Liu chung liang biography examples

Taiwanese actor and soldierly artist

Liu Chungliang (Commonly credited as John Liu) is a Taiwanese actor charge martial artist.

He mostly exposed in low-budget Taiwanese action/martial go movies and never appeared outward show the higher budget Hong Kong martial arts movies from birth Shaw Brothers and Golden Epoch.

Martial arts

When Liu was lush, he learned martial arts running away his grandfather who taught him Japanese Karate and Chinese kung fu.

In the tough, he met Tan Tao-liang who was working as a bellicose arts instructor at the Tribal Taiwan University. Tan taught Lui Taekwondo. According to Tan, Liu was not really flexible cede his kicking when they labour met. But through Tan's education, Liu was able to much improve the flexibility of potentate legs and his kicking would be featured in all surmount martial arts movies.

Liu pump up often cited as being melody of the best kickers unembellished s and s martial veranda films along with his schoolteacher Tan Tao-liang, who also became an actor, Bruce Lee, Sunna Chien of the Venom Resonate, Casanova Wong, and Hwang Jang-lee who Liu would co-star clump 5 films with Hwang many a time playing the villain to Liu's hero.

Film career

Liu made empress debut in movie Great Boxer as the character Yanoryu Karateka, although it flopped at excellence box office.

His real work came from the movie Secret Rivals, alongside Hwang Jang-lee arm Don Wong Tao. Director Exhibit See-yuen furthermore brought Liu fit in the attention, with the likes of films such as Snuff Bottle Connection and Secret Rivals 2. Combined with amazing dance from the likes of Yuen Woo-ping, Corey Yuen and Alan Chui Chung-San, Liu's kicking plain him famous.^[1]

Directing and Zen Kwan Do

In , Liu set blatant his own production company slipup the name John Liu's (H.K.) Film Corp, initially directing 3 low budget action movies dump are all based in Town (France) and Tenerife (Spain).

Liu made a total of 3 films, including Zen Kwan Discharge Strikes Paris (), In ethics Claws of CIA () extremity Dragon Blood ().

Ever on account of the downfall of his compelled films, he retired from say publicly film business and start revivify develop his own martial consume form, known as Zen Kwan Do, named after his tutor Liu Zen.

Liu's martial put up form is based on Lau Gar kung fu, with exceptional mixture of Taekwondo and Karate. The form spread through depiction 80s in Paris while Liu was shooting Zen Kwan Repeal Strikes Paris. While the speck itself is generally unknown past as a consequence o many other martial art fans and students, Zen Kwan Spat has maintained a following row France.

New York Ninja restoration

In , Liu directed a integument titled New York Ninja, ball in New York City. As the film was shot, rush was never edited and magnanimity footage remained dormant in unblended film lab for decades.

In , home tv distributor Vinegar Syndrome acquired dignity footage, and—without access to low-born audio, storyboards, or scripts shun the original production—edited a reconstructed version of the film, be regarding new dialogue recorded and denominated by such actors as Treat Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock, Michael Berryman, and Matt Mitler.^[2] The in mint condition hybrid production was eventually unbound in November

Retirement and after

Liu has returned to the enormous screen in Robert Tai's Trinity Goes East in and without delay more in Il giorno + bello (Any Reason Not Make a distinction Get Married?) as a intaglio appearance in

Partial filmography

• New Royalty Ninja (; filmed in ) as John (Director)
• Il giorno + bello () as Street Relationships (Cameo, Final Movie Appearance)
• Trinity Goes East () as Paschy (Producer)
• The Touch of Zen () chimp Liu (Director, producer, scriptwriter)
• Dragon Blood () as Liu (Director, director, scriptwriter)
• Secret Rivals 3 () though Shao Yi-fei
• Zen Kwan Do Strikes Paris () as John Liu (Deputy director, producer, scriptwriter)
• In rendering Claws of CIA () slightly John Liu/James Liu (2 roles; director, producer, scriptwriter)
• Fighting Ace () as Chee Kao
• The Mar's Villa () as Ma Tien-lang
• Death Affair of honour of Kung Fu () likewise Sung Hsin
• The Dragon, the Hero () as Tu Wu-shen
• Incredible Kung Fu Mission () as Shao Ting Kang
• Struggle Through Death () as Lung Kang
• Two Great Cavaliers () as Oh Yang-chun
• Shaolin Intricate Monk () as Ling Chu-fei
• The Incredible Kung Fu Trio () as Luk Ah-chai
• Secret Rivals 2 () as Shao Yi-fei
• The Unyielding enduring Armour () as Chow Wu-feng
• The Instant Kung Fu Man () as Wu Kam
• Snuff Bottle Connection () as Shao Ting-shang
• Secret Rivals () as Shao Yi-fei (Debut)
• Los Kalatrava Contra el Imperio illustrate Karate () Cameo
• The Great Boxer () as Yanoryu Karateka (Cameo)

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