There were four members of the once glorious Southern School martial arts team "Liu Jiaban", but two of them were not surnamed Liu, one was Liu Jiahui, whose original name was Xian Jinxi, who was actually not a member of the Liu family, because he was accepted by Liu Zhan as a righteous son, and later praised by Liu Jialiang as the protagonist, which naturally gave him this stage name. The other is Liu Jiayong, whose original name is He Zhixiong, who is Liu Jialiang's nephew, and later also got the name "Jia Yong" because he followed Liu Jiaban to shoot dramas, so that the audience can better understand that he is a member of Liu Jialiang, and the other remaining one is directly related to Liu Jialiang, who is his brother Liu Jiarong.
Liu Jiarong's most active era should be the eighties, when he was only in his early forties, but often had to play the crane-haired childlike master and the elder role, these roles are loyal and adulterous, but they all have the common characteristics of calm and idle, deep hidden, such as Lei Yong in "Eighteen Martial Arts", Chen Wu in "Maoshan Zombie Fist", etc., are all kung fu masters hidden in the city, and Jia Wudao in "Miscellaneous Family Boys" is a green forest thief, but he also teaches decent Liang Jiaren and Yuan Biao martial arts. It is a complex character that people love and hate.
In fact, Liu Jiarong is not only an actor, he is also a film all-rounder who integrates directors, screenwriters and martial arts.
Born in 1943, Liu Jiarong began to learn Hong Quan with his father Liu Zhan and his brother Liu Jialiang at the age of 10, entered the film circle at the age of 15 and 16 and became a martial artist and martial arts instructor, and in his early years, he mainly helped zhang Che and Zheng Changhe to design martial arts actions in films with his brother Zhang Che and Zheng Changhe.
In 1972, he was recommended to participate in the martial arts design of "The First Fist in the World", and with the popularity of the film in the North American market, Liu Jiarong also rose to fame.
In 1974, Liu Jiarong was first honored as the male number one in chen Honglie's "Cupola Cannon", and was later favored by Taiwan's "First Pictures" company, and went to Taiwan to participate in the performance of kung fu movies such as "Tiger Crane Double Shape", "One Armed Man vs One Armed Man" and other kung fu films and martial arts work, during which he had the opportunity to get acquainted with "Skinhead" Mai Jia, and also laid the groundwork for the two to join hands with Hong Jinbao to establish a film company.
Because it was not smooth in Taiwan, So Liu Jiarong also returned to Hong Kong in the mid-1970s to continue to develop his acting career, in 1977, he chose Liu Jiahui and Wang Yu of Liu Jiaban to shoot his directorial debut "Kung Fu Kid", which finally exceeded one million at the box office, which also gave him the motivation and confidence to "start his own business". In the same year, he and his brother Liu Jialiang established a film company called "Liu Brothers", and successively launched kung fu comedies such as "Ghost Horse Kung Fu" and "One Courage, Two Forces, Three Kung Fu", but unfortunately many of these films did not sell well, and the company's closure was inevitable, but Liu Jiarong stepped into the ranks of choreographers, directors and actors.
The following year, he co-founded Garbo Pictures with Hong Jinbao, who he had known since he was a child, and Mai Jia, whom he had met in Taiwan, and successively launched three works, "Tiger Field Chicken", "Fighting Single Knife and Death Gun" and "Salted Fish Rebirth", of which "Bo" was directed by Liu Jiarong himself, and became one of the top ten high-grossing films of the year, but because of Hong Jinbao's "departure" two years later, it also forced Jiabao to announce dissolution before it was established.
After that, Liu Jiarong returned to Liu Jiaban to shoot dramas, but it seems that he was not valued by his brother Liu Jialiang, at that time, Liu Jiaban was praising Liu Jiahui, Hui Yinghong, Xiao Hou, Wang Yu and other people, while Liu Jiarong often played an inconspicuous green leaf role in these plays, in contrast to the "Miscellaneous Family Boy", "Dragon's Heart", "Rich Train", "Thin Tiger Fat Dragon" and "Faceless Man" and so on, which made people more memorable. Liu Jiarong said that he has known Hong Jinbao for decades, and he completely treats himself as a family member, and it is no wonder that the outside world often laughs that Liu Jiarong and Hong Jinbao are more like brothers.
In the mid-1990s, Liu Jiarong faded out of the directing field after filming "Spy Pursuit", has been in a low-key state, if you do not pay close attention to the subtitles of the movie, you do not know that later he also participated in the "Huang Feihong's Western Lion", "Drunken Horse" and "Seven Swords" behind the scenes, but since 2003, Liu Jiarong has rarely taken on the role of martial arts due to his age, in recent years, he will still make cameo performances from time to time, purely as a drama addiction. It is worth mentioning that his son Liu Yongjian has also become an insider, but his development results are average.
Although there may be many people who think that Liu Jiarong's achievements in front of the curtain are not as good as his brother Liu Jialiang and his righteous brother Liu Jiahui, but in the late 1980s, Hollywood invited him to cooperate with Shange Winton in "The King of Fighting", which proved that he still has a certain degree of popularity in North America, in addition, he also has great achievements in the field of directing, and the three films directed by him that year, "Little Fear", "Dragon Family", and "Skinny Tiger Fat Dragon", which were directed by him, exceeded 10 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, and the earliest martial finger that Xu Ke found when he made the first part of "Huang Feihong" was Master Liu Jiarong. In the end, he also won the Best Action Direction Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards together with Yuan Xiangren and Yuan Xinyi.
Although Liu Jiarong is no longer often seen on the screen and screen, his contributions to Chinese kung fu films are worth remembering, and he wishes his elderly family good health, health and longevity.