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Original - Monkey Brother Entertainment
In the martial arts conference, winning the war is the most important. Why fight, it doesn't matter! "A Knife to the City"
The 1990s was the most glorious heyday of Hong Kong cinema, and it was also a chaotic era of various dark forces and piracy, not only the box office performance of film companies was impacted, but even the personal safety of filmmakers was threatened.
In 1991, after Jet Li became popular with "Huang Feihong's Ambition", he immediately became the most sought-after martial arts film actor in the Hong Kong film industry, and the golden rooster that can lay golden eggs in the eyes of major film companies.
In 1992, jet Li returned to Beijing after the assassination of his agent Cai Ziming, taking advantage of the opportunity of working with the Beijing Film Studio in "Huang Feihong's Three Lions".
Later, many of Jet Li's films were filmed in Beijing, including his own company's 2 "Fang Shiyu", "Taiji Zhang Sanfeng", and Xiang Huaqiang Yongsheng's "The Demon Sect Leader of the Dragon Slaughter record" and so on.
Among them, the big scene of "Taiji Zhang Sanfeng" also invited the nearby garrison to do group performances.
Therefore, during this time, Jet Li cooperated with the most mainland actors.
Among them, the most famous is the villain of "Fang Shiyu", Zhao Wenzhuo.
Who is the one who cooperates the most?
In "The Demon Sect Leader of the Dragon Slayer in the Heavens", the most brilliant role is Zhao Min, played by Zhang Min, and the most important villain in the story is cheng kun, who is transformed into a shaolin temple monk.
Yuanzhen is played by Yu Yankai, because the fame is not large, there are not many scenes, but it does play out the cunning and treachery of Yuanzhen, which effectively promotes the development of the plot.
This Yan Kai is also a master of martial arts from childhood, but he is just an ordinary newcomer in the film world.
In the 1991 legendary martial arts drama "The Legend of Yi Wei Haoke", he played a Japanese samurai Yoshinaga Michio; in 1992, he had just stepped into the film world, but in 1993, he cooperated with Jet Li four times and starred in four Jet Li martial arts movies, which was the mainland actor with which Jet Li cooperated the most during that period.
In addition to Yuan Zhen/Cheng Kun in "The Demon Sect Leader of the Dragon Slayer in The Book of Heaven", Yu Yankai also played Yu Tong, the leader of the Red Flower Society, in 2 "Fang Shiyu" and the anti-Yuan Yishi blacksmith in "Taiji Zhang Sanfeng".
However, this year, Yu Yankai's most classic role is the flower boxing king Buting in "A Knife in the City".
Jet Li's "Fang Shiyu" joined the plot of Jin Yong's martial arts novel "Book of Swords and Enmity", so Chen Jialuo, the chief helmsman of the Red Flower Society, brought the brothers into the scene. At the beginning, the four bosses benlei hand Wen Tailai had been eliminated by the villain, and Yu Tong, Luo Bing, and Fang Shiyu's father were ambushed again in the dyeing room joint, but they left without a few fights, leaving Fang Shiyu and his mother Miao Cuihua to end.
[In the original book of "Book of Swords and Enmity", Yu Yutong (Yu Tong) is the fourteenth boss, and the crush is the eleventh boss Luo Bing. 】
In the "Fang Shiyu Sequel", the main villain is Yu Zhenhai, played by Ji Chunhua, who plotted to seize the position of the chief helmsman of Chen Jialuo, and Yu Tong did not have the same flow and was powerless to resist, and there was also no martial arts drama.
In "Taiji Zhang Sanfeng", after Zhang Junbao was expelled from Shaolin, he went to work in the rivers and lakes, and finally settled in the Foxiao Building, where he met a group of anti-Yuan righteous men who robbed the rich and helped the poor, and the blacksmith played by Yu Yankai was the backbone of it.
When the Yuan soldiers came to avoid taxes, Zhang Sanfeng led the crowd to fight in the FoxiaoLou; later betrayed by Dong Tianbao, he was killed when he went to the military camp to assassinate the grand eunuch, but he also fought happily, and the blacksmith died in Zhang Sanfeng's arms. When it came to "The Demon Sect Leader of the Dragon Slayer", Cheng Kun's role increased a lot, and he also formally fought with Jet Li (Zhang Wuji), but only a few moves were finished; then the people also ran away, grabbing several high-level officials of the Six Gate Sect and going to Dadu first.
If there is a sequel, he will definitely have to appear, unfortunately.
In the same year, Hong Jinbao's "One Knife in the City", also known as "The First Knife of Shenzhou", was produced by Luo Wei's Wanli Film and China Film Co-production Company and Changchun Film Studio, and was also filmed in Beijing. Therefore, Yu Yankai also got the opportunity to star and played an important villain role.
Yu Yankai plays the Flower Fist King Buting, one of the four mountains in the capital, the boxing consultant of prince Yi's palace, and the self-created flower fist name ZhenjingShi.
In a competition, it was originally his son who competed, but because the shot was too vicious, he injured several people in a row; the big knife king Wu (played by Yang Fan) rescued people and won his son with three moves. Feeling that he had lost face, the Flower Fist King personally challenged Wang Wu and staged a wonderful battle of wills.
"A Knife In the City" was a box office fiasco that year, in fact, it was an underrated martial arts classic, in addition to the profound ideological core and frequent lines of golden sentences; the protagonists were also martial arts masters such as Zhao Changjun, Yang Fan, Zou Zhaolong and Yu Yankai, plus Hong Jinbao sat in the martial arts guidance, and the martial arts scenes were also quite wonderful.
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The fight between the Flower Boxing King and the Big Knife King Five, which used quick release in the later stage, seemed a little unreal; but it was still a classic duel, fast and sharp, rabbit up and down, and it was also the most wonderful martial arts scene in Yu Yankai's film career.
Finally, leave a golden sentence: those who win do not win, and those who lose do not lose.
With his performance in 1993, Yu Yankai has made some names in the action film circle, serving as an action designer in 1994's "Ice City Capture" and "Killing Machines"; and has starred in several Hong Kong films filmed internally, including Chow Yun Fat's "Citi Shaolin" and Zhang Guorong's "Midnight Song".
However, because the boom in action movies receded, Yu Yankai quickly disappeared, and there was no better work than in 1993.
In recent years, Yu Yankai is still active in the mainland film and television circle, playing Zhu Tong in the 2011 version of "Water Margin", Cao Cao in the 2020 Internet University "Zhao Yun Chuan's Dragon Ming Changsakapo", playing the general Meng Ao in the historical drama "Great Qin Fu"; and playing a director who transformed from the film circle to the TV circle in the film and television agent workplace drama "Blame You for Being Too Beautiful".