Yuen biao in Foreign DVDs & Videos

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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 variety of kung fu styles, Wong has been subject to numerous interpretations in dime novels and films since the 1930s. In the late 1970s an irreverent portrait of the young Wong Fei Hung emerged in DRUNKEN MASTER. In director Tsui Hark's hand, the beloved historical figure is given the full lionized treatment as he fights for dignity and self-determination against Western imperialists. A revisionist drama that recalls the struggle of the small-property owner fighting for her land in Sergio Leone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, Hark's epic is both a tragic and heroic examination of China's transition to modernity. Like the best of Hark's films (ZU: WARRIORS OF THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN), ONCE UPON A TIME contains imaginative fight sequences, including "no-shadow" kicks and a thrilling battle using bamboo ladders.

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Sparks fly when a Hong Kong lawyer (Biao) and an American cop (kung fu diva Rothrock) join forces to clean up the streets. Serious martial arts action.

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Former "Little Fortunes" Chan, Biao, and Hung team up with director Woo as a legion of fighters determined to protect the Shaolin school from a megalomaniacal lord.

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When a vengeance-seeking martial arts neophyte/con man (Biao Yuen) finds a kung-fu master in the unlikely form of a corpulent bum, the lessons and the laughs begin. A landmark kung-fu action-comedy highlighted by its novel fight choreography and the agile moves of its popular stars. Not available with subtitles.

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This classic martial arts comedy stars the charming and disarming master of bumbling--the corpulent Sammo Hung. In this Yuen Woo-Ping film, he plays a lovable, klutzy butcher who studies diligently under legendary kung fu master Wong Fei-Hong (Kwan Tak-Hing), but he can't quite seem to get his moves together. However, when dastardly crooks nab his sister-in-law, the young protégé throws his weight behind saving her.

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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. A highly entertaining action/comedy from Hong Kong superstar Chan.

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Leung Chang (Yuen Biao) is a spoiled son who thinks he is the baddest kung fu master around--until he is pounded in a fight with an effeminate Wing Chun master (Lam Ching-Ying) who plays a girl in a traveling Peking Opera troupe. Realizing that his father has been paying his opponents to lose, Leung begs to become the Wing Chun master's student. The master, however, doesn't agree to teach Leung until another spoiled son appears--a Manchu noble seeking to test his fighting skills. THE PRODIGAL SON is one of the earliest films with Yuen Biao in a lead role. The film helped Yuen, one of the most talented acrobats of his generation, attain a stardom nearly equal to that of his "brothers," Jackie Chan and director Sammo Hung. For Hung, THE PRODIGAL SON is his second film to depict the Wing Chun fighting system (the first was WARRIORS TWO); both films are considered classics in Wing Chun cinema. Hung appears in THE PRODIGAL SON as a portly master of long-form Wing Chun; in comic asides, Hung also demonstrates two new martial arts forms, calligraphy kung fu and toiletry kung fu.

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When a vengeance-seeking martial arts neophyte/con man (Biao Yuen) finds a kung-fu master in the unlikely form of a corpulent bum, the lessons and the laughs begin. A landmark kung-fu action-comedy highlighted by its novel fight choreography and the agile moves of its popular stars. Not available with subtitles.

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A Chinese secret agent travels to Russia to investigate a collector searching for a mysterious device of great power, but when the collector is kidnapped by North Korean terrorists the agent must work to make sure the world remains safe.

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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 the help of his gang of childhood friends--the five Lucky Stars, each of whom specializes in petty crimes and minor mishaps--to help him catch Japanese gangsters. Dough-faced Eric Tsang replaces John Sham as one of the Lucky Stars, while Sibelle Hu plays the femme du jour and the object of the Lucky Stars' lust. The film features several notable fights, including a surreal sequence in which Chan rumbles in an outlandish amusement park costume; in another memorable fight, director Sammo Hung battles in a yellow jumpsuit, à la Bruce Lee's GAME OF DEATH. The fantastic showdown at a haunted house attraction pits the Lucky Stars against a stellar cast of opponents: Hu versus Nishiwaki, Hung versus Lau Kar-wing, Yuen Biao versus Lam Ching-ying, and Chan versus Dick Wei.

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Director Siu Sang's 1996 film is a martial arts fantasy that blends romance and drama with its high flying fight scenes and stars the great Yuen Biao as Li San, a Robin Hood figure whose stealing from the rich is a mask for his real ambition: to reclaim his lost love (Athena Chu). Generally acknowledged as a key inspiration for 2000's international hit CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, THE HERO OF SWALLOW is an hugely entertaining movie, highlighted by Wu Kam's wireworks choreography and the performances of its two leads.

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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. A highly entertaining action/comedy from Hong Kong superstar Chan.

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Based on the popular TEKKEN series of video games, AVENGING FIST stars HK luminaries Sammo Hung, Ekin Cheng, and Yuen Biao as three of the cadre of martial artists who have joined in the fight to reclaim the Power Glove. Stolen by the devious special agent War 21, the glove confers upon its owner unimaginable power. After hiding out for over two decades, War 21 has come back, calling himself the "God of Fists" and ready to rule the world. Humanity's only hope lies in the fighters who gather to take on this powerful foe.

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Vulgar humor, distinctive local color and amazing martial arts sequences distinguish this story of a young man who works in a funeral home and experiments with the sorcerer's arts. After an old friend is brought to the funeral home by his new wife and her "brother" suspicious are aroused. When the ghost of the dead man enters his friend's body to take revenge, things get downright strange. A wacky supernatural farce starring Sammo Hung.

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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 the help of his gang of childhood friends--the five Lucky Stars, each of whom specializes in petty crimes and minor mishaps--to help him catch Japanese gangsters. Dough-faced Eric Tsang replaces John Sham as one of the Lucky Stars, while Sibelle Hu plays the femme du jour and the object of the Lucky Stars' lust. The film features several notable fights, including a surreal sequence in which Chan rumbles in an outlandish amusement park costume; in another memorable fight, director Sammo Hung battles in a yellow jumpsuit, à la Bruce Lee's GAME OF DEATH. The fantastic showdown at a haunted house attraction pits the Lucky Stars against a stellar cast of opponents: Hu versus Nishiwaki, Hung versus Lau Kar-wing, Yuen Biao versus Lam Ching-ying, and Chan versus Dick Wei.

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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 the help of his gang of childhood friends--the five Lucky Stars, each of whom specializes in petty crimes and minor mishaps--to help him catch Japanese gangsters. Dough-faced Eric Tsang replaces John Sham as one of the Lucky Stars, while Sibelle Hu plays the femme du jour and the object of the Lucky Stars' lust. The film features several notable fights, including a surreal sequence in which Chan rumbles in an outlandish amusement park costume; in another memorable fight, director Sammo Hung battles in a yellow jumpsuit, à la Bruce Lee's GAME OF DEATH. The fantastic showdown at a haunted house attraction pits the Lucky Stars against a stellar cast of opponents: Hu versus Nishiwaki, Hung versus Lau Kar-wing, Yuen Biao versus Lam Ching-ying, and Chan versus Dick Wei.

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Former "Little Fortunes" Chan, Biao, and Hung team up with director Woo as a legion of fighters determined to protect the Shaolin school from a megalomaniacal lord.

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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 variety of kung fu styles, Wong has been subject to numerous interpretations in dime novels and films since the 1930s. In the late 1970s an irreverent portrait of the young Wong Fei Hung emerged in DRUNKEN MASTER. In director Tsui Hark's hand, the beloved historical figure is given the full lionized treatment as he fights for dignity and self-determination against Western imperialists. A revisionist drama that recalls the struggle of the small-property owner fighting for her land in Sergio Leone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, Hark's epic is both a tragic and heroic examination of China's transition to modernity. Like the best of Hark's films (ZU: WARRIORS OF THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN), ONCE UPON A TIME contains imaginative fight sequences, including "no-shadow" kicks and a thrilling battle using bamboo ladders.

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Leung Chang (Yuen Biao) is a spoiled son who thinks he is the baddest kung fu master around--until he is pounded in a fight with an effeminate Wing Chun master (Lam Ching-Ying) who plays a girl in a traveling Peking Opera troupe. Realizing that his father has been paying his opponents to lose, Leung begs to become the Wing Chun master's student. The master, however, doesn't agree to teach Leung until another spoiled son appears--a Manchu noble seeking to test his fighting skills. THE PRODIGAL SON is one of the earliest films with Yuen Biao in a lead role. The film helped Yuen, one of the most talented acrobats of his generation, attain a stardom nearly equal to that of his "brothers," Jackie Chan and director Sammo Hung. For Hung, THE PRODIGAL SON is his second film to depict the Wing Chun fighting system (the first was WARRIORS TWO); both films are considered classics in Wing Chun cinema. Hung appears in THE PRODIGAL SON as a portly master of long-form Wing Chun; in comic asides, Hung also demonstrates two new martial arts forms, calligraphy kung fu and toiletry kung fu.

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This classic martial arts comedy stars the charming and disarming master of bumbling--the corpulent Sammo Hung. In this Yuen Woo-Ping film, he plays a lovable, klutzy butcher who studies diligently under legendary kung fu master Wong Fei-Hong (Kwan Tak-Hing), but he can't quite seem to get his moves together. However, when dastardly crooks nab his sister-in-law, the young protégé throws his weight behind saving her.

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Yuen Biao and Joey Wang star in this martial arts fantasy. Biao is Tsui, a scholar who meets and falls in love with a ghost (Wang) who is being pursued by the nefarious "King" Ghost. Tsui tries to hide his ethereal love in a portrait of herself, but it becomes clear that the "King" is not easily fooled and that Tsui will have to battle him if he wishes to be with his ghostly lover.

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A wild fantasy that takes place in Ancient China. The corrupt Six Clans seek the secret to the Demonic Strings, a magical lyre of great power. It's up to one heroic individual to protect the secret, as she seeks to avenge the deaths of her parents at the same time. Brigitte Lin adds explosive starpower to this over-the-top action fantasy.

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A Chinese secret agent travels to Russia to investigate a collector searching for a mysterious device of great power, but when the collector is kidnapped by North Korean terrorists the agent must work to make sure the world remains safe.

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Yuen Biao stars in this film about a case of mistaken identity as a Hong Kong kung fu master. His services are sought by a hapless Japanese man named Kimura on vacation in the city after winning a trip there in a contest. Unfortunately, upon his arrival, Kimura is mistaken for a Yakuza hitman and assigned to kill a young woman named Yumiko. When he tries to go along with the plan to avoid conflict, he ends up falling for his target, alerting his erstwhile bosses that something is wrong. Things take a turn for the worse when the real hitman shows up and targets both Kimura and Yumiko, forcing Kimura to seek the help of Biao's kung fu master.

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THE SETTING SUN recounts the epic romance between a soldier (Masaya Kato) and a rebel leader (Diane Lane) during the 1930s Sino-Japanese opium wars.

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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 of female freedom fighters and a freewheeling martial artist named Rat, played by Hung's Peking Opera "brother," Yuen Biao. The film borrows liberally from other Vietnam war movies (the Russian roulette scene from THE DEER HUNTER, for instance), but there are plenty of imaginative turns, including an instance when Hung uses leaves as deadly projectiles. As is typical in Hung's films, the action choreography is fluid and energetic. Hung's wife, Joyce Godenzi, plays one of the Cambodian guerrillas, Oscar-winner Haing S. Ngor (THE KILLING FIELDS) appears as a mentally deranged peasant, and Yuen Wah (Hung's and Biao's other stage brother) gives a quirky performance as the relentless commander of the Vietcong forces.

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When a Ming Dynasty outlaw is recruited and then double-crossed by various sides in a complex, multifaceted royal revenge plot, his only recourse is to fight them all in the name of justice.

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Hero, a master of martial arts (Ekin Cheng) flees to the United States after his family is massacred. He brings with him the Red Sword, a sword of legend, and prepares to make his revenge. The film features a legendary fight scene atop the Statue of Liberty, as well as dazzling special effects.

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A noirish departure for Biao, cast as a cop whose dirty colleagues frame him for the killing of his ex-wife. The actual culprit, a ruthless killer, remains at large and must be brought to justice by Biao himself.

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After two medieval warriors are frozen in ice and then thawed out in present-day Hong Kong, the honorable fighter flounders in modern times while his evil counterpart flourishes.