"THE MASTER OF TAI CHI" - TVB OFFICIAL SITE:
http://tvcity.tvb.com/drama/themasteroftaichi/

Official Title: The Master of Tai Chi aka Tai Chi or Tai Gik 《太极》 / 《太極》

Genre: Period Drama

Producer: Leung Ka Shu (Survivor's Law, Golden Faith)

Status: Post Production

Release Date: -----

No. of Episodes: 25

Cast:
Vincent Zhao
Michael Miu
Melissa Ng
Raymond Lam
Myolie Wu
Paul Chun
Selena Li
Yoyo Chan
Al Wai
Power Chan
Jimmy Au
Kong Hon
Tai Chi Wai
Lau Kong
Fred Cheng
Wong Chi Hang
Jacky Wong
Lau Siu Ming
Leung Kin Ping
Derek Kwok
Kenneth Ma
John Chiang

Info credits: Asianseriesensation; ray-lamfung.com; 52raymond; ddee_04 @ TVBSquare Forum; myolie-wu.net

Extra Information:

Some of the ages of the characters in Tai Gik:

(Credits to the mag scans posted up at www.ray-lamfung.com)

Vincent Zhao - 28 yrs old
Raymond Lam - 26 yrs old
Myolie Wu - 20 yrs old
Melissa Ng - 26 yrs old
Kenneth Ma - 28 yrs old
Selena Li - 24 yrs old
Derek Kwok - 30 yrs old
Power Chan - 30 yrs old

Storyline (spoilers?):

- Some kind of love triangle between <<Raymond-Myolie-Vincent>> & <<Myolie-Vincent-Melissa>>
- Melissa is Vincent's best friend
- Myolie has a crush on Vincent while Ray likes Myolie
- Both Myolie & Raymond come from rich families
- Vincent is an orphan in the series, seeking revenge for his family
- Raymond and Myolie will have a bittersweet relationship in the series and they will have a bed scene
- Myolie loses her memory at some point
- Raymond becomes a semi-villain after Vincent kills his dad
- Michael Miu plays Vincent's father in the series (maybe in a flashback? not sure...)
- Tai Gik was filmed in Wen Nam, Shanghai, Kunming and Shu Chow
- "Myolie's character comes from a wealthy background. Due to upheaval (and loss of fortune) within the family, Myolie's character experiences hard times, revenge, and love"

Postcards:

For bigger versions of the Tai Gik postcards, click this link:

http://www.egretchow.com/news/23/2006-06-19_13424289048.html

Love Myo and Ray's postcards! "

Will add on more info later...

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requested by Jaydee:

Hi, does anyone know when this series will be airing??!? it sounds really interesting!! and also...is this "tak gik" with myolie and ray the same one as the "tai gik" that as shown in the 2005 tvb previews where they had Jessica Hsuan and Kevin?

This post has been edited by hkangel: Feb 23 2008 9 22 AM

Myolie will be 20 years old??! but she's actually a few months older than raymond in real life...

Myolie is only a little over a month older than Ray. She doesn't look older than him and this series look very promising. The theme for Tai Gik is definitely something newer and with the addition of ZWZ i'm sure it'll be a good series. Myolie looks younger than her age so playing 20 years old is no problem for her. Then again the other casts' age are a little surprising too

The Master of Tai Chi SYNOPSIS

*** SPOILERS ALERT! SPOILERS ALERT! SPOILERS ALERT! ***

Credits to Jayne Stars (http://jaynestars.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=370)
Translated from mag scans posted by 捣糨糊的蝎子 at Ray-lamfung.com

"TAI CHI" PLOT SUMMARY

When Vincent Zhao’s character was a young child, his parents (while escaping from the pursuit of enemies) abandoned him in the wilderness. Vincent suffered hunger, loneliness, and the cold as a young child, thus leading to intense hatred in his heart. However, Lau Siu Ming’s character rescued Vincent and became his martial arts master.

Lau Siu Ming wandered the world in training his martial arts skills and took in the orphaned Vincent. But Vincent did not realize that he had already practiced taichi [with his parents] as a child, which conflicted with the martial arts form that Lau was teaching him. Due to the “yin” turbulence inside him, Vincent’s temperament became increasingly irate. As a result, Lau decided to leave Vincent, which unfortunately made Vincent feel he was once again abandoned.

When Vincent grew into adulthood, his temperament became even worse. He lived in the mountains and the local villagers saw him as a threat. There was only one villager, played by Kenneth Ma Kwok Ming, who was not afraid of Vincent and befriended him.

Vincent originally intended to live forever in the mountains, away from the rest of the world. However Vincent refused to acknowledge one of the most powerful families in town, the Ning family, which provoked Ning to send several fighters after Vincent. Although Vincent’s fighting skills were still unrefined at this point, based on his sheer energy and strength, he killed Ning’s 4 fighters.

Vincent was forced to leave his mountain residence and Kenneth tried to hide him from the pursuit [of the Ning family] by taking him home. But Melissa Ng notified Ning’s servants of Vincent’s whereabouts.

Melissa was also an abandoned orphan and was taken in as a child by Kenneth’s mother. Although Kenneth’s mother always intended to have Melissa marry her son, Melissa was treated somewhat like a servant in the household. But Melissa was still grateful for everything she had and did not want the family to be destroyed because of Vincent’s presence (since he was wanted by the Ning family). In order to protect the family, Melissa notified the Ning family of Vincent’s whereabouts.

In the chaotic chase that resulted, a guilty-ridden Kenneth also ran off with Vincent and the whereabouts of the two were unknown. Kenneth was attracted by the new environment and things that he came across, at the same time wanting to prove his heroic abilities. Vincent was forced out from his only home in the mountains and vowed to seek revenge.

At this time, Vincent and Kenneth saved sisters, Selena Li and Myolie Wu. Vincent’s fiery qualities attracted Myolie, but Vincent did not return her feelings since his heart was only filled with hatred. Kenneth also forgot about his fiancé, Melissa, at home and fell in love with Selena Li.

Selena wanted to fulfill younger sister Myolie’s revenge scheme but did not want her to risk danger, so she arranged Vincent and Kenneth to kill their enemy instead. After Vincent was implicated in the murder, he was wanted by the authorities, but his martial arts master, Lau Siu Ming rescued him.

Lau regretted leaving Vincent behind and realizing his temperament was worse than before, vowed to train Vincent once again. During the training, Melissa found them and stayed with them for some time. Vincent slowly fell in love with Melissa.

Vincent also realized that his parents left him behind as a youth in order to preserve his life. His father was once a high officer in [the Qing court] and was responsible for guarding the teachings of powerful martial arts technique books. Lau Siu Ming was good friends with Vincent’s father and after the downfall of the Qing court, Vincent’s family and Lau were the target of many enemies who wanted the powerful martial arts books.

Vincent vowed to find the murderers of his parents and seek revenge. Lau realized that Vincent’s heart was filled with revenge, which was an obstacle in his martial arts and personal training. In order to help Vincent see past revenge, Lau was willing to sacrifice himself and pretended to be Vincent’s parents’ murderer. Vincent did hurt Lau and once he realized Lau’s good intentions, Vincent was finally able to see past revenge.

In order to repay Lau and fulfill his father’s martial arts dreams, Vincent focused on mastering the techniques of taichi. But Vincent still struggled in grasping the true spirit of taichi, until he met Raymond Lam….

Raymond was the new successor to his father’s renown martial arts school and his future was filled with promise. Raymond was considered to be a celebrity in the martial arts world. Raymond had a cultured upbringing in one of the most powerful families, which was completely different that Vincent’s childhood, therefore the men were naturally at odds with each other. Vincent also saw Raymond as a perfect challenge to increase his martial arts form. However since Vincent did not master his taichi skills yet, he ended up losing to Raymond in combat.

Vincent and Raymond’s paths also crossed because of Myolie Wu. When Myolie revealed her feelings to Vincent, he had rejected her, which led to her accident and eventual memory loss. Raymond saved Myolie and fell in love with her. Originally Myolie had a good impression of Raymond as well, but before the relationship was able to develop further, Vincent appeared once again before Myolie, triggering her old memories. She remembered her love for Vincent, yet his rejection had caused her much pain too.

Raymond agreed to fight Vincent mainly because of Myolie. She thought that by using Raymond to defeat Vincent, it would make her feel happier, but when she saw the bruised Vincent, she did not feel any ounce of happiness.

Raymond and Vincent’s combat attracted the attention of another martial arts expert, played by Kwok Ching Hung. Kwok’s life goal was to increase his martial arts ability by fighting the most challenging opponents. Kwok had searched everywhere to locate Lau Siu Ming in hopes of fighting him, but found out Lau was no longer there, only leaving behind his skills with Vincent.

Kwok saw the untamed strength in Vincent and realized his potential: Vincent may be the most challenging fighter he will come across in his life. But Vincent’s skills were still unrefined, so Kwok vowed to help Vincent attain more powerful skills by overcoming Raymond first. Vincent realized that once his skills improved, Kwok will want to fight him in a future life-death match, but the two developed an odd friendship.

Raymond realized that Vincent was the person that Myolie always loved, which increased his animosity towards Vincent, making him anticipate his next combat with Vincent even more.

At this time, Vincent realized that Lau Kong (Raymond’s martial arts mentor) was the person who was implicated in his parents’ death. Lau Kong also turned out to be the long-lost father of Melissa Ng. Just as Vincent and Melissa had overcome various obstacles to be together, Melissa was placed in a very difficult position.

Vincent controlled his fiery impulses and hatred, while assuming the mentality of a martial arts challenger in his battle against Lau Kong. As a result, Vincent came to understand the true spirit of taichi and his skills were pushed to a new level. Vincent beat Lau Kong in combat.

Raymond always had a father-and-son relationship with his mentor, Lau Kong. When Lau’s combat loss eventually led to his death, Raymond’s animosity towards Vincent only increased. However when Raymond and Vincent met in battle again, Vincent emerged as the victor with his improved taichi skills.

Vincent finally realized that he has lost much ground in his relationship with Melissa. Just as he was ready to propose marriage, Kenneth re-emerged with his young son in tow. Kenneth had gotten married with Selena and they had a son together, but Selena died due to illness. On her deathbed, she asked Melissa to help her take care of her son. Melissa promised to do so and Vincent sadly watched Kenneth and Melissa leave together.

Vincent’s victory over Raymond caused a stir in the capital. The martial arts association wanted to elect a chairperson and the front-runners were Vincent and Kwok Ching Hung, due to their superior skills. But Vincent, disappointed in losing Melissa, was not interested in fame and glory. Kwok became the chairperson of the martial arts association, while Vincent returned to his old village, vowing to find the “tao (way) of life.” Vincent made friends with his old enemies in the village by teaching self-defense skills. Many of his former enemies even became his disciples.

But Kwok’s true identity was not simply a martial arts expert. He wanted to use the martial arts school association to create chaos in the capital and attain his own political agenda. After Raymond lost his battle with Vincent, his martial arts school’s reputation was ruined. Raymond hated Vincent and vowed revenge. Raymond knew his own efforts were not enough, so he asked Kwok Ching Hung to be his martial arts master.

Raymond soon found out the real identity of Kwok Ching Hung and his political agenda, but wishing to defeat Vincent, Raymond betrayed his own beliefs and conscience. Vincent also realized the intentions of Kwok and returned to the capital to unmask his true identity. But Kwok was well established among the people in the capital, so no one believed Vincent.

At this point, only one person backed Vincent’s story and that was Raymond, who had realized Kwok’s political agenda early on. Raymond finally came forward and spoke the truth, supporting Vincent’s story. But the truth was realized too late; the capital was already in turmoil and amidst the turbulence, the final battle between Vincent and Kwok Ching Hung finally takes place….

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For other articles and interviews, visit JayneStars.com:

* Vincent Zhao
* Raymond Lam
* Melissa Ng
* Myolie Wu

This post has been edited by hkangel: Jun 20 2006 9 39 AM

Any idea when this is going to air on TVB? I can't wait to see this show! ^^

I've always wondered something.. Does Vincient Zhao speak Cantonese? I never have seen him speaking Cantonese before, all his series I've seen he only speaks Mandarin. It also seems that Vincient is the only mainland cast in this serie. Everyone else is an HK star so wouldn't be awkward if he was the only Mandarin speaker.

This series sounds pretty interesting. I've never seen Vincent act b4 tho. But I'll watch it because of Ray and Selina. Any1 have any ideas when HK or any other countries will air it? Or is this series even released yet?

I think alot of the HK stars speak mandarin as well. Like Raymond.

I cant wait for this series, Vincent, Myolie and Raymond in the same series!

i read this in a magazine.

i guess ray pairing with myolie again. [and they have a bed scene]
someone know what selina's plays??
melissa taking the leading role or myolie??

I wonder when dis series will be released? I can't wait to see Raymond & Myolie. Looks like an interesting series. Da cast looks quite good. I like to see Melissa too but I'm not sure about Vincent. He's good in his kungfu skills thingy but as an actor he can be quite wood.

Can't Melissa & Myolie both be leads? I mean there are two male leads right? So I think it's fair dat there are two female leads.

too bad that ray is not lead role =X its funny to see selena and myolie together in a seriee i like their funny scenes in TGWL .. i wonder how kenneth and selena will match

I just saw the trailer, OMG SO PROMISING!!

I can't wait to watch it? whens it coming out?

Trailer??? Where did you see it? Let me know...Im very interested in seeing a preview of the series.

TRAILER (credits to PinkAngel and triumph2004):

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Can't wait, can't wait! >.<

Both Raymond and Vincent look so handsome; and the scenery is breathtaking. Ah, and there's veteran Lau Siu Ming.

This post has been edited by hkangel: Nov 27 2006 7 54 PM

does anyone know when this will release? maybe early 2007?

yeah waiting for this series to be release.

TMOTC will be TVB's first HDTV series!

TVB 2007 Programme Highlights (credits to hunnypot at spcnet.tv)

Thx for the trailer...seems very interesting...waiting for it to be released. The series includes so many famous HK actors and actresses.

i can't wait to watch this series. both main characters are hotties. so far tvb hasn't talked anything about it. it was on the 2006 program ding, but it never came out. next years program series didn't show anything of it. i hope they'll release it soon.

I am soooooooo going to watch this!!! I don't care if i'm in year 12 next year!!! I'm watching it!!! Just finished a mainland production with Vincent in it and he was pretty good ^^.
And there are sooo many good actors in there, Vincent, Raymond, Myolie, Michael, Power, Derek... just one thing WHY DOES SELENA HAVE TO BE IN IT?!?!? seen a few series with her in it and to put it bluntly, her acting sux " But anyhooo looking forward to the series

This post has been edited by Oriental_Azn_Gal: Dec 9 2006 4 20 PM

i wanna watch this cuz of raymond......hopefully its good
heard the actors put a lot of hard work into making this serie

is this tvb ? i thought vincent acted for another company?

It's a TVB & Mainland collaboration... so basically TVB invited Vincent to take part in the series.

MORE CLIPS:

Credits to lucygong & www.52hongguan.com & triumph2004

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this show's plot is so interesting. lots of things are happening! is there any pics for this show? and when is this show coming out?

this seems to be a big production!!! and it also seems that ray is really trying to break into the China market now, considering he seems to spend soooo much time there filming and are willing to film ancient/early 20th century series that others aint!!!! which is the type of shows that the Chinese particularly like!!!

but i cant wait to watch this show!!!! hopefully there will b good fighting scenes, which are inevitable since vincent is in it!

haha i thought tht tai gik was going to be modern times. oh well, it seems interesting anyway!! i'm glad kenneth, ray and myolie are in it. but i don'tl ike selena...=P

i wonder when is this series going to be release.. it's been finished filming for quite awhile from now... i hope it'll release soon...

It probably premiere when TVB begin broadcasting in digital since Tai Gik is the first TVB to be filmed in HD (although TVB probably won't have an HDTV channel up in time to broadcast this show).

Im really lookin forward to watchin dis series bcuz its fightin and it has raymond lam. hes one of my favorite actors.

when??????? when???????? i've been waiting for a year for this........ it's been so long since i've seen ray in a show.... HAHA... last time was face the fate and that was MONTHS ago!!!!!!!! i hope i'm not going to be disappointed with this show tho... not so crazy abt myolie.. and just read the major spoiler post up top... LOLZ... i dunno... i just need good stuff to watch.. it's been very dry lately

Raymond with Myolie again.

Interesting.

When will the show be out... i wanna watch... my fav myolie in there. and i like the storyline

i like it! raymond's in it! but how is myolie suppose to be 20? isnt she like 27-28?? wow.. its like a 7 yea difference!!

Men, I'm so waiting for this series since Vincent Zhao is in there. Hope to see some pure fighting scene.

This should be interesting, Vincent is one of those actors who love to do fighting series which I think is awesme.

ooo i can't wait...i absolutely love vincent's series...and raymond is in this one too....argg i just wish they would release it soon, its been on hold for like a year?

I hope this series comes out soon, i just love kung series :)

Can't wait!! This looks to be a great action movie.
Can someone please tell me which actor(s), besides Vincent has real martial arts??

Wow, I can't wait for Vincents new series...... Buttttt, are you sure this is TVB production???? I'm heard it's ATV production....... Anyone Know about this information?????



This post has been edited by JONATHAN LIE: May 17 2007 7 45 PM