"Last night, last night's stars have fallen, disappeared into the distant Milky Way, want to remember but have forgotten, that love in exchange for loneliness...
The lyrics of that song are catchy and unforgettable. That familiar melody became one of the most memorable memories of my youth. My favorite theme song and TV series is the 1984 hit "Last Night's Stars", which attracted a lot of attention across the Taiwan Strait.
Although many viewers may have never ** this TV series, they still have a deeper understanding of the theme song of this show through a line in Zhao Lirong's sketch in the 1989 Spring Festival Gala "Last night, last night's stars have fallen and disappeared in the distant galaxy".
Time flies, and in 2024, the personnel are no longer in the limelight, what is the current situation of those actors who were once in the limelight because of this drama?
Zhou Jianbang, played by Zhang Peihua.
Born into a wealthy family, a successful career, a handsome and wealthy business genius, extraordinary intelligence, and knowing how to use his strengths to achieve his goals, the image of the wealthy boy song has made many girls outside TV regard him as the prince charming in their hearts.
Zhang Peihua started his acting career in the 70s, and by the 80s, he became famous. In Qiong Yao's TV series such as "Wanjun", "Wangfu Cliff", "Xueke" and "Three Flowers", he can be seen everywhere. His elegant image of a young man is deeply loved by the audience. Once, he came to the mainland to perform and followed hundreds of fans on the street, which really made him not expect that he would be so well-known in the mainland.
Zhang Peihua gained fame and fortune through Qiong Yao's TV series, but at the peak of her career, she suddenly disappeared from public view and changed careers to become the owner of a dog. Because of her deep affection for dogs, she and Qiong Yao's daughter Liu Xuehua came together, and the two became the focus of envy because of their common interests and hobbies.
However, after dating Zhang Peihua for a while, Liu Xuehua realized Zhang Peihua's deep affection for dogs. Although the two lived together, Liu Xuehua found that Zhang Peihua's feelings for the dog were far more than hers, which made her feel very sad and finally chose to break up.
After that, Zhang Peihua started a new relationship and entered the palace of marriage. However, due to his dog breeding business, the relationship between the two gradually faded, and finally chose to break up and divorce. His remarried wife is a flight attendant and she is very supportive of his dog business. With the full support of his current wife, Zhang Peihua's dog breeding business has achieved remarkable success.
In recent years, Zhang Peihua has devoted himself to the cultivation of Tibetan mastiffs. According to a report by Taiwan, the Tibetan mastiff he cultivated can be sold for one or two hundred thousand, with an annual income of several million, which is no longer a problem. Now, many people are no longer his actors, but have begun to call him by the name "Father of the Tibetan Mastiff".
Qiu Suyun, played by Shen Shihua.
This girl has matured after going through all kinds of difficulties and challenges, she is beautiful and charming, noble and cold at the same time. She was born into a wealthy family and was spoiled by the male lead. However, due to the coldness and alienation of the male protagonist, her personality underwent a huge transformation and began to reflect deeply on herself.
Shen Shihua is an actor who made his debut in Taiwan in 1976. Three years later, she won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 16th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival for her starring role in "A Female Worker's Story", and "Last Night's Stars" won her a higher popularity in the mainland.
After Shen Shihua became famous, he attracted countless suitors, all of whom were young talents and wealthy businessmen. Like many actresses, Shen Shihua chose to be a virtuous wife and mother during the ** period of his career, but unfortunately, a man with a bright appearance is never reliable. After Shen Shihua gave birth to a daughter for the other party, he learned that the other party was married.
When she asked the other party for child support, she was also asked to take a paternity test, which caused an uproar for a while, and finally had to end a ridiculous relationship in Bo Gonggong.
After 2004, Shen Shihua returned to the stage, and in 2006, she won the Taiwan Golden Bell Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Serial for her outstanding performance in "Love Kill 17", which marked a new beginning for her career.
At present, 69-year-old Shen Shihua is still filming Taiwanese TV series, and there is no news about her marriage so far. She has said that her first relationship hurt her deeply and that it still hurts her to see a pregnant couple holding hands on the road.
Wu Yingqiang, played by Kou Shixun.
This is a poor orphan, he is not highly educated, and his temperament is irritable, but his sincerity and kindness, his righteousness towards his friends, and his image of riding a motorcycle with long flowing hair have attracted many young people to imitate.
Kou Shixun is an experienced drama actor in Taiwan, and many audiences know him in Qiong Yao's works.
Outside the play, Kou Shixun is surrounded by two wives, but he retorts: "If I were given another chance, I would never marry two more, I'm really tired!" ”
Kou Shixun's main wife, Cui Yaoqi, grew up with him since childhood. In 1982, the two got married in the presence of their parents. After getting married, Kou Se-hoon was busy making movies, while Choi Yao-ki quit her job and devoted herself to taking care of her family and husband, becoming a full-time housewife.
Cui Yaoqi brought a boy and a girl to the family in the years after she got married, but Kou Shixun did not fully respond to all her efforts.
Kou Shixun and Choi Yaoqi with their daughter.
As Kou Shixun's reputation gradually rose, he participated in more and more film and television projects, and almost became a frequent visitor to Taiwan's Golden Bell Award nominations. A year has passed, he is still working in the crew, and the time he spends with his wife Cui Yaoqi is becoming less and less, coupled with various socializations from the outside world, Kou Shixun's mood is becoming more and more unstable.
Under Kou Shixun's enthusiastic pursuit, he met a young woman named Xu Lidan, who not only had a graceful figure, but also a very beautiful face, even younger than his wife. The two soon formed a romantic relationship under the impetus of Kou Shixun.
As a woman, Xu Lidan is very aware of the predicament she finds herself in, and no woman wants her husband to fall in love with another person.
I don't care about your status, and I don't compete with your wife for favor, I just want to be with you."
Xu Lidan, an "empathetic" person, made great compromises. He didn't care about his social status and the criticism of the outside world, but with the reputation of "knowing three things", he didn't hesitate to spend time with Kou Shixun.
As of 1996, Xu Lidan and Kou Shixun have spent 8 years together, and the relationship between them is deep.
Kou Shixun was reluctant to let go in the face of two women who loved him deeply. Therefore, he vigorously showed his feelings in front of his childhood sweetheart Huang Yaoqi, who went through the ups and downs with him. On the one hand, he apologized for his past flowery behavior; On the other hand, he stressed that both women were the love of his life and that he was not willing to let go easily.
He also made a promise that as long as Xu Lidan stayed, Huang Yaoqi would have full authority to manage all the property in the family.
In the sweet words of Kou Shixun, the two women decided to live with Kou Shixun. In order to better meet the living needs of the family, Kou Shixun purchased the upper and lower floors of the house and traveled between the two families.
Kou Se-hoon's daily life is just like what is depicted in the TV series, he is envied by many men because he is always hugged left and right. But in his daily life, he is always busy, and the contradictions between the two women are endless. In this case, Kou Shixun had to intervene to mediate and successfully pacify the people upstairs and downstairs.
I remember that in Guo Degang's cross talk jokes, he once said: "If you feel unhappy, then marry two daughters-in-law."
Exhausted by work stress and family strife, Ko eventually had to buy a property elsewhere. After the two "wives" broke up, family conflicts were significantly reduced, and it was rumored that Xu Lidan later emigrated abroad.
Kou Shixun's son Kou Jiarui said in an interview with ** that when his mother learned of his father's betrayal, she felt extreme heartache and was completely unable to live in peace with Xu Lidan. In his memory, Xu Lidan would only reunite with them on certain festivals, and the atmosphere in the house was always so tense that there would definitely be disputes."
The 69-year-old is still making films, his two wives have given birth to four children, and although he enjoys the happiness of his family, there is also unspeakable pain behind it.
Kou Shixun and his family.
Chen Qiuxiang, played by Zhang Yongyong.
The girlfriend of the male protagonist Wu Yingqiang, because of the appearance of the heroine, broke her original happy life, and her coquettish tone of speech left a deep impression on her.
Chang Wing-wing is a well-known local actor in Taiwan, and his representative works include "Two Horses", "Dongmei", "Golden Sword Carving", "Troubled Times" and "The Legend of Cicada Wings". In the China Television version of "Heavenly Dragon Babu", he played the two roles of A Zhu and A Zi, but in the mainland, his popularity is relatively low.
In the early 90s of the 20th century, Zhang Yongyong married a doctor who was not in the entertainment industry, and she had two sons after marriage, but since returning home, she has rarely appeared in public ** again, and she has not appeared for a long time.
Qiu Mingyuan, played by Tian Feng.
He once ran a large business, left a handsome legacy for his children, and returned to his hometown with honor after retirement.
Tian Feng, a stage actor, was born in Henan and began his acting career in Hong Kong around the 60s. He has collaborated on a number of Hong Kong martial arts films, including "The One-Armed Knife", "True Colors of Heroes", "Dragon Soaring Seas", "Strange Man", "Jingwumen" and "Young Master Dragon".
The stills of "Young Master Dragon" are displayed.
As he grew older, he moved to Taiwan after the 80s and was involved in the production of numerous films. Despite this, mainland audiences are quite familiar with his appearance, and it can be said that he is an actor with a familiar face but a less familiar name.
In 2014, Tian Feng won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 51st Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards.
In October 2015, Tian Feng passed away in Hong Kong at the age of 87.
Chen Yuqin, played by Ma Zhiqin.
This ill-fated woman was favored by the rich young master Qiu Mingyuan when she was young, and gave birth to a boy and a girl for him, but was later abandoned. She worked hard to raise her two children and never complained, which made a great impression.
Thanks to this role, Ma Zhiqin has been widely recognized by the audience in the mainland and won the Best Actress Award at the 20th Golden Bell Awards.
After that, he also participated in the filming of many films and TV series such as "Smiling Proud Jianghu", "Blue Sea and Blue Sky", "Basketball Fire", etc., but after 2016, he gradually withdrew from the film and television industry.
In terms of feelings, Ma Zhiqin has experienced three marriages, his attitude towards love is brave, both love and hate, in these three marriages, he has 4 children, but in the end they all chose to divorce.
At the age of about 77, Ma Zhiqin was diagnosed with ALS, which caused his muscles to gradually atrophy, his limbs to lose mobility, and he could not communicate with people normally, and his later life was plagued by the disease.
On November 1, 2022, Ma Zhiqin died in a dream at the age of 80.
Qiu Weilong, played by Xie Pingnan.
He is a person characterized by self-centeredness, ruthlessness, greed, and arrogance, and will stop at nothing to achieve his goals.
Xie Pingnan was an active actor in Taiwan in the 80s, and her film and television works include "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "Qin Shi Huang and A Fang Nu" and "The Legend of the Deer and Ding". However, she did not make significant progress in the film and television industry in Taiwan, especially after the 90s, when she began to gradually fade out of the film and television industry.
Chen Yanyan plays the role of Zhou's mother.
The hero's mother is a noble, soft-spoken, and well-behaved woman who knows how to maintain the overall situation of the family and is good at managing family affairs.
Chen Yanyan started her acting career as early as the 30s. In the film directed by Cai Chusheng, she plays the role of the heroine, with a round face, willow-like eyebrows, and a pair of lively big eyes, which are very eye-catching. The beauty mole at the corner of her mouth gives people a unique feeling, she was once one of the four major actresses in the Taiwanese film industry, and was deeply loved by Zhang Ailing.
In Taiwan's film industry, it is known as a "beautiful bird."
Ruan Lingyu once praised Chen Yanyan's ability to seize half of her country, but the truth is that in the thirties and forties, Chen Yanyan, who was not yet 30 years old, was already widely popular in the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and she mainly starred in tragic films, so she was known as the "Queen of Tragedy."
However, at the peak of her career, she chose to enter the palace of marriage. In the 50s, she migrated to Hong Kong and founded a film production company, working mostly behind the scenes. In the 70s, she began to reduce production, and in the 80s, she chose to retire across.
In May 199, Chen Yanyan died of illness at the age of 83.
In the blink of an eye, more than 40 years have passed, and the plots of many TV series have disappeared from memory, but the name of this drama still remains in our memory, as well as the song that Lin Shurong sang that we are familiar with: "Last night, last night's stars have fallen..."
Do you still have memories of the TV series called "Last Night's Stars"?
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