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  YUEN Qiu
Biography: Yuen Qiu has the distinction of being one of very few female stunt actors in Hong Kong during the 1970s, although she will now likely be remembered best as the chain-smoking landlady in Stephen Chow's martial arts comedy Kung Fu Hustle.
She was given the name "Yuen Qiu" as a performance name that she would continue to use professionally to honor her master.
Yuen Qiu's first break into feature film came in 1973 when she was cast in Not Scared to Die, an early Jackie Chan film.
www.kungfucinema.com /people/yuen_qiu.htm   (518 words)

  
 Yuen Qiu (Kan Chia Fong, Phoenix Kim) | Hong Kong Movie World filmography, biography, pictures
Yuen Qiu (Kan Chia Fong, Phoenix Kim)
Yuen Qiu (whose real name is is Kan Chia Fong) considers herself "mixed".
In 2004, Yuen Qiu was accompanying a female friend to an audition for
simonyam.com /hkmw/actors/kan-chia-fong-yuen-qiu-phoenix-kim   (319 words)

  
 Yuen Qiu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yuen Qiu (元秋) was born in 1950 and is an actor and martial artist.
Yuen Qiu worked as a stuntwoman and as a night club performer from the late 1960s to early 1970s.
Yuen is also in a movie called Kung Fu Mahjong, with Yuen Wah.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yuen_Qiu   (247 words)

  
 Qiu (Female Celebrity Smoking List)
Yuen, who appeared in the 1974 James Bond film, 'The Man With the Golden Gun,' landed a role in 'Kung Fu Hustle,' which opened in Hong Kong Thursday, because the director liked the way she smoked, the South China Morning Post reported Wednesday.
Yuen, a popular stuntwoman and kung-fu actress in the '70s, said she was accompanying a friend to an audition when director Stephen Chow saw her smoking.
"Yuen, a popular stunt woman and kung-fu actress in the 1970s, said she was accompanying a friend to an audition when director Stephen Chow saw her smoking.
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 Yuen Wah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yuen Wah took his stage surname as a tribute to his teacher.
Jackie Chan has said that Yuen was respected for his martial arts ability by his fellow students.
Yuen's versatility, his lean, wiry frame and later, distinctive moustache would get him cast in a number of villainous roles, sometimes with a comedic twist.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yuen_Wah   (420 words)

  
 Yuen Qiu (Kan Chia Fong, Phoenix Kim) | Hong Kong Movie World filmography, biography, pictures
Yuen Qiu (whose real name is is Kan Chia Fong) considers herself "mixed".
Coincidentally, Yuen Qiu debuted in two movies also featuring a young Jackie Chan.
In 2004, Yuen Qiu was accompanying a female friend to an audition for
www.simonyam.com /hkmw/actors/kan-chia-fong-yuen-qiu-phoenix-kim   (319 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Martial arts star Yuen Qiu arrested   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
HONG KONG (AP) — Martial arts star Yuen Qiu, who plays a landlady in Kung Fu Hustle, was arrested in an underground mahjong parlor and fined for illegal gambling, a newspaper reported.
Yuen was arrested March 31 along with 10 other women and two men.
Yuen, who played a student who rescues Roger Moore in the 1974 James Bond movie The Man With the Golden Gun, is enjoying a career comeback after appearing in Stephen Chow's film.
usatoday.com /life/people/2005-04-14-martial-arts-star_x.htm?POE=LIF...   (276 words)

  
 Yuen Qiu - Moviefone
Cheung Cheun Nam (aka Yuen Qiu) has worked briefly as female stunt and night club performer at late...
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Yuen Qiu - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Yuen Qiu Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/yuen-qiu/415238/main   (110 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Martial arts star Yuen Qiu arrested   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
HONG KONG (AP) — Martial arts star Yuen Qiu, who plays a landlady in Kung Fu Hustle, was arrested in an underground mahjong parlor and fined for illegal gambling, a newspaper reported.
Yuen was arrested March 31 along with 10 other women and two men, the Apple Daily reported Wednesday.
Yuen, who played a student who rescues Roger Moore in the 1974 James Bond movie The Man With the Golden Gun, is enjoying a career comeback after appearing in Stephen Chow's film.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-04-14-martial-arts-star_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA   (282 words)

  
 YUEN Wah
Biography: Yuen Wah is one of Hong Kong's great stunt actors of the '70s and '80s kung fu boom who had an auspicious start in the industry by doubling Bruce Lee and briefly playing opposite the legendary martial arts star in Fist of Fury (1972).
Besides playing a wide range of colorful villains, Yuen Wah is best known for his dexterity and acrobatic ability, skills he put to use in doubling for many kung fu stars and in playing stunt extras.
Yuen Wah developed these skills as a child while at the China Drama Academy where he received rigorous training under headmaster Yu Jim-yuen.
www.kungfucinema.com /people/yuen_wah.htm   (369 words)

  
 Hot Yuen Qiu Nude Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
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 Kung Fu Hustle
Employing the talents of many veteran martial artists from yester-year such as Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu and Leung Siu Lung, Chow has taken the genre and turned it on its head.
Yuen Woo Ping and Sammo Hung were credited as choreographers.
This could be because Yuen Wah and Yuen Qiu are adept at stealing all his thunder, but it's more likely that Chow has written himself a smaller role because above all else, Kung Fu Hustle is Chow's heartfelt but wacky homage to the genre.
www.heroic-cinema.com /review.php?ID=kungfuhs   (603 words)

  
 China: Yuen Qiu
In Kung Fu Hustle, Yuen Qiu made a remarkable return to the screen after 28 years at the specific request of Stephen Chow.
Like her Kung Fu Hustle co-star Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu was one of the famous "Seven Little Fortunes" (the childhood Peking Opera performing troupe which also included Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung).
After seven years of training, Yuen Qiu began her movie career as a stunt person and became one of the very few well-known stuntwomen in the Hong Kong movie industry at that time.
www.chinaorbit.com /china-culture/chinese-film/yuen-qiu-landlady.html   (268 words)

  
 wbur.org Arts - Movies - Crazed Chopsocky
This yelling yenta, played with panache by Yuen Qiu, is just one of the colorful characters in "Kung Fu Hustle," an inventive, giddy action-comedy by Stephen Chow, and this year's most entertaining movie so far.
And Yuen Qiu, who spent her childhood in the same Peking Opera troupe as Jackie Chan, came out of a 30-year retirement to play Landlady.
The film's fight choreography was created by veteran director Yuen Woo-ping, now best known as action choreographer of "The Matrix" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." Yuen also appears in a flashback as the scruffy peddler from whom Sing, as a boy, buys a guidebook to Buddhist Palm martial arts.
www.wbur.org /arts/2005/48724_20050420.asp   (1065 words)

  
 Smoking Good for Martial Arts Queen Yuen Qiu
Yuen, who appeared in the 1974 James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun," landed a role in "Kung Fu Hustle," which opens here on Thursday, because the director liked the way she smoked, the South China Morning Post reported Wednesday.
Yuen, a popular stunt woman and kung fu actress in the 70s, said she was accompanying a friend to an audition when director Stephen Chow saw her smoking, the paper said.
Chow was looking for someone who smoked the way she did and urged her to join the film, the paper quoted her as saying.
www.tobacco.org /news/185345.html   (186 words)

  
 Kung Fu Hustle (2004): Stephen Chow, Lam Tze Chung, Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu - PopMatters Film Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
An initial city-street face-off between rival gangs establishes the dominance of the Axe Gang -- the action so hectic and ferocious (the film's fights and wirework are choreographed by the brilliant Yuen Wo Ping and Sammo Hung) that you fully appreciate their reputation by the time you meet Sing, who wants to become a member.
The newly aroused Pig Sty Alley fighters are the tailor (Chiu Chi Ling), the coolie (Xing Yu), and baker Donut (Dong Zhi Hua), all pleased enough to discover one another that in between battles with the bad guys, they test one another, because, of course, that's what they do: fight.
Also enlisted are the lascivious Landlord (Yuen Wah) and his money-mongering wife, the Landlady (Yuen Qiu, returning to the screen after almost 30 years).
www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/k/kung-fu-hustle.shtml   (1111 words)

  
 Yuen Qiu - China-related Topics YU-YZ - China-Related Topics
She is an expert of both Chinese martial arts and Beijing-opera skills, and was apprenticed under the same master as Jackie Chan and Sammo HungSammo Hung Kam-Bo at China Drama Academy.
As there were few opportunities for stuntwomen with no prospects for improvement at the time, she got married in 1974 at the age of 24 after finishing a small role in her (so far) only international production, "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974), portraying a girl student rescuing Roger Moore as James Bond.
Yuen is also in a movie called Kung Fu Mah Jong, with Yuen Wah.
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Yuen_Qiu   (290 words)

  
 Actors - Yuen Qiu
Yuen Qiu worked as a stuntwoman and night club performer from the late 1960s to early 1970s.
As there were few opportunities for stuntwomen with no prospects for improvement at the time, she got married in 1974 at the age of 24 after finishing a small role in her (so far) only international production, "The Man with the Golden Gun
Yuen is also in a movie called Kung Fu Mahjong
listing-index.ebay.com /actors/Yuen_Qiu.html   (243 words)

  
 Yuen Wah: Hong Kong Cinema's Splendid Screen Villain
Yuen Wah: A Biographical Essay by Yves Gendron
For more information about Wah and his co-star and former schoolmate, Yuen Qiu (the Landlady), see Jean Lukitsh's April, 2005 article Two Little Fortunes do the 'Kung Fu Hustle' at Kung Fu Cinema.
Some of Wah’s TVB projects of recent years are featured at a website devoted to The Best Kicker and Flipper — Yuen Wah.
www.geocities.com /the68monkey/film.htm   (452 words)

  
 Yuen Qiu pictures, Yuen Qiu videos, Yuen Qiu biography, Yuen Qiu information
Yuen Qiu pictures, Yuen Qiu videos, Yuen Qiu biography, Yuen Qiu information
Apprenticed Chinese martial arts and Beijing-opera skills with Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung Kam-Bo under the same master at China Drama Academy in her younger days, Cheung Cheun Nam (aka Yuen Qiu) has worked briefly as female stunt and night club performer at late 60s to early 70s.
Seeing the future for female stunt was not promising, she got married in 1974 at the age of 24 after finishing a small role in her so far one and only one international production, James Bond 007's "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974).
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 Kung Fu Mahjong (2005)
The film's title and elder stars (Yuen Wah and Yuen Qiu) are an obvious nod to some little film called Kung Fu Hustle, but Wong Jing does more than borrow from Stephen Chow's leftovers.
Yuen Wah is Chi Mo-Sai, a professional gambler who's more adept at getting his butt kicked than actually cleaning up at the tables.
Wong Jing puts Yuen Qiu into Uma Thurman's Kill Bill togs for yet another The Bride vs. Gogo Yubari knockoff scene that should induce more groans than laughs.
www.lovehkfilm.com /reviews_2/kung_fu_mahjong.htm   (979 words)

  
 Kung Fu Mahjong (2005) - Movie Reviews - spcnet.tv
West (aka Robert; played by Yuen Wah) is a compulsive gambler who one day, after having lost everything but his "lucky red underwear", escapes from his debtors into a local cafe.
This "atypical couple-brand" continues to exhibit their superb chemistry together though their characters are just a cheap, modernized version of the "Hustle" Landlords (complete with her chain smoking and his pervertedness).
Kudos to Yuen Wah in this film, as his lines are the most amusing of the entire film.
www.spcnet.tv /reviews/review.php?rID=874   (1222 words)

  
 Kung Fu Hustle (2005): Qiu Yuen, Wah Yuen, Stephen Chow, Stephen Chow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
He fails to generate any allegiance until close to the finale, by which time you are nearly at the end of your patience with his obnoxious behavior.
However, a fine group of actors compensate, especially Yuen Qiu as the cigarette-smoking, landlady whose hair is always in curlers, but who can give a yell that can flatten buildings.
Much of the film’s credit goes to fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping, who adds some sly comic touches to the many bouts in the films 99 minutes.
www.rottentomatoes.com /click/movie-1143248/reviews.php?critic=columns&sortby=default&page=2&rid=1381327   (604 words)

  
 iFMagazine.com Reviews - Movie Review: KUNG FU HUSTLE
To watch a baker and a tailor go up against two sorcerous instrumentalists by moonlight is to recall the feel of reading fables as a kid, with huge leaps and flying fists and feet.
Chow is swell as the dense yet ever-watchable self-defined baddie, while Yuen Wah as the initially tipsy landlord and Yuen Qiu as his formidable grouch of a wife are increasingly impressive as the movie unfurls.
The fights, choreographed by Yuen Wu Ping (of MATRIX fame) are dazzling and over the top, but what’s most memorable here is the serene coexistence of slapstick and poetry within the same antic frames.
www.ifmagazine.com /review.asp?article=915   (464 words)

  
 Kung Fu Hustle (2004) - Movie Reviews - spcnet.tv
In a funny scene, they attempt to flmail the residents of a slum called “The Pig Sty Alley,” but were surprised to find that the residents, led by the Landlord (Yuen Wah) and the Landlady (Yuen Qiu) are not what they appear.
Heck, when their characters reveal the true identities to The Beast in the film, it was a rather side-splitting bombshell.
However, Yuen Qiu rather outshines him as his wife.
www.spcnet.tv /reviews/review.php?rID=763   (972 words)

  
 hip online: film review
Kung Fu Hustle is so jam-packed with great actors and wonderful characters that you could watch them over and over again.
Yuen Wah and Yuen Qiu are brilliant as the Landlord and Landlady.
Stephan Chow who pulls double duty as Director and star shines even as he is overshadowed by the talent that surrounds him.
www.hiponline.com /reviews/film/k/kung_fu_hustle-dvd.html   (572 words)

  
 Combustible Celluloid film review - Kung Fu Hustle (2005), Stephen Chow, Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu, dvd review
As an actor, Chow emotes very little and lacks the explosive presence of a Jackie Chan or a Jet Li, but his directorial skill more than makes up for it.
He gets a terrific performance from Yuen Qiu as a chain smoking, curler-wearing landlady who turns out to be yet another kung-fu master.
Two Hong Kong legends, Yuen Wo Ping and Sammo Hung, served as action choreographers.
www.combustiblecelluloid.com /2005/kungfuhus.shtml   (531 words)

  
 Film review: Kung Fu Hustle
Not to-be-missed are the residents of the Pig Sty (reminiscent of a Mumbai chawl) and their whacky personas.
Performances: Move over Nicole Kidman, Yuen Qiu is the next best thing to hit the planet!
I had never heard of her before, but when you watch this film, you can’t help but fall in love with Qiu’s landlady character — bossy, violent and neurotic, romantic.
www.mid-day.com /hitlist/2005/may/110362.htm   (490 words)

  
 Qiu Yuen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
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 Amazon.com: Kung Fu Hustle (Widescreen Edition): DVD: Kwok Kuen Chan,Chi Ling Chiu,Xiao Lung Ding,Zhi Hua Dong,Xiaogang ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Stephen Chow's follow-up to 'Shaolin Soccer' (which was virtually killed in US market) is totally different from 'Shaolin.' 'Kung-hu' is a comedy, sure it is, but the star/director Chow takes this martial arts very seriously, and the film itself gives more emphasis upon martial arts actions (including silly ones) than the parodies or sight gags.
The hen-pecked landlord by Yuen Wah (known as 'magnificient villain' in Hong Kong films) and his chain-smoking wife landlady by Yuen Qiu (coming back to screen after almost 30 years) are real scene stealer, always surprising us with their outrageous personalities.
And wait for 'The Beast' by Leung Siu Lung (himself a major Kung-hu star during the 70s, and comes back to movie after 15 year hietus) whose initial appearance as a bald and plump middle-aged is very deceptive.
www.amazon.com /Kung-Hustle-Widescreen-Sheng-Huang/dp/B0009S4IHY   (2044 words)

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