Member GOLDEN DRAGON YIN-YANG Posted October 22, 2012 Member Share Posted October 22, 2012 POST FROM: http://jackiechanforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=5117 Who is Madame Fan Fok-Fa Postby LaBellaescrima » Fri Feb 01, 2008 7:00 am I know she was a formidable woman, because she trained so many great artist in Kung Fu even out producing more talented actors, stuntmen, then Yu Jim Yuen who as we all know was the Master of(Sammo, Jackie, Yuen Biao, Yuen Wah, Yuen Mao, Yuen Tak, Corey Yuen Kwai,). I will list all the people she was responsible in developping into fantastic artist that we all appreciate today: Chung Fat, Lam Ching Ying, Mars, Meng Hoi, Stephen Tung Wei, Peter Chan Lung, Billy Chan Lung, Chin Kar Lok, Chin Sui Ho, Fang Hak-On, Lee Hoi San, John Lone, Kitty Meng, Hsiao Ho, Chin Siu Ho, and the list goes on and on of who's who in the martial arts world. But I don't know anything about her, did not find any pictures don't know where she came from or who she really is. Does anyone have anything about her? :clap: ********************************************************* Including the late and great Austin Wai RIP! GD Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member shapes Posted October 22, 2012 Member Share Posted October 22, 2012 Madam Fan Guk Fa 粉菊花 Pink chrysanthemum (Fan Guk Fa) can be said that China's first generation of opera Kun Ling (actress), but also the thirties Peking Opera Wu Dan (Martial arts actress). She can be described as full of stunts, superior martial arts, her stepped Rocker kick was famous (at opera a stunt: step Rocker is a wooden shelf, is located in the "lotus feet" shoes, wearing into basically rely on tiptoe walking shoes also known as the "Oriental ballet"). She was in the 1940s because of the war relocated to settle in Hong Kong. Subsequently, she opened the opera School, opera protégé as many as one hundred, which included future masters of cinema, such as "Tung Wei, Siu Hao, Austin Hui, Lam Ching Ying, Meng Hai, Chien Yuest san, Chong Fa, Yang Pan Pan, Chan Po-Chu, Josephine Siao, Law Ka Ying, , John Lone, and so on. Most of them made a great contribution to the Hong Kong Films. Pink chrysanthemum died in 1994 in Guangzhou, at the age of nearly 100 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member TibetanWhiteCrane Posted October 22, 2012 Member Share Posted October 22, 2012 Cool, thanks, shapes...... never seen footage or even an image of her. Wonder if she bet the everlovin' piss outta the guys, like Yu Jim Yuen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member GOLDEN DRAGON YIN-YANG Posted October 23, 2012 Author Member Share Posted October 23, 2012 Thanks Shapes. Amazing. To think of all the proteges she had who would later thrill us with wonder as we began our unique journeys into the world of Kung Fu Cinema. GD Y-Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member GOLDEN DRAGON YIN-YANG Posted October 23, 2012 Author Member Share Posted October 23, 2012 So the two schools were friends> Lam Ching Ying - The early years - Encyclopedia II Nill The third of seven children, Lam attended Shun Yi Association Elementary School in Hong Kong for two years before leaving school. In 1963/4, he joined the "other" Peking Opera School in Hong Kong: that of Madame Fan Fok Fa (Fun Guk Fa), the "rival" of Yu Jim Yuen where Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung were trained at around the same time. In actuality, the schools were friends and students from both schools often mingled. A year after joining, Lam made his first public appearance. Madame reported Lam as a disobed ... http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=3051&display_set=eng Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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