His leg skills are not inferior to Zhen Zidan, but they are short-lived in the film world and are now forgotten
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The popularity of Hong Kong kung fu films in the 1970s and 1990s attracted a large number of foreign kung fu movie stars to Hong Kong. The more well-known ones are: Japan's Kurata Hoshiaki (Jet Li's version of "Jingwu Hero" plays the Japanese martial arts master Fumio Funatsu)
Japanese action actor Shinichi Chiba, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for "Dominating the World".
"Great Wall Armageddon", "Romantic Killer Free Man", "God of Gamblers" have wonderful performances in Shikamura Taixiang.
There is also Yuki Ōshima (representative works: "Force King", "Best Thief Partner", "Dream Awakening Blood Does Not Stop", etc.)
Nishikyo Michiko (Representative Works: "God of Gamblers", "Gold Medal Master Sister", "Sky-Pounding Royal General", etc.)
Lovelough of the United States (masterpieces such as "Rich Train", "Law Enforcement Pioneer", "Overlord Flower", etc.)
In South Korea, there is leg master Huang Zhengli, one of the hottest action film actors in the Hong Kong film industry in the 70s, whose representative works are "South Fist and North Leg", "Drunken Fist", "Snake-shaped Executioner", "North and South Drunken Fist" and so on.
Huang Renzhi (representative works "Raptors Across the River", "Master and Disciple Out of horses", "Young Master Of the Dragon")
There is also Kasava, who appeared in "Game of Death", "Tower of Death", and "Mr. Zan and Finding Qianhua".
In fact, there is also a kung fu movie star in South Korea who has a strong leg but has been ignored and forgotten, that is, a bed of love letters to pickpocket today.
Yuan Zhen was once mistaken for the brother of Yuan De, Yuan Biao, Yuan Kui and others, in fact, he is not a member of the Hong Kong film industry "Seven Little Blessings", his real name is Kim Won Won, born in the 60s, 8 years old to learn martial arts, good at taekwondo, Aikido and Chinese martial arts, especially leg skills.
At the age of 16, Yuan Zhen entered the Korean showbiz circle as a dragon and tiger martial artist, and later cooperated with huang Zhengli and other famous artists in action movies, but unfortunately they were all small supporting roles.
In the early 1990s, he heard that Liu Jialiang needed a master of leg skills to work with him, so Yuan Zhen traveled to Hong Kong from South Korea alone, and in 1992, the action film "Scorpion Warrior" between the two was released.
To tell the truth, the plot of "Scorpion Warrior" is actually average, even a little bad (mainly about Fei Yushu, a college student played by Qian Jiale, who is obsessed with comics all day and has no intention of studying, bent on becoming a hero who supports justice), but it has always ranked in the top five of Hong Kong action movies in the mind of a bed of love letters.
Although the male protagonists of this movie are Qian Jiale and Liu Jialiang, a bed of love letters feels that the villain sunny played by Yuan Zhen is more camera-grabbing. Don't look at Yuan Zhen's ordinary appearance, thin body, strange shape in the play, but the action of kung fu is handsome, n times more wonderful than the brute force Of Chen Zhiliang and Liu Jialiang's shadowless feet.
Perhaps for this reason, the movie originally called "Comic God Fist" was changed to "Scorpion Warrior" when it was released, and many fans also felt that the male protagonist of this movie should be Yuan Zhen.
When Yuan Zhen appeared on the scene, the GIF came and shot, almost stealing everyone's light.
The left foot is stepping on each other's feet, and the right foot is against each other's chins, which is a trick that is difficult to find two or three people in Hong Kong kung fu movie stars.
Another flashing blind GIF, a bed of love letters feel that Yuan Zhen's fork is more extreme than Jet Li's in "Fang Shiyu" and "Huang Feihong".
Yuan Zhen's Scorpion Gong and Zhen Zidan's Shadowless Feet (the movie "Iron Horse"), Lo Hui-kwong's One-Word Horse (the movie "Drunken Fist"), and Zou Zhaolong's scissor legs (the movie "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard") were once praised by fans as the four major skills of Hong Kong action movie leg skills.
Because of the outstanding performance in "Scorpion Warrior", at that time, some media called Yuan Zhen "The First Leg of South Korea" (ps: a bed of love letters felt that Huang Zhengli, who crossed the Hong Kong film industry with "volley three consecutive kicks", should be able to rank ahead of Yuan Zhen)
Despite this, Yuan Zhen did not become famous overnight, and then became popular, but the role became smaller and smaller, the camera became less and less, if you do not read the information, many people may not know that after "Scorpion Warrior", he also starred in the movie "Naked Run".
He has starred in "Thunder X-Men" co-starring Aaron Kwok, Wang Lihong and Fujiwara Norika, and "No Problem 2" directed by Qian Jiale and starring Takashi Okamura, Wakasa Sakai and Yuan Biao.
At the beginning of this era, Yuan Zhen, who had a breakthrough in his career, was forced to return to South Korea, and turned from the front of the stage to the backstage, serving as a martial arts director and producer, producer, etc., the action design of the "My Wife is a Big Guy" series and "Qingfeng Mingyue" came from his hand, and in 2005, Liang Chaowei, Ren Xianqi, and Shu Qi starred in "Hancheng Raiders", and Won Zhen served as the Korean martial arts director.
In 2013, he worked as a martial arts instructor in the sino-Korean film "In Search of the Lost Grandmaster".
Such a sharp master has not become popular in the film industry, it is inevitable that it is deeply regrettable, a bed of love letters to steal may be the following three reasons hindered him from shining in the film industry:
1. At that time, the Hong Kong film industry was exclusive
Looking at the foreign kung fu movie stars who have developed in the Hong Kong film industry, most of them have come with fun, returned home with disappointment, and finally retired, and Yuan Zhen in "Scorpion Warrior" should be the leading actor, but the subtitles are specially introduced.
2. The shape of Yuan Zhen is very bad
No matter which era of the show business circle, more or less have a bit of a face, ordinary looks, thin Yuan Zhen and other stars stand together is really inconspicuous.
3. Health problems make him miss the opportunity to become popular
In the mid-1990s, when he was in the ascendancy of his career, Yuan Zhen was found to be suffering from severe hepatitis, which caused him to be unable to shoot normally, and he had to return to South Korea for medical treatment, during which he got married and had children, so he missed a lot of opportunities to become popular.