Tenky Tin Kai-man, born on 9 June 1961 and nicknamed Field Chicken, is a Hong Kong actor and film executive who was one of the principals of Stephen Chow's Star Overseas company, handling publicity, business development, artiste management and production planning. He entered television at eighteen and was once a full-time actor on a Radio Hong Kong series, later working his way up from extra, stuntman and production assistant. He came to know Chow while filming Hail the Judge in 1994 and joined Star Overseas in 1996, becoming Chow's most trusted lieutenant and long-serving production manager. He is best known on screen as the third senior brother in Shaolin Soccer (2001), and also acted in and worked on the production of God of Cookery (1996), King of Comedy (1999), Kung Fu (2004) and other Chow films. He has served as president of the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers (seventh executive committee, 2017 to 2019) and remains its spokesman, sits on the Hong Kong Film Awards board as a representative of the film production administrators' association, and was formerly the manager of the singer Ronald Cheng. After leaving Star Overseas he founded his own company, continuing to develop film projects. One of five children, Tin grew up in a small house beside the Kowloon Tong railway station where the family also grew crops, later moving to squatter areas in Kowloon Bay and Kwun Tong and then to a resettlement block in Sau Mau Ping. He left secondary school in Form Two because of the family's poverty and went to work in a teahouse, studying at night school to finish junior secondary.
Tin rose from stuntman and production assistant to senior film-company executive and industry office-holder: while remembered for parts such as the third senior brother in Stephen Chow's films, he spent decades handling production planning and artiste affairs and represented the trade as president of the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers.
Achievements
- 1996 · Joined Stephen Chow's Star Overseas in 1996 as his long-serving production manager and executive
- 2001 · Became widely known for playing the third senior brother in Shaolin Soccer
- 2017 · Became president of the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers (seventh executive committee, to 2019)