In 2006, "Soldier Assault" was born, creating a miracle in ratings and setting off a nationwide upsurge of joining the army.
At this time, Kang Honglei was looking for themes in Yunnan and heard the locals talk about the heroic deeds of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Tengchong, the distinctive characters, and the story of the bloody War of Resistance deeply attracted Kang Honglei, so he decided to make these histories into a TV series.
Next, Kang Honglei spent a whole year sorting out the information, conceiving the script, and got a complete story from the oral accounts of many Tengchong veterans, "My Regiment Leader, My Regiment" came into being, started filming in 2008, and met the audience in 2009.
Once my head was launched, "My Regiment" was deeply loved by the audience, and every character in the play, Long Article, Not Spicy, Meng Fan, Veterinarian, Milong, etc., left a deep impression on the audience.
They used their own growth experience to explain the story of the Chinese Expeditionary Force's bloody struggle to defend the country, without deliberate sensationalism, everyone is the protagonist, and many actors who play these roles have become popular overnight, and this TV series has been regarded as the ceiling in the theme of anti-Japanese war dramas.
Time has come to 2024 in a flash, things are not people, and in more than ten years, the actors in the play have also undergone a lot of changes, some have passed away, some have plastic surgery, some have opened stores, some have become Internet celebrities, some have become first-line, and some have no scenes to film...
Meng Fan (played by Zhang Yi).
Born in a scholarly family, his father is a cultured person, but he has different ambitions from his father, he has a heart determined to serve the country, but after seeing too many colleagues die in front of him and the rout on the battlefield, it hit his enthusiasm for serving the country.
He began to become insensitive, self-defeating, and escaping from the battlefield became commonplace for him, and he became an "old fritter" on the battlefield, until he met Long Wenwen, which changed his future life and gradually found himself.
The actor who played Meng Fan is Zhang Yi, who has already amazed the audience with a crying scene in "Soldier Assault", and many veterans who joined the army and retired from the army empathized with Zhang Yi and saw themselves.
After the hit of "My Leader, My Group", Zhang Yi's fate took a turn, and the film appointments continued and they were all popular dramas, "Beijing Love Story", "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky", "Dear", "Chasing the Murderer", "The Climber", "Man Jianghong", "Embroidered Spring Knife", "Red Sea Operation", "My Motherland and Me", etc., have long been among the first-line male star sequence.
In 2023, An Xin in "Hurricane", Wei Guoping in "Who Is He", Cheng Bing in "Three Teams", etc., will continue to make appointments and have unlimited scenery.
Emotionally, Zhang Yi has had two relationships, the first love was his colleague in the repertory troupe, the two were opposed by the girl's parents when they were dating, and Zhang Yi was forced to end the relationship, and later the girl was seriously injured in a car accident and became a vegetative person, Zhang Yi also visited and took care of her.
In 2006, Zhang Yi married Qian Linlin, the host of CCTV, six years older than him, and had a failed marriage, Zhang Yi used his true feelings to impress Qian Linlin, who was already disappointed in marriage, and the two entered the palace of marriage, and chose a childless lifestyle after marriage.
Today's Zhang Yi has long been a front-line person in the entertainment industry, he is very low-key, does not accept advertisements, does not shoot variety shows, treats acting with dedication, and is deeply liked by fans, and the movie "Article 20" starring in 2024 will be released in the mainland.
Long Wenwen (Duan Yihong).
Zhuge Liang's wisdom is like a half-demon, and the dragon article is also a demon, the demon is wise, and the evil is radical against the current."
The screenwriter of "My Leader, My Regiment" once commented on the character of Long Wenwen, who is a "demon", but in the eyes of many people, he is a "clown".
Among the defeated deserters, he went against the current, the regiment commander was a fake, his clothes were stolen, and his name was fake, but it was such a clown who relied on his pit to deceive and integrate the ragged troops, gave them the faith to go home, and led the cannon fodder regiment to play miracles one after another.
Duan Yihong, a low-key and introverted actor, graduated from Chinese opera, his family is poor, he moved bricks on the construction site for tuition when he was in school, slaughtered ducks in the slaughterhouse, ate the cheapest in school, wore the most simple clothes, and was "alternative" in the eyes of his classmates, not good at communicating.
In the four years of college, when his classmates had already taken over the drama and filmed commercials as actors, Duan Yihong was still worried about his livelihood, and after graduation, he became the only student in the class who had never filmed a TV series.
In 1998, Duan Yihong graduated with honors in all subjects and was assigned to the National Theater to become an actor, and starred in the first TV series "Mother" in the same year and entered the film and television industry.
In 1999, Duan Yihong starred in "The True Colors of the Criminal Police", the killer Luo Yang came to prominence, in order to play this villain well, Duan Yihong had to practice a gun thousands of times.
Wang Zhiwen, the leading actor of the TV series, once commented on him, "This is a very good actor".
In 2002, Duan Yihong starred in his first film "Second Brother", which won Duan Yihong the Best Actor Award at the New Delhi International Film Festival.
What really made him popular was the role of Yuan Lang in 2006's "Soldier Assault", the top character of Lao A, who was once Bai Yueguang in the hearts of many people.
My Leader, My Group", Duan Yihong went further and further on the road of strength, and won the best actor at the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2015 with "Scorching Sun".
In 2018, he was successfully crowned with "Blizzard is Coming", and on the road of acting, Duan Yihong once commented on himself "I am willing to be a slave to the play".
The emotional Duan Yihong has long been married, and in 2002, he met the Japanese actress Sachiko Nakamura when he was filming "Proof of Memory", and when the two fell in love, Yihong was still a little-known young actor, and only proposed to Sachiko Nakamura after Duan Yihong had the ability to become famous.
Sachiko Nakamura, formerly known as Wang Jin, was born in Inner Mongolia, settled in Japan with her parents when she was young and changed her nationality, returned to China when she grew up and was admitted to Chinese opera, and became an actor after graduation.
In 2011, the two entered the palace of marriage, and after marriage, Sachiko Nakamura withdrew from the film and television industry, and the two did not have children.
Today's Duan Yihong is still filming, constantly surprising the audience, after watching the films he has played, it is difficult to find the same type of role or expression, non-conformist, a person with a thousand faces, low-key, looking forward to more of his excellent works.
Mi Long (played by Zhang Guoqiang).
A typical Northeast man, with an unforgiving mouth, a sloppy and unreasonable appearance, and a gangster, but with a true temperament.
A meal of pork stewed vermicelli evoked his homesickness, deliberately lost his small shop, and followed the cannon fodder group to the north and south, until he "picked up" a daughter-in-law and son on the road, and then he could be regarded as having a home.
Zhang Guoqiang, before 2006, he was still wandering between various sets, running around in order to be able to have a role, after "Soldier Assault" in 2006, Zhang Guoqiang's fate began to take a turn, 37 years old late bloomer, since then he quickly became popular, no longer worried about taking on the play.
Chen Dalei in "My Brother is Shun Slip", Duan Hu in "No Thief", Commander Wu in "Second Gunner", Ma Dongsheng in "The Dividing Line", Fang Haizhong in "The Gate of Rebirth", Li Changshun in "38th Line", etc., have taken over many hit film and television works.
In order to ensure the quality of each play, he stipulates that he will take on no more than 3 plays a year.
Emotionally, Zhang Guoqiang had two marriages, and his first wife divorced from him, leaving him a son.
The current wife is Wang Xiaonan, the drama flower of the 95-level acting class in the opera, known as "Maggie Cheung in the mainland", 7 years younger than him, and has starred in the film and television drama "No Compromise", "The Flying Eagle Gone Away", "Six Female Pawnshop", "The Strange Case of Jianghu", etc., after marriage, Wang Xiaonan gave birth to a daughter.
Today's Zhang Guoqiang is still filming, and the image of a tough guy has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the film and television works he will appear in in 2024 include "One Step Forward" and "Mother in Tears".
Shangguan Jieci (played by Liu Weiwei).
Born in a scholarly family, her intellectual maturity lies in her charm, and her gentle speech is able to restrain the grumpy dragon.
Liu Weiwei, graduated from Beijing Film Academy, the role that the audience is familiar with is Liu Huaqiang's girlfriend in "Conquest", playing more "problem women", with a gentle temperament on the surface and paranoid on the inside, her quiet temperament makes the audience feel extraordinarily comfortable, even if she plays a bad woman, the audience still likes it.
In 2014, Liu Weiwei married her boyfriend outside the circle in a low-key manner, and the two got married in South Australia.
Xiao Drunk (Yuan Fei).
One of the few female characters in My Leader, My Group, Xiao Drunk is simple and kind, and his first appearance was when Meng Fan cheated a bundle of noodles from the hands of the people of Chanda, and Meng Fan, who was dragging a lame leg, was in stark contrast to Xiao Zui, who was dressed plainly and neatly.
In that war-torn era, Xiao Drunk didn't have much choice to live in order to make a living, so he could only rely on his "body" to eat, but it was difficult for that clear eye to think of her and the dusty woman together.
After meeting Meng Fan, he regarded him as a kind of spiritual sustenance, a reliance on survival, and still had illusions in the face of Meng Fan's deception again and again, she was a poor and pathetic weak woman, she was like a lotus flower, her heart was clean and pure, and she was not stained out of the mud.
The role of Xiao Zui is very popular with the audience, played by Yuan Fei, Yuan Fei was still studying at Communication University when this drama was filmed, and won the Top Ten New Talent Award for Film and Television on the Entertainment Star Sharp List with the role of Xiao Zui.
Since then, Yuan Fei has taken over the filming of "The Vertical and Horizontal of the Great Qin Empire", "The King's Woman", "The Flying Eagle Gone Away", "Joyful Mother-in-law and Pretty Daughter-in-law", "Spy Maze", "The Legend of Da Yuer" and other dramas.
After filming dozens of film and television dramas and not getting out of the circle, in order to seek more opportunities, Yuan Fei chose plastic surgery, and her round face became an ordinary Internet celebrity face.
In 2016, he filmed "The Emperor's Edict of the Peony Fairy", in 2019, he took over the filming of "The Origin of the Buddha's Head in the Antique Bureau", and in 2023, he starred in the TV series "Chrysanthemum Drunk", which has changed a lot.
Not spicy (Wang Dazhi).
Hunan people, senior soldiers, not tall, excellent individual soldier quality and ability, thoughtful, very optimistic, the lines "Wang Bagai's" and "China is going to perish, Hunan people die first" left a deep impression on the audience.
Wang Dazhi, who entered the film and television industry in the mid-90s, has starred in many film and television hit works such as "White Horse Feifei", "Queen Mother Auspicious", "Soldier Assault", "The Legend of Luliang Heroes" and many other film and television hit works with the title of "I Am Not Wang Mao" Russian Bondarchuk International Film Festival.
I Am Not Wang Mao" stills.
However, there was a scandal with Dong Jie during the ** period of his career, and this relationship dealt a great blow to his career, and since 2015, few works with good resources have found him and gradually disappeared from the screen.
In 2021, it was reported that Wang Dazhi, who left the film and television industry, transformed into a business, opened a bar in Xi'an, and invited many friends in the circle to the scene to cheer, and in 2023, a fan met him on the bus, easy-going, smiling, with an obvious big belly, and his hair has become gray, which has changed a lot.
A Yi (played by Wang Xiang).
The dragon is guilty, but if he can become like the dragon, he would rather die! If he can't be a man like a dragon in his life, he'd rather die.
When everyone excused Long Wen incoherently, Ah Yi began his first non-embarrassing speech in the whole play, a trilling voice that broke to the outside of the galaxy, his voice mixed with timidity, and his words were so heartfelt that he touched everyone in a stupid and hysterical way.
Many people have fallen in love with A-Yi because of this.
Compared with the dragon article, Ah Yi is more like a clown, he is timid and cowardly but wants to express himself, funny and full of vicissitudes, timid and bitter, in order to eat a meal of pork stewed vermicelli, he didn't dare to say it when he lost his favorite watch.
The actor who played Ah Yi is called Wang Xiang, the name is very unfamiliar, it is difficult for the audience to remember after filming a few plays, he has been out of the song disc, he left the music scene because he was excluded, and he stopped filming after 2013.
Bean cake (Xie Mengwei).
The youngest cannon fodder, joined the army at the age of 14, was already a senior soldier at the age of 19, had few lines, and was often forgotten by the audience.
Xie Mengwei, born as a child star, became famous in 2004 with the TV series version of "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", and had the nickname of "Gazi", and since then, as he grows older, the change in appearance has gradually become impossible to film.
After growing up, Xie Mengwei transformed into an Internet celebrity, making jokes, selling wine, selling goods, and the actor's acting skills were all used in the script of the live broadcast.
Veterinarian (played by Luo Jingmin).
The only old man in the cannon fodder regiment, his medical skills are very strange, he understands Western medicine and Chinese medicine, plus he has been a doctor for a long time, he wants to save everyone he meets but has never cured a person in his life, benevolent and almost stubborn, there are not many scenes, and finally died under the fire of the Japanese army, which is unsatisfactory.
Luo Jingmin, a common green leaf actor in mainland film and television works, began to become a drama actor at the age of 16, and transformed into the film and television industry in 1990.
On May 26, 2023, Luo Jingmin died of illness at the age of 67.
Ma Dazhi (Fan Lei).
Nicknamed "Snake Ass", a veteran who participated in the Battle of Xuzhou, a corporal of the infantry company of the Guangdong Army, a kitchen knife did not leave his body, worked as a cook in the cannon fodder regiment, and then died with the enemy, and died a heroic death.
Fan Lei, a sketch actor, Huang Hong's apprentice, was the first to partner with Lin Yongjian and Fan Ming in sketches, participated in the Spring Festival Gala, transformed into a film and television actor in 2001, and played the squad leader Lao Ma of the fifth class of the grassland in "Soldier Assault", which was very impressive.
After "My Leader, My Group" was broadcast, Fan Lei successively filmed dramas such as "Forward for New China", "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Party", "Brother Lei Lao Fan", "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" and so on.
Now Fan Lei is still filming, playing Liu Shunkui in the hit "Who Is He" in 2023, and Lao Ma in "The Three Teams".
In addition to the above actors, there are many outstanding characters in "My Regiment Leader, My Regiment", there are not many shots, but everyone is the protagonist, Sichuan soldiers want to be numb, Dong Dao who doesn't talk much, Li Liansheng who can't fight back, Yu Xiaoqing who can't help himself, and Tang Ji who is cunning and cunning.
There is also the assistance of the whole people who hate war, Krupp who fired the cannon, the monk Master Shihang, the Shanxi soldier Kangya, the little bookworm full of enthusiasm, etc., every character is the soul of "My Regiment Leader, My Regiment", and everyone is the protagonist without a supporting role.
My Captain, My Regiment", which character do you like the most?