Lee Kai-Ting
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Biography
I've only seen him in a few productions, where he was used to good effect. One such production was the Charles Heung vehicle - End Of The Wicked Tiger, which was a very interesting movie. He played a police captain, who displayed some decent skills, and his acting wasn't as bad as I've seen him in past performances. Not an excellent technician, he can fight, it's just that he doesn't get the opportunities that other "2nd-class" villains get to strut their stuff. You can (usually) find him playing a Japanese and almost always on the wrong side of the tracks.
In films like The Himalayan and Legend Of A Fighter, he has shown moments where you can see he has talent, but these times are too few and far in between. Though he has trained in a Peking Opera school, he did show most of the traits associated with such schools like Acrobatics and handling various weaponry. A student of Northern style boxing (a predominantly Kicking style) would display more legwork than I've seen him do in the films he's starred in.
In Kung Fu, The Invisible Fist or The Chinatown Kid, you can’t help but recognize him, as his parts [basically] just call for him to be beaten up and nothing more. Yet, he’s actually helped out on the choreography of certain films, and should have given him more screen-time, in those that he’s appeared in. Years later, he would work for TVB (Hong Kong Television) as a martial-arts choreographer, before working on the Jean Claude Van Damme film, Kickboxer.