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  • Crafting The Medallion (part one)

    Crafting The Medallion (part one)

    It’s funny the way that the most meaningful episodes in your life only become apparent in hindsight. When I started work on the film that would become ‘The Medallion’, it was hugely exciting to ..

  • Then and Lau: Visiting With 'The Pops'

    Then and Lau: Visiting With 'The Pops'

    Though I’ve trained in a number of different martial arts over the years, I’ve always been drawn back to the Southern Chinese kung fu system of Hung Kuen. One of the most illustrious names in the ..

  • Watching dragons fly at the 1997 Handover show

    Watching dragons fly at the 1997 Handover show

    The 1997 Handover of Hong Kong from Great Britain to China was celebrated with a huge show business spectacular staged at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium. I was lucky enough to attend with action star Don..

  • Lau and Then: Encounters with an ageless movie idol

    Lau and Then: Encounters with an ageless movie idol

    When I started attending the midnight Chinese movies in Birmingham England, back in the early 80s, the biggest male star in the industry was Andy Lau. Today, as I live and work in the Hong Kong film i..

  • Kwan Tak-hing, the real deal Wong Fei-hung

    Kwan Tak-hing, the real deal Wong Fei-hung

    There was only one veteran of the kung fu movie era listed in the Hong Kong ‘phone book, and that was the venerable Kwan Tak-hing. Having appeared in around 100 films as the same character, legendar..

  • Iron Monkey

    Iron Monkey

    One memorable Hong Kong summer, I spent my evenings set hopping back and forth between the Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest studios, where my friends Richard Norton and Gary Daniels were making the Ja..

  • Meeting Bruce Lee co-star Tony Liu

    Meeting Bruce Lee co-star Tony Liu

    As a young Bruce Lee fan, I had seen the face and form of Tony Liu (AKA Lau Wing) countless times. He was (in his debut role) the villainous son of ‘The Big Boss’, a noble student at the ‘Fist o..