Jet Li is mostly well known for his action movies. Opportunities always favor those who are prepared. In 1980, Jet Li was chosen by the director Chang Hsin-yen to play the hero in the movie Shaolin Temple, which was Jet Li's first movie and made a great success. In addition, this film made Jet Li embark on his career as action actor.
The scripts about Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung may be the oldest in the world. There are more than 60 editions of the scripts about Wong Fei-hung in all, among which the most impressed Wong Fei-hung was the edition played by Jet Li. There are five Wong Fei-hung related movies played by Jet Li, which all made great success. In these five movies, the oriental elegance and courteous manners are interpreted perfectly by Jet Li. The featured posture in these movies as following became so classic and was imitated countless times.
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Happy days do not last long. After the Wong Fei-hung series moves, Jet Li broke up with the Golden Harvest on bad terms. Then Jet Li founded his own film company: Eastern (HK) Film Production Co. Ltd. His new film company released many famous movies such as Fong Sai-yuk and The Bodyguard from Beijing.
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