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Yuen Biao

Yuen Biao (born 26 July 1957) is a Chinese actor from Hong Kong. He specialises in martial arts and has worked on over 80 films as actor, stuntman and action choreographer. Along with Peking Opera School "brothers" at the China Drama Academy, Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan, he was one of the Seven Little Fortunes.
Born Lìng-Zhèng (Hsia Ling-Jun) in Hong Kong, Yuen was the fifth child in a family of eight children. He studied at the China Drama Academy between the ages of five to 16, after which he left to pursue a career in the Hong Kong film industry.




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Yuen Biao - what members say


  • Eastern Condors
  • Eastern Condors review by drunkenmaster from Mid Glamorgan
    Rated - 4.0 stars Sammo at his best 18 June 2005
    ...alive when the guns are put aside and the Kung Fu comes into play. Featuring Yuen Biao who's acrobatic style is second to none in this kind of film, you couldn't ask ...   Read customer review
  • Zu Warriors From The Magic Mountain
  • Zu Warriors From The Magic Mountain review by from Salford, Lancs
    Rated - 4.0 stars What a Rush 24 September 2004
    ...ts, crazy reworked Chinese mythology and Hong Kong action stars, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao and you're back there, aged ten for at least a couple of hours. Free from all t...   Read customer review
  • Project A
  • Project A review by A customer from London
    Rated - 5.0 stars You can't go wrong 28 November 2004
    ...When you have Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan as well as Yuen Biao together in a movie you really can't go wrong. Ok I admit their earlier outings were crap - storywise, but thi...   Read customer review

Yuen Biao - filmography


  • The Avenging Fist on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Sammo Hung,  Stephen Fung,  Yuen Biao
    Director: Andy Lau,  Corey Yuen-Kwai
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Loosely based on the popular TEKKEN series of video games, THE AVENGING FIST stars HK luminaries Sammo Hung, Ekin Cheng, and Yuen Biao as three of the cadre of martial artists who have joined in the fight to reclaim the Power Glove. Stolen by the devious special agent Combat 21, the glove confers ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 604 members
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  • Once Upon A Time In China 6 (1997)
    Starring: Yuen Biao,  Yuen Wah,  Chang Shan
    Director: Ma Wu
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hong Kong superstar and Jackie Chan contemporary Yuen Biao stars as 'Clubfoot' in this brilliant chapter in the Wong Fei Hong (Once Upon A Time In China) saga. The Master Of Chess has teamed up with Eagle Claw King to begin trading in opium with the British. Only Clubfoot stands against them...
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 78 members
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  • Hero on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Takeshi Kaneshiro,  Yuen Wah,  Yuen Biao
    Director: Corey Yuen
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Ma enters the underworld in Shangai after first getting work as a coolie, but he is ill-prepared to deal with the cunning of his rival.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 580 members
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  • Once Upon A Time In China on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Jet Li,  Rosamund Kwan,  Yuen Biao
    Director: Tsui Hark
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Though generally unknown to Western audiences, Tsui Hark is considered a giant among Asian filmmakers and this exceptional epic, combining hard-hitting martial-arts action with romance, comedy, history, genuine poignance, and sharp insight into the effects of the century-long encroachment of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3,169 members
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  • Once Upon A Chinese Hero on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Yuen Biao,  Hwa Yuen
    Director: Ng Ma
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Yuen Biao reprises his role as Clubfoot 7 as he once again defends the people of Canton in this martial arts action movie.
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 58 members
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  • Peacock King on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Yuen Biao,  Pauline Wong,  Hiroshi Mikami
    Director: Nam Nai Choi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From Ngai Kai Lam, the director of the notoriously banned The Story of Ricky, comes another eye-popping Manga-inspired extravaganza. Legendary fight master Yuen Biao (Project A) stars as Peacock, a Buddhist priest endowed with magical skills, who must descend through one of the gates of hell (..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 134 members
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  • Dragons Forever on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Sammo Hung,  Yuen Biao
    Director: Sammo Hung
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A sharp lawyer is hired by a factory when an attractive farm owner threatens to take them to court because waste chemicals are destroying the local fish farm. Soon he is torn between his loyalties to his client and the female witness.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,273 member
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  • Eastern Condors on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Sammo Hung,  Yuen Biao,  Lam Ching Ying
    Director: Sammo Hung
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    EASTERN CONDORS is director Sammo Hung's high-energy version of THE DIRTY DOZEN. To win their freedom, a group of hardened Asian convicts agree to go on a suicidal mission to Vietnam and destroy an abandoned ammunitions dump before the Vietcong discovers it. Along the way, the men run into a trio ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 765 members
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  • My Lucky Stars (1985)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Sammo Hung,  Yuen Biao
    Director: Sammo Hung
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Because the success of the first LUCKY STARS film (WINNERS AND SINNERS) had a lot to do with the Japanese market, the second film in the series takes place in the land of the rising sun and features Michiko Nishiwaki, the Japanese female bodybuilder. Jackie Chan plays an undercover cop who solicits ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,231 member
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  • Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Sammo Hung,  Yuen Biao
    Director: Sammo Hung
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This third installment in the popular LUCKY STARS series -- directed by Sammo Hung -- finds Muscles (Jackie Chan), Kidstuff (Hung), Fung (Yuen Biao), and the gang taking a well-needed vacation in Thailand courtesy of the Hong Kong police department. Also on the trip is police inspector Woo (Sibelle ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,134 member
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  • Wheels on Meals (1984)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Sammo Hung,  Yuen Biao
    Director: Sammo Hung
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Cousins Jackie and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling private detective, to save the beautiful Sylvia, a pickpocket....
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,648 members
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  • Project A (1983)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Sammo Hung,  Yuen Biao
    Director: Jackie Chan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jackie Chan stars as Dragon Ma, an honest marine cadet in late-19th-century colonial Hong Kong, who must do battle with the smugglers and pirates terrorising the South China Sea in order to preserve his company's honour. Revered by Chan devotees as one of his finest films, PROJECT A seamlessly ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 3,062 members
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  • Zu Warriors From The Magic Mountain (1983)
    Starring: Sammo Hung,  Yuen Biao,  Hoi Mang
    Director: Tsui Hark
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When ZU WARRIORS FROM THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN first appeared in 1983, Hong Kong audiences were shocked by the level of sophistication of the film's special effects. Determined to raise the production values of Hong Kong films to that of the United States, director Tsui Hark hired special effects experts ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,352 member
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  • Dragon Lord on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Yuen Biao
    Director: Jackie Chan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Dragon (Jackie) and his buddy Cowboy get mixed up in a plot to swipe some valuable Chinese antiques and are forced to kick butt. However, the real attraction here is a number of showstopping set pieces that involve Jackie and Cowboy playing some pretty demented versions of Badminton and Football, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,022 member
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  • The Young Master (1980)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Yuen Biao,  Wei Pai
    Director: Jackie Chan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Youthful master Jackie Chan is searching for his missing brother, when he is mistaken for a criminal on the lam. He must prove his innocence by solving the case himself, while local lawmen and merciless mercenaries are hot on his trail. The film is a highly entertaining action/comedy from Hong Kong ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,631 member
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  • Hand Of Death on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Sammo Hung,  Yuen Biao
    Director: John Woo
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Former 'Little Fortunes' Chan, Biao, and Hung team up with director Woo as a legion of fighters determined to protect the Shaolin school from a megalomaniacal lord.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 175 members
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  • Hapkido (1972)
    Starring: Sammo Hung,  Yuen Biao,  Jackie Chan
    Director: Feng Huang
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Having returned from Japanese-occupied Korea, three Chinese students set up a school to teach the martial art of Hapkido. However, soon the students find that the Japanese subject their neighbourhood to a reign of terror and are forced to use all their awesome fighting skills to protect themselves ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 330 members
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  • Cub Tiger From Kwang Tung on DVD
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Han Kwok Tsai,  Chan Hung Lieh
    Director: Ngai Hoi Fong
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jackie Chan’s first starring role sees him play a young waiter who also happens to be a kung fu fanatic. Although his Father (Tien Fong-Fist of fury) has forbidden him from learning the martial arts, Jackie trains in secret and is a Young Master in his own right. Local store owners seek the help of ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 76 members
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Yuen Biao facts

5 most recent films

The Avenging Fist - 2.5 stars
Once Upon A Time In China 6 - 2.5 stars
Hero - 2.5 stars
Once Upon A Time In China - 3.5 stars
Once Upon A Chinese Hero - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Wheels on Meals - 3.5 stars
Project A - 3.5 stars
The Young Master - 3.5 stars
Dragons Forever - 3.5 stars
Once Upon A Time In China - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Avenging Fist - 2.5 stars
Peacock King - 2.5 stars
Once Upon A Chinese Hero - 2.5 stars
Once Upon A Time In China 6 - 2.5 stars
Cub Tiger From Kwang Tung - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Sammo Hung - 14 times - show films
Jackie Chan - 13 times - show films
Yuen Wah - 3 times - show films
Stephen Fung - 2 times - show films
Sammo Hung Kam-Bo - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Sammo Hung - 10 times - show films
Jackie Chan - 5 times - show films
Tsui Hark - 2 times - show films
Andy Lau - 2 times - show films
Corey Yuen-Kwai - 2 times - show films