He and Bruce Lee did not fight and did not know each other, and brought Hong Jinbao, Jackie Chan, and others to debut, which attracted the trend of kung fu
Those who are mixed up in the film industry have always talked about seniority. For example, in Hong Kong, the biggest generation is Yu Zhanyuan and Yuan Xiaotian, a group of old brothers. Further down the row, it should be Tang Jia and Han Yingjie, the mainstay of the 60s and 70s, and finally the Hongjia class and the Chengjia class, who are now known to everyone. Today's protagonist is an indispensable figure in the history of the development of Hong Kong kung fu films, he and Bruce Lee worked together to create a peak era of kung fu films, and trained outstanding action actors such as Hong Jinbao, Lin Zhengying, Jackie Chan, and Yuan Biao for Hong Kong films. He was Han Yingjie, the royal martial arts instructor of the Bruce Lee era.
The picture shows Bruce Lee and Han Yingjie.
Han Yingjie was born on January 1, 1927 in Shanghai, China. He moved to Beijing at the age of 3, and in the nearly ten years from the age of 9 to 18, he studied art at the Beijing Repertory Theatre. In 1946, he returned to Shanghai and worked as a film stuntman. In the 1950s, he went to Hong Kong to develop and worked as a stuntman at Shaw. Later, he briefly went to Taiwan to develop. In the 1970s, he began to make films in Hong Kong and worked as a martial arts instructor at Jiahe. After that, he began to cooperate with Bruce Lee.
In 1971, Han Yingjie began working with Bruce Lee, working as an action director in the movie "Big Brother Tangshan" and playing a role. Regarding the action style of this play, there are some small stories that are more widely circulated. It was because Bruce Lee's legs were very strong, often unable to hold back during rehearsals, and once one accidentally kicked Han Yingjie's face, and Han Yingjie, who did not know it at the time, fought with Bruce Lee for several rounds. Everyone knows that Bruce Lee is a real fighter, in fact, Han Yingjie is also a real kung fu, and the two people have been fighting for a while before they can win or lose, and they are pulled apart by the staff. Later, the staff reconciled in the middle, and both sides knew that it was a misunderstanding, and they were happy, and then praised each other's kung fu for being great. Coincidentally, when the two sides were fighting, the staff on the side took several photos of the fight with the camera, and after washing it out, everyone felt that this kind of punch-to-flesh real punch was very exciting, and it was also very good on the screen. This led to the unique action style of the later Bruce Lee films, breaking the popular routine fighting at that time.
In the subsequent film "Jingwumen", Han Yingjie is still the martial arts director of the film and starred. Then, Han Yingjie handed over to Bruce Lee, the martial artist Lin Zhengying and others who had been following him, so that they could follow Bruce Lee to shoot dramas. And these people really became Bruce Lee's right and left hands, and even once stopped working for a day because Lin Zhengying was ill and did not go to the set.
In addition to working hard in the film and television circle for decades, Han Yingjie also has a layer of identity that is also very eye-catching, he is the son-in-law of Yu Zhanyuan, a famous hong Kong drama class leader. When it comes to Yu Zhanyuan, many viewers are very familiar with it, because he is the master of Qixiaofu, and he has cultivated a group of excellent martial artists such as Hong Jinbao, Yuan Biao, and Jackie Chan.
And because of this layer of relationship, the people in the Seven Little Blessings came out of the drama class to the development of the film and television circle, and they all came to Han Yingjie's crew first. Whether it is Hong Jinbao, who came out first, or Yuan Biao, who is relatively small, each of them is Han Yingjie who brought them out of the Dao, and the reason why they can do martial arts in the big crew at the beginning is because the brother-in-law Han Yingjie is really praising them. Of course, it is also important that they have real skills themselves.
After Han Yingjie brought Hong Jinbao and the others out of the dao, he gradually retreated. The last major thing he did in his martial arts career may be to help Hong Jinbao form the Hong family class. After Bruce Lee's death, Hong Kong's martial arts community was leaderless, and Hong Jinbao had the heart to form his own team, so he found his brother-in-law Han Yingjie. Because at that time, although Han Yingjie did not do martial arts instruction anymore, many martial artists came out from under his hands and listened to him, such as Lin Zhengying and others. With han Yingjie's help, Hong Jinbao formed his own team in a short period of time, and then took over the entire Hong Kong action movie market after Bruce Lee's death.
The one in the middle is Han Yingjie, pay attention to it.
Subsequently, Han Yingjie basically quit the film industry, and in 1990, at the invitation of the big director Hu Jinquan, he played the role of Feng Qingyang in the film "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu". And this role has also become the last role in Han Yingjie's life.
In 1991, this martial arts instructor, who had an important influence in the history of Hong Kong cinema, left us at the age of 64.
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