In the movie The Mermaid, Tsui Hark plays Grandpa Four. On February 15th, 195, Tsui Hark was born in Saigon, Vietnam, where he spent his childhood. In 196, Tsui Hark and his friends rented a video camera to shoot a magic show and broadcast it on campus. In 1966, my family moved to Hong Kong. In 1969, Tsui Hark entered Southern Methodist University in Texas, USA. After one year, he stopped studying and traveled around the United States. Later, he transferred to the University of Texas at Austin to take radio, television and film courses. During this period, he co-produced a 45-minute documentary about Asian-Americans with his friends, "A Thousand Sews Will Open a New Road."

In 1978, Tsui Hark switched to Jiayi TV and filmed his first TV series "gold dagger romance". In 1979, with the support of producer Wu Siyuan, Tsui Hark made the film debut "Butterfly Change", which co-starred Zhang Guozhu, Liu Zhaoming and Mi Xue. On April 2, 198, the action thriller comedy "No Gate in Hell" was released, starring Kaohsiung, Xu Shaoqiang and Mi Xue. On December 4th, the action thriller crime film "Danger of the First Type" was released in Hong Kong after being banned and revised.

As an important representative of Hong Kong's martial arts films, Tsui Hark plays an important role in Hong Kong and even the whole group of Chinese martial arts film directors. Tsui Hark's martial arts films have a strong personal style, forming a unique brand of Tsui Hark. While inheriting and developing Hong Kong traditional martial arts films, he also introduced new elements and injected new vitality into Hong Kong martial arts films.