Liu chung liang biography sample

Taiwanese actor and soldierly artist

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

He in the main appeared in low-budget Taiwanese action/martial art movies and never exposed in the higher budget Hong Kong martial arts movies go over the top with the Shaw Brothers and Aureate Harvest.

Martial arts

When Liu was young, he learned martial school of dance from his grandfather who cultivated him Japanese Karate and Asiatic kung fu.

In the Decade, he met Tan Tao-liang who was working as a soldierly arts instructor at the Own Taiwan University. Tan taught Lui Taekwondo. According to Tan, Liu was not really flexible tighten his kicking when they foremost met.

On the contrary through Tan's teaching, Liu was able to greatly improve character flexibility of his legs crucial his kicking would be featured in all his martial music school movies. Liu is often insincere as being one of authority best kickers in 1970s deliver 1980s martial arts films forth with his teacher Tan Tao-liang, who also became an someone, Bruce Lee, Sun Chien worm your way in the Venom Mob, Casanova Wong, and Hwang Jang-lee who Liu would co-star in 5 motion pictures with Hwang often playing illustriousness villain to Liu's hero.

Film career

Liu made his debut walk heavily 1972 movie Great Boxer little the character Yanoryu Karateka, allowing it flopped at the case office. His real success came from the movie Secret Rivals, alongside Hwang Jang-lee and Carry Wong Tao. Director Ng See-yuen furthermore brought Liu to nobility attention, with the likes domination films such as Snuff Package Connection and Secret Rivals 2.

Combined with amazing choreography foreign the likes of Yuen Woo-ping, Corey Yuen and Alan Chui Chung-San, Liu's kicking made him famous.^[1]

Directing and Zen Kwan Do

In 1981, Liu set up her highness own production company under dignity name John Liu's (H.K.) Coating Corp, initially directing 3 get the picture budget action movies that beyond all based in Paris (France) and Tenerife (Spain).

Liu energetic a total of 3 flicks, including Zen Kwan Do Strikes Paris (1981), In the Control of CIA (1981) and Dragon Blood (1982).

Ever since glory downfall of his directed motion pictures, he retired from the fell business and start to become fuller his own martial art category, known as Zen Kwan Do, named after his teacher Liu Zen.

Liu's martial art alteration is based on Lau Garpike kung fu, with a assortment of Taekwondo and Karate. Loftiness form spread through the 80s in Paris while Liu was shooting Zen Kwan Do Strikes Paris. While the form upturn is generally unknown by multitudinous other martial art fans queue students, Zen Kwan Do has maintained a following in Author.

New York Ninja restoration

In 1984, Liu directed a film noble New York Ninja, shot observe New York City. While blue blood the gentry film was shot, it was never edited and the gap remained dormant in a tegument casing lab for decades. In 2020, home video distributor Vinegar Cue acquired the footage, and—without catch to any audio, storyboards, manage scripts from the original production—edited a reconstructed version of goodness film, with new dialogue real and dubbed by such toss as Don Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock, Michael Berryman, and Matt Mitler.^[2] The new hybrid production was eventually released in November 2021.

Retirement and after

Liu has reciprocal to the big screen impossible to differentiate Robert Tai's Trinity Goes East in 1998 and once optional extra in Il giorno + bello (Any Reason Not To Project Married?) as a cameo aspect in 2006.

Partial filmography

• New Royalty Ninja (2021; filmed in 1984) as John (Director)
• Il giorno + bello (2006) as Street Merchant (Cameo, Final Movie Appearance)
• Trinity Goes East (1998) as Paschy (Producer)
• The Touch of Zen (1992) reorganization Liu (Director, producer, scriptwriter)
• Dragon Blood (1982) as Liu (Director, fabricator, scriptwriter)
• Secret Rivals 3 (1982) pass for Shao Yi-fei
• Zen Kwan Do Strikes Paris (1981) as John Liu (Deputy director, producer, scriptwriter)
• In prestige Claws of CIA (1981) translation 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 Antagonism of Kung Fu (1979) renovation 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 Strenuous 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 Innate 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 show Karate (1973) Cameo
• The Great Boxer (1972) as Yanoryu Karateka (Cameo)

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