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Jimmy Wang Yu
ActingBORN: 1944-03-28Wuxi, China
Biography
Wang Zhengquan, better known as Jimmy Wang Yu and Wong Yu-lung, (born March 8, 1944 - died April 5, 2022) was a Chinese actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Wang rose to fame in 1967 with his starring role in The One-Armed Swordsman, a martial arts film produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio. The Chinese Boxer (1969), another film he acted in, is credited as the first Hong Kong action film that kickstarted the unarmed combat genre that took Asia by storm in the 1970s.
Top Filmography
6.9
Dragon
2011 // MOVIE
6.2
Island of Fire
1990 // MOVIE
6.9
The One-Armed Swordsman
1967 // MOVIE
6.6
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
1969 // MOVIE
6.6
Master of the Flying Guillotine
1976 // MOVIE
7.0
One-Armed Boxer
1972 // MOVIE
6.7
Millionaires' Express
1986 // MOVIE
6.8
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
2019 // MOVIE
6.6
The Man from Hong Kong
1975 // MOVIE
4.7
Fantasy Mission Force
1983 // MOVIE
5.6
The Guillotines
2012 // MOVIE
4.8
Killer Meteors
1976 // MOVIE
6.8
Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman
1971 // MOVIE
6.2
The Chinese Boxer
1970 // MOVIE
6.3
Golden Swallow
1968 // MOVIE