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Happy Birthday Yuen Biao!  July 26
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Sometimes in the midst of a nightmare appears a glorious ray of sunshine. From the remarkably awful movie "Hot Potato" (1976), a veritable boys choir of awesomeness: [L to R] Mang Hoi, Lam Ching Ying, Yuen Biao, Hak On Fung, Billy Chan, Peter Chan Lung
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Here’s Yuen Biao in all his acrobatic glory. Taken from the final warehouse brawl in “Dragons Forever.”
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Yuen Biao, Maggie Cheung and Yuen Wah in “Iceman Cometh.”
Ready for a kung fu confession…
This film is at the very top of my want list. I’ve actually never seen it despite it being so loved by fans. With Donnie Yen remaking it, I’m going to do my best to get my grubby little paws on a DVD of it. I actually want the UK Hong Kong Legends release, but it would set me back a pretty penny and…well…the Hong Kong version is available on Amazon for nine dollars. But it’s USED and the shipping and handling with undoubtedly be the sting in the tail.
Yes, yes, I’m sure it’s all over You Tube but I actually want to pay for the film and own it. I’m determined to have it in my collection before Donnie’s version gets released.
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Yuen Biao in his Peking Opera days. 
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Sammo Hung going one on one with Yuen Biao in an early fight scene from “Shanghai Express” aka “Millionaire’s Express.”
It’s a vastly underrated film and, if you get the chance to give it a watch, you’ll find it’s a who’s who of 80’s kung fu cinema. With fights to match!
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Shih Erh (Yuen Biao) in Portrait of a Nymph aka Hua zhong xian
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Yuen Biao in “The Champions.”
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This is the final fight from “Prodigal Son.” As amazing as it is, it got even more amazing for me, last night, when I discovered that this fight was actually a FULL CONTACT fight.
In reading up on Sammo Hung’s choreography, I found out that he loved to have his stars actually hit each other. Beardy (Leung Kar Yan) has had interviews in which he says that, after a Sammo fight, he would return home in tears. That’s why he is the greatest choreographer of all time. He pushed his stars like nobody else in the industry.
Apparently this fight (the one above) was particularly arduous for Frankie Chan because he was up against Yuen Biao who was used to Sammo’s choreography. Oh and that second gif? That’s Yuen Biao basically kicking Yuen Biao. Frankie Chan couldn’t pull of the kick and so Yuen Biao doubled for him…but Frankie Chan was supposed to be kicking Yuen Biao in the first place so I’m sure the guy on that right is some random stuntman who could do the fall.
So it’s no wonder that Sammo’s choreography looks so hard hitting. It was. Before anyone cries at me about it being bullshit, please be aware that “full contact” doesn’t mean they beat the fuck out of each other. It was still choreographed. It’s just that punches/blocks weren’t pulled and so they actually connected.
Coincidentally, the alternate title to the film is “Pull No Punches.”
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Somebody's been working out. From a recent shoot of "Twelve Deadly Coins," China's first 3D TV series.
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