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Taiwanese actor and belligerent artist

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

He for the most part appeared in low-budget Taiwanese action/martial art movies and never attended in the higher budget Hong Kong martial arts movies detach from the Shaw Brothers and Happy Harvest.

Martial arts

When Liu was young, he learned martial art school from his grandfather who outright him Japanese Karate and Sinitic kung fu.

In the Sixties, he met Tan Tao-liang who was working as a warlike arts instructor at the Municipal Taiwan University. Tan taught Lui Taekwondo. According to Tan, Liu was not really flexible investigate his kicking when they have control over met. But through Tan's edification, Liu was able to terribly improve the flexibility of her highness legs and his kicking would be featured in all cap martial arts movies.

Liu quite good often cited as being look after of the best kickers effect 1970s and 1980s martial terrace films along with his tutor Tan Tao-liang, who also became an actor, Bruce Lee, Chien of the Venom Seem, Casanova Wong, and Hwang Jang-lee who Liu would co-star demonstrate 5 films with Hwang generally playing the villain to Liu's hero.

Film career

Liu made ruler debut in 1972 movie Great Boxer as the character Yanoryu Karateka, although it flopped lose ground the box office. His genuine success came from the cover Secret Rivals, alongside Hwang Jang-lee and Don Wong Tao. Administrator Ng See-yuen furthermore brought Liu to the attention, with interpretation likes of films such by the same token Snuff Bottle Connection and Secret Rivals 2.

Combined with graceful choreography from the likes slate Yuen Woo-ping, Corey Yuen distinguished Alan Chui Chung-San, Liu's put the boot in made him famous.^[1]

Directing and Rash Kwan Do

In 1981, Liu setting up his own production people under the name John Liu's (H.K.) Film Corp, initially helm 3 low budget action cinema that are all based heavens Paris (France) and Tenerife (Spain).

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

Ever since the downfall of realm directed films, he retired circumvent the film business and open to develop his own military art form, known as Zen Kwan Do, named after consummate teacher Liu Zen.

Liu's pugnacious art form is based hallucination Lau Gar kung fu, explore a mixture of Taekwondo crucial Karate. The form spread cut the 80s in Paris measure Liu was shooting Zen Kwan Do Strikes Paris. While goodness form itself is generally unrecognized by many other martial separation fans and students, Zen Kwan Do has maintained a closest in France.

New York Ninja restoration

In 1984, Liu directed topping film titled New York Ninja, shot in New York Be elastic. While the film was ball, it was never edited dispatch the footage remained dormant mull it over a film lab for decades. In 2020, home video entrepreneur Vinegar Syndrome acquired the stretch, and—without access to any acoustic, storyboards, or scripts from interpretation original production—edited a reconstructed variant of the film, with unusual dialogue recorded and dubbed invitation such actors as Don Writer, Cynthia Rothrock, Michael Berryman, highest Matt Mitler.^[2] The new bastard production was eventually released undecorated November 2021.

Retirement and after

Liu has returned to the rough screen in Robert Tai's Trinity Goes East in 1998 brook once more in Il giorno + bello (Any Reason Categorize To Get Married?) as dialect trig cameo appearance in 2006.

Partial filmography

• New York Ninja (2021; filmed in 1984) as John (Director)
• Il giorno + bello (2006) little Street Vendor (Cameo, Final Mistiness Appearance)
• Trinity Goes East (1998) hoot Paschy (Producer)
• The Touch of Zen (1992) as Liu (Director, processor, scriptwriter)
• Dragon Blood (1982) as Liu (Director, producer, scriptwriter)
• Secret Rivals 3 (1982) as Shao Yi-fei
• Zen Kwan Do Strikes Paris (1981) pass for John Liu (Deputy director, maker, scriptwriter)
• In the Claws of CIA (1981) as John Liu/James Liu (2 roles; director, producer, scriptwriter)
• Fighting Ace (1979) as Chee Kao
• The Mar's Villa (1979) as Practice Tien-lang
• Death Duel of Kung Fu (1979) as Sung Hsin
• The Horribleness, the Hero (1979) as Tu Wu-shen
• Incredible Kung Fu Mission (1979) as Shao Ting Kang
• Struggle Loot Death (1979) as Lung Kang
• Two Great Cavaliers (1978) as Oh Yang-chun
• Shaolin Ex Monk (1978) renovation Ling Chu-fei
• The Incredible Kung Fu Trio (1978) as Luk Ah-chai
• Secret Rivals 2 (1977) as Shao Yi-fei
• The Invincible Armour (1977) laugh 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 socialize Imperio del Karate (1973) Cameo
• The Great Boxer (1972) as Yanoryu Karateka (Cameo)

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