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James Wang Yu (28 March 1943 – 5 April 2022) was a Hong Kong-Taiwanese martial artist, actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter.
Jimmy Wang Yu was born on 28 March 1943 in Shanghai, China. He was an actor and producer, known for Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976), Dragon (2011) and Soul (2013). He was married to Jeanette Lin Tsui. He died on 5 April 2022 in Taipei, Taiwan.
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Apr 21, 2022 · Jimmy Wang Yu, who in the 1960s, in movies like “The One-Armed Swordsman,” became the biggest star of Asian martial arts cinema until the emergence of Bruce Lee, died on April 5 in Taipei,...
- The One-Armed Swordsman (1967) The One-Armed Swordsman catapulted Wang to stardom, both launching a long-running franchise and defining many of his successive roles.
- Golden Swallow (1968) This is the sequel to the groundbreaking film Come Drink with Me (1966) starring the first Kung Fu queen, Cheng Pei-Pei. Most western audiences remember Cheng for her role as Jade Fox in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), but that came after a long career in that spanned over a hundred Wuxia films.
- The Chinese Boxer a.k.a. Hammer of God (1970) The Chinese Boxer was a precursor to Bruce Lee’s Fist of Fury (1972). Without it, Fist of Fury might never have been made.
- Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman (1971) Of the one-armed swordsmen films, this one is the most cited because it represented the crossover of two franchises, Zatoichi, the blind swordsman (Shintaro Katsu) and Wang’s one-armed swordsman, renamed Wang Kang, perhaps to dodge copyright issues.
Apr 5, 2022 · Taiwanese actor and filmmaker Jimmy Wang Yu, one of the biggest stars of martial arts cinema, died in a Taipei hospital on Tuesday. He was 79.
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Apr 7, 2022 · Jimmy Wang Yu, a Taiwanese actor who was once one of the biggest stars of martial arts cinema, died Tuesday in a Taipei hospital from an undisclosed illness he battled for six years.
