Member ching li Posted December 18, 2009 Member Share Posted December 18, 2009 Here is a guy who had the leading man good looks and very charismatic. He starred in a number of pretty good shaw bros films, but yet still didn't seem to get the recognition as his other Shaw Bros counterparts did. I noticed even among this message board he is barely mentioned. Do you guys think because he jumped ship from Golden Harvest to Shaw Bros that maybe it was hard to get into him as a "Shaw Bros" actor? I always ask myself why he is underrated? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Morgoth Bauglir Posted December 18, 2009 Member Share Posted December 18, 2009 I admit to never really talking about him on here. I've never bought a movie because of Lau Wing, but he usually does a good job acting and fighting. I watched Iron Chain Assassin recently and I thought his performance was on par with Ti Lung's. Wasn't expecting that. Also in Secret Service he is amazing. Maybe since he wasn't at the Shaws in the early 70's when all those epic movies were being made, he didn't achieve his maximum popularity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member peringaten Posted December 18, 2009 Member Share Posted December 18, 2009 Apparently he sliced his wife's face up severly in a fight & effectively killed his career, fleeing Hong Kong or so, back in the early or mid-80s or 'roundabouts; find it hard to properly respect the dude since I heard about that - someone needs to recount the details proper... He was good as Emperor Chien Lung though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ching li Posted December 18, 2009 Author Member Share Posted December 18, 2009 Dang, I didn't know that he did that to his wife, my god. Well that would kill a career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Winfred Posted December 18, 2009 Member Share Posted December 18, 2009 I remember seeing horrific facial pictures of Liu Yung's wife severely cut up by him. She was no ordinary gal but the angelic looking Tai Liang Chun. From those pics, she would need extensive plastic surgery to look normal again. http://www.hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=4871&display_set=eng Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Cesare Posted December 18, 2009 Member Share Posted December 18, 2009 Apparently he sliced his wife's face up severly in a fight & effectively killed his career, fleeing Hong Kong or so, back in the early or mid-80s or 'roundabouts; find it hard to properly respect the dude since I heard about that - someone needs to recount the details proper... He was good as Emperor Chien Lung though. What a shame... Always a pity when a good-looking, talented guy turns out to be such a jackass. (Not that it's a rare occurrence...) Still think he was a very competent actor. He's definitely one of my favorites (he basically steals the show in The Return of Bastard Swordsman, for example - and stealing the show from Norman Chu is a very fine accomplishment...). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Tosh Posted December 18, 2009 Member Share Posted December 18, 2009 Human... Lanterns... Beyond what he did to his wife I think he had a real sleazeball look to him, to sleazy to be a leading man, not that he wasn't a good enough looking guy but he that air to him to be a great villain. His character in Human Lanterns sums it up perfectly, he wasn't even a anti-hero in that movie, an egotistical ahole that placed his own image before everyone and everything else, and did he pay for it at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member The Dragon Posted December 18, 2009 Member Share Posted December 18, 2009 Only actor to co-star in all four of Bruce Lee's HK MA films. "Discovered" by none other than Lo Wei. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markgway Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 We probably shouldn't confuse Tony Liu (I still call him that... lol) the actor with Tony Liu the asshole. As a person he's a real piece of shit (and it's no surprise his GBH on his wife killed his career) but as a performer he was always reliable and sometime well cast in leading roles (most often Chu Yuan wuxia). Despite his recognition for his work with Bruce Lee at Golden Harvest in Asia his success didn't come until he joined Shaws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ching li Posted December 20, 2009 Author Member Share Posted December 20, 2009 According to imdb and wikipedia, it is said that he is/was married to Wen Hsueh Erh aka Candy Wen as well. Hopefully he is a good hubby to her if it is true that they are still married. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Jesse Smooth Posted December 20, 2009 Member Share Posted December 20, 2009 Human... Lanterns... Beyond what he did to his wife I think he had a real sleazeball look to him, to sleazy to be a leading man, not that he wasn't a good enough looking guy but he that air to him to be a great villain. His character in Human Lanterns sums it up perfectly, he wasn't even a anti-hero in that movie, an egotistical ahole that placed his own image before everyone and everything else, and did he pay for it at the end. Let's not forget his character in Big Boss as well...just a straight up dick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ching li Posted December 20, 2009 Author Member Share Posted December 20, 2009 Let's not forget his character in Big Boss as well...just a straight up dick. I agree, I hated his character and was so happy when he received that beat down from Bruce lee's character. Lau wing definitely have it in him to be a bonafide villian for real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member spearman lo tat Posted December 21, 2009 Member Share Posted December 21, 2009 no doubt. Liu could play a villain quite well. his wolf-in-sheep's-clothing character in The Bastard Swordsman comes to my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member vengeanceofhumanlanterns Posted December 23, 2009 Member Share Posted December 23, 2009 I liked his duel against Ti Lung in Swordsman And The Enchantress. His wife falling in love with Ti Lung and Liu's reaction to it is great and seems fitting to his style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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