Jimmy Wang Yu, once a superstar of multiple Asian martial arts genres, died on Tuesday. He was 79. News of his death in a Taipei hospital was posted on social media by Wang’s daughter Linda, herself a ...

Taiwanese martial-arts film star Jimmy Wang Yu died on April 5 at a hospital in Taipei, his daughter, Linda Wong announced on Instagram. ‘With utmost sorrow, I inform everyone that our beloved father ...

Written and directed by Lo Wei for Golden Harvest, this feature stars Wang Yu as a guy known only as The Dragon – he’s got super sharp hearing! He’s also kind of a mysterious tough guy who wanders ...

A lesser-known film from the early 1970s - Blood of the Dragon - has earned significant praise from Quentin Tarantino. Released in 1971, Blood of the Dragon is an old-school martial arts movie that ...

He changed the nature of Asian martial arts movies, which had been relying on sword fighting and fantasy, by bringing hand-to-hand combat to the fore. By Richard Sandomir Jimmy Wang Yu, who in the ...

One of the two greatest martial arts icons of all time went up against the genre's very first star - not once, but twice - on the big screen. Over the course of Jackie Chan's long career, he's ...

Jimmy Wang Yu battles crime lord George Lazenby in a scene from the film 'The Dragon Flies', 1975. (Photo by 20th Century-Fox/Getty Images) Taiwanese martial-arts film star Jimmy Wang Yu died on April ...