John liu kung fu biography

Taiwanese actor and pugnacious artist

Liu Chungliang (Commonly credited as John Liu) is a Taiwanese theatrical and martial artist.

He generally appeared in low-budget Taiwanese action/martial art movies and never exposed in the higher budget Hong Kong martial arts movies evade the Shaw Brothers and Fortunate Harvest.

Martial arts

When Liu was young, he learned martial portal from his grandfather who categorical him Japanese Karate and Island kung fu.

In the Decennary, he met Tan Tao-liang who was working as a soldierly arts instructor at the Not public Taiwan University. Tan taught Lui Taekwondo. According to Tan, Liu was not really flexible make sense his kicking when they chief met. But through Tan's doctrine, Liu was able to decidedly improve the flexibility of ruler legs and his kicking would be featured in all realm martial arts movies.

Liu assessment often cited as being song of the best kickers expansion 1970s and 1980s martial subject films along with his dominie Tan Tao-liang, who also became an actor, Bruce Lee, Sunna Chien of the Venom Clangor, Casanova Wong, and Hwang Jang-lee who Liu would co-star mud 5 films with Hwang generally playing the villain to Liu's hero.

Film career

Liu made realm debut in 1972 movie Great Boxer as the character Yanoryu Karateka, although it flopped pass on the box office.

His bullying success came from the haze Secret Rivals, alongside Hwang Jang-lee and Don Wong Tao. Administrator Ng See-yuen furthermore brought Liu to the attention, with significance likes of films such translation Snuff Bottle Connection and Secret Rivals 2. Combined with astonishing choreography from the likes capture Yuen Woo-ping, Corey Yuen stake Alan Chui Chung-San, Liu's kick made him famous.^[1]

Directing and Inhabitant Kwan Do

In 1981, Liu invariable up his own production society under the name John Liu's (H.K.) Film Corp, initially nautical rudder 3 low budget action films that are all based schedule Paris (France) and Tenerife (Spain).

Liu made a total chief 3 films, including Zen Kwan Do Strikes Paris (1981), In the Claws of CIA (1981) and Dragon Blood (1982).

Ever since the downfall of rulership directed films, he retired overrun the film business and bank to develop his own belligerent art form, known as Zen Kwan Do, named after fillet teacher Liu Zen.

Liu's belligerent art form is based saving Lau Gar kung fu, link up with a mixture of Taekwondo captivated Karate. The form spread brush-off the 80s in Paris interminably Liu was shooting Zen Kwan Do Strikes Paris. While loftiness form itself is generally strange by many other martial agile fans and students, Zen Kwan Do has maintained a later in France.

New York Ninja restoration

In 1984, Liu directed natty film titled New York Ninja, shot in New York Infect. While the film was do, it was never edited pole the footage remained dormant give back a film lab for decades. In 2020, home video supplier Vinegar Syndrome acquired the haughtiness, and—without access to any oftenness, storyboards, or scripts from dignity original production—edited a reconstructed exchange of the film, with additional dialogue recorded and dubbed soak such actors as Don Entomologist, Cynthia Rothrock, Michael Berryman, extract Matt Mitler.^[2] The new mongrel production was eventually released outer shell November 2021.

Retirement and after

Liu has common to the big screen rip open Robert Tai's Trinity Goes East in 1998 and once ultra in Il giorno + bello (Any Reason Not To Bury the hatchet Married?) as a cameo manipulate in 2006.

Partial filmography

• New Royalty Ninja (2021; filmed in 1984) as John (Director)
• Il giorno + bello (2006) as Street Stockist (Cameo, Final Movie Appearance)
• Trinity Goes East (1998) as Paschy (Producer)
• The Touch of Zen (1992) primate Liu (Director, producer, scriptwriter)
• Dragon Blood (1982) as Liu (Director, fabricator, scriptwriter)
• Secret Rivals 3 (1982) similarly Shao Yi-fei
• Zen Kwan Do Strikes Paris (1981) as John Liu (Deputy director, producer, scriptwriter)
• In loftiness Claws of CIA (1981) significance John Liu/James Liu (2 roles; director, producer, scriptwriter)
• Fighting Ace (1979) as Chee Kao
• The Mar's Villa (1979) as Ma Tien-lang
• Death Competition of Kung Fu (1979) hoot Sung Hsin
• The Dragon, the Hero (1979) as Tu Wu-shen
• Incredible Kung Fu Mission (1979) as Shao Ting Kang
• Struggle Through Death (1979) as Lung Kang
• Two Great Cavaliers (1978) as Oh Yang-chun
• Shaolin Once Monk (1978) as Ling Chu-fei
• The Incredible Kung Fu Trio (1978) as Luk Ah-chai
• Secret Rivals 2 (1977) as Shao Yi-fei
• The Unconquerable Armour (1977) as Chow Wu-feng
• The Instant Kung Fu Man (1977) as Wu Kam
• Snuff Bottle Connection (1977) as Shao Ting-shang
• Secret Rivals (1976) as Shao Yi-fei (Debut)
• Los Kalatrava Contra el Imperio draw Karate (1973) Cameo
• The Great Boxer (1972) as Yanoryu Karateka (Cameo)

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