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Yuen Woo-Ping - filmography


  • True Legend on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Man Cheuk Chiu,  Xun Zhou,  Michelle Yeoh
    Director: Yuen Woo-Ping
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    True Legend is the extraordinary journey of a man - a martial arts hero - whose greatest dream is to create a unique school of martial arts for the world to follow. All his life, Su Can has been pursuing the summit in martial arts. There are two things he holds dearest to his heart - the dream of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,393 member
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  • True Legend - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Man Cheuk Chiu,  Xun Zhou,  Michelle Yeoh
    Director: Yuen Woo-Ping
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    True Legend is the extraordinary journey of a man - a martial arts hero - whose greatest dream is to create a unique school of martial arts for the world to follow. All his life, Su Can has been pursuing the summit in martial arts. There are two things he holds dearest to his heart - the dream of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,071 member
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  • Tai Chi Boxer on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Jackie Wu,  Christy Chung,  Sibelle Hu
    Director: Yuen Woo-Ping
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    While battling corrupt Chinese officials and an opium epidemic, a young tai chi master (Jacky Wu) also faces stiff competition for the heart of a beautiful revolutionary (Christy Chung). TAI CHI BOXER is directed by Yuen Woo-Ping, renowned for choreographing fight sequences in CROUCHING TIGER, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 496 members
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  • Red Wolf (2 discs) on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Christy Chung,  Kenny Ho,  Elaine Lui
    Director: Yuen Woo-Ping
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    RED WOLF is directed by renowned Hong Kong fight choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping (THE MATRIX and CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) and stars Kenny Ho and Christy Chung. Essentially DIE HARD on a luxury liner, the action-packed film features a tough former cop (Ho) facing off against terrorists that have ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 130 members
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  • Wing Chun (1994)
    Starring: Michelle Yeoh,  Donnie Yen,  Tsui Siu Keung
    Director: Yuen Woo-Ping
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A beautiful widow moves into the tofu house owned by the martial artist Yim Wing Chun and her aunt. A group of bandits decide to kidnap the widow for a bride. Meanwhile a former love of Wing Chun's returns to town and mistakes the widow for her and Wing Chun for a man.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 863 members
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  • Last Hero In China on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Jet Lee,  Liu Chia Hui,  Cheung Man
    Director: Wong Jing,  Yuen Woo-Ping,  Yuen Wo
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In Last Hero in China, Jet Li reprises his role as Wong Fei-Hong, a legendary figure in China. Both a doctor and a teacher of martial arts, Wong has just moved his school in Canton, only to discover that the neighbouring house is a brothel. Though Wong's students are delighted and the earnest ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 601 members
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  • Tai Chi Master on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Jet Li,  Michelle Yeoh,  Chin Siu Ho
    Director: Yuen Woo-Ping
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hong Kong star Jet Li portrays the inventor of T'ai Chi in this entertaining if not historically accurate martial-arts movie. Lifelong friends Junbao (Li) and Tienbao (Chin Siu-Ho) are expelled from their Shaolin temple after being accused of cheating. Tienbao becomes a powerful and oppressive ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 471 members
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  • Twin Warriors (1993)
    Starring: Jet Li,  Michelle Yeoh,  Yuen Cheung Yan
    Director: Yuen Woo-Ping
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A pair of lifelong friends are expelled from their Shaolin temple after being accused of cheating. Tienbao becomes a powerful and oppressive military leader while the other, Junbao, (Li) joins the rebels. Only the discipline of Tai Chi can help Junbao defeat his former friend. Includes some of the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,753 member
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  • Tai-Chi Master - Blu-ray (1993)
    Starring: Jet Li,  Michelle Yeoh,  Siu-hou Chin
    Director: Yuen Woo-Ping
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Action superstars Jet Li (Fearless, The Forbidden Kingdom) and Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) team up with celebrated action-director, Yuen Woo-ping (The Matrix Trilogy), to deliver one of the most kinetic and inventive martial arts adventures of all time. Two orphans are raised in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 49 members
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  • In The Line Of Duty (1989)
    Starring: Cynthia Khan,  Michael Woods,  Donnie Yen
    Director: Yuen Woo-Ping
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Cynthia Khan (alternately billed as Cynthia Yang) is back as a policewoman extraordinaire who busts baddies in this fourth installment in the frenetic, popular Hong Kong action series. When a dock worker stumbles across a drug sting operation gone wrong, the cops want him in custody--and the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 232 members
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  • Shaolin Drunkard on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Cheung-Yan Yuen
    Director: Yuen Woo-Ping
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Legendary Hong Kong director and fight choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping (The Matrix Trilogy), crafts yet another martial arts masterpiece in which the Yuen clan star as a group of wacky Taoist wizards, each bettling for supremacy in the martial world.
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 104 members
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  • Legend Of A Fighter on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Leung Kar Yan,  Kurata Yusuaki
    Director: Yuen Woo-Ping
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Fast-action martials arts film based around the life of one of China's most formidable fighters, Huo Yuan Chia. A man trains secretly in martial arts and becomes a master. Later he is faced with fighting his own mentor in a championship fight.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 413 members
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  • The Magnificent Butcher (1979)
    Starring: Sammo Hung,  Chung Fat,  Mui Sang Fan
    Director: Yuen Woo-Ping
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This classic martial arts comedy stars the charming and disarming master of bumbling, the corpulent Sammo Hung. In this Yuen Woo-Ping film, he plays a lovable, klutzy butcher who studies diligently under legendary kung fu master Wong Fei-Hong, but he can't quite seem to get his moves together. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 926 members
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  • Snuff Bottle Connection (1977)
    Starring: John Liu,  Yip Fei Yang,  Wong Yat Lung
    Director: Yuen Woo-Ping
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Directed by world-renowned action choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping (Drunken Master, Dance of the Drunk Mantis, Kill Bill Vol I and II), Snuff Bottle Connection features John Liu as an imperial undercover agent sent to retrieve a jade snuff bottle from the Russian military...
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 75 members
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  • The Kung Fu Collection (2 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Mars,  Meng Fei
    Director: Hdeng Tsu,  Wu Ma,  Yuen Woo-Ping
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A collection of classic Jackie Chan movies. Eagle Shadow Fist (1971) : Jackie Chan plays a famous actor of the Chinese Theatre, who becomes a legendary resistance fighter against the Japanese. This was Jackie Chan's first martial arts film. The Young Tiger (1973): Meng Fei stars in this action-..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 70 members
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Yuen Woo-Ping facts

5 most recent films

True Legend - 3.5 stars
True Legend - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Tai Chi Boxer - 3.0 stars
Red Wolf - 2.5 stars
Wing Chun - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

True Legend - 3.5 stars
True Legend - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Snake In The Eagle's Shadow - 3.5 stars
Drunken Master - 3.5 stars
Twin Warriors - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Tai-Chi Master - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Kung Fu Collection - 2.5 stars
Red Wolf - 2.5 stars
Shaolin Drunkard - 2.5 stars
Fire Dragon - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Michelle Yeoh - 7 times - show films
Jackie Chan - 5 times - show films
Brigitte Lin - 4 times - show films
Lap-Man Sin - 4 times - show films
Chuan Chen Yeh - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Hdeng Tsu - 3 times - show films
Yen-ping Chu - 3 times - show films
Wu Ma - 3 times - show films
Hsu Hsia - 1 times - show films
Hsu - 1 times - show films