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"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"

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"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"

Yu Zhanyuan

Master Yu Zhanyuan, born in Beijing in 1905, was a famous artist in Beijing opera when he was young. In the 1930s and 1940s, the warlords in the mainland were fighting each other, and Yu Zhanyuan went south to Hong Kong. In the 1950s, the "Chinese Drama Research Academy" was founded, and there were many apprentices and peach and plum gardens.

"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"

Jackie Chan, Yu Zhanyuan

At the end of the 1960s, with the rise of film and the decline of the opera industry, many liyuan children entered the film industry as martial artists. With his daughter Yu Suqiu immigrating to the United States, Yu Zhanyuan felt that there was still a market in the United States, so he took a group of protégés to the United States to perform. At this point, the Chinese Theater Research Institute no longer existed, and the so-called "Seven Little Blessings" were divided into two ways.

"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"

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At the end of the 1970s, Hong Jinbao, Jackie Chan, Yuan Kui and other members of Hong Kong's "Seven Little Blessings" were in the film industry, while the "Seven Little Blessings" in the United States were unknown and struggling. At this time, the flexible Taiwanese director Guo Nanhong made a clever move, ran to the United States to invite Yu Zhanyuan out of the mountains, and together with some members of the "Seven Little Blessings", filmed this kung fu film "Master Out of the Horse".

Yu Zhanyuan also made cameo appearances in some opera films in the early days, and also starred as a special guest actor in the kung fu film "Golden Knife Monster" directed by his apprentice Guan Zhengliang, but these are not the real protagonists.

"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"

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"Master Out of the Horse", also known as "Master Out of the Head", is the only movie of the American "Seven Little Blessings" and the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan. After the launch of this film, it did not change the fate of the "Seven Little Blessings", and most of them chose to change careers.

"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"

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"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"

Yuan Nan, Yuan Hong

"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"

Yuan Hong, Yuan Nan

In fact, the "Seven Little Blessings" that are hyped up as gimmicks are only small supporting roles, except for Yuan nan and Yuan Hong, who have a little drama, the other few people are almost flashing. The male number two who really played with Yu Zhanyuan was Lei Xiaohu, a Chinese-American.

"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"

Lei Xiaohu

"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"

Cover of Karate magazine

Bill Louie (now william Louie) was one of the first generation of Asian immigrants born in the United States. He learned martial arts at the age of nine and practiced judo, tiger claw, white crane fist, mantis fist, and jiu-jitsu. After coming into contact with Gang rou liu karate, he founded his own martial arts system, Chinese American Gang Rou Liu karate.

"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"

William Louie

At present, he has received the ten honors of karate black belt (the highest rank in karate), and belongs to the master level.

"The Master Goes Out of the Horse" tells the story of the Hong Kong chinese magician Wan Ren Yang (Yu Zhanyuan) who goes to the United States to cheer for the "Citi Martial Arts Hall" opened by his apprentice Ding Sen (Wu Zhaonan). However, Ding Sen was in debt and designed Master Wan to compete with various masters in order to profit from it. Master Wan learns of this and leaves the martial arts hall with his apprentice Sun Ah Biao (Lei Xiaohu) and teaches Ah Biao Kung Fu. Later, Master Wan wanted to leave the United States, but encountered a joint challenge of the five major martial arts halls "Citi Martial Arts". Master Wan joins forces with everyone to defeat the challenger, and Ding Sen also repents...

"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"

Yu Zhanyuan and Lei Xiaohu

At that time, Yu Zhanyuan was already seventy-four years old, although he was mentally strong and tough, but he was not old enough to be able to use his muscles and bones, and he used stand-ins in 90% of his battles, so we can only see his back in most shots.

"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"
"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"
"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"
"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"

In addition to displaying his Peking Opera figure, Yu Zhanyuan seems to be more interested in showing off his various hats.

"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"

Takeshi Kitano

I have to say that the elderly Yu Zhanyuan is very similar to the famous Japanese director Kitano Takeshi.

The martial arts instructor of this film is signed chen Shaopeng, but according to Lei Xiaohu's interview, all the actions were designed by him and part of the directing work was undertaken.

"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"
"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"

The essence of this film is focused on Lei Xiaohu. He would make a strange cry similar to Bruce Lee when fighting, which was not a spoof. He mentioned in the interview that Bruce Lee was a great martial artist and the person who had the greatest influence on him. He became famous in karate circles for his penchant for imitating Bruce Lee, and nearly starred in Warner's films about Bruce Lee.

"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"

Wu Zhaonan

"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"

Guo Degang, Wu Zhaonan, Guo Qilin

It is worth mentioning that ding sen is played by Taiwanese cross-talk master Wu Zhaonan. In addition to this film, he also made cameo appearances in "Jin Yu Man Tang" (1971) starring Li Lihua and "Lover's Lover" (1994) starring Leung Ka Fai. In 1982, Wu Zhaonan took Mr. Hou Baolin as his teacher. On October 14, 2018, Wu Zhaonan died in Los Angeles at the age of 93.

As mentioned before, this film did not stir up much splash after its release. The plot, the jokes, the action, everything seems old-fashioned and boring. Putting aside the collection value of "the only kung fu film starring The Authentic Master Yu Zhanyuan", this film can only be counted as one of Guo Nanhong's many bad films that barely reached the passing line.

After saying goodbye to the film industry in Zhan Yuan, he died in Los Angeles on September 8, 1997, at the age of 92.

"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"

"Killer Angel", Yuan Hong

Yuan Nan changed to a business, yuan hong starred in a Li Saifeng movie "Killer Angel" during his return to Hong Kong, and several other people disappeared.

"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"
"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"

Well, "Master Brother Out of Horse", "Master Out of Horse", "Master Brother Out of Horse", "Master And Brother Out of Horse", "Master And Sister Out of Horse", "Master Sister Out of Horse"... Who else?

Finally there is a set of old photos of the "Seven Little Blessings", see how many people you can recognize?

"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"
"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"
"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"
"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"
"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"
"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"
"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"
"The Master Goes Out of the Horse", the only kung fu film starring Yu Zhanyuan, the father of "Seven Little Blessings"

Thanks to Master Yu Zhanyuan and "Seven Little Blessings" for their outstanding contributions to kung fu films!

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