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Actor and martial artist Wang Yu dies

Taiwanese actor Wang Yu (Jimmy Wang Yu) died on April 5 in hospital, at the age of 79.

It was known that in the past six years, a martial artist had suffered from an illness of unknown nature.

Wang Yu starred in action films at the Hong Kong Shaw Brothers film studio in the 1960s. His most famous film is the one-armed swordsman, in which he demonstrated the skill of swordsmanship, his signature skill. The film became the first work of the Hong Kong film studio, which collected one million dollars at the domestic box office.

In total, Jimmy Wang Yu starred in 40 action and martial arts films.

He was charged with murder, but the charges were later dropped. In addition, Wang Yu boasted that he had been hired for a political assassination, but the assassination did not happen.

The last time Wang Yu took part in a movie was in 2013 – his last work was the horror film “Soul”.

 

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