There are many Chinese martial arts actors, but there are few "kung fu superstars", and the household names are: Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Zhen Zidan and so on.
In addition, there is a very powerful character - Wang Yu.
Wang Yu is a famous Chinese actor and director, who is familiar with the older generation, but he does not know the young people now.
Wang Yu's growth experience
Wang Yu, whose original name was Wang Zhengquan, was born in 1944 in a large family in Shanghai, and his hometown was in Jiangsu.
Wang Yu has been suffering from ADHD since he was a child, and his parents sent him to learn some martial arts such as karate and tai chi.
And Wang Yu is also very powerful, in a short period of time "learning to achieve success", when he was still young, his parents sent him to Shanghai Xiaolongtang to study.
But Wang Yu often fights with his classmates, making the school restless, and his parents have a headache.
Later, Wang Yu went to school at the Shanghai Institute of Physical Education and became a swimmer.
In the 1960s, after arriving in Hong Kong, he easily won two championships.
He was supposed to win three consecutive titles, but was eventually expelled from the swimming team for fighting with others
Wang Yu entered the show business circle
After that, he participated in the audition of the actors of the movie "Ghost Killer", and with his own advantages, he finally stood out among 1600 competitors and entered Shaw's.
Its director Zhang Che liked this young man who loved to "provoke" at a glance.
Later, when Zhang Che filmed the movie "Tiger Hero Annihilation", he immediately remembered Wang Yu and decided to star him.
Therefore, Zhang Che became Wang Yu's teacher, and Wang Yu was widely praised for the film.
In 1965, he became famous in "Jianghu Strange Man", and in the martial arts action, he was able to complete it perfectly without a stand-in.
Therefore, it is remembered by many people in the industry, and also opens the way for the ancient costume martial arts films after Wang Yu.
After starring in "One-Armed Knife", he became famous in one battle and became a well-known "one-armed hero" in the circle.
Wang Yu defeats Bruce Lee
Wang Yu's fame is very popular, and he is the same time as Bruce Lee, the "kung fu superstar" who is now famous in the world, and the two are both martial arts actors.
But at that time, Bruce Lee was still a small actor, but Wang Yu was the golden age of his career, becoming a "kung fu superstar" of Bruce Lee's previous generation.
The movies starring Wang Yu are the best in terms of word of mouth and box office, and even Bruce Lee is a loser.
The two also had a very good relationship in private, and Wang Yu often said: Bruce Lee's wrist break is not my opponent.
But later, as Bruce Lee's fame increased, he even surpassed Wang Yu and became a new generation of kung fu superstars who pioneered Chinese kung fu.
Bruce Lee also spread Chinese kung fu to China and became famous all over the world, and now foreign dictionaries will also have the word "kung fu".
It should be said that Bruce Lee is a "kung fu superstar" and Wang Yu is the "kung fu emperor".
Wang Yu saves Jackie Chan
Not only that, after that, Wang Yu met Jackie Chan in the process of filming.
At that time, Jackie Chan, who was just starting out, did not understand human feelings and sophistication, and offended many people, but Wang Yu stood up to protect Jackie Chan.
After that, the film "Burning Island" starring Jackie Chan and Andy Lau was able to come out later, and Wang Yu also helped many of them.
For Jackie Chan, Wang Yu also has the grace of promoting and saving his life.
Forced to go to Taiwan
After becoming famous, Wang Yu continued to take on a lot of work, but with the growth of fame, because of Shao's heavy workload and low salary, Wang Yu jumped to Jiahe.
However, because there was a contract between the actor and the company, if he acted rashly, it was himself who suffered a loss, and Wang Yu sneaked into the secretariat late at night and stole all the contracts of more than 100 actors at that time and burned them.
Therefore, Wang Yu then fought a lawsuit with Shaw for 6 years, and also starred in the film "One-Armed Boxer" to scold Shaw's boss.
In the end, a series of problems could not be mixed up in Hong Kong, so they went to Taiwan for development.
Three major blood cases - the Apricot Blossom Court Blood Case
After arriving in Taiwan, Chen Qili, the leader of the Bamboo Gang (gangster), invited Wang Yu to join because he liked Wang Yu's skills, but was refused.
In 1976, Wang Yu and his brother went to a restaurant in Taipei called Xinghua Ge for a drink, because they had a crush on a woman named "Guifei".
He wanted to call her to accompany the wine, but because this girl tried to shirk it, Wang Yu was unhappy.
After this girl went out, she complained to several backbones of the Four Seas Gang that she knew, and then the Four Seas Gang found Wang Yu and fought.
Two groups of people fought fiercely, killing and injuring the squadron, and finally one of the four seas gang was shot, one was severely injured in the head, and one was stabbed in the spleen.
When the incident was serious, Wang Yu ran back to Hong Kong to temporarily take shelter, during which Chen Qili, the boss of the Bamboo League Gang, helped Wang Yu settle the matter.
Wang Yu returned to Taiwan again, and then joined the Bamboo Gang and became a backbone member of it.
This is the well-known "Apricot Blossom Court Blood Case".
Three major blood cases - the Heavenly Kitchen Blood Case
Although the surface is calm and calm, Wang Yu and the Four Seas Gang also secretly formed a beam.
In 1981, one day, Wang Yu and his friends ate at the Tianji Restaurant, but they were ambushed by the Four Seas Gang.
Wang Yu was hit by seven knives in his body and was seriously injured, and he thought that his life would soon be over, but he survived.
This is also the second bloody case, the Heavenly Kitchen Blood Case.
Three major bloody cases - the bloody incident
Due to the Tianjiao Blood Case, Liu Weimin of the Four Seas Gang was sued by Wang Yu in court.
However, at the time of the trial, the two sides also fought fiercely, without law, causing great harm to society, and staged a bloody incident, which was later called the "court building blood case".
In the end, Wang Yu was sentenced to two years and Six months in prison in the first instance for the crime of instigating the murder, and was acquitted in the second trial.
After that, the two sides still fought openly and secretly, and finally Chen Qili came forward to calm down.
This was the well-known "Three Blood Cases" at that time, and therefore Wang Yu's acting career was greatly affected.
After that, Wang Yu's gang mixed very well, becoming a backbone personnel and a big gangster level figure.
He also played the role of a cult leader in television works, and was called "gangster leader" by many people.
Wang Yu was the third child
Before going to Taiwan, Wang Yu fell in love with his first wife, Lin Cui.
Lin Cui was the wife of Shao's director Qin Jian at the time, and was eight years older than Wang Yu, becoming a third party.
Because Lin Cui and his wife often quarreled and separated, they came together with Wang Yu.
After Qin Jian learned of this, in 1969 Qin Jian hanged himself at Shaw Company.
The next day, Wang Yu announced his love affair with Lin Cui and revealed that Lin Cui was pregnant with his own child.
Soon after, the two married, and after marriage, Lin Cui had three daughters, but in the end it could not withstand the seven-year itch.
In the end, the two divorced peacefully in 1975, and some people also rumored that the reason for the divorce was suspected to be Wang Yu's entanglement with the underworld.
Wang Yu dumped Lin Qingxia
After the divorce, because Lin Qingxia passionately pursued Wang Yu, the two came together, but only for half a year.
At that time, Wang Yu was caught in a gang fight, coupled with Lin Mu's strong opposition.
And Wang Yu did not want to delay Lin Qingxia's life and career, so he dumped her.
Wang Yu later said: Lin Qingxia is a jade girl, and she has three children, and she often breaks into trouble, fights and gangsters, etc., and her reputation is not good, so she dumps her.
Wang Yu was split legs
On Christmas Day 1981, Wang Yu married a flight attendant Wang Kaizhen, who was 16 years younger than herself.
After marriage, the two got along plainly and had no children.
Until Christmas in 1999, it was supposed to be the wedding anniversary of the two, but neither of them had the heart to arrange it.
One is busy cheating, the other is busy catching adultery.
On Christmas Day, Wang Yu caught Wang Kaizhen in bed with a strange man, and the two eventually divorced.
Wang Yu's second marriage suddenly began, ordinary life, and suddenly ended.
Wang Yu became rich
After that, Wang Yu started a business, summarizing many industry fields.
In the field of business, Wang Yu relied on his excellent business talent to do a lot of work, and in just a few years, he was worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
In addition, he was excellent in the acting industry before, and some well-known directors were invited to appear in some film and television works.
For example, at the age of 67, he was invited by director Chen Kexin to play the role of the main villain "Godfather" in "Wuxia".
Wang Yu "Grandfather Love"
In addition, Wang Yu, who was nearly 70 years old, also had a "grandfather-grandson love".
Wang Yu revealed that he was in love with his girlfriend, a 40-year-old mainland customs civil servant, and the woman was a fan of his movies.
But after getting along for a while, they finally broke up because of the strong opposition of the woman's parents.
Today, Wang Yu is 76 years old, his health is gradually deteriorating, and it is reported that he began to be hospitalized in 2015.
Now he has become a stroke paralysis dementia, an old man who can walk in a wheelchair and eat by nasogastric tube.
Wang Yu has experienced ups and downs in his life, and the people who have been in life, or on the screen, the scenery of the first life, are eventually tired.
And his once magnificent image will always remain in the minds of everyone, and he will spend the rest of his life happily.