If you remember on Rarescope’s showdown at the Cotton mill, the costar of teh movie talks about how Wang Yu always beat the crap out of the stuntmen.
And I saw something at Wikipedia, so I don’t know how true it is. It said that Chan got pretty mad cause Urquiedez was really hitting him too much. Can you imagine what it would be like to be hit by that guy? In their fight Urquidez does a kick that Jackie ducks under and the kick actually blows out a series of candles. Too cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO-zZ34eBvw
Yeah, Wang Yu was a very volatile guy. In Taiwan he had quite a reputation. When I was there, there was a news story about him walking up to a certain movie director in a hotel lobby and slapping him in the face for whatever reason.
Don’t know if you heard of it, but in 1977, Hwang Jang Lee was supposed to fight Cheng Chi-Ying in a public challenge match. To promote Snuff Bottle Connection, Ng See-Yuen proclaimed Hwang the deadliest man, and that he could beat any Chinese fighter in HK. (Don’t know how smart that was). Cheng Chi-Ying answered the challenge. A lot of people, including Chan Wai-Man and many gangsters showed up to watch the fight. But Cheng’s wife demanded the fight not happen at the last minute, and he did not show. I think there was a near-riot, and Hwang had to be ushered out of the place. Cheng Chi-Ying appeared in several KF movies, almost always as a villain; he’s the ugly ghost guy in Billy Chong’s Kung Fu Zombie, and appeared in and directed a Chi Kuan-Chun movie, The Eagle’s Fist (not to be confused with Eagle’s Claw).
I have heard that story from Ng in about 3 or 4 different interviews. Looking at that stocky guy from Kung Fu ZOmbie, he would get kicked about 5 times before ever making contact with Hwang. It would have been cool to see though:D
I’ve gotten quite a lot of his movies in my recent collecting.
So far I have:
The Street Fighter
Return of The Street Fighter
Sister Street Fighter
Shogun’s Ninja
Ninja Wars
Karate Warriors
The Bodyguard
Shogun’s Samurai
Dragon Princess
Samurai Reincarnation
Legend of the Eight Samurai
I think that’s all.
I still need that other Street Fighter movie, and some others.
Killing Machine is my absolute favorite from Sonny Chiba. It doesn’t get any darker than that movie.
Dragon Princess is one of my favorites. even though Sonny Chiba only has a cameo in it. I would have titled the movie Bruce Lee meets Karate Dogfighter. This will be coming out remastered soon. I can’t freaking wait!
Also, the Adness version of Killing Machine is a great remastered widescreen print. I had to go out and get it cause the movie is so awesome.
Also, Shogun’s Samurai is one of the best movies ever made. Enjoy.