About the Site

The purpose of this site is simple, to bring new and old Yuen Biao fans together and have a good quality site to visit with up to date news and other features.

About Me

Getting Into the genre:
I have been watching Asian movies for many years it started when i was 7 or 8 and my Uncle showed me a copy of Fist Of Fury it blew me away id never seen anything like it the style, the action, it really impressed me. After that each sunday i would drag my Father to the video store and rent any film that looked like that, including the rest of Bruce Lee films (and some imitators) also movies of b grade American action stars like Rothrock, Norton, and Van Damme and a few Ninja movies most of the Asian movies had the most appalling english dubbing but as i was young (and shouldn't have really been watching them i blame the responsible adults though he he) and to lazy for subtitles "i don't want to read a movie i want to watch it" was my attitude, shortly after these movies i got tired, the only ones i could get were slow american action martial art flicks with really poor production values. But a few years on we moved and used another video store and there was a large section of all these other people one that stuck out was called Jackie Chan the first one i rented was actually New Fist Of Fury directed by Lo Wei the only reason for renting it, was the original Bruce Lee film being my introduction into this wonderful genre, it's fair to say i was less than overwhelmed but decided to give this Jackie bloke another try and rented one that look slightly newer it was called Police Story talk about finding a good movie to restore my faith it made me speechless here was a film that blended not only Martial Arts but comedy, drama and stunts as well from then every sunday i rented every JC film i could get my young hands on. As i got older i bought most of Jackie Chan's and Bruce Lee's movies on VHS. Jackie was still unknown here and no one knew who i was on about. From watching these tapes i was introduced to other stars Sammo Hung and of course Yuen Biao when i was coming up to leaving high school a new label started called Made In Hong Kong releasing videos of many stars in the original Cantonese dubs and re mastered subtitles, these were the best thing ever for me at the time and i got into more genres Heroic Bloodshed, Drama and Battling Babes or Female Fatale movies and found lots more stars Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Donnie Yen, Jet Li and more these were the best things ever until dvd's came along maybe 2 years after leaving high school and another company started Hong Kong Legends releasing re mastered movies with dual language and extras a fans dream and the best dvd's ever (and still are I'm still like a kid when I'm waiting for the latest to arrive) by now id gone onto this World Wide Web and was able to import movies from Hong Kong, China, Japan and elsewhere which opened up more stars and the ability to buy back catalogues of my favourite stars like Yuen Biao in original cuts, now a few years later again I'm still buying them and thank my uncle for that first glimpse to what led to my obsession.

Finding Yuen Biao
As i said above my introduction to YB was Jackie Chan movies the first i saw with him was Project A i thought he was great and fast and very trim but he didn't really stand out until i saw Dragons Forever when i saw his amazing abilities and acrobatic talents. In the UK his films were sparse most didn't get released here except Once Upon A Time In China which didn't have enough of him for me, my next taste of Yuen Biao came at around 13 years old when BBC2 (a UK TV Station) had a theme night called Kung Fu Night which was full of Hong Kong related documentaries and movies, the usual Bruce Lee Movies and lots of people talking about the genre this was amazing for me nothing like this appeared over here and no one talked about these movies. At around 2am The Prodigal Son came on and blew me away it had an awful English dub but i didn't care it was great all these styles Peking Opera, slapstick comedy and Yuen Biao in a larger role than id ever seen, from then I've been impressed years later when i got the internet and re found my love in asian movies i started collecting among others his movies and found these other classic which id never seen in the UK (some are available now) Righting Wrongs was available in the UK dubbed in English with just Cynthia Rothrock on the cover and re named Above The Law so i never knew he was in it let alone it was so fantastic. Thanks must go to Hong Kong Legends for releasing The Prodigal Son re mastered and with Cantonese dub also releasing Eastern Condors another wonderful film and the internet has brought me other classics like Knockabout, On The Run and The Iceman Cometh, among others. I'm still continuing my collecting today and my interest is just as strong.