Jimmy Wang Yu
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 28, 1944, Wuxi, China
- Died
- April 5, 2022
- Movies
- 104
Wang Zhengquan, better known as Jimmy Wang Yu and Wong Yu-lung, (born March 8, 1944 - died April 5, 2022) was a Chinese actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Wang rose to fame in 1967 with his starring role in The One-Armed Swordsman, a martial arts film produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio. The Chinese Boxer (1969), another film he acted in, is credited as the first Hong Kong action film that kickstarted the unarmed combat genre that took Asia by storm in the 1970s.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1997 | Eighteen Springs | Producer |
| 1997 | Stand Behind the Yellow Line | Producer |
| 1991 | The Tantana | Producer |
| 1991 | The Beheaded 1000 | Producer |
| 1977 | Return of the Chinese Boxer | Director, Producer |
| 1977 | Return of the Tiger | Producer |
| 1976 | Master of the Flying Guillotine | Director, Writer |
| 1976 | The One Armed Swordsmen | Director |
| 1976 | Tiger & Crane Fists | Director |
| 1976 | One Armed Swordsman Against Nine Killers | Producer, Writer |
| 1974 | Four Real Friends | Director |
| 1973 | Beach of the War Gods | Director, Writer |
| 1972 | One-Armed Boxer | Director, Writer |
| 1971 | The Sword | Director |
| 1971 | The Brave and the Evil | Director, Writer |
| 1970 | The Chinese Boxer | Director, Screenplay |
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