated by the audience, the monk was plotted by the lynx on the way to deliver the letter, and after beating the monk to death, he also cut off his head, which made the audience hate itchy.
In "Bright Sword", Heiyunzhai was occupied by a group of bandits as the king, robbed the puppet army, robbed the **, and was later taken by Kong Jie and named "New Second Regiment Independent Brigade", looking like it was about to become a regular army, but I didn't expect to meet a pig teammate and provoke Li Yunlong, so Kong Jie learned that the monk was killed and said, "It's over, there will be no more numbers of the New Second Regiment Independent Brigade in the future."
After learning that the monk was killed, Li Yunlong made an oath of "not avenging this revenge, swearing not to be a man", and despite Kong Jie's persuasion, he gathered troops to attack Heiyunzhai.
After Li Yunlong took Heiyun Village, he captured the second-in-command lynx alive, and directly slashed him with a knife without listening to his explanation, and the audience was addicted to watching it.
The actor who played the second master is Yao Rongqin, who has not many shots but has become the most hated role in the play, more than 20 years have passed, and the audience still has not been relieved, after filming "Bright Sword", Yao Rongqin did not continue filming and "disappeared" on the screen.
Yao Rongqin, graduated from ** Drama Academy, graduated from a serious class, and has starred in many works, "I Want to Have a Home", "Four Treasures in Front of the Emperor", "Conquest 3", "Pei's Compound", "Happy Journey", "Ill-gotten Gains", etc., are mostly marginal roles, tepid.
Conquest 3" stills.
After "Bright Sword", Yao Rongqin transformed into a screenwriter and director behind the scenes, and his works include "Rental Girlfriend", "Little Ghost Wisdom and Many Stars", "Little Ghost in Charge" and so on.
As the online live broadcast platform became more and more popular, Yao Rongqin appeared on the live broadcast platform again, his eyebrows and beard have not changed as they were 18 years ago, and fans of the show are still angry after seeing it.
Zhang Bailu (played by Chen Yige).
Tian Yu's friend, who is beautiful, has a bold and cultured personality, is a high-minded and arrogant woman, and is very powerful, Ding Wei was interested in her when he appeared, but Zhang Bailu had a love for Li Yunlong, who was full of foul mouth.
Li Yunlong met 3 women in "Bright Sword", the most guilty for Xiuqin, true love for Tian Yu, Zhang Bailu is the most powerful for him, she understands military affairs, has high emotional intelligence, and Li Yunlong has a lot of common prophecies, facing Zhang Bailu, Li Yunlong almost made a mistake, but fortunately, Tian Yu later won back Lao Li's heart with wit.
Chen Yige, a woman who is more and more tasteful the more she looks at it, was born in a Chinese opera class, worked as a dance and sketch actor when she debuted, and entered the film and television industry after the millennium, and most of the film and television roles she played were supporting roles, and the number of works gradually increased after the hit of "Bright Sword".
The Story of the New Editorial Department", "Scarlet Golden Triangle", "Wolf Poison Flower", etc., disappeared after 2012, and there are rumors that Chen Yige went to Hong Kong to develop after retiring from the circle.
Sakata Daisa (Meng Gengcheng).
Li Yunlong's troops were surrounded in a dangerous situation, and in the face of the well-equipped Sakata United, Li Yunlong chose to break through from the front, vowing to defeat this elite, which led to the famous scene of the pillar bombing the command post of the Sakata United.
In the play, Sakata United's Dazuo is played by Meng Gengcheng, and he did not live to the second episode, and the audience is not impressed by him.
Meng Gengcheng, not tall, born as a martial arts athlete, won the championship of the first national martial arts competition in 1972, and was selected as a member of the national team together with Jet Li and Zhao Changjun, and transformed into an actor in the mid-80s.
The audience mostly met him through the role of the 107th ranked Gushangsao Shiqian in the CCTV version of "Water Margin", due to the limitation of his body and appearance, his acting career was limited, so he played more supporting roles.
In the late 80s, Meng Gengcheng returned to his hometown of Taiyuan, Shanxi, and opened a martial arts gym, teaching kung fu and making cameo appearances in filming.
Now in the short ** platform, Meng Gengcheng sometimes broadcasts live and makes jokes, and there is not much change.
Zhu Ziming (Yuan Man).
Li Yunlong's subordinates, officers of the Security Section, were captured in the line of duty, and at first they would rather die than give in, but after being tortured, they still mutinied.
It was his rebellion that caused the Yamamoto brigade to attack Zhaojiayu at night and rob Li Yunlong's wife Xiuqin, which led to Li Yunlong's attack on Ping'an County, and the entire northwest of Shanxi became a pot of porridge.
Yuan Man, who has a wide range of plays, belongs to actors with familiar faces and unfamiliar names, has acted in many film and television works with the same theme after "Bright Sword", whether it is a decent or a villain, they can perform different characteristics, "Militia Ge Erdan", "Loyalty and Betrayal", "Ordinary Glory", "Educated Youth", "The Gate of Rebirth", etc.
Stills from Militia Ge Erdan.
In the 2022 hit "Please Call Me Director", Yuan Man played the role of Qiu Junlin, a scheming and face-loving workplace leader, and then a traitor who "betrayed" the company, a character who hides a knife in a smile, Yuan Man's face is very in line with the character of a traitor.
Kazuki Yamamoto (Lu Peng).
The captain of the special combat team, ruthless and unsightly, severely damaged Kong Jie's independent regiment, sneaked into the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and seriously injured Zhao Gang when attacking Zhao Jiayu, robbed Xiuqin, a ruthless character, and was later killed by Italian artillery when Li Yunlong attacked Ping'an County.
Lu Peng, a native of Jiangsu, is a special actor in the Anti-Japanese War drama, and is known as a "devil professional" along with Wang Kan, Ma Weijun, and Yang Qingwen.
The hit of "Bright Sword" changed his fate, and since then in the film "The Big Knife Cuts Off the Devil's Head", "Saber", "Meritorious", "Prairie Spring Comes Early", "Zhongtian Hanging Sword", "On the Songhua River" and "Arrow on the String" are all Japanese, because they can speak fluent Japanese, they are mistaken for Japanese by the audience.
In the years when Anti-Japanese War dramas were popular on the screen, Lu Peng could almost be seen in film and television works with the theme of Anti-Japanese War dramas.
In addition to filming, Lu Peng is actually a teacher, who has taught at Shanghai Film Academy and the School of Media and Film and Television of Jiangsu Normal University, teaching and filming at the same time.
Emotionally, Lu Peng was married before the age of 30, his wife is an outsider, and he has a son after marriage.
The underworld Morita (Yang Qingwen).
The captain of the Japanese cavalry wing, "Bright Sword" ** appeared twice, in the first episode he appeared with Sakata Daisa, who was his adjutant, and then reappeared as a wing captain in the confrontation with the cavalry company brought by Sun Desheng, and eliminated Sun Desheng's cavalry company.
Yang Qingwen, who became a driver after graduating from high school, participated in the filming of the movie "Stormy Waves" as a driver in 2001, and when he was a driver in the crew of "Bright Sword" in 2003, he was discovered by director Chen Jian because he knew Japanese, giving him the opportunity to show his face, and his fate has taken a turn since then.
After that, Yang Qingwen officially became an actor, that year, Yang Qingwen was 44 years old, middle-aged, and the hit of "Bright Sword" made him live a good life.
Since then, Yang Qingwen has received invitations to play Japanese roles in many film and television works such as "Snow Leopard", "Indelible Number", "Black River Fengyun", "Age of Peace", etc.
Now 62-year-old Yang Qingwen is still filming, the acting road is very narrow, basically he is a special villain, and at the same time he has filmed a lot of jokes on his own social account.
Brigade Commander (Zhang Wei).
Li Yunlong, who was short-tempered and not afraid of heaven and earth, was three points shorter in his momentum when facing this brigade commander.
Zhang Wei, whose job is dubbing, dubbed dubbing in CCTV in the early days, dubbing domestic film and television dramas in the later stage, and participated in very few film and television works, and participated in the filming of works such as "Shangyang Fu", "Armageddon", "Changed the World" and other works in recent years.
Wang Yousheng (Cao Qifeng).
The scouts under Duan Peng did not have many shots, and his honest and upright image left a deep impression on the audience.
As the vanguard of the army, Wang Yousheng captured the enemy's supplies, and one second he was still triumphant like a military parade, showing off his new shoes, and the next second because of the grabbing of supplies by friendly and neighboring troops, he sat on the ground and kicked his legs and cried, like a child.
When he saw Li Yunlong, he had the backbone and hurriedly complained, and slapped the other party twice with tears in his eyes at Li Yunlong's instructions.
The less than two-minute scene allowed Cao Qifeng to perform the character traits of this little person.
Cao Qifeng is not a professional actor, after "Bright Sword", he still played tricks, slowly disappeared from the screen, and the news of him heard again was the news of his death, and he died in 2018.
Xie Baoqing (Leslie Cheung).
After the second boss of Heiyunzhai provoked Li Yunlong, Xie Baoqing's first reaction was to surrender, but unfortunately Li Yunlong was bent on revenge, Xie Baoqing fled from the back mountain without even resisting when he heard the gunshot.
Commander Li, don't be kidding, brother, what I see is your light machine gun, forced. Persecution, persecution. Ah, mortar, wow...
During the escape, he showed his two unique skills, Lingyun Flying and Figure Skating, and his funny appearance was impressive.
The actor who played Xie Baoqing is Leslie Cheung, who has the same name as the deceased Hong Kong artist Leslie Cheung, has not many film and television works, and once played the role of Li Xiaoer in the CCTV version of "Water Margin"**, and then disappeared.
In 2023, a drama fan met Leslie Cheung himself in a small restaurant, his hair has turned gray and has changed a lot.
In addition to the above outstanding supporting roles, there are many characters in "Bright Sword" that are loved by the audience.
Duan Peng (Zhang Xiaojun).
has an upright personality, knows kung fu with fists and feet, has practiced iron sand palms, is loyal to Li Yunlong, and has beaten Ding Wei.
After the hit of "Bright Sword", Zhang Xiaojun's image of a soldier was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and most of the themes he took over since then are similar tough guy characters. "Dark Injury", "Railway Guerrilla 2", "East Wind Breaking", "Life and Death Company", etc., has played ** in "Changjin Lake", and played the division commander Cai Changyuan in "Crossing the Yalu River", and has been filming.
Zhang Dabiao (Zhan Weihua).
Li Yunlong's right-hand man, the battalion commander of the first battalion of the Independent Regiment, has a strong temperament and strong execution, and he is deeply respected by Li Yunlong.
Zhan Weihua, graduated from the Chinese opera class, the image of the soldier with the iron bones of the soldier has been fixed with the hit of "Bright Sword", and the works that have been filmed have not made much breakthroughs, and he is still filming film and television works with this theme, and he will return to his rural hometown to shoot some jokes after work.
Chang Naichao (Dong Qiming).
The commander of the Seventh Division, after being captured, was mixed in the team, and was later recognized by Li Yunlong, and had the famous scene of "Nai Chao Running", and later Li Yunlong became his instructor when he was a cadet at the Military Academy.
Nowadays, Dong Qiming often shoots some of his exercise jokes on the short ** platform in addition to filming, live broadcast, etc.
Feng Nan (played by Sun Li).
Tian Yu's friend, knowledgeable and educated, was introduced to Zhao Gang under the guidance of Li Yunlong and Tian Yu, Zhao Gang was 10,000 unwilling before meeting, when he saw Feng Nan for the first time, Zhao Gang was already emotional, and the two fell in love at first sight, and then after Zhao Gang was ** committed suicide, Feng Nan followed the martyrdom, leaving four children.
The actor who starred in Feng Nan is Sun Li, the best developed actress in "Bright Sword" so far, and the film and television works "The Legend of Zhen Huan", "The Legend of Miyue", "The Year the Flowers Bloomed and the Moon Was Full", "An Family" and so on are almost all hits, and they have long been among the first-line.
Sun Desheng (Jiang Shui).
The company commander of the cavalry company, with a distinct personality, was exchanged by Li Yunlong with five machine guns from Ding Wei, and the most heroic and unsettling scene in "Bright Sword" is the shot from the cavalry company led by Sun Desheng charging.
Even if there is only one arm, one person, and one horse left, he still dares to "show his sword" to the enemy.
Sun Desheng's success made Jiang Shui famous overnight, and since then, the film appointments have continued, most of them are film and television works with the theme of the Anti-Japanese War, and the end is almost inseparable from the tragic and sacrificial ending, and finally has the name of "heroic professional household", either blown up, shot or hacked to death, the biggest wish is to be able to live a few more episodes.
Tian Moxuan (Tian Chunshan).
Li Yunlong's father-in-law, the cultural differences between the two are very contradictory, and they make things difficult for Li Yunlong.
Tian Moxuan is Tian Chunshan, not a professional actor, except for "Bright Sword", there are very few film and television masterpieces that can be checked, and in 2019, he cooperated with Duan Peng (Zhang Xiaojun) and Chang Naichao (Dong Qiming) to shoot "The Legend of Yao Shun".
Division commander (played by Che Xiaotong).
There are not many shots, he is wise and calm, and Li Yunlong is still very in awe of this division commander.
Che Xiaotong, there are not many film and television masterpieces, he once played the Golden Horn King in the CCTV version of "Journey to the West", he was born as a drama actor, and he basically made cameo appearances in the film.
For Che Xiaotong's wife and daughter, the audience will be more familiar, the daughter is Che Xiao, and the ex-wife is Wang Liyun, after the divorce, Che Xiaotong and Wang Liyun get along as friends, and the family will get together.
18 years have passed, things are not people, these supporting characters are in very different situations, some have become a front-line, some are no longer as beautiful as before, some have withdrawn from the circle, and some have passed away quietly.
Many viewers hope to see a sequel to "Bright Sword" with the original cast, but in fact, in the past 20 years, the actors in the play have collaborated on many scenes, such as "Legend of the Time-honored Brand", "Life and Death", "Bright Sword: The Decisive Battle of Ghost Crying Valley", etc., but unfortunately the classics are difficult to reproduce again.
Life and Death Sniper" stills.
Only every time I brush up on the wonderful scenes of "Bright Sword", I know that I have watched it countless times, but I still can't help but watch it again, and the classic lines are still fresh in my memory...
Li Yunlong: "Lao Tzu fights the elite", "In the face of a strong opponent, knowing that he is invincible, he must resolutely show his sword, even if he falls, he must become a mountain and a ridge ......."”
Kong Jie: "Xie Baoqing, Xie Baoqing, who are you messing with Li Yunlong."
Chu Yunfei: "No matter who is fighting Ping'an County, my 358th Regiment will definitely help the field."
Sun Desheng: "Cavalry company, attack!."”。