The famous actor died this morning.

On April 5th, the famous singer Wang Xinping announced on her personal social account that her father, a generation of martial arts superstar Wang Yu, died in the hospital on the morning of April 5th at the age of 80.

Wang Yu was born in Shanghai, a native of Jiangsu. She studied in Shanghai Institute of Physical Education and settled in Hong Kong, China in 1960s. Because of her love of sports since childhood, Wang Yu, who is tall and has excellent appearance, was quickly targeted by the entertainment circle in Hong Kong.

In 1964, Zhang Che, the famous director of the Hong Kong martial arts film "The Founder of the Mountain", took a fancy to him and invited him to be the hero of the martial arts film "The Tiger Warrior and the Enemy", which opened the road of "A Generation of Heroes Wang Yu".

In Wang Yu’s screen hero career, One-armed Knife, which came out in 1967, can be called a work that changed his fate. In the film, he played the one-armed swordsman who repaid kindness with evil, avenged his legacy, and contributed to the Chinese film an image of a tough guy and a hero who was affectionate, righteous, unrestrained and unique in screen charm, sweeping away the gentle atmosphere that occupied the mainstream of the big screen at that time.

After the release of One-armed Knife, it caused a big sale, and was praised as "a masterpiece leading the trend of martial arts films". Since then, Wang Yu has become the spokesperson of "Heroes", and in the next 10 years, he has successively filmed many martial arts films with the theme of "One-armed Knife King", "One-armed Knife vs. Blind Man" and "One-armed Boxing King Breaking guillotines". It is reported that before Bruce Lee became famous, Wang Yu was a martial arts star with the highest pay and the best box office in Hong Kong, China. While starring in many hit works, Wang Yu also began to act while being excellent, and directed many martial arts works such as Long Hudou and Black and White Road.

Under the leadership of a group of martial arts stars such as Wang Yu, Hong Kong-made martial arts films have become a dazzling business card of China films. Quentin tarantino, a famous Hollywood director, called him "one of the greatest and most innovative directors in the history of martial arts movies", while director Ang Lee spoke highly of him: "Wang Yu not only laid the standard for martial arts superstars, but also pioneered the fist action movies. His self-directed and self-directed Long Hudou developed this genre earlier than Bruce Lee and inspired countless successors. These movies may have more influence on the world than me, and they are still learning all over the world."

In the early 1990s, Wang Yu gradually faded out of the film industry and became a "legend" among the fans of a new generation of martial arts movies. In 2011, Wang Yu was admitted to the hospital because of a minor stroke, which made fans extremely concerned about the health of this "hero". However, he soon came back and took the first martial arts work "Martial Arts" directed by Chen Kexin, and cooperated with Donnie Yen, Tang Wei and others to play the villain BOSS with bottomless skills.

At that time, both Chen Kexin and Donnie Yen expressed their admiration for Wang Yu in interviews, believing that their understanding of martial arts movies was not unrelated to Wang Yu’s classic performances. To the surprise of fans, Wang Yu, who has never won a prize in his life, was nominated for the best supporting actor in several important film festivals with his few performances in "Martial Arts".

However, since the film Lost Soul was filmed in 2013, Wang Yu’s health has once again turned red and disappeared from the entertainment scene.

Wang Xinping suddenly announced the news of Wang Yu’s death today, and netizens lamented one after another: Great Xia, go well!

There is no one-armed knife in the world!

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