Yu So-chow (Chinese: äºŽç´ ç§‹; pinyin: Yú Sù QiÅ«; Cantonese Yale:
yÅ« sou chÄ u; 9 July 1930 â€" 12 May 2017) was a Chinese actress. She
was born in Beijing to a Peking opera family. She is the daughter of
late Master Yu Jim Yuen who ran the China Drama Academy, a Peking
Opera School in Hong Kong, and teacher of many well-known actors.She
started her acting career in 1948 and made over 240 films in the
wuxia, kung fu, action, detective and Cantonese opera genres. Her
films were successful at the box-office and she was one of the most
popular superstars of the 1960 in Asia and Hong Kong.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 tuo shou (脫手) spears, as seen in
one of her famous stage Peking operas, The White Snake (白蛇傳),
and in the 1951 film Amazon on the Sea (海上女霸王).Her first
movie was made in 1948. She was one of the three actresses in the
1950s who really knew martial arts. Off the screen, she was virtually
a heroine: at the age of sixteen, she alone successfully fought off a
group of gangsters with only a silky belt on the streets of Shanghai.
yÅ« sou chÄ u; 9 July 1930 â€" 12 May 2017) was a Chinese actress. She
was born in Beijing to a Peking opera family. She is the daughter of
late Master Yu Jim Yuen who ran the China Drama Academy, a Peking
Opera School in Hong Kong, and teacher of many well-known actors.She
started her acting career in 1948 and made over 240 films in the
wuxia, kung fu, action, detective and Cantonese opera genres. Her
films were successful at the box-office and she was one of the most
popular superstars of the 1960 in Asia and Hong Kong.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 tuo shou (脫手) spears, as seen in
one of her famous stage Peking operas, The White Snake (白蛇傳),
and in the 1951 film Amazon on the Sea (海上女霸王).Her first
movie was made in 1948. She was one of the three actresses in the
1950s who really knew martial arts. Off the screen, she was virtually
a heroine: at the age of sixteen, she alone successfully fought off a
group of gangsters with only a silky belt on the streets of Shanghai.
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