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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 Crabtree from Mid Glamorgan
    Rated - 4 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 ...  
  • Zu Warriors From The Magic Mountain
  • Zu Warriors From The Magic Mountain review by David Stone-Haigh from Salford, Lancs
    Rated - 4 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...  
  • Project A
  • Project A review by A customer from London
    Rated - 5 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...  

Yuen Biao - filmography


  • Hero on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Takeshi Kaneshiro,  Yuen Wah,  Yuen Biao
    Director: Corey Yuen
    Certificate: TBC
    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. NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE 2004 RELEASE
    Rate this: 2.5 52% from 532 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: 15
    In one of the recurring gags of ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA, attempts to take Wong Fei Hung's picture always fail. The failure to capture the image of Wong (Jet Li) serves as an appropriate metaphor for the place of the Ching Dynasty folk hero in Chinese cultural memory. A legendary master of a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 70% from 721 members
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  • Once Upon A Chinese Hero on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Yuen Biao
    Director: Ng Ma
    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.
    Rate this: 2.5 52% from 48 members
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  • Dragons Forever (2 discs) on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Sammo Hung,  Yuen Biao
    Director: Sammo Hung
    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.
    Rate this: 3.5 71% from 318 members
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  • Eastern Condors on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Sammo Hung,  Yuen Biao,  Lam Ching Ying
    Director: Sammo Hung
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.0 64% from 176 members
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  • My Lucky Stars on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Sammo Hung,  Yuen Biao
    Director: Sammo Hung
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.0 64% from 334 members
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  • Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Sammo Hung,  Yuen Biao
    Director: Sammo Hung
    Certificate: 15
    Rollicking follow-up to the comic blockbuster "My Lucky Stars," with former "Little Fortunes" Hung, Chan, and Biao resurrecting their famous slapstick chemistry once more as crimefighters called upon to save a kingpin from assassins. Available in Mandarin.
    Rate this: 3.0 63% from 253 members
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  • Wheels On Meals (2 discs) on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Sammo Hung,  Yuen Biao
    Director: Sammo Hung
    Certificate: 15
    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....
    Rate this: 3.5 70% from 603 members
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  • Project A (2 discs) on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Sammo Hung,  Yuen Biao
    Director: Jackie Chan
    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 honor. Revered by Chan devotees as one of his finest films, PROJECT A seamlessly ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 70% from 722 members
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  • Dragon Lord on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Yuen Biao
    Director: Jackie Chan
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.0 65% from 203 members
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  • The Young Master on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Yuen Biao,  Wei Pai
    Director: Jackie Chan
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 69% from 463 members
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  • Hapkido on DVD
    Starring: Sammo Hung,  Jackie Chan,  Yuen Biao
    Director: Feng Huang
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.0 62% from 119 members
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  • Once Upon A Time In China 6 on DVD
    Starring: Yuen Biao,  Yuen Wah,  Chang Shan
    Director: Ma Wu
    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...
    Rate this: 2.5 47% from 60 members
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  • Peacock King on DVD
    Starring: Yuen Biao,  Pauline Wong,  Hiroshi Mikami
    Director: Nam Nai Choi
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 47% from 95 members
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Yuen Biao - downloads


  • Project A for Download (1983)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Sammo Hung,  Yuen Biao
    Director: Jackie Chan
    Certificate: 12
    Rent from: £2.99
    Buy from: £7.99
    Run time: 106 minutes
    In late 19th Century Hong Kong the British may rule the land, but the pirates rule the waters. Reluctantly, the Coast Guard is given money to fight these pirates, but the pirates themselves have many contacts (that is, bribed officials) in the government, and seek to thwart the Coast Guard's ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 66% from 3 members
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Yuen Biao facts

5 most recent films


Avenging Fist - 2.5 stars
Hero - 2.5 stars
Once Upon A Time In China - 3.5 stars
Once Upon A Chinese Hero - 2.5 stars
Dragons Forever - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films


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

5 lowest-rated films


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

Most frequent co-stars


Sammo Hung - 11 times - show films
Jackie Chan - 11 times - show films
Yuen Wah - 3 times - show films
Corey Yuen - 2 times - show films
Lee Hoi San - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors


Sammo Hung - 5 times - show films
Jackie Chan - 4 times - show films
Tsui Hark - 2 times - show films
Ma Wu - 1 times - show films
Andy Lau - 1 times - show films