According to Hong Kong media reports on December 21, Hong Kong's first generation of Chinese stuntman Chen Yiyan (also known as Chen Yiyan) was seriously injured by the fire and sent to the hospital for treatment late on the night of the 20th, and his life was in danger.
On the evening of the 20th, a grade 3 fire broke out in a private house in a village in Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong, which burned for three hours before being extinguished, and 69-year-old Chen Yiyan was burned in many places such as his head, hands and feet.
Police arrested a 67-year-old man at the scene on suspicion of injuring someone.
It is said that Chen Yiyan and the injured person were neighbors, because of Chen Yiyan's problem of raising dogs, quarreled with the injured person, was poured with flammable liquid by the other party, and then a fire broke out.
Known as the "Father of Stunts" in the Hong Kong film industry, Chen Yiyan was the royal dragon and tiger martial artist of the late superstar Bruce Lee, after Bruce Lee's death, Chen Yiyan transformed into a stuntman, shot dozens of movies, and starred in Bruce Lee's posthumous work "Game of Death".
Chen Yiyan is highly skilled in martial arts, armed with explosives, flying cars and other stunts, has done Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee stand-ins, once claimed to be the master of Ke Shouliang and Luo Lixian in the interview, and established the Kamikaze Stunt Production Company in 1977.
Chen Yiyan has participated in many large-scale productions, including "Thunderbolt Fire", "Police Story", "Best Partner", "Kapok Robes", "My Days in the Underworld", etc., and has previously been interviewed by CCTV.
In Jackie Chan's movies, many shots of flying cars and explosions are completed by Chen Yiyan, including the scene of the 50-meter flying car in "Thunderbolt Fire", which caused a sensation many years ago.
Chen Yiyan once said in an interview that he was more popular than Jackie Chan at the shooting scene, and after filming that scene, Jackie Chan personally helped him drive the car door, and more than a thousand people rushed up to him to sign his autograph.
Chen Yiyan is a bold man with high skills, and once flew over the Yangtze River as a stunt driver in 2002, with a leap distance of about 60 meters.
At that time, Ke Shouliang was known as "Asia's first flying man", and once created a distance of 55 meters to fly over the Yellow River, Chen Yiyan chose a distance of 60 meters in order to win Ke Shouliang, and in recent years, he has put down his bold words and challenged one hundred meters.
Chen Yiyan was injured many times during filming, and once when filming "Mirage", he fell off a cliff with a car, fractured many times throughout his body, and all his teeth fell out, and he was in a coma for 28 days before he woke up. Later, he was burned by fire during the filming of "Detective Dry and Wet Pants", and he was injured by skin grafting twice, and he was almost scaly over the years.
Seven years ago, Chen Yiyan was sued for beating his friend Chen Weiming, who was said to have owed Chen Yiyan more than a million yuan to his deceased mother, and the two were friends for forty years before, because of economic disputes.
At present, Chen Yiyan quarreled with his neighbors and caused fire burns, hoping that he could overcome the danger and recover as soon as possible.