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楊權原名楊昌權，1931年生於廣州，1948年來港定居，自小鍾情電影，常逃學看戲，並寫下影評與筆記。1956年他半工讀考入由名演員王元龍創辦的中國電影學校，修讀編劇與導演課程，是第一期畢業生，與丁紅、羅馬為同學，導師包括屠光啟、陶秦、李翰祥與胡金銓等。畢業後，他與同學合資拍攝《霧夜飛屍》（1959），身兼編劇與導演，男主角是初登銀幕的梁天；可惜影片因全是新人而未能在港上映，賠本收場，拷貝失傳五十多年後才由香港電影資料館在三藩市尋回。1959年他隨屠光啟任場記，1960年進入桃源電影企業公司，先後跟隨龍圖、馮峰、胡鵬、王天林、莫康時、楚原等任副導。他視莫康時為恩師，兩人在四年間合作了二十七部電影，包括陳寶珠的《女殺手》系列。1967年他正式執導，首作為蕭芳芳、胡楓合演的《紅粉金剛》。他最為人熟悉的是1970年的《七擒七縱七色狼》及續集《橫衝直撞七色狼》，兩片雖被標籤為艷情片，卻沒有多少暴露場面，寫的是一群低下層小男人的性壓抑，處理得樂而不淫。1970年代，他把譚炳文、李香琴主演的電視角色「大鄉里」拍成電影《大鄉里》，賣座逾一百八十萬元，並衍生出系列作品，另有《遊戲人間三百年》（1975）、《撈家．邪牌．姑爺仔》（1976）、《六合千手》（1979）等不同類型之作。1980年代他年過五十仍與時並進，拍出青春片《IQ爆棚》與《鼓手》，後者更成為張國榮走紅的踏腳石。1983年他加入邵氏，先後拍攝《種鬼》、《我愛神仙遮》、《錯體人》等片。九十年代後他的導演作品不多，包括《水玲瓏》、《元州街皇后》等。他晚年與妻子定居美國，2012年5月30日病逝紐約，享年81歲。
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Yeung Kuen, born Yeung Cheong-kuen in Guangzhou in 1931, was a Hong Kong film director and screenwriter. He settled in Hong Kong in 1948 and, after studying screenwriting and directing at the China Film School founded by the actor Wang Yuan-lung — where his teachers included Tu Guangqi, Tao Qin, Li Han-hsiang and King Hu — he and his classmates pooled their money to make the now-lost Foggy Night Flying Corpse (1959), which he wrote and directed and which featured a young Leung Tin. He worked as a script supervisor under Tu Guangqi in 1959 and joined the To Yuen Film Enterprise in 1960, serving as assistant director to Lung To, Fung Fung, Wu Pang, Wong Tin-lam, Mok Hong-si and Chor Yuen; he regarded Mok Hong-si as his mentor, working with him on twenty-seven films in four years, including the Lady Killer series starring Connie Chan. He turned director in 1967 with Red Powder, Green Warrior, starring Josephine Siao and Wu Fung. His best-known works are the 1970 erotic comedies Lucky Seven and Beauty and the Seven Beasts, which, though tagged as sex films, contained little nudity and dealt with the frustrations of ordinary men. In the 1970s he adapted the television character 'Country Bumpkin' into a hit film that grossed more than HK$1.8 million and spawned a series, and he also made films such as Games for Three Hundred Years (1975) and Liu He Qian Shou (1979). In the 1980s he directed the youth films IQ Bong Bong and The Drummer, the latter helping to launch Leslie Cheung, and joined Shaw Brothers in 1983, making films such as Seeding of a Ghost and My Darling Genie. He directed fewer films in the 1990s, and died in New York on 30 May 2012, aged 81.
