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Born
26 Apr 1963
Industry
Entertainment, Film
Job Title
Actor
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
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Blades of the Guardians: Wu Jing leads star-studded Chinese martial arts epic
Starring Wu Jing, Nicholas Tse and Chen Lijun, the visually stunning Blades of the Guardians is one of the fiercest wuxia films in years.
6 hours ago
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China consumption
China’s Spring Festival box office faces plot twist after 2025 smashed records
15 Feb 2026 - 10:00AM
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SCMP Highlights
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8 Jan 2026 - 3:21PM
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
Why Jet Li and Wong Jing’s The New Legend of Shaolin is underrated
The 1994 cult classic The New Legend of Shaolin blends comedy, action and child martial artists in a fresh take on the Shaolin myth.
4 Jan 2026 - 4:15PM
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Hong Kong society
Yuen Cheung-yan, veteran Hong Kong actor and action choreographer, dies at 69
Yuen Cheung-yan died on New Year’s Day at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, actor and film director Lee Lik-chi says.
2 Jan 2026 - 3:49PM
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
How Stephen Chow and Donnie Yen reinvented Bruce Lee’s classic Chen Zhen
Fist of Fury 1991 with Stephen Chow and TV series Fist of Fury with Donnie Yen saw two different versions of Bruce Lee’s famous character.
28 Dec 2025 - 5:15PM
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China martial arts icon Jet Li goes shirtless to dispel heart transplant rumours
After Shaolin monk Qiufeng’s body was reported to have suture marks, rumours began to swirl, especially since Li was hospitalised during same month.
8 Nov 2025 - 9:00AM
European cinema
Why Jet Li’s action thriller Kiss of the Dragon was banned in China
Kiss of the Dragon was a box office success in 2001, but its racial stereotyping, violence and sexual frankness caused it problems in China.
5 Sep 2025 - 5:15PM
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Hong Kong
How Girls with Guns movies made stars of Michelle Yeoh and Maggie Cheung
The armed-and-dangerous women genre of the 1980s and 90s was a rollicking roller-coaster during Hong Kong’s silver screen heyday.
2 Jul 2025 - 11:48AM
History
Truth behind a martial arts legend played by Jet Li and Jackie Chan
It has been 100 years since the death of kung fu master Wong Fei-hung who was little known during his lifetime.
23 Apr 2025 - 8:00AM
From our archives
Recap
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Sammo Hung honoured, Bruce Lee’s legacy, Jackie Chan’s breakthrough and more
Explore the legacies of martial arts legends Sammo Hung, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li, and their impact on Hollywood and Hong Kong cinema.
2 Jan 2025 - 9:15AM
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
Was remaking classics like Police Story, A Better Tomorrow a good idea?
We look at four remakes of classic Hong Kong films, from a Jackie Chan-led Police Story from the 2000s to a riff on Bruce Lee’s Fist of Fury.
10 Jan 2025 - 12:04PM
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John Lee policy address 2024
Opinion
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Hong Kong must own its martial arts and action film cultural heritage
The cultural heritage of Hong Kong related to Chinese martial arts has not been fully tapped to attract tourists and action film buffs.
31 Oct 2024 - 10:57AM
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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
All 10 Once Upon a Time in China movies and rip-offs rated
Tsui Hark’s film series that originally starred Jet Li as martial arts legend Wong Fei-hung spawned several knock-offs, such as Kickboxer.
21 Oct 2024 - 1:10PM
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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
3 Jet Li action movies fusing guns and kung fu – before he went to Hollywood
Jet Li reinvented himself in the 1990s from a period kung fu movie star to a modern action hero. We look at three of his gun fu films fusing firearms and fighting, before he left Hong Kong for the US.
16 Mar 2024 - 9:47AM
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American cinema
Why Jet Li’s Danny the dog role in Unleashed didn’t help him crack Hollywood
Jet Li received praise for his role as Danny the dog in Luc Besson’s gritty 2005 action movie. While he shone among co-stars such as Morgan Freeman, it didn’t help the martial arts actor crack Hollywood.
12 Feb 2024 - 8:17AM
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From our archives
Hello Kitty murder, Jet Li’s manager shot: archive stories most read in 2023
Crime, crime and more crime: these were the stories from Post archives that most interested readers in 2023, from the grisly Hello Kitty murder case to the underworld assassination of Jet Li’s manager.
25 Dec 2023 - 4:15PM
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Hong Kong
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Happy day for Hong Kong cinemas could have been showcase of local films
The offer of HK$30 movie tickets will boost the cinema business, but the campaign should have done more for the local film industry. Not only are classic Hong Kong films far from forgotten, recent releases depicting local issues show that the industry is worthy of support.
29 Apr 2023 - 8:15AM
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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
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From Jet Li to Wong Kar-wai, the 1990s: last golden age of Hong Kong cinema
The 1990s was the last golden age of Hong Kong cinema, with a slew of groundbreaking films that produced new stars such as martial arts actor Jet Li and art-house darling Wong Kar-wai.
9 Apr 2023 - 4:15AM
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
The stellar movie career of Michelle Reis, ‘nice girl who can play nasty’
The Julia Roberts of Hong Kong was the Post’s early verdict on Michelle Reis, who had no acting training but excelled opposite Jet Li, Leon Lai and Stephen Chow in a string of 1990s hits.
1 Jan 2023 - 4:15AM
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
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King Hu, Chang Cheh, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan: a martial arts cinema history
From the film that changed everything to fighting with fists instead of swords, girl power and the birth of a legend, milestones in the development of Hong Kong martial arts cinema.
27 Dec 2022 - 4:20PM
American cinema
How Jackie Chan’s The Forbidden Kingdom became a ‘Crouching Tiger for kids’
With Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Li Bingbing in the cast, and a crew including legendary fight choreographer Yuen Woo-ping, The Forbidden Kingdom should have been a better film.
3 Jun 2022 - 7:15AM
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American cinema
How the China-set second sequel to The Mummy buried the popular franchise
Despite co-starring Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh, and having some stunning locations, this US-China film fell totally flat, with one-dimensional characters, awful dialogue and terrible CGI.
6 May 2022 - 4:00PM
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American cinema
How 2012’s The Expendables 2 short-changed Chinese viewers
The Expendables 2 had been planned as a China-US co-production and was meant to star Donnie Yen Ji-dan alongside Sylvester Stallone. Hasty changes had to be made to the script when that fell through.
1 Apr 2022 - 7:15PM
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Asian cinema
The 25 best Asian martial arts movies of the 21st century ranked
Asia is famous for its martial arts films, and here is our pick of the 25 best from the past two decades, for their slick fight choreography and drama.
31 Mar 2022 - 5:14AM
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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
Maggie Cheung had ‘no interest’ in martial arts films – but did them anyway
The In the Mood for Love actress didn’t go looking for roles in martial arts films, but when she did take them she excelled, notably in Hero with Jet Li and Tony Leung Chiu-wai and in Wong Kar-wai’s Ashes of Time.
26 Dec 2021 - 7:15AM
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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
Jet Li’s The One, Jackie Chan’s Police Story: favourite martial arts tales
From Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Zhang Ziyi in Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster to Jackie Chan in Police Story and Gordon Liu in Dirty Ho, a look back at some of the great Hong Kong martial arts movies.
6 Dec 2021 - 11:17AM
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
Why Hollywood didn’t get the best out of martial arts star Jet Li at first
In Lethal Weapon 4 and Romeo Must Die, Jet Li got his Hollywood career off to a steady start. But neither film fully showcased the Chinese martial arts star’s unique talents.
16 Nov 2021 - 12:37PM
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