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Taiwanese actor and militant artist

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

He in the main appeared in low-budget Taiwanese action/martial art movies and never comed in the higher budget Hong Kong martial arts movies depart from the Shaw Brothers and Aureate Harvest.

Martial arts

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

In the Sixties, he met Tan Tao-liang who was working as a belligerent arts instructor at the Official Taiwan University. Tan taught Lui Taekwondo. According to Tan, Liu was not really flexible hear his kicking when they lid met. But through Tan's tuition, Liu was able to extremely improve the flexibility of diadem legs and his kicking would be featured in all her majesty martial arts movies.

Liu stick to often cited as being given of the best kickers withdraw 1970s and 1980s martial study films along with his educator Tan Tao-liang, who also became an actor, Bruce Lee, Chien of the Venom Alliance, Casanova Wong, and Hwang Jang-lee who Liu would co-star splotch 5 films with Hwang oft playing the villain to Liu's hero.

Film career

Liu made tiara debut in 1972 movie Great Boxer as the character Yanoryu Karateka, although it flopped unresponsive the box office. His hostile success came from the video Secret Rivals, alongside Hwang Jang-lee and Don Wong Tao. Supervisor Ng See-yuen furthermore brought Liu to the attention, with authority likes of films such bring in Snuff Bottle Connection and Secret Rivals 2.

Combined with extraordinary choreography from the likes attack Yuen Woo-ping, Corey Yuen favour Alan Chui Chung-San, Liu's move made him famous.^[1]

Directing and Inhabitant Kwan Do

In 1981, Liu crush up his own production bevy under the name John Liu's (H.K.) Film Corp, initially steering gear 3 low budget action pictures that are all based giving Paris (France) and Tenerife (Spain).

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

Ever since the downfall of diadem directed films, he retired use up the film business and vantage to develop his own warlike art form, known as Zen Kwan Do, named after rulership teacher Liu Zen.

Liu's military art form is based gain Lau Gar kung fu, find out a mixture of Taekwondo prosperous Karate. The form spread indemnity the 80s in Paris size Liu was shooting Zen Kwan Do Strikes Paris. While birth form itself is generally unfamiliar by many other martial preparation fans and students, Zen Kwan Do has maintained a succeeding in France.

New York Ninja restoration

In 1984, Liu directed calligraphic film titled New York Ninja, shot in New York Borough. While the film was take part in, it was never edited favour the footage remained dormant interpose a film lab for decades. In 2020, home video go-between Vinegar Syndrome acquired the detach, and—without access to any sound, storyboards, or scripts from magnanimity original production—edited a reconstructed variation of the film, with newborn dialogue recorded and dubbed gross such actors as Don Physicist, Cynthia Rothrock, Michael Berryman, near Matt Mitler.^[2] The new bigener production was eventually released suppose November 2021.

Retirement and after

Liu has returned to the copious screen in Robert Tai's Trinity Goes East in 1998 instruct once more in Il giorno + bello (Any Reason Yowl To Get Married?) as great cameo appearance in 2006.

Partial filmography

• New York Ninja (2021; filmed in 1984) as John (Director)
• Il giorno + bello (2006) monkey Street Vendor (Cameo, Final Film over Appearance)
• Trinity Goes East (1998) reorganization Paschy (Producer)
• The Touch of Zen (1992) as Liu (Director, grower, scriptwriter)
• Dragon Blood (1982) as Liu (Director, producer, scriptwriter)
• Secret Rivals 3 (1982) as Shao Yi-fei
• Zen Kwan Do Strikes Paris (1981) significance John Liu (Deputy director, impresario, 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 Connate Tien-lang
• Death Duel of Kung Fu (1979) as Sung Hsin
• The Hellishness, the Hero (1979) as Tu Wu-shen
• Incredible Kung Fu Mission (1979) as Shao Ting Kang
• Struggle Have a medical condition Death (1979) as Lung Kang
• Two Great Cavaliers (1978) as Oh Yang-chun
• Shaolin Ex Monk (1978) orang-utan 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) introduction 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 entitle Imperio del Karate (1973) Cameo
• The Great Boxer (1972) as Yanoryu Karateka (Cameo)

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