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Kung Fu Hustle features several prolific Hong Kong action cinema actors from the 1970s. Yuen Wah, a former student of the China Drama Academy Peking Opera School who appeared in over a hundred Hong Kong films and was a stunt double for Bruce Lee, played the Landlord of Pigsty Alley. Wah considered starring in Kung Fu Hustle to be the peak of ...
Cheung Cheun-Nam, known professionally as Yuen Qiu (Chinese: 元秋; born 19 April 1950), is a Hong Kong actress and martial artist.She is an expert of both Chinese martial arts and Beijing-opera skills, and was apprenticed at the Peking Opera School under the same master, Yu Jim-yuen, as Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung.
In 2004, his film Kung Fu Hustle grossed over US$106 million worldwide. Chow also won Best Director at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards and Best Picture of Imagine Film Festival as well as over twenty international awards.
Kung Fu Hustle took a record 155 million yuan at box offices across the Chinese mainland, making it China's top-grossing film in 2004. [3] In August the following year, she ended her contract with Chow's company after appearing in a magazine photo shoot without their consent.
Angela Mao Ying (born Mao Fuching; 20 September 1950) is a Taiwanese actress and martial artist who is best known for appearing in martial arts films in the 1970s. Born in Taiwan, she studied at a Peking Opera school, the Fu Sheng Opera School, from the age of six to fourteen. [1]
The soundtrack to the film Kung Fu Hustle was released in 2004 and 2005 in conjunction with the 2004 Hong Kong-Chinese martial arts film directed by and starring Stephen Chow. The majority of the film's original score was composed by Raymond Wong and performed by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. [1]
Spiritual Kung Fu: Kung Fu: Half a Loaf of Kung Fu: Kung Fu: Shaolin Mantis (a.k.a. The Deadly Mantis) Five Deadly Venoms: Game of Death: Shogun's Samurai: Warriors Two: 1979: Re-Enter the Dragon: The Fearless Hyena: Snake in the Monkey's Shadow: The True Game of Death: Dragon Fist: Master With Cracked Fingers (a.k.a. Snake Fist Fighter) Mad ...
In addition, Leung appeared in his own star vehicles, including My Kung-Fu 12 Kicks, Kung Fu: The Invisible Fist, and Black Belt Karate. Leung retired from acting after 1988's Ghost Hospital . However, in 2004, he made a return to the screen as The Beast in Stephen Chow 's Kung Fu Hustle (which, incidentally, was his first villainous role).