IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

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      Yuen Woo-ping

      Yuen Woo-ping

      Still: Drunken Master
      Famous martial arts choreographer and filmmaker YUEN Woo-ping (1945, China) comes from a true film family, with six of his ten siblings also working in the film business at an early age. His father, an action choreographer and occasional actor, taught him kung fu. First working as a stuntman and choreographer, his directorial debut came in 1978 with Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow. In that same year Drunken Master followed, innovatively blending martial arts with comedy and launching the career of Jackie Chan. Besides being one of the most successful and influential figures in Hong Kong’s action cinema, Yuen also achieved huge successes in Hollywood, working as an action choreographer on The Matrix trilogy and Kill Bill films, improving the standard of fight scenes everlastingly. In 2019, Yuen received a Lifetime Achievement Award at New York Asian Film Festival.

      Filmography

      Se ying diu sau/Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978), Zui quan/Drunken Master (1978), Nan bei zui quan/Dance of the Drunken Mantis (1979), Lin Shi Rong/The Magnificent Butcher (1979), Fo zhang luo han quan/The Buddhist Fist (1980), Yong zhe wu ju/Dreadnaught (1981), Huo Yuan-Jia/Legend of a Fighter (1982), Kei moon duen gap/The Miracle Fighters (1982), Tian shi zhuang xie/Wutang Master (1983), Siu Tai Gik/Drunken Tai Chi (1984), Ching fung dik sau/Love Meets the Match (1985), Jiang shi pa pa/The Close Encounters of Vampire (1986), Dak ging to lung/Tiger Cage (1988), Wong ga si je ji IV: Jik gik jing yan /In the Line of Duty IV (1998), Sai hak chin/Tiger Cage II (1990), Leng mian ju ji shou/Tiger Cage 3 (1991) , Wong Fei Hung V: Tit gai dau ng gung/Last Hero in China (1993), Siu nin Wong Fei Hung chi: Tit ma lau/Iron Monkey (1993), So Hak-Yee/Heroes Among Heroes (1993), Tai gik Cheung Sam Fung/Tai Chi Master (1993), Wing Chun (1994), Huo yun chuan qi/Fire Dragon (1994), Hu meng wei long/The Red Wolf (1995), Tai ji quan/Tai Chi II (1996), Tai chi zong shi/The Tai Chi Master (2003, TV series), Su Qi-er/True Legend (2010), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016), Qimen Dunjia/The Thousand Faces of Dunjia (2017), Yip Man ngoi zyun: Cheung Tin Chi/Master Z: Ip Man Legacy (2018), Baat Bou Bun/Septet: The Story of Hong Kong (2020, omnibus film)

      More info: Wikipedia, Yuen Woo-ping

      Yuen Woo-ping at IFFR