Kadet Lee Seung-hoon

[J.J. Hayden]

Kadet Lee Seung-hoon

I've been waiting to do update this one for ages, but at first I was waiting for when I'd finished my Mr. Nice Guy update, but then thought I'd hold off doing the whole page until my Thunderbolt update.....BIG MISTAKE.
I lost pretty much all the data I'd collected and I've had to put off re-doing it again, and again, and again....
But at last it's pretty much ready, hopefully within the next few days it'll be done.

So I thought first things first, get this page done as he only has the two film credits on here but is a very interesting guy. At some point I'll be able to do a longer bio, but for now there's this mini one I wrote years ago. I hope people find it interesting.

Cheers

Kadet Lee Seung-hoon mini bio:

He was born in Korea in 1971 and studied Taekwondo and Kung Fu from a young age. He became a stuntman during the late 80s working on many local films and also cross over films with Hong Kong and Taiwan.

But by the mid 90s he was feeling dissatisfied with the Korean martial arts film industry and decided to go to Hong Kong. He auditioned for action legend Sammo Hung Kam-bo, which included sending him footage from the 1994 independent short film The Fight, in which he played the lead villain. Sammo was impressed by Kadet, not only by his high skills in martial arts and acrobatics, but notably, his knowledge and understanding of camerawork; editing; and Hong Kong style action.

Kadet worked on two films as a member of the SHST, Thunderbolt [1995] and Mr. Nice Guy [1997]. Ironically, his main role as part of Sammo's team was as a stunt double for Jackie Chan Kong-sang of all people. He was the first Korean to do so, this being several years before his juniors Park Hyeon-jin and Lee In-seop. It was a well kept secret, especially with the push of the “Jackie does all his own stunts” mythos. So much so, that most people (except those who worked on the films) didn't know his name and many mistook his doubling to be that of fellow SHST member Chin Ka-lok.

Although stunt doubling was his main task during his time with the team, Sammo was keen to put as much of Kadet's various skills to use as possible: so aside from doubling for JC for the majority of the fight sequence on top of the pachinko machines in Thunderbolt and various scenes throughout Mr. Nice Guy; Sammo also involved Kadet in the design of the action scenes of both films and even selected him to be a stunt driver for the chase sequences in Thunderbolt.

 

Cheers