Member DrNgor Posted December 18, 2017 Member Share Posted December 18, 2017 So here's a list of most of his films as director and/or action director. What would you guys name as his top 5? 1973 Duel of the Dragons (stunt coordinator) 1973 Snake Fist Fighter (stunt coordinator) 1974 Kung Fu 10th Dan (stunt coordinator) 1976 Secret Rivals (assistant action choreographer) 1977 7 Grandmasters (stunt coordinator) 1977 Heroes of the Wild (fight director) 1977 The Instant Kung Fu Man (martial arts choreographer) 1979 A Massacre Survivor (stunt coordinator) 1979 Dance of the Drunken Mantis (stunt coordinator) 1979 Jade Claw (stunt coordinator) 1979 Hellz Wind Staff (stunt coordinator) 1980 Ring of Death (stunt coordinator) 1980 The Buddha Assassinator (stunt coordinator) 1980 We're Going to Eat You (martial arts choreographer) 1981 Game of Death II (assistant stunt coordinator) 1981 Hitman in the Hand of Buddha (fight choreographer) 1982 Ninja in the Dragon's Den 1983 Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (stunt coordinator) 1985 Yes Madam 1986 Above the Law 1986 Above the Law (stunt coordinator) 1986 No Retreat, No Surrender 1987 No Retreat, No Surrender 2 1988 In the Blood 1989 Casino Raiders 1989 Casino Raiders (action director) 1990 All for the Winner 1990 She Shoots Straight 1990 Mortuary Blues (action coordinator) 1991 American Shaolin (martial arts choreographer) 1991 Fist of Fury 1991 (stunt coordinator) 1991 Lee Rock (action director) 1991 Lee Rock II (action director) 1991 Legend of the Dragon (action director - as Fui Yuen) 1991 Saviour of the Soul 1991 The Top Bet 1992 Angel Hunter (assistant stunt coordinator - as Yuen Kwei) 1992 Fist of Fury 1991 II 1992 Moon Warriors (stunt action director) 1992 Saviour of the Soul II 1992 Ghost Punting 1993 Women on the Run 1993 The Legend / Fong Sai Yuk 1993 The Legend II / Fong Sai Yuk 2 1994 The Defender / Bodyguard from Beijing 1994 The New Legend of Shaolin 1995 High Risk (stunt coordinator) 1995 My Father is a Hero 1997 Black Rose II 1997 Mahjong Dragon 1997 Hero 1998 And Now You're Dead 1998 Lethal Weapon 4 (martial arts fight choreographer - as Cory Yuen) 1998 Timeless Romance (action designer) 2000 Romeo Must Die (martial arts supervisor) 2000 X-Men (action director) 2001 Kiss of the Dragon (action director) 2001 The Avenging Fist 2001 The One (action choreographer: martial arts) 2002 The Transporter (action choreographer) / (action director) 2002 So Close (as Cory Yuen) 2003 Bulletproof Monk (additional fight director - uncredited) / (fight choreographer: additional fight sequence) 2003 Cradle 2 the Grave (martial arts choreographer) 2004 Blade of Kings / Twins Effect 2 (as Cory Yuen) 2005 A Chinese Tall Story (action director) 2005 The Transporter 2 (martial arts choreographer - as Cory Yuen) 2006 DOA: Dead or Alive (as Cory Yuen) 2007 War (second unit director - as Cory Yuen) 2008 The Transporter 3 (martial arts choreographer) 2008 Red Cliff (second unit director: action unit) 2009 Red Cliff - Part 2 (second unit director: action unit) 2009 Blood: The Last Vampire (action director) 2010 The Expendables (martial arts choreographer: Jet Li - as Cory Yuen) 2011 Shaolin (action director) 2011 Treasure Inn (action director) 2012 Naked Soldier (action director) 2012 The Man with the Iron Fists (martial arts choreographer) 2012 Wu Dang (action director) 2013 Badges of Fury (action director) 2014 Rise of the Legend (action director) 2015 Wild Card (action choreographer) 2016 Birth of the Dragon (martial arts designer) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DragonClaws Posted December 20, 2017 Member Share Posted December 20, 2017 Corey Yuen and Jet Li, on the set of War(2007), I doubt this will appear in anyon's Top Five lists. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DrNgor Posted December 20, 2017 Author Member Share Posted December 20, 2017 (edited) 2 hours ago, DragonClaws said: Corey Yuen and Jet Li, on the set of War(2007), I doubt this will appear in anyon's Top Five lists. Indeed! A waste of all the talent involved. Two possible classic fights (Jet Li vs. Kane Kosugi; Jet Li vs. Jason Statham) thrown completely out the window. I still can't figure out how Mark Pollard gave this 3-and-a-half stars and downgraded The Tai Chi Master from 4 stars to 3... Edited December 20, 2017 by DrNgor 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member massa_yoda Posted December 21, 2017 Member Share Posted December 21, 2017 My favorites in no particular order (well, chronological I guess): Yes Madam Above the Law She Shoots Straight Fong Sai Yuk My Father is a Hero 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DragonClaws Posted December 21, 2017 Member Share Posted December 21, 2017 20 hours ago, DrNgor said: Indeed! A waste of all the talent involved. Two possible classic fights (Jet Li vs. Kane Kosugi; Jet Li vs. Jason Statham) thrown completely out the window. Remember ebing dispointed with this one, as Statham vs Li sounded very promising in theory. Then there was a talents of Kan Kosugi, who again was just wasted. Maybe I'd be less critical if I watched it again?, knowing what to expect. The first two No Retreat No Surrender movies, and Kiss Of The Dragon would certianly be in my top five. Tough trying to pick anohter two titles, then there's the movies I've not seen as of yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted December 21, 2017 Member Share Posted December 21, 2017 Yes Madam (Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock...need I say more. Recently showed my seven year old daughter this because she is a Cynthia Rothrock fan) No Retreat, No Surrender (while it was laughed at back in the day, this was a successful crossover thanks to JCVD) Above the Law (Yuen Biao and Cynthia Rothrock...need I say more....still love that tornado kick Yuen does to Melvin Wong!) American Shaolin (he made non-martial artist Trent Bushey look good and we got to see Daniel Dae Kim in his film debut here in addition to Reese Madigan, who I thought was an impressive lead due to his acting background and the fact he's a black belt in Shotokan Karate helped) The Transporter (IMO Jason Statham's best action performance, love that move where he did multiple kicks off one leg against three attackers) I think this would be my current Top 5 films 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member massa_yoda Posted December 22, 2017 Member Share Posted December 22, 2017 I just want to say @AlbertV I love that your 7 yr old daughter is a Cynthia Rothrock fan! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Omni Dragon Posted December 24, 2017 Member Share Posted December 24, 2017 While I like things like Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain to me at least it's more Tsui Hark's vision, so therefore I'm only going to make my list based on the productions he was the director for and not just the action director. I guess my list in order is something like: 1. Above the Law aka Righting Wrongs 2. Ninja in the Dragon's Den 3. Yes Madam 4. The Transporter 5. The Bodyguard from Beijing OK by the time I got pass 4 I realised I need to see more of his. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member TibetanWhiteCrane Posted December 24, 2017 Member Share Posted December 24, 2017 Corey had zero to do with Casino Raiders in any capacity, no sure why that's on the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DrNgor Posted January 3, 2018 Author Member Share Posted January 3, 2018 On 23/12/2017 at 11:30 PM, TibetanWhiteCrane said: Corey had zero to do with Casino Raiders in any capacity, no sure why that's on the list. Because the IMDB is always a trustworthy source of info on Chinese cinema! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted January 3, 2018 Member Share Posted January 3, 2018 48 minutes ago, DrNgor said: Because the IMDB is always a trustworthy source of info on Chinese cinema! Try HKMDB.com It said he action directed a 2017 martial arts comedy film called Soccer Killer which marked one of the last film appearances of Fung Hark-On. The film was directed by Jeff Lau. http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=17182&display_set=eng 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DrNgor Posted January 3, 2018 Author Member Share Posted January 3, 2018 I used the IMDB because it had his American and French action director jobs, too. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Member DiP Posted October 7, 2019 Member Share Posted October 7, 2019 Anyone know what he's up to these days? Seems like Birth of the Dragon was the last thing he worked on... Anyone who can shed any light on this? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted October 7, 2019 Member Share Posted October 7, 2019 When they interviewed Corey Yuen for The One, the one doing the translating is none other than Jonathan Ke Quan, who was Yuen's assistant at the time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DragonClaws Posted October 7, 2019 Member Share Posted October 7, 2019 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member morpheus Posted June 13, 2020 Member Share Posted June 13, 2020 (edited) Corey Yuen Kwai's work on Seven Grandmasters is awesome. Jack Long, Mark Long (who actually holds back his real skills in this film), Li I-Min, and Corey himself are very talented artists. Corey appears below on the left. Edited June 13, 2020 by morpheus 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DragonClaws Posted November 19, 2020 Member Share Posted November 19, 2020 Quote “I never wanted to be a movie star,” Yuen insists, speaking through a translator, by phone from New York, an early stop on the press tour for his snazzy new “girls with guns” action picture “So Close,” which opens in Los Angeles on Friday. “I started out working as a stunt man on martial arts films, at [top Hong Kong studios like] Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest. I figured out right away that unless you are a really big star, it is always the director who’s in charge.” You need him for a fight - (David Chute) 2003 Link- https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-sep-07-ca-chute7-story.html 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member sifu iron perm Posted November 20, 2020 Member Share Posted November 20, 2020 didn't he work on dragons forever? got director's credit? or was it controlled entirely by SAMMO? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DragonClaws Posted November 20, 2020 Member Share Posted November 20, 2020 9 hours ago, sifu iron perm said: didn't he work on dragons forever? got director's credit? or was it controlled entirely by SAMMO? I don't think Corey Yeun had any involvement in Dragons Forever(1988), not even as a stuntman?. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member morpheus Posted March 16, 2021 Member Share Posted March 16, 2021 Love this expression from "Eastern Condors." 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DrNgor Posted April 19, 2021 Author Member Share Posted April 19, 2021 On 10/6/2019 at 10:45 PM, DiP said: Anyone know what he's up to these days? Seems like Birth of the Dragon was the last thing he worked on... Anyone who can shed any light on this? According to the HKMDB, his latest films are: A Chinese Odyssey, Part 3 (2016) Soccer Killer (2017) But still, a four-year gap without any output for Corey Yuen seems like a lot. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member TibetanWhiteCrane Posted April 19, 2021 Member Share Posted April 19, 2021 He's 70... maybe he just retired. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member TibetanWhiteCrane Posted April 19, 2021 Member Share Posted April 19, 2021 On 11/20/2020 at 10:45 AM, DragonClaws said: I don't think Corey Yeun had any involvement in Dragons Forever(1988), not even as a stuntman?. He was very much involved, directing scenes and helping out in other areas. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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