Lo Wei
(aka William Lowe)
- Crocodile River
- Golden Buddha
- Call of the Sea
- Angel with the Iron Fists
- Summons to Death
- Black Butterfly
- Madame Slender Plum
- Angel Strikes Again
- Death Valley
- Forever and Ever
- Dragon Swamp
- Golden Sword
- Brothers 5
- The Comet Strikes
- Raw Courage
- Chinese Connection
- Shadow Whip
- Invincible 8
- Seaman No. 7
- Tattooed Dragon
- Yellow Faced Tiger
- The Hurricane
- The Bedeviled
- Fist of Fury
- A Man Called Tiger
- Back Alley Princes
- None But the Brave
- Chinatown Capers
- New Fist of Fury
- Killer Meteors
- Blade of Fury
- Rebellious Reign
- Bloody Tattoo
- Big Boss of Shanghi
- Little Sister-in-Law
- Kung Fu Kid
- To Kill with Intrigue
- Magnificent Bodyguards
- Spiritual Kung Fu
- Dragon Fist
- Vengeance of a Snowgirl
- Shantung Man in Hong Kong
- Girl with the Dexterous Touch
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From Mainland China, he arrived in Hong Kong along with Lam Tien Hung and Shaw Bros. (soon to be famous) director Chang Cheh. Like many of the directors in the early days, Lo found work at the Shaw Bros. studio, and like most of the directors around this time, Lo "jumped" ship from the Shaw Bros. studio to work at Golden Harvest, along side another Shaw Bros. renegade Raymond Chow.
Lo directed excellent swordplay epics like "The Golden Sword" and "Raw Courage", which were big in the 60's. But as the times would soon change, everyone was looking for something "new and exciting", something that would make the world sit up and take a serious look at the Far East. That "something" new came in the form of Bruce Lee. Though Lo took "credit" for discovering Lee, (who was actually seen on television by a relative of Lo's), he can be credited for helping to launch his career by keeping this brash young man with the "big" ideas (and ego to boost), in the film.
Lo and Lee clashed on many things such as : the use of Trampolines while filming the flying-kicks and the way the dogs were used in the filming where they were to attack Lee (if you look closely how they were "jumping" at Lee, they were actually being thrown at him/) It was also stated that he and Lee got in such a "heated" argument that Lee threaten to kill him. After Lee died, everyone was searching for the "next" Bruce Lee, and again it was Lo Wei who would discover him, this time in the form of Jackie Chan. Many say Lo was a "gambling" man who liked to gamble way thousands of dollars on the horses-racing.
Later in life when he had "scwondered" way tons of money, it was said that he even tried to put the squeeze on Jackie, going as far as to "threaten him (seems Lo was "supposedly" connected with the Triads) & the "Man from Hong Kong" - Jimmy Wang Yu was the one who help ease relations between the two. Now, whether this story was true or not, (3) things will always remain true : (1) he was a director with a "very" good eye for noticing great talent-in-the-making, (2) he brought us Bruce Lee, (3) and he gave us Jackie Chan. So, since the early 60's, Lo Wei has made his mark in the film world, so love him or hate him, but we'd still have to respect him, because "everyone" knows Bruce Lee & Jackie Chan, and it's because of Lo Wei (and Raymond Chow) that we've come to know them.
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My Favorite Films:
- Black Butterfly
- Fist of Fury
- Brothers 5
- Raw Courage
- Chinese Connection
- The Shadow Whip
- The Comet Strikes
- Vengeance of a Snow Girl