• Hu Jinquan (胡金銓, 29 April 1932 – 14 January 1997), better known as King Hu, was a Chinese film director and actor based in Hong Kong and Taiwan. He is...
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    also reports that a third Sea King is being prepared to be sent to Ukraine in the "coming weeks". The third Sea King HU.5 was delivered to Ukraine in...
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    Kelly Ann Hu (born February 13, 1968) is an American actress, former fashion model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Teen USA 1985 and Miss Hawaii...
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  • A Touch of Zen (category Films directed by King Hu)
    'Chivalrous woman') is a 1971 wuxia film written, co-edited and directed by King Hu. Its screenplay is based on a classic Chinese story "Xianü" in the book...
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    Guardian described Hu as "China’s troll king". Hu was born in Beijing to a poor Christian family. From 1978 to 1982, Hu attended the People's Liberation Army...
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  • Dragon Inn (category Films directed by King Hu)
    Dragon Gate Inn) is a 1967 Taiwanese wuxia film written and directed by King Hu. The film was remade in 1992, as New Dragon Gate Inn, and again in 2011...
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  • The Fate of Lee Khan (category Films directed by King Hu)
    Lee Khan (Chinese: 迎春閣之風波) is a 1973 Hong Kong wuxia film, directed by King Hu. During the waning years of the Yuan Dynasty, Mongol general Lee Khan and...
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  • Madison Hu (born June 2, 2002) is an American actress. She is known for playing the role of Frankie Wong on the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark, and...
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  • Come Drink with Me (category Films directed by King Hu)
    Hong Kong wuxia film produced by Shaw Brothers Studio and directed by King Hu. Set during the Ming Dynasty, it stars Cheng Pei-pei, Yueh Hua and Chan...
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    considered cinema's first female action hero. She was best known for King Hu's wuxia film Come Drink with Me (1966) and Ang Lee's wuxia film Crouching...
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    King Eng (Chinese: 許金訇; pinyin: Xǔ Jīnhōng, Foochow Romanized: Hṳ̄ Gĭnghŏng) was a physician, and the second ethnic Chinese woman to attend university...
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  • Raining in the Mountain (category Films directed by King Hu)
    in the Mountain (Chinese: 空山靈雨) is a 1979 film written and directed by King Hu. The film was selected as the Hong Kong entry for the Best Foreign Language...
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  • Scorpion King is a 2002 action adventure film directed by Chuck Russell. The film stars Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson as the lead, with Steven Brand, Kelly Hu, Grant...
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  • Touch of Zen (1971) and The Fate of Lee Khan (1973), both directed by King Hu. His deep voice and fluency in multiple languages, including English, also...
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  • the USSR by Belarusian TV All the King's Men (1983 film), a 1983 Taiwanese film directed by King Hu All the King's Men (1999 film), a BBC feature-length...
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  • by Dante Lam Xiao ao jiang hu (1990 film) (aka The Swordsman), is a 1990 wuxia by King Hu Liang po po zhong chu jiang hu (lit. Granny Liang Returns to...
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  • The Valiant Ones (category Films directed by King Hu)
    Martyrs') is a 1975 Taiwan and Hong Kong wuxia film written and directed by King Hu. The film portrays a Ming-era conflict between Chinese officials and Japanese...
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  • Shan-chung ch'uan-ch'i) is a 1979 Taiwanese-Hong Kong film directed by King Hu. Ho, a young scholar, is given the task for translating Buddhist sutras...
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  • ancestral temple surname) by his father-in-law, King Wu of Zhou, who founded the Zhou dynasty in 1046 BC. Duke Hu was the founder of the Chen state, a dynastic...
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  • The Swordsman, also known as Swordsman, is a 1990 Hong Kong wuxia film. King Hu was credited as the director but allegedly left the project midway, and...
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  • adaptation of the Ming opera Yu Tang Chun (玉堂春) earlier adapted to cinema by King Hu as The Story of Sue San (1964).[citation needed] Three maidens of poor...
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    observation with highly stylised visual and acting elements. To has cited King Hu as the director who has influenced his work the most. To heads the Hong...
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    Hu Shih (Chinese: 胡適; 17 December 1891 – 24 February 1962) was a Chinese diplomat, essayist and fiction writer, literary scholar, philosopher, and politician...
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    Brothers is noted for film directors such as King Hu, Lau Kar-leung, P. Ramlee and Chang Cheh. King Hu was an early director who is best remembered for...
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  • Hu Tao (Chinese: 胡桃; pinyin: Táo; lit. 'Walnut') is a playable character in the action role-playing game Genshin Impact. She is voiced by Brianna Knickerbocker...
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    Tokyo Newcomer Ng Ho (1998), "King Hu and the Aesthetics of Space", in Teo, Stephen (ed.), Transcending the Times:King Hu & Eileen Chan, Hong Kong International...
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    of the Shang dynasty under King Zhou of Shang. He was the father of Su Quanzhong and Su Daji. Su Hu gave Su Daji to King Zhou of Shang as an appeasement...
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    surname has several historical origins. First, Hu could derive from the family of Duke Hu of Chen. King Wu of Zhou (r. 1046-043 BCE) enfeoffed his son-in-law...
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    second wave of wuxia films, during the Anti-Japanese War. Films directed by King Hu and produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio featured sophisticated action...
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    he again caught the eye of celebrated Taiwanese director, King Hu. Hung choreographed Hu's The Fate of Lee Khan (1973). Also in 1973, he was seen in the...
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