The 2026 summer movie season becomes hotter than ever when Stephen Chow's latest work titled "The Kung Fu Women's Football Team" officially hits theaters. However, the focus of public attention suddenly deviated when actor Huong Ta (Huong Thai's son) appeared on livestream and made a controversial statement, bluntly advising viewers "not to watch" this movie.
Although Huong Thai (Tran Lam) quickly put out the fire for her son by calling on everyone to support cinema, but immediately after that, she continued to open a private livestream to "expel" her anger.
Huong Thai recounted the story of a male actor from an unknown time with a cat-xe of 60,000 HKD (about 192 million VND) who was wholeheartedly supported by her family to 15 million HKD (about 48 billion VND), but when he became famous, he turned his back on gratitude".
According to Chinese media, the character mentioned by Huang Tai is none other than Stephen Chow. The conflict between the two sides began in the 1990s when the Huang family and Vinh Thinh film studio cooperated with Stephen Chow to create a series of blockbusters. In 1996, Stephen Chow decided to separate to establish his own company Tinh Huy to freely create. The peak of controversy occurred in 2014 when Huang Tai publicly criticized the male actor for "not paying the debt" and having a bad attitude towards fans.
Faced with the wave of calls not to watch the movie "Kung Fu Women's Football Team" from Huong Thai's family members and suspicions that he is ungrateful, according to Chinese media, when he learned of this information, "comedy king" Stephen Chow still chose the familiar behavior for many years: silence and using the work to answer.
At the film exchange in Shenzhen, the talented director only gently confided: "No one has ever owed me a single movie ticket" as a way to respond to the recent noise.
The incident divided the online community into two streams of opinions. One side expressed sympathy for Huong Thai's long-standing resentment, while the majority of the audience stood on Stephen Chow's side. Many opinions suggested that personal conflicts should not be drawn in to affect a heartfeltly invested film, and affirmed that the quality of the film is the decisive factor for viewers' tickets in theaters.
