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7 unusual facts about Jet Li


Françoise Yip

Her best-known roles are the redeemable bad girls in Jackie Chan's Rumble in the Bronx and Jet Li's Black Mask.

Gayle Moran

She also had a part in the making of a song titled "Afterlife" in the 2007 film War starring Jet Li and Jason Statham.

Hao Zhihua

Hao Zhihua appeared in the 1987 video documentary titled This is Kung Fu with fellow Beijing Wushu Team member, Jet Li.

Max Ryan

After some lesser supporting roles, he landed a role in the Jet Li actioneer Kiss of the Dragon.

North Hollywood Medical Center

Other than being used in Scrubs, the building was featured repeatedly as the hospital in the 2001 film The One, starring Jet Li.

Pan Qingfu

He has appeared in several films, including Shaolin Temple (1982, Jet Li's first starring film), and a role as himself in Iron & Silk (1990) and Talons of the Eagle (1992).

Silvio Simac

Silvio Simac's role in the film is recorded as being one of Jet Li's longest movie fight scenes involving a character other than the second leading actor.


God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai

Billy Chow has a minor role as an unnamed Japanese martial artist, whose costume and fighting style is identical to that of the character General Gō Fujita, who he portrayed in the Jet Li film Fist of Legend.

Hengdian World Studios

The studio was also used to film The Forbidden Kingdom, the first on-screen collaboration between actors Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

Huo Yuanjia

Actors who have portrayed Huo on screen include: Wong Yuen-sun, in The Legendary Fok (1981); Bryan Leung, in Legend of a Fighter (1982); Eddy Ko, in Fist of Fury (1995); Vincent Zhao, in Huo Yuanjia (2001); Jet Li, in Fearless (2006); Ekin Cheng, in Huo Yuanjia (2008).

Ming Beaver Kwei

After graduating from the university, Kwei became active in the industry, first as a personal assistant to Jet Li on such popular movies as Hero, Romeo Must Die and Kiss of the Dragon.

Once Upon a Time in China IV

The film also saw Vincent Zhao taking over the role of Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung from Jet Li, who played the character in the previous three films.

Once Upon a Time in China V

The film is the fifth installment in the Once Upon a Time in China film series, with Vincent Zhao reprising his role as Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung, since taking over the character from Jet Li in Once Upon a Time in China IV.

The Forbidden Kingdom

South Boston teenager Jason Tripitikas (Michael Angarano) is a fan of martial arts films and he awakens from a dream of a battle between the Monkey King (Jet Li) and celestial soldiers in the clouds.

Wen Zhang

Ocean Heaven is his fifth film in which he plays an autistic son and stars alongside Jet Li, who plays Wen's father.


see also

Beijing Wushu Team

As part of a world tour in 1974, Jet Li was reputed to have performed a two-man fight for US President Richard Nixon on the White House lawn.

Françoise Yip

She did two movies with Jet Li, the first as a lead romantic interest in Black Mask and the second in Romeo Must Die, but this time she played a Chinese gangster motorcycle assassin killed by Jet Li and Aaliyah.

Hung Hei-gun

Jet Li played Hung Hei-gun in the 1994 film New Legend of Shaolin, which was loosely based on his life and mixed with elements from the Japanese series Lone Wolf and Cub.

TFK

The Forbidden Kingdom (2008), a martial arts film starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li

Warlords

The Warlords, a 2007 Chinese/Hong Kong film starring Andy Lau, Jet Li and Takeshi Kaneshiro