Lo Wei
Lo Wei (Chinese罗维/罗维Luo wéi, born December 12, 1918 in Jiangsu, China, † January 20, 1996 in Hong Kong, China) was a Chinese director for kung fu and martial arts movies. His most famous films were with Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. He also worked as an actor.
Life
Before Lo Wei began his career as a director, he worked in the 1950s in many movies as an actor. Also during his time as director Wei appeared as an actor. After his last film as a director Wei appeared in a few films as an actor. Last 1990.
At the beginning of his directing career in the 1960s turned Wei films for the Shaw Brothers, before he transferred in 1971 with the film The Death Fist of Cheng Li for Golden Harvest. The film was a huge success and helped Bruce Lee to break through, but also Lo Wei himself was known through the film. A year later led Lo Wei directed death Greetings from Shanghai. The film was his second collaboration with Bruce Lee. This film was very successful. However, because of disputes between Wei and Lee, there was no third collaboration between the two.
After death Greetings from Shanghai led Wei directed the film The Boss of San Francisco with Chuck Norris in the lead role, and some kung fu movies before with Wooden It was the first collaboration with Jackie Chan. The film, which was a first of Chan's, where he played the lead role, was one of the films of the Bruceploitation. Wei wanted to do in this way Chan as the new Bruce Lee, which has not changed in his other films. After Wooden Man Wei worked exclusively with Chan. So he turned with him, inter alia, New Fist of Fury (aka master of all classes 3 and Two fists stronger than Bruce Lee ), a kind of sequel to death Greetings from Shanghai. Weis 's last film was Super Fighter 2 in 1983, also starring Jackie Chan.
Wei acted in some of his films as a producer and screenwriter. He also appeared occasionally in small roles in his films. Wei founded and led the Lo Wei Motion Picture Company.
Wei was rumored that he had a connection to the triads.
Lo Wei died on 12 December 1996 at the age of 77 years in Hong Kong from heart failure.