Born in Guangdong in 1946, Ti Lung trained at Shaw Brothers and became one of the defining swordsmen of Hong Kong martial arts cinema. He anchored many of Chang Cheh's classic wuxia films, from The Duel (1971) to The Blood Brothers (1973) and delivered one of his most iconic performances as Song in John Woo's A Better Tomorrow (1986), a role that reinvented him for a new generation. He won Best Actor at the Golden Horse Awards for that film and continued to shift gracefully into elder-statesman roles across TVB series like Drive of Life (2007). Dignified and unshowy, he remains a benchmark for classical Hong Kong masculinity on screen. Read more