He was the disciple of kung fu master Huang Feihong,
He is also the first martial arts instructor in the development of Hong Kong martial arts films.
Also the first Chinese martial arts instructor in Hollywood,
He pioneered the real kung fu playing style of "hard bridge hard horse" in film shooting,
Hong Kong martial arts films have entered a prosperous stage.
In the process of filming the film, he had a vendetta with Jackie Chan and Jet Li, and did not reconcile until his death.
He is Lau Kar Leung, a well-known actor, director, martial arts instructor and kung fu master in Hong Kong's entertainment industry.
From a person who learns martial arts to Bole who has won many stars,
Liu Jialiang's life is legendary.
In 1934, Liu Jialiang was born in a martial arts family,
His father, Liu Zhan, was an apprentice of Huang Feihong's personal disciple Lin Shirong.
Influenced by his father, Liu Jialiang has been interested in martial arts since he was a child.
At the age of 9, Liu Jialiang officially studied martial arts with his father and became Huang Feihong's apprentice grandson.
In the 1950s, Liu Jialiang followed his father to relocate to Hong Kong and entered the Development of Hong Kong's Showbiz Circle.
At that time, my father starred in the role of Lin Shirong in "Huang Feihong",
Liu Jialiang also followed his father to the crew.
When acting with his father, Liu Jialiang found that many of the fight scenes in martial arts films were fake fights.
Flower fist embroidery legs are not real at all,
As the heir of the Southern Sect Hongquan, he prefers his father's playing style in the play,
The real is not pretentious, and the traces of the performance are not heavy.
It's just that at that time, the Northern School Peking Opera style of play occupied a major position in the movie.
Liu Jialiang's "hard bridge hard horse" style of play is not cared about.
Until he met Tang Jia, the apprentice of Yuan Xiaotian, a representative of the Peking Opera style of the Northern Sect,
Tang Jia agreed with Liu Jialiang's idea, and the two of them hated each other late, and then decided to partner as martial arts instructors.
The combination of Liu Jialiang and Tang Jia brought a new concept to the Hong Kong martial arts movies of the 60s.
Let the martial arts movie shine again,
In 1966, when the two directed the film "Yun Hai Yu Bow Edge", the WEIA technology was introduced for the first time.
The martial arts scene of "volley fencing" was designed, which surprised the audience and attracted the attention of the Shaw Group.
Soon after, the Shaw Group offered a high price and hired Liu Jialiang and Tang Jia to enter shaw's work.
Served as a martial arts instructor for Shaw's films and television,
Not only that, Shao also directly assigned Liu Jialiang and Tang Jia to Zhang Che, the "first director" of Shao at that time.
Although Zhang Che's shooting of martial arts films was not professional at that time,
But he has his own insistence on martial arts dramas,
After cooperating with Liu Jialiang and Tang Jia, Zhang Che's persistence has a momentum and direction.
A number of films were filmed in a row, and they achieved good response.
In 1967, under the guidance of Liu Jialiang,
Zhang Che's martial arts film "One-Armed Knife" was released and exploded, setting a million box office.
Director Zhang Che stabilized his position in martial arts films with this film.
It has also made Hong Kong's martial arts films popular all over the country.
The popularity of "One-Armed Knife" has won the popularity of Actors such as Wang Yu, Pan Yingzi, Jiao Jiao, Tian Feng, etc.
It also opened the road to the creation of the "One-Armed Knife" series of film and television works.
After this film, Zhang Che and Liu Jialiang entered a steady cooperation,
It has become the "golden combination" of Hong Kong's showbiz circle,
However, with the big sale of one work after another, Zhang Che's desire to control the works became stronger and stronger.
Giving Liu Jialiang less and less rights, and ignoring his suggestions,
As a result, there was a gap between the two.
At that time, Liu Jialiang was no longer a simple martial arts instructor.
He established his own gang in the years of shooting, and has an independent confidence and self-confidence.
After experiencing a betrayal by Zhang Che, Liu Jialiang completely terminated his cooperation with him.
Turned around and threw himself into other crew jobs,
Zhang Che, who learned of this, was very angry and even threatened to take revenge on Liu Jialiang.
Fortunately, Fang Yihua, the senior executive of Shaw Group, took a fancy to Liu Jialiang's talent and ability.
From this, he mediated the relationship between Zhang Che and Liu Jialiang, and also gave Liu Jialiang the opportunity to be a director.
In the past few years of martial arts instruction, Liu Jialiang has always had a dream of directing.
It was just that at that time, he had been suppressed by Zhang Che, and the Shaw Group did not give him a chance, and this dream was shelved.
After Fang Yihua learned of his ideas, he gave him such an opportunity and made him feel a great honor.
In order not to live up to Shaw's trust, Liu Jialiang's filming period was particularly hard,
While acting as a director, he also does martial arts instruction and other work.
Kung Fu pays off, in 1975, Liu Jialiang's debut work "Shen Da" was interviewed,
It was loved by the audience,
Liu Jialiang also successfully transformed into a director with this work.
Let the martial arts style of "hard bridge hard horse" continue and grow.
During the period of cooperation with Zhang Che, Liu Jialiang's guidance was subject to Zhang Che,
Therefore, most of the works that are directed are Zhang Che style,
Many of these films, in order to show the so-called "heroism",
A lot of gore shots are used to make the audience look slightly uncomfortable.
After getting rid of the shackles of Zhang Che, the films directed by Liu Jialiang have more and more their own style.
He discarded the bloody aesthetic that Zhang Che had previously admired,
Bringing the idea of "convincing people with virtue" into the film, sublimating the meaning and connotation of the film,
It also beautifies the picture display.
After the success of directing "Shen Da", Liu Jialiang opened his own glorious era,
He directed and shot more than a dozen films in a row, and each one was well received after its release.
Among them, what made him popular again was the movie "Thirty-Six Rooms of the Shaolin Temple".
After the film was released, the box office soared and became one of the top ten high-grossing films in the Hong Kong film industry.
"Thirty-Six Rooms of the Shaolin Temple" makes the Shaolin Temple kung fu film from the niche to the mainstream,
Became the darling of Hong Kong cinema in the following years,
The movie also made Liu Jialiang's younger brother famous in one fell swoop and became a popular martial arts star in Hong Kong.
Also popular luo lie, Liu Jiarong, Xu Shaoqiang, Hui Yinghong and other actors.
The 70s to the 80s were the heyday of the new martial arts era and the peak of Liu Jialiang's.
During this period, he carried forward the Southern Sect Hong Fist and carried forward the "hard bridge hard horse" style.
In the time that followed, whether it was as a director or a martial arts instructor,
He adheres to the most traditional "Hong Fist" style of play, and does not agree with some innovations.
This also caused him to have an incomprehensible contradiction with director Xu Ke and Jackie Chan.
In 1991, director Xu Ke prepared to make the film "Huang Feihong".
He attaches great importance to this film, and has also invited Zhou Runfa to be the protagonist,
But then Zhou Runfa refused to star for other reasons.
The protagonists are replaced by Jet Li and Dillon.
In order to ensure the martial arts clips in the movie, Xu Ke specially invited Liu Jialiang to be a martial arts instructor.
I hope that with the help of Liu Jialiang's experience, this film can be made into a classic.
However, in the process of actual shooting, Xu Ke and Liu Jialiang had a huge disagreement in the design of martial arts.
Liu Jialiang pursues a one-to-one restoration of Hong Fist action, while Xu Ke wants to innovate,
Many novel ideas have been proposed, including "shadowless feet in the air".
"Shadowless feet in the air" is to hang the protagonist Jet Li in mid-air with Weiya,
Let him dangle in the air and kick a series of cool kicks at the enemy,
It is very exciting in terms of perspective, and it is easy to increase the aura of the protagonist.
For this design, Liu Jialiang first raised objections,
He believes that such actions are improper, and if you want to make a good martial arts film, you must follow the boxing technique of Hong Quan.
For this reason, the two had a fierce quarrel, which kept quarreling to the point of being irreconcilable,
Liu Jialiang also left the crew in a huff.
After leaving the crew, Liu Jialiang still scorned Xu Ke's design.
In an interview, he also taunted Xu Ke, saying:
"Xu Ke filmed "Huang Feihong" like this, really laughed off the big teeth of 100,000 Hong Fist disciples", what about the facts?
As a result, after the release of "Huang Feihong", it triggered a wave of movie watching,
Xu Ke won the Best Director Award for this film, and the martial arts instructor who joined later also won the award.
The most brilliant clip in the movie is the "shadowless foot in the air" that Liu Jialiang could not see at that time.
This caused Liu Jialiang to suffer a huge blow.
Cooperation with Xu Ke failed, Liu Jialiang wanted to promote Chinese kung fu, he found Jackie Chan again,
Offered to work with him on "Drunken Fist II".
During the filming process, Liu Jialiang and Jackie Chan had a contradiction again.
The reason is similar to the contradiction with Xu Ke, which is a debate between tradition and innovation.
In the end of the debate, Liu Jialiang once again chose to leave,
At this time, the film has been more than half shot, and Jackie Chan has to take on the responsibility of directing.
I finished the second half of the film with my own ideas.
It is not difficult to see from the movies released that the style of the first half and the second half of "Drunken Fist II" is very different,
But the final work presented is still wonderful, and Jackie Chan has become famous.
Liu Jialiang once again missed the opportunity to explode, even if he later directed the filming of "Drunken Fist III".
He also failed to defeat Jackie Chan and ushered in a new box office low for his own leading films.
In fact, in these two controversies and confrontations, neither side of the incident was wrong.
It's just that the concepts are different, one side pays attention to inheritance, and the other side pays attention to innovation.
However, because of these two movies, Liu Jialiang and Xu Ke and Jackie Chan had a bad relationship, and the relationship was once very poor.
In addition to these two people, Jet Li and Liu Jialiang's grievances are also very deep.
His feelings for Liu Jialiang can be described as hatred.
According to Jet Li, when he participated in Liu Jialiang's film "North and South Shaolin",
Encountered the unfair treatment of Liu Jialiang,
Not only is the filming salary lower than that of other actors, but it is often not respected.
Jet Li once almost left the show business circle because of Liu Jialiang, and then he held a grudge against him.
Waiting until he died did not forgive him.
In the Hong Kong film and television industry, Liu Jialiang and Xu Ke, Jackie Chan and Jet Li's grievances are known to everyone.
But the story of Liu Jialiang and Wu Jing, I am afraid that few people know,
No one would even associate these two people.
Liu Jialiang's last film "Drunken Monkey" directed by Liu Jialiang before his death, the protagonist is Wu Jing,
It's just that this film was not successfully released in the end,
Wu Jing also did not get a little exposure from it, so many people do not know that the two of them have worked together.
At that time, the failure of "Drunken Fist III" made Liu Jialiang have the idea of filming the "Drunken Fist" series of "Drunken Monkey".
But because the right male protagonist was not found, the idea was shelved.
Until he met Wu Jing, he was very satisfied with Wu Jing's martial arts performance in other movies,
It was immediately decided to let Wu Jing play the male lead of this movie.
The male protagonist found it, but the director fell ill, and this disease was 7 years.
Seven years later, in 2002, Liu Jialiang started filming "Drunken Monkey" again.
He also tried to make Wu Jing popular through this movie.
However, things did not go as smoothly as he expected, which coincided with the downturn in the Hong Kong film market.
The film premiere effect is very unsatisfactory, so that Liu Jialiang directly has no confidence in the release,
The film, which was finally released as a DVD, did not achieve the original imagined effect.
From the completion of the filming of "Drunken Monkey", and then to the release of the big failure,
Liu Jialiang endured a huge blow and lost the confidence to continue shooting guidance,
Slowly faded out of the entertainment industry.
Three years later, Liu Jialiang and Xu Ke reconciled,
Xu Ke invited Liu Jialiang to participate in the film "Seven Swords" directed by himself, playing the role of "Fu Qing Lord".
With his superb acting skills, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 29th Hong Kong Film Awards.
He drew a successful end to his acting career.
It is undeniable that Liu Jialiang is a legend in the film and television circle.
He is very wonderful in his career, and his emotional life is also wonderful.
Liu Jialiang had two marriages in his life, the second marriage is widely concerned,
From the beginning, it has become the focus of public discussion.
Liu Jialiang's second wife is former Hong Kong entertainer Weng Jingjing, a complete beauty,
She married Liu Jialiang at the age of 20, a full 30 years younger than him, which is a typical "yearless love".
In the years after marriage, Liu Jialiang and Weng Jingjing's relationship was relatively stable.
But with the decline of Liu Jialiang, the relationship between the two slowly appeared problems.
Weng Jingjing began to steal outside with Liu Jialiang behind his back, and was once caught by Liu Jialiang on the spot.
The lover jumped out of the window and fell to his death in order to escape, which became a popular social event at that time.
After that, the relationship between Liu Jialiang and Weng Jingjing was rifted, and the marriage relationship also existed in name only.
Before his death, Liu Jialiang forgave Weng Jingjing.
Six years after Liu Jialiang's death, Weng Jingjing remarried to He Hongshentang's nephew He Youbiao.
The wedding was very beautiful, and it seems that Liu Jialiang has been forgotten.
Fortunately, Weng Jingjing raised Liu Jialiang's two daughters very well.
I also watched them marry and have their own lives.
In 2020, Liu Jialiang's youngest daughter also gave birth to a child.
Weng Jingjing also shared this good news on social platforms,
I believe that Liu Jialiang, who is far away in heaven, will be very happy to see his little grandson!
After many years in the industry, Liu Jialiang has also made many friends in the circle.
It is also worshipped by many people as a predecessor and a teacher,
After his death, Zheng Shaoqiu personally handled the funeral and condolences for him.
Luo Jiaying, Wang Mingquan, Feng Baobao, his brother, Zhen Zidan, Guo Xiuyun, Wu Ma, Bai Biao and others personally came to the scene to mourn.
Give him one last ride.
Even Run Run Shaw joined Fang Yihua in sending him a wreath.
From this point of view, his life is worth it, and he used his insistence to carry forward the "Southern Sect Hong Fist".
Many actors were given opportunities with their own works.
It's just that he was hurt too much in the last few years, if there is an afterlife,
I hope he can meet a suitable and dedicated her, and can stay with his lover for a lifetime,
You can continue to practice martial arts, continue to love what you love, and be what you do.
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