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Jimmy Wang Yu

Jimmy Wang Yu (?? born March 28, 1943, also known as Wong Yu-lung and Wang Yue) is a Chinese

Han Chinese

Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and, by most modern definitions, the largest single ethnic group in the Earth.Han Chinese constitute about 92 percent of the population of the People's Republic of China , 98 percent of the population of the Republic of China , 75 percent of the population of Singapore, and about 19 percent...
actor

Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, director

Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
, producer

Film producer

A film producer is someone who creates the conditions for making film. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors....
, and scriptwriter

Scriptwriter

A scriptwriter is a person who writes Screenplay and script for movies, games, comics, plays, television, comedy shows, political speeches, and other presentations....
. He shot to fame with the Shaw Brothers Studio

Shaw Brothers Studio

The Shaw Brothers Studio , owned by Shaw Brothers Ltd. , was the foremost and the largest movie production company of Cinema of Hong Kong.From their distribution base in Singapore where they founded parent company Shaw Organization in 1924, and as a strategic development of their movie distribution business in Southeast Asia, Sir Run Run...
's martial arts film

Martial arts film

Martial arts film is a film genre that originated in the Pacific Rim. This genre is a type of action film characterized by extensive fighting scenes employing various types of martial arts....
, The One-Armed Swordsman, in 1967. His film, The Chinese Boxer, in 1969, is credited with being the first Hong Kong martial arts film that kick started the unarmed combat genre

Genre

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that took Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
by storm in the 1970s.

Wang Zheng-quan in Wuxi

Wuxi

Wuxi is an old city in Jiangsu, People's Republic of China. Split into halves by Lake Tai, Wuxi borders Changzhou to the west and Suzhou to the east....
, Jiangsu Province

Jiangsu

is a Province of China of the People's Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. The name comes from jiang, short for the city of Jiangning , and su, for the city of Suzhou....
of China

China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
, Jimmy was a former ROC soldier and Hong Kong swimming

Swimming

Swimming is the movement by humans or animals through water, usually without artificial assistance. Swimming is an activity that can be both useful and recreational....
champion, as well as a racing car

Auto racing

Auto racing is a motorsport involving racing cars. It is one of the world's most watched television sports....
enthusiast, before joining Shaw Brothers in 1963.

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Jimmy Wang Yu (?? born March 28, 1943, also known as Wong Yu-lung and Wang Yue) is a Chinese

Han Chinese

Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, director

Film director

Film producer

Scriptwriter

Shaw Brothers Studio

Martial arts film

Genre

Asia

Acting career

Born Wang Zheng-quan in Wuxi

Wuxi

Wuxi is an old city in Jiangsu, People's Republic of China. Split into halves by Lake Tai, Wuxi borders Changzhou to the west and Suzhou to the east....
, Jiangsu Province

Jiangsu

China

Swimming

Auto racing

Auto racing is a motorsport involving racing cars. It is one of the world's most watched television sports....
enthusiast, before joining Shaw Brothers in 1963. He teamed up with the famous sword-fighting

Swordsmanship

Swordsman redirects here. For the comic book characters, see Swordsman . For the 1990 Hong Kong film, see The Swordsman.Swordsmanship refers to the skills of a swordsman, a person versed in the art of the sword....
director, Chang Cheh

Chang Cheh

Cheng Pei-pei

Cheng Pei-pei is an actress best known for her performance in the seminal 1966 King Hu wuxia film Come Drink with Me. She continued to play expert swordswomen in a number of films throughout the 1960s....
, in 1968. Jimmy starred in several notable films including Temple of the Red Lotus (1965), One Armed Boxer
One Armed Boxer

One Armed Boxer is a 1971 in film Hong Kong martial arts film starring Jimmy Wang Yu. It is about a skilled Chinese martial arts who loses an arm and must exact revenge on his rival school....
(1971), Return of The Chinese Boxer(1975) and Master of the Flying Guillotine
Master of the Flying Guillotine

Master of the Flying Guillotine is a 1975 Taiwanese / Hong Kong martial arts film starring Jimmy Wang Yu, who also wrote and directed the film....
(1976).

If One Armed Swordsman was the movie that launched Jimmy's acting career, The Chinese Boxer was the film that sealed his fame in the realm of Chinese films

Cinema of Hong Kong

The Movie theater of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language film, alongside the cinema of China, and the cinema of Taiwan....
. The latter movie has been credited as being the first Hong Kong martial arts film that kickstarted the unarmed combat genre, mainly kung fu. It also triggered a phenomenon that filled the ranks of many Chinese martial arts associations across South East Asia. Chinese youths, in their bid to emulate their screen hero, took to punching sandbag

Punching bag

A punching bag is a sturdy bag designed to be repeatedly Punch , for use in physical exercise or Stress relief in order to improve one of three areas: physical strength, Aerobic exercise, or punching technique....
s, and reading up on Shaolin kungfu history

HIStory

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.

Controversy dogged Jimmy after the fame that exploded with The Chinese Boxer. He broke his contract

Contract

A contract is an exchange of promises between two or more parties to do, or refrain from doing, an act which is enforceable in a court of law. It is a binding legal agreement....
with Shaw Brothers, and was promptly slapped with a lawsuit

Lawsuit

In law, a lawsuit is a civil action brought before a court in which the party commencing the action, called the plaintiff, seeks a legal remedy or equitable remedy....
. The legal tussle which ended in Shaw's favour led to Jimmy being ban

Ban (law)

For the policy on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Banning policy.A ban is, generally, any decree that Prohibitions something.Bans are formed for the prohibition of activities within a certain political territory....
ned from making films in Hong Kong. Jimmy then looked to Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
for better career prospects, linking up with Golden Harvest

Golden Harvest

Golden Harvest is a film production, distribution, and exhibition company based in Hong Kong. It played a major role in becoming the first Chinese film company to successfully enter the western market with staying power....
and other independent film

Independent film

An independent film, or indie film, is a film that is produced outside of the Hollywood studio system, a series of oligopolistic practices by several major film studios which controlled the production, distribution, and exhibition of films in the United States from the early 1920s through 1950s....
outfits. His subsequent films were mostly done in Taiwan.

With the success of The Chinese Boxer, Jimmy stood unchallenged in South East Asia for the rest of the 60's as the Chinese actor with the most formidable fist

Punch (strike)

A punch is "a thrusting blow, esp. with the fist." In some sports and disciplines, such as boxing or martial arts, where punches are regularly practiced, hand wraps or other padding such as gloves may be employed to protect athletes and practitioners from injuring themselves....
s and leg

Human leg

In common usage, the human leg is the lower limb of the human body, extending from the knee to the ankle, and excluding the thigh,The largest bone in the human body, the femur, is in the leg ....
s. But beginning in the 70s, Jimmy’s star began to be eclipsed with the entry of new actors, many with superior martial arts training such as Ti Lung

Ti Lung

Ti Lung , or Dik Lung, is a Hong Kong actor....
, David Chiang

David Chiang

David Chiang Dai Wei is a Hong Kong actor....
, and especially Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee

Bruce Jun Fan Lee was a Chinese people martial artist, philosopher, instructor, martial arts actor and the founder of the Jeet Kune Do combat form....
whose "The Big Boss
The Big Boss

The Big Boss is a Hong Kong films of 1971 Hong Kong martial arts film-Hong Kong action cinema.The Big Boss was Bruce Lee's first major film....
" in 1971 revolutionized the martial arts film industry.

In 1976, Jimmy appeared alongside Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan, Silver Bauhinia Star, Member of the Order of the British Empire is an actor, Stage combat, film director, film producer, martial artist, screenwriter, entrepreneur, singer and stunt performer from Hong Kong....
in the Lo Wei

Lo Wei

Lo Wei was a famous Hong Kong film director and film actor best known for launching the martial arts film careers of both Bruce Lee, in The Big Boss and Fist of Fury, and Jackie Chan, in New Fist of Fury....
film, Killer Meteors. In the late 70s, Jimmy helped Chan when then the young actor sought his help in settling a dispute with veteran director. Jackie eventually repaid the favour with his roles in Jimmy’s films, "Fantasy Mission Force" (1982) and "Island of Fire

Island of Fire

Island of Fire is a Chinese films of the 1990s Cinema of Taiwan Hong Kong action cinema-crime film directed by Chu Yin-Ping....
" (1990).

In 1986, Sammo Hung

Sammo Hung

Sammo Hung is a Chinese people actor, Film producer and film director from Hong Kong, known for his work in many Chinese martial arts Martial arts film and Hong Kong action cinema....
cast Jimmy as the father of the famous Chinese martial arts hero, Wong Fei Hung

Wong Fei Hung

Wong Fei Hung was a martial artist, a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, and revolutionary who became a Han Chinese folk hero and the subject of numerous television series and films....
in the Millionaire's Express
Millionaire's Express

Millionaire's Express aka. Shanghai Express is a Hong Kong films of 1986 Cinema of Hong Kong directed by Sammo Hung....
. In the years that followed, Jimmy kept a low profile, making a rare public appearance in 2002 at the funeral

Funeral

A funeral is a ceremony marking a person's death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour....
of his old friend and mentor

Mentor

In Greek mythology, Mentor was the son of Alcumus and, in his old age, a friend of Odysseus. When Odysseus left for the Trojan War he placed Mentor in charge of his son, Telemachus, and of his palace....
, Chang Cheh

Chang Cheh

Chang Cheh was Shaw Brothers Studio's best known and most prolific film director, with such films as the Five Venoms, the Brave Archer , the One-Armed Swordsman, and other classics of wuxia and Kung Fu film....
.

Jimmy acted in more than 70 films in a career that spanned more than two decades. Even though he left an indelible mark on the Chinese film martial arts scene, he was never the accomplished martial artist which his films made him to be. It was actually camera

Movie camera

The movie camera is a type of photography camera which takes a rapid sequence of photographs on strips of photographic film. In contrast to a still camera, which captures a single snapshot at a time, the movie camera takes a series of images, each called a "frame"....
techniques and clever film editing

Film editing

Film editing is the process of selecting and joining together Shot , connecting the resulting Sequence , and ultimately creating a finished motion picture....
that gave Jimmy the aura of invincibility in the fighting arena. Additionally, he was in fact a Shotokan karate exponent. Still, credit belongs to him for paving the way for other unforgettable Chinese kung fu films and martial artists that came after he had left the center stage. He was once the top paying martial art actor in Hong Kong before Bruce Lee broke the record.

Private life

Jimmy’s private life is actually more colorful than his film career. For years, his off-screen exploits thrilled newspaper and periodical readers with somewhat torrid accounts of his various affairs, well-publicized drunken bar brawls and other niceties.

In 1969, Jimmy married actress, Lin Tsui, who was nine years his senior, but not before conducting a scandalous affair

Sex scandal

A sex scandal is a scandal involving allegations or information about sexual activities being made public. Sex scandals are often associated with movie stars, politicians, or others in the public eye, and become scandals largely because of the prominence of the person involved and/or non-sexual norm nature of the sexuality....
with a well-known actress who was then married to director Qin Jan. Qin Jan hanged himself

Hanging

Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature. The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck", although it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain "hanging"....
before a divorce

Divorce

Divorce or dissolution of marriage is a legal process in which a judge or other authority dissolves the bonds of matrimony existing between two persons, thus restoring them to the marital status of being single....
took place.

Lin Tsui (?? also known as Jeanette LIN or "Lam Chui" or "Lin Cui"), was one of the more famous names in the Hong Kong film industry

Cinema of Hong Kong

The Movie theater of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language film, alongside the cinema of China, and the cinema of Taiwan....
in the 50s and 60s. She dropped out of the film scene almost immediately after her marriage. Matrimony

Marriage

Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
turned out to be a tumultuous affair for both Jimmy and Lin. Amid allegations of wife-beating, the marriage crumbled in 1975. Lin and Wang had three daughters. The eldest daughter Linda Wong turned into a Cantopop

Cantopop

Cantopop is a colloquial portmanteau for "Cantonese popular music". It is sometimes referred to as HK-pop, short for "Hong Kong popular music"....
star in the 1990s. Lin migrated

Immigration

While the movement of people has thought throughout history at various levels, modern immigration tourism are considered non-immigrants . Immigration that violates the immigration laws of the destination country is termed illegal immigration or undocumented immigration....
to the United States

United States

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in 1977, and died in 1995 after an asthma attack

Asthma

Asthma is a common chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, in which the Lung constrict, become inflammation, and are lined with excessive amounts of thickened mucus, often in response to one or more triggers....
.

Jimmy later remarried, this time to air hostess

Flight attendant

Flight attendants or cabin crew are members of an aircrew employed by airlines to ensure the safety and comfort of the passengers aboard passenger airline as well as on select business jet aircraft....
, Kai-cheng. This marriage, too, proved to be a stormy relationship and Kai-cheng filed for divorce. Maybe out of frustration, Kai-cheng started an affair with a young businessman. Having gotten wind of it, Jimmy, accompanied by reporter

Reporter

A reporter is a type of journalist who researches and presents information in certain types of mass media.Reporters gather their information in a variety of ways, including tips, press releases, sources and witnessing events....
s and the police

Police

Police are agents or agencies, usually of the executive , empowered to enforce the law and to ensure public and social order through the legitimized use of force....
, surprised the couple at their lodging and publicly exposed his wife. After public humiliation

Public humiliation

Public humiliation was often used by local communities to punish minor and petty criminals before the age of large, modern prisons ....
was heaped on the couple, Jimmy dropped Kai-cheng in 1997.

There were other serious problems in Jimmy’s life. In 1981, he faced a murder

Murder

Murder as defined in common law countries, is the unlawful killing of another human being with intent , and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide....
charge

Indictment

In the common law legal system, an indictment is a formal accusation that a person has committed a criminal offense. In those jurisdictions which retain the concept of a felony, the serious criminal offense would be a felony; those jurisdictions which have abolished the concept of a felony often substitute the concept of an indictable offenc...
in Taiwan. However, the charge was dropped due to lack of evidence

Evidence (law)

The law of evidence governs the use of testimony and exhibit s or other documentary material which is admissible in a dispute resolution ....
. Jimmy’s involvement in public brawls also made the headline

Headline

A headline is text at the top of a newspaper article, indicating the nature of the article below it.It is sometimes termed a news hed, a deliberate misspelling that dates from production flow during hot type days, to notify the composing room that a written note from an editor concerned a headline and should not be set in type....
s from time to time.

Filmography

Actor

Twin Sword (1964)
Tiger Boy (1964)
Temple of the Red Lotus (1965)
The Twin Swords (1965)
Magnificent Trio (1966)
Tiger Boy (1966)
The Assassin (1967)
Trail of the Broken Blade (1967)
Asia-Pol (1967)
Sword and the Lute (1967)
One-Armed Swordsman
One-Armed Swordsman

One-Armed Swordsman is a 1967 in film Shaw Brothers Studio Hong Kong action cinema wuxia film. Directed by Chang Cheh, it was the first of the new style of wuxia films emphasizing male anti-heroes, violent swordplay and heavy bloodletting....
(1967)
The Sword of Swords (1968)
The Golden Swallow (1968)
One-Armed Swordsman Return (1969)
My Son (1970)
The Chinese Boxer (1970)
One Armed Boxer
One Armed Boxer

One Armed Boxer is a 1971 in film Hong Kong martial arts film starring Jimmy Wang Yu. It is about a skilled Chinese martial arts who loses an arm and must exact revenge on his rival school....
(1971)
The Desperate Chase (1971)
The Professional Killer (1971)
Morale and Evil (1971)
Invincible Sword (1971)
Zatoichi 22: Meets the One Armed Swordsman (1971)
Magnificent Chivalry (1971)
The Invincible (1972)
Furious Slaughter (1972)
The Last Duel (1972)
Chow Ken (1972)
The Adventure (1972)
Shogun Saints (1972)
Royal Fist (1972)
Black Friday (1973)
A Man Called Tiger (1973)
Knight Errant (1973)
Seaman No. 7 (1973)
Beach of the War Gods (1973)
The Two Cavaliers (1973)
King of Boxers (1973)
Ten Fingers of Steel (1973)

Boxers of Loyalty and Righteousness (1973)

The Tattooed Dragon (1973)

My Father, My Husband, My Son (1974)

The Iron Man (1974)

The Hero (1974)

Four Real Friends (1974)

A Cookbook of Birth Control (1975)

The Man from Hong Kong (1975)

The Gallant (1975)

Return of the Chinese Boxer (1975)

Great Hunter (1975)

A Queen's Ransom (1976)

One Armed Swordsman Against Nine Killers (1976)

One Armed Swordsmen (1976)

Killer Meteors (1976)

Rage of the Masters (1976)

Master of the Flying Guillotine

Master of the Flying Guillotine is a 1975 Taiwanese / Hong Kong martial arts film starring Jimmy Wang Yu, who also wrote and directed the film....
(1976)

Tiger and Crane Fist

Tiger and Crane Fist is a 1976 kung-fu movie, starring 70s Hong Kong star, Jimmy Wang-Yu. The footage was later used in the comedy movie Kung Pow! Enter the Fist....
(1976)

The Criminal (1977)

Brotherly Love (1977)

One Arm Chivalry Fights Against One Arm Chivalry (1977)

Lantern Street (1977)

Deadly Silver Spear (1977)

Blood of the Dragon (1978)

Point of the Finger of Death (1978)

Big Leap Forward (1978)

Ma Su Chen (1979)

Fantasy Mission Force (1979)

The Battle of Guningtou (1979)

Revenge of Kung Fu Mao (1982)

Fantasy Mission Force

Fantasy Mission Force is a Hong Kong films of 1982 Hong Kong Hong Kong action cinema-comedy film directed by Chu Yin-Ping and starring Brigitte Lin, Jimmy Wang Yu and Jackie Chan in a supporting role....
(1983]] with Jackie Chan)

Shanghai (1984)

Millionaires' Express (1986)

Island of Fire (1990)

Once Upon a Time in China (1991)

Shogun & Little Kitchen (1992)

Requital (1992)

Beheaded 1000 (1993)

Producer

Boxers of Loyalty and Righteousness (1973)
One Armed Swordsman Against Nine Killers (1976)
Island of Fire
Island of Fire

Island of Fire is a Chinese films of the 1990s Cinema of Taiwan Hong Kong action cinema-crime film directed by Chu Yin-Ping....
(1990)
Beheaded 1000 (1993)
Stand Behind the Yellow Line (1997)
Eighteen Springs (1997)

Director

The Chinese Boxer (1970)
The One-Armed Boxer (1971)
Boxers of Loyalty and Righteousness (1973)
Four Real Friends (1974)
The Man from Hong Kong (1975) ( Australian Brian Trenchard-Smith was principal director w/Wang Yu doing some 2nd unit work)
Tiger and Crane Fist (1976)
Master of the Flying Guillotine
Master of the Flying Guillotine

Master of the Flying Guillotine is a 1975 Taiwanese / Hong Kong martial arts film starring Jimmy Wang Yu, who also wrote and directed the film....
(1976)
One Armed Swordsmen (1976)

Action Director

Boxers of Loyalty and Righteousness (1973)

Scriptwriter

The Chinese Boxer (1970)
The One-Armed Boxer (1971)
Beach of the War Gods (1973)
Master of the Flying Guillotine
Master of the Flying Guillotine

Master of the Flying Guillotine is a 1975 Taiwanese / Hong Kong martial arts film starring Jimmy Wang Yu, who also wrote and directed the film....
(1976)

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