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Kung Fu Cinema: Former kung fu starlet Kara Hui talks

  • CirenzSonG · 1 month ago
    Sweet Lady...No one deserves to die by their own hand, yo!?

    Stay alive...Live Life...Tiz 2 precious to Give away That Easy!!!

    So yars...Enjoy it while it does last...Yars?
  • mistermjones2000 · 1 month ago
    I would like to ask Ms. Hui what she thinks of the common belief of her relationship with Mr. Lau. One, by the way, I have never heard her confirm. In fact in her interview on the extras on MY YOUNG AUNTIE released by Dragon Dynasty she said Mr. Lau diD NOT teach her kung fu but alluded to her family's previous experience in Southern style kung fu and how someone else on the set of the movie gave her action directions.
  • Steve · 1 month ago
    Can't say I know for sure, but the are videos of Lau's "troupe" performing short sequences of martial art, apparently right after they hired Ching Ching Yueng, around 1979. Kara is seen performing from the Peking Opera version of The Monkey King. According to her, she did not go to Opera classes, but her brother and sister(s) did, she merely copied them, later being allowed to perform locally. She could perform backbends, leglifts, and frontsplits before she ever met Lau. Lau merely added to her natural gifts. Apparently they dated for several years before breaking up in 1984.
  • mistermjones2000 · 1 month ago
    Steve, do not use my comment to continue to spread "apparent" rumors about people you don't know.
  • rcc · 1 month ago
    ICON
  • Bill Mills · 1 month ago
    I think I'd pay money to watch her read a book and drink a cup of tea. And she can kick me from any position that's good for her. Doesn't get any better!
  • Steve · 1 month ago
    Kara needs to write a book and get an American publisher to print it in english. She's led a remarkable life and still has a fantastic career. I'll bet she has a terrific photo scrapbook and lots of stories to tell. I wish her health and happiness.
  • Fan of Shaw Brothers · 1 month ago
    I would like read her whole interview. Does anyone know where I can do that? She is a Icon in my book.
  • mistermjones2000 · 1 month ago
    Steve, pay attention. You are just repeating rumors. No you DON'T know why she is not confirming (nor dening) the widely believed perception that Mr. Lau was her instructor or for that matter per your statement "apparently" dating Mr. Lau.. "Apparently"... what in your mind constitute "apparent"? Other than people (like yourself) spreading the same rumors. You could distinquish yourself apart from the other rumor spreaders by providing some sort of "apparent evidence" and then I would stand humbly corrected. As it is you are just using my comment to further spread what could be false information. Do me a favor and do it on your own dime.
  • darrinkemp · 1 month ago
    mistermjones,always good to read your post.The rumor of Kara and Lau sifu"dating"may have started with Mona Fong.Fong was Shaw Bros. chief producer and was legendary for being so cheap that she could squeeze a nickel until it confessed to being a member of alqaida.The story is that Kara was on a overseas promotional tour and found out just how popular she was and how much Shaws was making off her and demanded a pay raise.If the story is true it's particularly ironic considering that Mona Fong was Run Run Shaw's well know "jump off" for nearly two decades.
  • mistermjones2000 · 1 month ago
    Darrinkemp, my brother, good to hear from you also. I hope you have been well. Anyway "may" and "rumor" serves only to prove my point. If there is another question it must be why we need to believe stuff about people we don't know? "Fan" truly is short for "fanatic".

    I tell you what else, what a missed opportunity at Dragon Dynasty to really influence the market they claimed to want to represent.It boggles the mind.

    (if you do any youtube my channel is misterjones2000.)
  • darrinkemp · 4 weeks ago
    Good question.It may be precisely because we don't know them but want to think that we do.This may be the reason why myself and so many other people were disapointed by Jackie Chan's comments last year about how Chinese people had too much freedom and needed to be controled.Or maybe we fans are truly just not right in the head. :)
  • steve · 3 weeks ago
    Relax Mr Jones, even autobiographies are co-written and are not truly tell all. All factoids about people and events are second and third hand, and yeah, become "history", particulary in show buisness. I have found this article and much of the "facts" have been left out, this post was made to stimulate conversation and to see if any new "info" or interest about Kara's new movie was there.