Director Yuen Woo-ping received this year’s Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award at the New York Asian Film Festival. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
Director Yuen Woo-ping received this year’s Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award at the New York Asian Film Festival. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
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The Matrix martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-ping on a lifetime in film, Jet Li’s power and drunken kung fu

  • Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy, Drunken Master and The Tai Chi Master are just some of the films the famed martial arts choreographer directed
  • Honoured this week at the New York Asian Film Festival 2019, Yuen reflects on Jet Li’s rise, his kick that put two stuntmen in hospital, and Bruce Lee’s legacy

Knowledge |   Hong Kong martial arts cinema
Richard James Havis

Updated: 9:50am, 9 Jul, 2019

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Director Yuen Woo-ping received this year’s Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award at the New York Asian Film Festival. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
Director Yuen Woo-ping received this year’s Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award at the New York Asian Film Festival. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
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