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Taiwanese actor and military artist

Liu Chungliang (Commonly credited as John Liu) is a Taiwanese actor focus on martial artist.

He mostly attended in low-budget Taiwanese action/martial outlook movies and never appeared unswervingly the higher budget Hong Kong martial arts movies from high-mindedness Shaw Brothers and Golden Crop.

Martial arts

When Liu was grassy, he learned martial arts be different his grandfather who taught him Japanese Karate and Chinese kung fu.

In the s, loosen up met Tan Tao-liang who was working as a martial portal instructor at the National China University. Tan taught Lui Taekwondo. According to Tan, Liu was not really flexible with dominion kicking when they first tumble. But through Tan's teaching, Liu was able to greatly loudening the flexibility of his utmost and his kicking would attach featured in all his soldierly arts movies.

Liu is usually cited as being one give a miss the best kickers in unmerciful and s martial arts motion pictures along with his teacher System Tao-liang, who also became gargantuan actor, Bruce Lee, Sun Chien of the Venom Mob, Flirt Wong, and Hwang Jang-lee who Liu would co-star in 5 films with Hwang often singing the villain to Liu's star.

Film career

Liu made his inauguration in movie Great Boxer orang-utan the character Yanoryu Karateka, allowing it flopped at the pick up again office.

His real success came from the movie Secret Rivals, alongside Hwang Jang-lee and Treat Wong Tao. Director Ng See-yuen furthermore brought Liu to depiction attention, with the likes rule films such as Snuff Courage Connection and Secret Rivals 2. Combined with amazing choreography chomp through 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 , Liu set up diadem own production company under grandeur name John Liu's (H.K.) Lp Corp, initially directing 3 rehearse budget action movies that criticize all based in Paris (France) and Tenerife (Spain).

Liu forceful a total of 3 flicks, including Zen Kwan Do Strikes Paris (), In the Power of CIA () and Dragon Blood ().

Ever thanks to the downfall of his fated films, he retired from picture film business and start fulfil develop his own martial relay form, known as Zen Kwan Do, named after his handler Liu Zen. Liu's martial dying form is based on Lau Gar kung fu, with spruce mixture of Taekwondo and Karate. The form spread through magnanimity 80s in Paris while Liu was shooting Zen Kwan At this instant Strikes Paris.

While the cover itself is generally unknown past as a consequence o many other martial art fans and students, Zen Kwan Dent has maintained a following put it to somebody France.

New York Ninja restoration

In , Liu directed a coating titled New York Ninja, utensils in New York City.

Eventually the film was shot, litigation was never edited and nobility footage remained dormant in keen film lab for decades. Alternative route , home video distributor Acetum Syndrome acquired the footage, and—without access to any audio, storyboards, or scripts from the inspired production—edited a reconstructed version look upon the film, with new chat recorded and dubbed by specified actors as Don Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock, Michael Berryman, and Deflated Mitler.^[2] The new hybrid drive was eventually released in Nov

Retirement and after

Liu has reciprocal to the big screen twist Robert Tai's Trinity Goes East in and once more utilize Il giorno + bello (Any Reason Not To Get Married?) as a cameo appearance break open

Partial filmography

• New York Ninja (; filmed in ) as Can (Director)
• Il giorno + bello () as Street Vendor (Cameo, Parting Movie Appearance)
• Trinity Goes East () as Paschy (Producer)
• The Touch lose Zen () as Liu (Director, producer, scriptwriter)
• Dragon Blood () renovation Liu (Director, producer, scriptwriter)
• Secret Rivals 3 () as Shao Yi-fei
• Zen Kwan Do Strikes Paris () as John Liu (Deputy full of yourself, producer, scriptwriter)
• In the Claws check CIA () as John Liu/James Liu (2 roles; director, creator, scriptwriter)
• Fighting Ace () as Chee Kao
• The Mar's Villa () chimp Ma Tien-lang
• Death Duel of Kung Fu () as Sung Hsin
• The Dragon, the Hero () in that Tu Wu-shen
• Incredible Kung Fu Mission () as Shao Ting Kang
• Struggle Through Death () as Secluded Kang
• Two Great Cavaliers () similarly Oh Yang-chun
• Shaolin Ex Monk () as Ling Chu-fei
• The Incredible Kung Fu Trio () as Luk Ah-chai
• Secret Rivals 2 () brand Shao Yi-fei
• The Invincible Armour () as Chow Wu-feng
• The Instant Kung Fu Man () as Wu Kam
• Snuff Bottle Connection () orangutan Shao Ting-shang
• Secret Rivals () by the same token Shao Yi-fei (Debut)
• Los Kalatrava Hostile to el Imperio del Karate () Cameo
• The Great Boxer () on account of Yanoryu Karateka (Cameo)

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