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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 - filmography
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The Avenging Fist
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Sammo Hung, Stephen Fung, Yuen Biao
Director: Andy Lau, Corey Yuen-Kwai
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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 »
 
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Once Upon A Time In China 6
(1997)
Starring: Yuen Biao, Yuen Wah, Chang Shan
Director: Ma Wu
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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...
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from 78 members
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Hero
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Yuen Wah, Yuen Biao
Director: Corey Yuen
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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.
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Once Upon A Time In China
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Yuen Biao
Director: Tsui Hark
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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 »
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from 3,169 members
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Once Upon A Chinese Hero
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Yuen Biao, Hwa Yuen
Director: Ng Ma
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Yuen Biao reprises his role as Clubfoot 7 as he once again defends the people of Canton in this martial arts action movie.
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from 58 members
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Peacock King
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Yuen Biao, Pauline Wong, Hiroshi Mikami
Director: Nam Nai Choi
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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 »
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from 134 members
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Dragons Forever
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao
Director: Sammo Hung
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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.
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Eastern Condors
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Lam Ching Ying
Director: Sammo Hung
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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 »
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from 765 members
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My Lucky Stars
(1985)
Starring: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao
Director: Sammo Hung
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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 »
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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
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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 »
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Wheels on Meals
(1984)
Starring: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao
Director: Sammo Hung
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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....
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from 2,648 members
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Project A
(1983)
Starring: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao
Director: Jackie Chan
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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 »
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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
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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 »
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from 1,352 member
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Dragon Lord
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao
Director: Jackie Chan
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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 »
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from 1,022 member
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The Young Master
(1980)
Starring: Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Wei Pai
Director: Jackie Chan
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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 »
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Hand Of Death
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao
Director: John Woo
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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.
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from 175 members
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Hapkido
(1972)
Starring: Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Jackie Chan
Director: Feng Huang
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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 »
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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
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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 »
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Yuen Biao facts
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...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 ...
