文化藝術人物 / Cultural figure

司徒安

大字係領域(由已登記職業/領域派生),唔係姓氏。

Szeto On

1927年–2021年

領域:作家與觀點論述者

繁體中文

司徒安原名曾坤,祖籍廣東興寧,在廣州出生,1927年5月25日出生,1949年移居香港。他早年經商失敗,偶爾隨當演員的兄長曾楚霖參觀片場,獲娛樂記者邀請撰寫影評,再經影人介紹投身編劇,首作為《人結人緣》(1954)。自那時起,他起用筆名「司徒安」,名字取自街上一個醫生的牌匾,並從此以這個筆名活躍於電影界。他後入職大成影片公司宣傳部當撰稿員,在金華戲院上班,故經常看電影,又與圈中人熟絡,開始兼職編劇,1960年起成為全職自由身編劇。他所編劇本涵蓋各種題材,以武打片為數較多,例如與導演凌雲持續合作,寫下《白骨陰陽劍》(上、下集,1962)、《神劍魔簫》(上、下集,1965),以及後期的《武林三鳳》(上、下集,1968)、《天狼寨》(1968)和1964至68年推出的《如來神掌》系列等。1968年起他為「黃飛鴻」系列電影擔任編劇,寫過《黃飛鴻威震五羊城》(1968)、《黃飛鴻浴血硫磺谷》(1969)與《黃飛鴻與鬼腳七》(1980)等。文藝片方面,他曾為導演楚原編寫《化身情人》(1965)、《我愛紫羅蘭》(1966)、《藍色夜總會》(1967)等;其他言情作品有《魂斷望夫山》(1955)、《孖生小藝人》(1962)、《青青河邊草》(1966)與《金鷗》(1967),而他編寫的鬧喜劇《一代棍王》(1970)與《空中少爺》(1974)都受歡迎。1960年代中青春片熱潮掀起,他亦能配合潮流,寫下《玉女神偷》(1967)、《青春歌后》(1968)、《學府新潮》(1970)與《不敢回家的少女》(1970)等。隨著粵語片式微,他成為業內僅有的粵語片編劇,一度轉到商業電台編寫了兩年廣播劇;待功夫片興起,他重返影圈編劇,也為台灣的影片公司執筆。1970年代中,他為邵氏兄弟(香港)有限公司編寫劇本,其中桂治洪執導的《成記茶樓》(1974)具寫實色彩,成績突出,雙方還合作《大哥成》(1975)、《萬人斬》(1980)等,他亦多次與其他編劇合編《香港奇案》(1976至77)系列電影。同期他亦為其他公司效力,作品包括《贊先生與找錢華》(1978)、《二等良民》(1981)等,並為麗的電視的劇集及以錄影帶製作的電視劇編撰劇本。其編劇生涯橫跨四十載,後期作品包括《殺手天使》(1989)、《聊齋艷譚》(1990)與《破繭急先鋒》(與徐蝦合編,1991)。他寫作效率高、產量繁多,筆下劇本約有一千部,其中被拍成電影的總計七至八百部,大多富商業趣味。1994年,司徒安獲第13屆香港電影金像獎頒發專業精神獎。2021年8月23日,他病逝於香港。

English

Szeto On, born Tsang Kwan in Guangzhou on 25 May 1927 to a family from Xingning, Guangdong, moved to Hong Kong in 1949. After an unsuccessful early venture in business, he occasionally accompanied his elder brother, the actor Tsang Cho-lam, to film sets and was invited by entertainment reporters to write film reviews; introduced by film practitioners, he turned to screenwriting and made his debut with It's Fun Getting Together (1954). From then he worked under the pen name 'Szeto On', taken from a doctor's signboard he saw in the street. He joined the publicity department of Tai Seng Film Company as a copywriter, began writing part-time and by 1960 was a full-time freelancer. His screenplays covered many genres, martial arts films most of all: with director Ling Wan he made Ingenious Sword (1962), The Miraculous Sword and the Magic Flute (1965), Three Heroines and The Dragon Fortress (both 1968) and the Young Swordsman Lung Kimfei series of 1964-68. From 1968 he wrote for the Wong Fei-hung series, including Wong Fei-hung: The Incredible Success in Canton (1968), Wong Fei-hung in Sulphur Valley (1969) and The Magnificent Kick (1980), while for Chor Yuen he penned romantic dramas such as Lover in Disguise (1965), The Violet Girl (1966) and The Man from Interpol (1967). His comedies King of Swindlers (1970) and The Adventurous Air-Steward (1974) were popular, and in the mid-1960s youth-film boom he wrote The Precious Mirror (1967) and Modern School Life (1970). As Cantonese cinema declined he was the last remaining screenwriter in the field, and he wrote radio dramas for Commercial Radio for two years before returning to the screen when kung fu films rose. From the mid-1970s he wrote for Shaw Brothers, including Kuei Chih-hung's realistic The Tea House (1974), Big Brother Cheng (1975) and Killer Constable (1980), and joined The Criminals series. He also worked for other studios on Warriors Two (1978) and Second Class Resident (1981) and for Rediffusion television and video productions. His later credits included Killer Angels (1989), Erotic Ghost Story (1990) and Thunder Run (1991). He wrote around 1,000 scripts, of which 700 to 800 were filmed. He received the Professional Achievement Award at the 13th Hong Kong Film Awards in 1994 and died in Hong Kong on 23 August 2021.

人物小檔 Profile

職業Occupation

編劇

年期Active period

1927年–2021年

代表作Notable works

《人結人緣》《白骨陰陽劍》《神劍魔簫》《武林三鳳》《天狼寨》《如來神掌》

獎項及榮譽Awards & honours

1994年第13屆香港電影金像獎專業精神獎

資料整理日期 / Compiled: 2026-10-14

主要成就 Key Achievements

1954

以《人結人緣》首度編寫電影劇本,正式投身編劇工作。

Wrote his first screenplay, It's Fun Getting Together (1954), launching his career as a screenwriter.

1968

起為「黃飛鴻」系列電影擔任編劇。

Began writing for the Wong Fei-hung film series.

1994

獲第13屆香港電影金像獎頒發專業精神獎。

Received the Professional Achievement Award at the 13th Hong Kong Film Awards.

影響與傳承 Impact & Legacy

繁體中文

司徒安以量多而穩妥的商業劇本支撐戰後粵語片,題材橫跨武打、文藝、喜劇與青春片,尤其與導演凌雲合作的武俠片和「黃飛鴻」系列,為1960年代粵語武打片提供了大量劇本支柱。當粵語片式微、編劇大量離場之際,他仍留守執筆,被視為業內最後的粵語片編劇之一。約千部劇本、七至八百部拍成電影的產量,反映他在片廠時期職業編劇中的獨特位置。

English

Szeto On sustained post-war Cantonese cinema with a huge body of efficient, commercially reliable scripts spanning martial arts, romance, comedy and youth films; his wuxia collaborations with director Ling Wan and his work on the Wong Fei-hung series gave 1960s Cantonese martial-arts cinema much of its scripting backbone. As Cantonese films declined and many screenwriters left, he stayed on and was considered one of the last working Cantonese screenwriters. With roughly a thousand scripts, 700 to 800 of them filmed, he embodied the role of the studio-era professional writer.

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