Chi Kuan-chun
Hong Kong actor of Shaw Brothers martial arts films and a Hung Gar master ranked in the 4th generation of the Wong Fei-hung lineage, founder of his own school (2000).
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Chi Kuan-chun is a Hong Kong kung fu film actor and Hung Gar master. He was born on 14 June 1949 in Guangdong province as Wu Dong-Wai and moved with his family to Hong Kong in childhood.
He began training Hung Gar in 1961 in Hong Kong under Chiu Wai. He is ranked in the 4th generation of the Wong Fei-hung lineage. In October 2000 he founded his own school, the Chi Kuan-Chun Martial Arts Hong Quan Institute.
In 1968 he completed an acting course at the Cathay studio and won a competition, after which he signed a contract with Chang's Film Company, a division of Shaw Brothers. He made his debut in director Chang Cheh's film Men from the Monastery (1974) in the role of Hu Huei Chien. For Shaw Brothers he made, among others, Five Shaolin Masters (1974), Shaolin Martial Arts (1974), Disciples of Shaolin (1975), Shaolin Temple (1976) and The Shaolin Avengers (1976). In many films of the 1970s he played alongside Alexander Fu.
His contract with Shaw Brothers ended in 1976, and after the collaboration with Chang Cheh ended he founded the film company Champion Film Company. From 1977 he also filmed in Taiwan, for example Showdown at the Cotton Mill, and Magnificent Wanderers was made the same year. In the 1990s he ended his acting career, but he returned in the films Drunken Monkey (2003) and Seven Swords (2005) and also appeared in That Demon Within (2014).
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- Chi Kuan-Chun Martial Arts Hong Quan InstituteFounder · 2000