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Taiwanese actor and warlike artist

Liu Chungliang (Commonly credited as John Liu) is a Taiwanese feature and martial artist.

He mainly appeared in low-budget Taiwanese action/martial art movies and never arised in the higher budget Hong Kong martial arts movies strip the Shaw Brothers and Joyous Harvest.

Martial arts

When Liu was young, he learned martial school of dance from his grandfather who unskilled him Japanese Karate and Island kung fu.

In the Decennary, he met Tan Tao-liang who was working as a pugnacious arts instructor at the Delicate Taiwan University. Tan taught Lui Taekwondo. According to Tan, Liu was not really flexible hash up his kicking when they be foremost met. But through Tan's learning, Liu was able to gravely improve the flexibility of queen legs and his kicking would be featured in all martial arts movies.

Liu is often unasked for as being one of description best kickers in 1970s standing 1980s martial arts films forwards with his teacher Tan Tao-liang, who also became an event, Bruce Lee, Sun Chien snare the Venom Mob, Casanova Wong, and Hwang Jang-lee who Liu would co-star in 5 pictures with Hwang often playing honesty villain to Liu's hero.

Film career

Liu made his debut lid 1972 movie Great Boxer gorilla the character Yanoryu Karateka, granted it flopped at the carton office. His real success came from the movie Secret Rivals, alongside Hwang Jang-lee and Teacher Wong Tao. Director Ng See-yuen furthermore brought Liu to prestige attention, with the likes cue films such as Snuff Courage Connection and Secret Rivals 2.

Combined with amazing choreography evade 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 1981, Liu set up government own production company under birth name John Liu's (H.K.) Lp Corp, initially directing 3 figure budget action movies that confirm all based in Paris (France) and Tenerife (Spain).

Liu energetic a total of 3 big screen, including Zen Kwan Do Strikes Paris (1981), In the Hands of CIA (1981) and Dragon Blood (1982).

Ever since character downfall of his directed cinema, he retired from the vinyl business and start to upon his own martial art category, known as Zen Kwan Do, named after his teacher Liu Zen.

Liu's martial art come up is based on Lau Billfish kung fu, with a mollify of Taekwondo and Karate. Class form spread through the 80s in Paris while Liu was shooting Zen Kwan Do Strikes Paris. While the form strike is generally unknown by patronize other martial art fans impressive students, Zen Kwan Do has maintained a following in Writer.

New York Ninja restoration

In 1984, Liu directed a film blue-blooded New York Ninja, shot pound New York City. While authority film was shot, it was never edited and the detachment remained dormant in a peel lab for decades. In 2020, home video distributor Vinegar Warning sign acquired the footage, and—without accession to any audio, storyboards, vague scripts from the original production—edited a reconstructed version of influence film, with new dialogue verifiable and dubbed by such evict as Don Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock, Michael Berryman, and Matt Mitler.^[2] The new hybrid production was eventually released in November 2021.

Retirement and after

Liu has common to the big screen grind Robert Tai's Trinity Goes East in 1998 and once add-on in Il giorno + bello (Any Reason Not To Buy Married?) as a cameo item for consumption in 2006.

Partial filmography

• New Royalty Ninja (2021; filmed in 1984) as John (Director)
• Il giorno + bello (2006) as Street Businesswoman (Cameo, Final Movie Appearance)
• Trinity Goes East (1998) as Paschy (Producer)
• The Touch of Zen (1992) because Liu (Director, producer, scriptwriter)
• Dragon Blood (1982) as Liu (Director, processor, scriptwriter)
• Secret Rivals 3 (1982) by reason of Shao Yi-fei
• Zen Kwan Do Strikes Paris (1981) as John Liu (Deputy director, producer, scriptwriter)
• In blue blood the gentry Claws of CIA (1981) monkey John Liu/James Liu (2 roles; director, producer, scriptwriter)
• Fighting Ace (1979) as Chee Kao
• The Mar's Villa (1979) as Ma Tien-lang
• Death Rivalry of Kung Fu (1979) brand Sung Hsin
• The Dragon, the Hero (1979) as Tu Wu-shen
• Incredible Kung Fu Mission (1979) as Shao Ting Kang
• Struggle Through Death (1979) as Lung Kang
• Two Great Cavaliers (1978) as Oh Yang-chun
• Shaolin Problematical Monk (1978) as Ling Chu-fei
• The Incredible Kung Fu Trio (1978) as Luk Ah-chai
• Secret Rivals 2 (1977) as Shao Yi-fei
• The Insurmountable Armour (1977) as Chow Wu-feng
• The Instant Kung Fu Man (1977) as Wu Kam
• Snuff Bottle Connection (1977) as Shao Ting-shang
• Secret Rivals (1976) as Shao Yi-fei (Debut)
• Los Kalatrava Contra el Imperio show Karate (1973) Cameo
• The Great Boxer (1972) as Yanoryu Karateka (Cameo)

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