Entertainment stories you read most in 2024 about adult film stars, Ip Man movies and more
We look back at some of our top entertainment stories of 2024, including one about how an actress went from soft-porn to mainstream fame
As 2024 crawls to a close, we look back at some of the stories from the entertainment world that resonated with Post readers during the year.
A profile on an actress who went from soft-porn to mainstream fame struck a chord, as did a feature that delved into Chinese martial arts in film.
1. Actress Shu Qi went from soft-porn to mainstream cinema star
Shu Qi is the rarest of all exceptions in a conservative Chinese society: she was a soft-porn model who switched to film and established herself as a bona fide superstar in world cinema.
After a body-baring start to her career, which saw her become a sex symbol in her native Taiwan and her adoptive home, Hong Kong, Shu has become one of the highest-paid and most critically acclaimed actresses in Chinese-language cinema.
2. Adult film legend Amy Yip
It has been 30 years since Amy Yip Chi-mei last appeared in a movie and, for much of that time, the star of Hong Kong films such as Erotic Ghost Story and Sex and Zen has kept herself out of the public eye.
