King Hu Jinquan was a Chinese filmmaker and actor, based in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
11 Facts About King Hu
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King Hu is known for directing various wuxia films in the 1960s and 1970s, which brought Hong Kong and Taiwanese cinema to new technical and artistic heights.
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King Hu's films Come Drink with Me, Dragon Inn, and A Touch of Zen inaugurated a new generation of wuxia films in the late 1960s.
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King Hu's grandfather was the governor of Henan in the late Qing dynasty.
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King Hu's father had studied in Japan and was the owner of the local coal mine, and his mother was a concubine.
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King Hu's uncle was a high-ranking official in the Republican government.
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King Hu then worked for the local Voice of America in Hong Kong.
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King Hu acted in the classic 1959 film The Kingdom and the Beauty.
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King Hu promoted many young Peking opera pupils into the film industry, such as Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung.
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King Hu asked his nephew where his mother and father were and was told that his mother has not been heard from and his father was in a labor camp in Shanxi, but had since been in a car accident and died.
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At the time of his death, Hu was attached to direct The Battle of Ono, a project he had spent decades working on.