Martial Cinema
Martial Cinema
A LEGEND VILLAIN
Within the range of Martial Cinema, perhaps few actors have been able to play the role of villain with such aplomb and rawness as Hwang Jang Lee. Anyone who has ever seen him is aware of his dreadful deployment of leg techniques, as well as the undeniable charisma on camera of this " malicious of the shadows ", as he calls himself. Therefore we have prepared the following monograph.
Text: Emilio Alpanseque Photos: FL CITY PRODUCTIONS
Better known for the speed of his kicks than for his name, Hwang Jang Lee( also Hwang Jung Lee, Hwang Jeong Ri, Huang Zheng Li, Wong Cheng Li, and other romanizations of Korean, Mandarin or Cantonese) is a highly respected Grand Master of Korean Martial Arts- currently 9th Dan Tang Soo Do under the World Moo Duk Kwan General Federation- and a martial movie actor with over 350 films to his credit, primarily productions from Hong Kong, but also from South Korea and Taiwan, in which he has shared screen with all the big names in Martial Arts films, from diverse clones of Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung.
BEGINNINGS AND FIRST WORK
Born in 1944 in Japan, from Korean parents, Hwang and his family returned to Korea when he
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