Kenneth Tsang: For Hong Kong residents and fans of Cantonese cinema, Tsang was a well-known name.
Hong Kong:
Kenneth Tsang, a supporter of the “Golden Age” of Cantonese cinema, was found dead in a hotel room in Hong Kong on Wednesday during a mandatory quarantine after returning from abroad, according to local media.
The 87-year-old Tsang was discovered by quarantine hotel staff two days after returning from Singapore, several publications reported, including Now News, South China Morning Post and Oriental Daily.
In a report of the incident, police said that around noon (04:00 GMT) hotel staff reported that the “body” had been found.
An 87-year-old man named Tsang was killed, the report said.
For Hong Kong residents and Cantonese film fans, Tsang was known for a six-decade career with more than 200 acting roles listed in the IMDB film database.
He has also been the face of the Hong Kong brand of hair dyes for four decades.
While he began serious filming in the 1960s, many of his most memorable roles occurred during the golden age of Hong Kong cinema in the 1980s and 1990s in films such as “The Killer”, “Super Cop”, ” The Blues of the Beijing Opera “and” Once a Thief “.
He was also one of the few Hong Kong stars of the era to move to Hollywood with supporting roles, mostly villains, in films such as “Assassin’s Creed”, “Die Another Day” – a James Bond film – “Anna and the King” “and” Memoirs of A. Geisha.
In what may well turn out to be his last interview, Tsang told Sin Chew Daily that he had completed a two-week trip to Malaysia and flew to Hong Kong via Singapore.
He described the time spent on a single trip after being cared for by others on almost every previous trip in his life.
“I will go to quarantine if necessary,” Tsang told a Malaysian newspaper in Chinese, which published a photo in which the actor shines, holding a piece of durian fruit.
Like China, Hong Kong adheres to a strict zero-covid strategy that has kept borders largely closed throughout the pandemic with mandatory quarantine in designated hotels for returning residents.
For most of last year, people had to undergo a 21-day quarantine, although it was recently reduced to seven days.
Last week, Hong Kong lifted a two-year ban on flights to the city by non-residents.
However, the return of widespread tourism or business travel without problems in the short term is unlikely.
Airlines operate only a few routes to Hong Kong compared to what was before the pandemic, and carriers that bring in more than five coronavirus cases face a five-day ban on that route under current regulations.
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