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| Name | The Young Master |
|---|---|
| Caption | Hong Kong DVD cover |
| Traditional | 師弟出馬 |
| Simplified | 师弟出马 |
| Pinyin | Shī Dì Chū Mǎ |
| Jyutping | Si1 Dai2 Ceot1 Ma2 |
| Writer | Jackie ChanEdward Tang |
| Director | Jackie Chan |
| Starring | Jackie ChanYuen BiaoFeng FengShih Kien |
| Producer | Raymond ChowLeonard Ho |
| Editing | Peter CheungFrank J. Urioste |
| Distributor | Golden Harvest |
| Released | Hong Kong: |
| Runtime | 106 min. |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Gross | HK $11,026,283 |
The film is notable for being the first that Jackie Chan worked on for Golden Harvest, and despite being his second film as director (his first was The Fearless Hyena), this is often incorrectly credited as his directorial debut. It was co-written by Chan and King Sang Tang and produced by Raymond Chow and Leonard Ho.
As is common with Jackie Chan's films, the fight scenes involve the use of many different weapons including poles, a rope, fans, benches and swords. Dragon Lord is supposedly the sequel to The Young Master and was even originally called Young Master in Love, as confirmed by Jackie Chan in his book.
The rival school wins the competition, but the truth emerges about Tiger's betrayal and he is exiled in disgrace. Dragon vows to bring back his errant brother so the pair can make amends to their master. Dragon sets off on his mission, but en route is mistaken for a criminal known as The White Fan by local police chief, Sang Kung (played by Shih Kien). Meanwhile, Tiger collaborates with his employers (the rival school) by freeing a dangerous criminal known as Kam (Hwang In-Sik). However, Tiger is later framed for a bank robbery. To stop his brother from being arrested, Dragon promises to apprehend the escapee, Kam.
The movie ends with a furious, brutal fight between Kam and Dragon, in which Dragon was badly beaten throughout it. However, after consuming an entire bottle of smoking weed liquid (thanks to an annoyingly goofy sidekick, which is staple in every Jackie Chan flick) Dragon gains temporary invincibility and kills Kam. The movie ends with Dragon returning to his hometown, a hero(albeit one in full body cast from the many injuries he sustained).
However, even this version is not definitive - the original version of the film that Chan handed over to Golden Harvest was reportedly three hours in length. This had to be re-edited, so over 70 minutes of footage was cut during the first edit.
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| Name | Jackie Chan |
|---|---|
| Caption | Jackie Chan onboard the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) in 2002. |
| Tradchinesename | |
| Simpchinesename | |
| Pinyinchinesename | Chéng Lóng |
| Jyutpingchinesename | Sing4 Lung4 |
| Birthname | Chan Kong-sang Chén Gǎngshēng Can4 Gong2 Sang1 |
| Ancestry | Linzi, Shandong, China |
| Origin | Hong Kong |
| Birthdate | April 07, 1954 |
| Birthplace | Victoria Peak, Hong Kong |
| Othername | (Fong Si-lung) (Yuen Lou) (Big Brother) |
| Occupation | Actor, martial artist, director, producer, screenwriter, action choreographer, singer, stunt director, stunt performer, |
| Genre | CantopopMandopopHong Kong English popJ-pop |
| Yearsactive | 1962–present |
| Spouse | Lin Feng-jiao (1982–present) |
| Children | Jaycee Chan (born 1982) Etta Ng Chok Lam (born 1999) |
| Parents | Charles and Lee-Lee Chan |
| Influences | Bruce LeeBuster KeatonHarold LloydJim Carrey1989 RougeBest Action Choreography1996 Rumble in the Bronx1999 Who Am I? Professional Spirit Award2004 |
| Goldenhorseawards | Best Actor1992 Police Story 31993 Crime Story |
| Goldenroosterawards | Best Actor2005 New Police Story |
| Mtvasiaawards | Inspiration Award2002 |
| Awards | MTV Movie Awards2002 Best Fight (Rush Hour 2)1999 Best Fight (Rush Hour)1995 Lifetime Achievement AwardShanghai International Film Festival2005 Outstanding Contribution to Chinese Cinema |
Back in Hong Kong, Chan's films began to reach a larger audience in East Asia, with early successes in the lucrative Japanese market including The Young Master (1980) and Dragon Lord (1982). The Young Master went on to beat previous box office records set by Bruce Lee and established Chan as Hong Kong cinema's top star.
Chan produced a number of action comedy films with his opera school friends Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao. The three co-starred together for the first time in 1983 in Project A, which won the Best Action Design Award at the third annual Hong Kong Film Awards. This film made a star of Jackie Chan, in Hollywood. As a publicity stunt, Jackie also wrote his autobiography in collaboration with Jeff Yang entitled I Am Jackie Chan.
He speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, and English fluently, and also speaks some German, Korean and Japanese, as well as a little Spanish.
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| Name | Young Bleed |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Glenn Clifton Jr. |
| Born | March 25, 1978 |
| Origin | Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Genre | Gangsta rap, Southern hip hop |
| Years active | 1997-present |
| Label | No Limit, Priority, West Coast Mafia |
| Associated acts | Master P, C-Bo, Fiend, Mystikal, Too Short |
Glenn Clifton Jr. (born March 25, 1978), better known as Young Bleed is an American hip-hop artist based out of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Since his chart-topping 1998 release My Balls & My Word, Thug Drama, a ghost producer, introduced Young Bleed to Master P in 1997. Young Bleed has been a mainstay of the Southern hip hop underground, narrating his vision of life in the urban South.
While in the process of recording his third solo album with Priority, Vintage, Young Bleed was released from his contract and forced to go independent. Young Bleed joined C-Bo's West Coast Mafia Records and released Rise Thru da Ranks from Earner Tugh Capo in 2005 and Once Upon a Time in Amedica in 2007. On September 23, 2008 Young Bleed released his fifth album, Off tha Curb. It is a collaborative album with the up and coming rapper Freize (rapper).
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| Name | Yuen Biao |
|---|---|
| Tradchinesename | 元彪 |
| Simpchinesename | 元彪 |
| Pinyinchinesename | Yuán Biāo |
| Jyutpingchinesename | Jyun4 Biu1 |
| Birthname | 夏令震 (Traditional)Xià Lìngzhèn (Mandarin)Haa6 Ling6zan3 (Cantonese) |
| Birthdate | July 26, 1957 |
| Birthplace | Castle Peak Road, Hong Kong |
| Othername | Bill YuenJimmy Yuen |
| Occupation | Actor, producer, action choreographer |
| Yearsactive | 1962 – present |
| Spouse | Didi Pang (1984 – present) |
| Children | 2 |
| Hongkongfilmwards | Best Action Choreography1983 The Prodigal Son1984 Winners and Sinners |
Yuen Biao has appeared in over 130 films. He has played roles in eight television series for Hong Kong channel TVB.
During his early acting period, he adopted the anglicised name Bill Yuen for use on the Hong Kong films that were released internationally. However, recognising the growing success of Jackie Chan, Golden Harvest were keen to give him a similar name, and on some international film prints, he was credited as Jimmy Yuen. Both anglicised names were later dropped.
He is best known for his acrobatic action scenes which often overshadow the work of his more famous co-stars, especially in films such as Eastern Condors (co starring Sammo Hung) and Dragons Forever.
In 2005, Yuen starred in a TVB series called Real Kung Fu with Yuen Wah, Maggie Siu, Leung Kar Yan, Jack Wu and one of Sammo Hung's real life son, Timmy Hung.
In 2006, Yuen plays Inspector Steve Mok in Robin B Hood along with his long time friend Jackie Chan.
In 2007 he finished filming the Wing Chun TV series (a remake of the 1994 series that had preceded the film Wing Chun) alongside Nicholas Tse, Sammo Hung and another of Hung's sons, Sammy Hung. Biao plays an elder version of the character Leung Jan, the role he played 25 years earlier in The Prodigal Son, and father to Tse's character. The series has since been re-edited for release as a film, entitled Shuang Long Ji (aka Legend of Twins Dragon). However, the film's release has been delayed as it has been banned in Mainland China for containing too much violence.
Yuen appeared as a guest judge on the China Beijing TV Station reality television series The Disciple, which airied in Mainland China and was produced by, and featured Jackie Chan. The aim of the program was to find a new star, skilled in acting and martial arts, to become Chan's "successor", the champion being awarded the lead role in a film. It concluded on June 7, 2008, with the series winner being announced in Beijing.
Yuen will also be starring alongside Bryan Leung and Ji Chun Hua in Legend of Shaolin Kung-fu II: Thirteen Cudgel Monks, a new film directed by Yuen Bun.
Yuen set up his own film production company, Yuen Biao Films Limited, which produced his films A Kid from Tibet and Once Upon a Chinese Hero aka Kickboxer (1993).
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| Name | Martial |
|---|---|
| Birthdate | March 1, 40 |
| Birthplace | Augusta Bilbilis (now Calatayud, Spain) |
| Deathdate | Between 102 and 104 AD |
| Deathplace | Rome |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | Roman |
| Genre | Satire |
| Notableworks | Epigrams |
| Influences | Catullus, Pedo, and Marsus and Juvenal |
His name seems to imply that he was born a Roman citizen, but he speaks of himself as "sprung from the Celts and Iberians, and a countryman of the Tagus;" and, in contrasting his own masculine appearance with that of an effeminate Greek, he draws particular attention to "his stiff Hispanian hair" (x. 65, 7).
His home was evidently one of rude comfort and plenty, sufficiently in the country to afford him the amusements of hunting and fishing, which he often recalls with keen pleasure, and sufficiently near the town to afford him the companionship of many comrades, the few survivors of whom he looks forward to meeting again after his thirty-four years' absence (x. 104). The memories of this old home, and of other spots, the rough names and local associations which he delights to introduce into his verse, attest to the simple pleasures of his early life and were among the influences which kept his spirit alive in the stultifying routines of upper-crust social life in Rome.
He was educated in Hispania, a country which in the 1st century produced several notable Latin writers, including Seneca the Elder and Seneca the Younger, Lucan and Quintilian, and Martial's contemporaries Licinianus of Bilbilis, Decianus of Emerita and Canius of Gades. Martial professes to be of the school of Catullus, Pedo, and Marsus, and he admits his inferiority only to the first. The epigram bears to this day the form impressed upon it by his unrivalled skill.
Not much is known of the details of his life for the first twenty years or so after he came to Rome. He published some juvenile poems of which he thought very little in his later years, and he laughs at a foolish bookseller who would not allow them to die a natural death (I. 113). Martial had neither youthful passion nor youthful enthusiasm to precociously make him a poet. His faculty ripened with experience and with the knowledge of that social life which was both his theme and his inspiration; many of his best epigrams are among those written in his last years. From many answers which he makes to the remonstrances of friends—among others to those of Quintilian—it may be inferred that he was urged to practice at the bar, but that he preferred his own lazy Bohemian kind of life. He made many influential friends and patrons and secured the favor of both Titus and Domitian. From them he obtained various privileges, among others the semestris tribunatus, which conferred on him equestrian rank. Martial failed, however, in his application to Domitian for more substantial advantages, although he commemorates the glory of having been invited to dinner by him, and also the fact that he procured the privilege of citizenship for many persons on whose behalf he appealed to him.
The earliest of his extant works, known as Liber spectaculorum, was first published at the opening of the Colosseum in the reign of Titus. It relates to the theatrical performances given by him, but the book as it now stands was presented to the world in or about the first year of Domitian, i.e. about the year 81. The favour of the emperor procured him the countenance of some of the worst creatures at the imperial court—among them of the notorious Crispinus, and probably of Paris, the supposed author of Juvenal's exile, for whose monument Martial afterwards wrote a eulogistic epitaph. The two books, numbered by editors xiii. and xiv., and known by the names of Xenia and Apophoreta—inscriptions in two lines each for presents—were published at the Saturnalia of 84. In 86 he gave to the world the first two of the twelve books on which his reputation rests.
From that time till his return to Hispania in 98 he published a volume almost every year. The first nine books and the first edition of Book X. appeared in the reign of Domitian; Book XI. appeared at the end of 96, shortly after the accession of Nerva. A revised edition of book X., that which we now possess, appeared in 98, about the time of Trajan's entrance into Rome. The last book was written after three years' absence in Hispania, shortly before his death, which happened about the year 102 or 103.
These twelve books bring Martial's ordinary mode of life between the age of forty-five and sixty very fully before us. His regular home for thirty-five years was Rome. He lived at first up three flights of stairs, and his "garret" overlooked the laurels in front of the portico of Agrippa. He had a small villa and unproductive farm near Nomentum, in the Sabine territory, to which he occasionally retired from the boors and noises of the city (ii. 38, xii. 57). In his later years he had also a small house on the Quirinal, near the temple of Quirinus.
At the time when his third book was brought out he had retired for a short time to Cisalpine Gaul, in weariness, as he tells us, of his unprofitable attendance to the bigwigs of Rome. For a time he seems to have felt the charm of the new scenes which he visited, and in a later book (iv. 25) he contemplates the prospect of retiring to the neighbourhood of Aquileia and the Timavus. But the spell exercised over him by Rome and Roman society was too great; even the epigrams sent from Forum Corneli and the Aemilian Way ring much more of the Roman forum, and of the streets, baths, porticos and clubs of Rome, than of the places from which they are dated.
His final departure from Rome was motivated by a weariness of the burdens imposed on him by his social position, and apparently the difficulties of meeting the ordinary expenses of living in the metropolis (x. 96); and he looks forward to a return to the scenes familiar to his youth. The well-known epigram addressed to Juvenal (xii. I 8) shows that for a time his ideal was realized; but the more trustworthy evidence of the prose epistle prefixed to Book XII. proves and that he could not live happily away from the literary and social pleasures of Rome for long. The one consolation of his exile was a lady, Marcella, of whom he writes rather as if she were his patroness—and it seems to have been a necessity of his being to have always a patron or patroness—than his wife or mistress.
During his life at Rome, although he never rose to a position of real independence, and had always a hard struggle with poverty, he seems to have known everybody, especially every one of any eminence at the bar or in literature. In addition to Lucan and Quintilian, he numbered among his friends or more intimate acquaintances Silius Italicus, Juvenal, the younger Pliny; and there were many others of high position whose society and patronage he enjoyed. The silence which he and Statius, although authors writing at the same time, having common friends and treating often of the same subjects, maintain in regard to one another may be explained by mutual dislike or want of sympathy. Martial in many places shows an undisguised contempt for the artificial kind of epic on which Statius's reputation chiefly rests; and it seems quite natural that the respectable author of the Thebaid and the Silvae should feel little admiration for either the life or the works of the bohemian epigrammatist.
Though many of his epigrams indicate a cynical disbelief in the character of women, yet others prove that he could respect and almost revere a refined and courteous lady. His own life in Rome afforded him no experience of domestic virtue; but his epigrams show that, even in the age which is known to modern readers chiefly from the Satires of Juvenal, virtue was recognized as the purest source of happiness. The tenderest element in Martial's nature seems, however, to have been his affection for children and for his dependents.
From Martial, for example, we have a glimpse of living conditions in the city of Rome:
: "I live in a little cell, with a window that won't even close, : In which Boreas himself would not want to live."
As Jo-Ann Shelton has written, "fire was a constant threat in ancient cities because wood was a common building material and people often used open fires and oil lamps. However, some people may have deliberately set fire to their property in order to collect insurance money." Martial makes this accusation in one of his epigrams:
: "Tongilianus, you paid two hundred for your house; : An accident much common in this city destroyed it. : You collected ten times more. Doesn't it seem, I pray, : That you set fire to your own house, Tongilianus?"
Martial also pours scorn on the doctors of his day:
:"I felt a little ill and called Dr. Symmachus. :Well, you came, Symmachus, but you brought 100 medical students with you. :One hundred ice-cold hands poked and jabbed me. :I didn't have a fever, Symmachus, when I called you –but now I do.
Martial's epigrams also refer to the extreme cruelty shown to slaves in Roman society. Below, he chides a man named Rufus for flogging his cook for a minor mistake:
: "You say that the rabbit isn't cooked, and ask for the whip; : Rufus, you prefer to carve up your cook than your rabbit."
Martial's epigrams are also characterized by their biting and often scathing sense of wit as well as for their lewdness; this has earned him a place in literary history as the original insult comic. Below is a sample of his more insulting work:
:"You feign youth, Laetinus, with your dyed hairSo suddenly you are a raven, but just now you were a swan. You do not deceive everyone. Proserpina knows you are grey-haired; She will remove the mask from your head."
:"Rumor tells, Chiona, that you are a virgin, and that nothing is purer than your fleshy delights. Nevertheless, you do not bathe with the correct part covered: if you have the decency, move your panties onto your face."
:"'You are a frank man', you are always telling me, Cerylus. Anyone who speaks against you, Cerylus, is a frank man."
:"Eat lettuce and soft apples eat: For you, Phoebus, have the harsh face of a defecating man."
Or the following two examples (in rather less stilted translations by Mark Ynys-Mon):
:Fabullus' wife Bassa frequently totes :A friend's baby, on which she loudly dotes. :Why does she take on this childcare duty? :It explains farts that are somewhat fruity.
:With your giant nose and cock :I bet you can with ease :When you get excited :check the end for cheese.
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| Name | Dragon Lee |
|---|---|
| Birthname | Guh Ryong |
| Birthdate | August 12, 1958 |
| Birthplace | North Korea |
Dragon Lee (born August 12 1958 in North Korea), is an actor and practitioner of Taekwondo and Hapkido.
His birth name is Mun Kyong-sok but has been called Keo Ryong in South Korea. Soon after his birth, his family relocated to the former U.S.S.R where he was given the name Vyachaslev Yaksysnyi. His family remained there until Lee was a teenager after then they relocated to South Korea.
After that he studied taekwondo with friend and actor Kim Tai Chung It was at this stage of his life that Lee began studying also the Korean martial art of hapkido under the direction of Hwang In-Shik.
Once Lee was in a theater, a man told him he resembled Bruce Lee. That was a big compliment because Bruce Lee was popular at the time. That man knew film directors in Hong Kong and helped him with his career.
In his early twenties, Dragon Lee moved to Hong Kong and starred in numerous martial arts films, often credited as Bruce Lei because he bore a striking resemblance to the late actor Bruce Lee. Among his many film credits is the semi-documentary The Real Bruce Lee (1973).
Dragon Lee moved back to Seoul, South Korea, and is a television actor and producer.
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