Yuen Chor(1934-2022)
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
His father was a famed Cantonese film actor. After studying in the
Department of Chemistry in Zhongsha University for 3 years, Chor joined
the movie industry as a writer in 1956. His film debut was "The Soul
Stealer" directed by Ng Wui. Soon he began working as an assistant
director and finally debuted as a director with Chin Chien in the film
"Bloodshed in the Valley of Love" in 1957. "Grass by the Lake" (1959)
was his first film in solitaire. In 1970, after more than 70 Cantonese
films, Chor directed and wrote his first Mandarin "wuxia" film, "Cold
Blade", which attracted the attention of the major Chinese film studio
at that time, Shaw Bros., so in 1971 Chor finally joined that studio.
In 1976 he began his long series of adaptations of Ku Lung's novels
with "Killer Clans", which gave him an international reputation.
