Cheung Yiu-chung (1945–2023) was a Hong Kong film editor. A Shanghai native who came to Hong Kong at six, he joined the Motion Picture and General Investment company in 1963 and trained under the editor Wang Chao-hsi. When Golden Harvest took over the studio in 1971, he stayed on to head its editing room, and most of the company's output, including the bulk of the Bruce Lee, Sammo Hung, Michael Hui and Jackie Chan films, passed through his hands. He won the Golden Horse Award for Best Film Editing for Fist of Fury (1972), then for Way of the Dragon (1972), The Man from Hong Kong (1975) and The Himalayan (1976), and went on to nine such wins in all, with The Contract (1978), Long Arm of the Law (1984), Police Story III: Super Cop (1992, with Cheung Ka-fai), Fong Sai-yuk (1993) and Big Bullet (1996, with Cheung Ka-fai). He also took the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film Editing four times, for Long Arm of the Law (1985), Rouge (1988), Crime Story (1993) and Big Bullet (1996). He cut more than 200 films in nearly forty years.
Heading Golden Harvest's editing room, Cheung cut films for Bruce Lee, Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan, and his fast, rhythmic editing shaped the feel of Hong Kong action cinema while raising the editor's standing in local production. Nine Golden Horse and four Hong Kong Film Awards made him a yardstick for the craft.
Achievements
- 1972 · Won his first Golden Horse Award for Best Film Editing for Fist of Fury
- 1985 · Won his first Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film Editing for Long Arm of the Law
- 1996 · Won another Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film Editing for Big Bullet, with Cheung Ka-fai