In 1982, the movie "Shaolin Temple" came out, which not only set off a boom in learning Shaolin Kung Fu on both sides of the Straits and three places, but also pushed many actors with real kung fu in the film to the film world. Friends familiar with this movie, you must remember that there is a drunken monk in the film, his actor is named Sun Jiankui, who is also a veritable martial arts master, in addition, he also had 5 film cooperations with Jet Li later, which is definitely one of the iconic actors in Jet Li's films in the 80s and 90s.
Born in Qingdao, Shandong Province, Sun Jiankui joined the Shandong Wushu Team as a professional athlete, and in 1978, he won the second place in the National Wushu Competition.
In the early 1980s, when director Zhang Xinyan went to the mainland to select actors for "Shaolin Temple", he met Sun Jiankui and invited him to play a Seikong monk who was one of the "thirteen stick monks", especially the set of "drunken sticks" he performed in the film, which also left a deep impression on countless audiences.
After filming "Shaolin Temple", sun Jiankui participated in the sequel "Shaolin Boy" and Liu Jialiang's "North and South Shaolin", of which "Shaolin Boy" is Sun Jiankui's first attempt to rape the role of the character, playing the second boss of the bald eagle faction, who was sent to specifically divide and provoke the relationship between the Bao family and the Long family; in "North and South Shaolin", Sun Jiankui played a leader under Wang Ye and contributed wonderful martial arts at the end of the film, these two roles also laid the foundation for him to create a villain in the future.
In 1988, Sun Jiankui once again appeared in Zhang Xinyan's "Yellow River Hero", and "Divine Leg Zhang" Liu Huailiang starred in two of Li Wangye's staff, two years later, mainland director Li Qiming used Sun Jiankui to star in a movie called "Black Madman", taking the Western route, and sun Jiankui's only film as the protagonist, but unfortunately the quality of the film was flat, which also made Sun Jiankui's performance fail to trigger a big response.
After many years of development in the film industry but the acting career still did not see much improvement, Sun Jiankui also turned his attention back to the martial arts world in the early 1990s, and in 1993 became the deputy director of the Shandong Wushu Research and Development And Promotion Center.
During this period, Jet Li, who had a good relationship with him, set up his own Zhengdong Film Company, and at his gracious invitation, Sun Jiankui, Ji Chunhua, Yu Hai and a group of old actors from "Shaolin Temple" went to Hong Kong again to shoot a play, and after playing liu Jin, the grand eunuch in "Taiji Zhang Sanfeng", and the Western Demon Monk Keba in "New Shaolin Five Ancestors", Sun Jiankui became angry again.
Since then, because Sun Jiankui has been busy preparing for international martial arts competitions and accompanying his grandson to study in the United States, he once faded out of the screen for many years, until 2008, when he made a cameo appearance as the head of the martial arts museum in the TV series "The Legend of Bruce Lee", and then returned to the public eye.
In the following time, Sun Jiankui was still active in the film circle for several years, not only starring in "Painted Skin 2", but also serving as an action director for "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" directed by Xu Ke and "Together" directed by Huo Yaoliang, especially "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" was not only his sixth cooperation with Jet Li, but also let him and YuanBin and Lan Haihan win the best action design at the 31st Hong Kong Film Awards together.
However, after participating in 2014's "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch of the Bright Moon Heavenly Kingdom", Sun Jiankui once again disappeared from the film world without a trace, and according to the calculation of age, he should also retire honorably and enjoy his old age. Here is still to wish him good health!