Samo Hung
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- Bandits From Shantung
- The Valiant Ones
- Lady Kung Fu
- The Victim
- The Eunuch
- Deep Thrust
- The Man From Hong Kong
- Warriors 2
- The Prodigal Son
- My Luck Stars
- Enter The Dragon
- The Odd Couple
- 2 Toothless Tigers
- Iron-Fisted Monk
- The Shaolin Plot
- Magnificent Butcher
- Heart Of The Dragon
- Eastern Condors
- The Himalayan
- Dirty Tiger, Crazy Frog
- Double Crossers
- Enter The Fat Dragon
- Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon
- When Tae Kwon Do Strikes
- Encounter Of The Spooky Kind
- Vengeance Is A Golden Blade
Biography
A personal friend of Bruce Lee, he went to school with men he would help propel to greater heights in Hong Kong cinema - Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, and Yuen Wah. He, himself, being an excellent director and acrobat to boot. These things aside, he brought to the forefront people like Lam Ching-Ying (Mr. Vampire), Chung Fa (His Name Is Nobody), Joyce Godenzi (Eastern Condors), Cassanova Wong (Warriors 2), Frankie Chan (Prodigal Son), Billy Chow (Pedicab Driver), Yukari Oshima (Millionaires Express), and many others. He started Peking Opera school in (1960) and found work at Golden Harvest in (1970) as a choreographer, working with the great director Huang Feng on the film The Fast Sword.
He used to train most of the actors at Golden Harvest, in fighting for the camera, as well as certain fighting skills. He worked exclusively with Angela Mao and just about every Golden Harvest production that had any good kung-fu moves in them. A much better director and choreographer than Jackie, he was one of the first of his classmates, to become known by Americans appearing in the opening scene of Enter The Dragon and choreographing what would become the blueprint for today's "Hong Kong Action Movies" with The Man From Hong Kong starring Jimmy Wang-Yu.
One of the first, to infuse comedy into kung-fu movies with good affect, he would later give us excellent kung-fu comedies like The Victim, Dirty Tiger, Crazy Frog, and 2 Toothless Tigers. He was (also) responsible for producing the first successful Ghost-oriented films like Encounters Of The Spooky Kind, the "off-the-wall" film The Dead & The Deadly, and the Mr. Vampire series. He will be remembered for giving us excellent kung-fu classics and introducing us to talents (actors), who may have been just another Face-in-the-crowd, had it not been for the man with the Midas Touch.