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Yu So-chow

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Yu learned Peking Opera at the age of eight and made her stage debut at the age of nine. She specialized in playing female warrior roles in which she could skillfully demonstrate her footwork by continuously juggling and kicking back twelve red-tasselled
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Her early wuxia pictures from 1948-57 were in both Mandarin and Cantonese dialogue, with stories intended to increase cooperation of the Northern Style and Southern Style of martial arts, as seen in
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Her performances in Cantonese opera were quite different; she brought in a mixture of Peking Opera, in which she performed a lot of footwork, as in
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of filming was between 1963 and 1966, when she made at least thirty movies in a year. Her surprise roles in
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Her first movie was made in 1948. She was one of the three actresses in the 1950s who really knew
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Yu So-chow was his second wife. They had three children and later moved to the United States.
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While in the United States, Mak appeared in numerous Grandview Film Company productions.
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Yu ended her acting career after she married, in 1966, Mak Bing-wing (
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Yu started her acting career in 1948. Yu made over 240 films in the
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and she was one of the most popular superstars of the 1960 in
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Apart from action films, she did a few rare contemporary and
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Suet Ting Shan and Fan Lai Hua - Meeting on the Weedy River
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The revenge of the great swordsman Assassin Zhang Wenxiang
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In 2004, Yu was one of the celebrities honoured on the
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Chinese name
family name
Yu
Beijing
China
San Francisco, California
Mak Bing-wing
Yu Jim Yuen
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Chinese
pinyin
Cantonese Yale
Avenue of Stars
Beijing
Peking opera
Yu Jim Yuen
Peking Opera School

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