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Dicky Cheung Wai-kin (born 8 February 1965) is a Hong Kong actor and singer.
He entered show business in the early 1980s, signing a contract with television station TVB. He won the third annual New Talent Singing Awards in 1984. Up until the mid-90s, Dicky struggled for many years working as a low-paid actor, singer and appeared occasionally in films. It wasn't until his brilliant portrayal of the Monkey King character in the 1996 TVB adaptation of the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West that his popularity began to skyrocket. A sequel to the TV adaptation was planned, but due to a contract dispute with TVB, Cheung left before production began. Benny Chan Ho Man took over the role of the Monkey King in the sequel. Cheung then went abroad to Taiwan to continue his career.
He has appeared in many Taiwanese television productions since then. In 1999, TVB's rival station ATV acquired the Hong Kong broadcasting rights to his Taiwanese television series Young Hero Fong Sai Yuk. Cheung played Fong Sai Yuk, a character also portrayed by Jet Li in his film Fong Sai Yuk. The show was an instant hit in Hong Kong and managed to gain much higher ratings than TVB's own television series. The TVB series showing at that time was Dragon Love, starring Benny Chan Ho Man, who replaced Cheung in the Journey to the West sequel, Journey to the West II.
Actors: Cecilia Yip (actress), Simon Lui (actor), Michael Wong (director), Michael Wong (actor), Michael Wong (producer), Marco Mak (editor), Angie Lam (editor), Moses Chan (actor), Mo-Chan Chik (actor), Jimmy Ga Lok Wong (actor), Man Biu Lee (actor), Florence Kwok (actress), Kenny Chan (producer), Kit Koon (actress), Kit Koon (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Miles Ma (Michael Wong), Chief Inspector of Crime Two division at Mong Kok Police Precinct has been tasked with bringing down the local Triad's VCD pirating operation. Struggling with the death of his wife, he submerges himself in his work and distances himself from new love Janis (Cecilia Yip). During a routine raid on the VCD distribution outlet Miles finds Heroin piggy backed with the VCD shipments triggering a full scale battle with the Triad boss Kwok (Ching Siu Leung). Miles soon finds himself arrested by Dicky (Simon Lui) for rape and discovers he is set-up by his old friend and colleague CK (Moses Chan) who is secretly working with Kwok. Janis works fervently to prove Miles' innocence and in the process their relationship undergoes great challenge. Through love, denial, deceit, and struggle, Miles discovers that he is miles apart from where he should be in his life and decides to exact revenge to prove his innocence and regain what is rightfully his.
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