“The One-Armed Swordsman” Wang Yu passed away this morning (5th) at the age of 80. In the past, he became famous for his performance in the movie “One-Armed Swordsman”, and his net worth has also risen. He also became Bruce Lee before he became popular in Hong Kong The martial arts actor with the highest pay and the best box office, and when he won the Golden Horse Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2019, the well-known Hong Kong director Wang Jing jumped out to criticize the other party as ineligible to receive the award, which once caused an uproar.
Wang Yu’s representative as the film “One-Armed Swordsman”, he has also acted and directed, and directed the kung fu film “Dragon and Tiger Fight”, and later quit the film industry to become a businessman. It made him worth more, and he became the highest paid and best box office martial arts actor in Hong Kong before Bruce Lee became popular.
And his Goldman Sachs career in the film industry also allowed him to win the Best Actor in the 15th Taipei Film Festival in 2013 with “Lost Soul”, and was nominated for the Golden Horse Award three times. In 2019, Wang Yu was selected by the Golden Horse Executive Committee as the representative of the Lifetime Achievement Award that year. Her daughter Wang Jialu posted at the time. When she heard the news, her first reaction was only two words: “It’s miserable!” Although winning the Golden Horse Award is definitely a good thing, but She didn’t want her father to take the stage with a sick body. “I don’t want to give up, and I don’t want everyone’s respect to be instantly replaced by stunned tears.” In the end, her daughter took the lead.
However, this made Wang Jing, a well-known Hong Kong director, open his mouth and wrote: “The Taiwan Golden Horse Awards are really getting worse and worse! It even gave Wang Yu a lifetime achievement award!” He also believed that Wang Yu was not dedicated to his work in the past. The underworld threatened the director and the actors, and even more exaggerated: “May I ask what contribution he (Wang Yu) has made to the film? Why is he juxtaposed with Wang Tong?” But the article was deleted shortly following. In this regard, Wang Xinping and high EQ responded: “The members of the Golden Horse Awards Committee are all senior and professional film practitioners, and the chairman, Mr. Ang Lee, especially praised the influence of “Dragon Tiger Fight” directed and acted by my father on boxing and kung fu films. People have affirmed my father, and I also believe that my father deserves his name.” As for Wang Jing’s criticism, Wang Xinping said: “Since he has deleted it, I don’t need to say anything.”
