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Corey Yuen, martial arts director and Jet Li collaborator, died in 2022, Hong Kong film federation confirms

Film-maker who directed films starring Li, Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh and later worked as a Hollywood fight coordinator, died during the Covid pandemic two years ago

Celebrated Hong Kong martial arts actor and director Corey Yuen died two years ago during the Covid pandemic, it has been reported. Photograph: Eastern Prods/Kobal/ShutterstockIn the early 1990s Yeun began a productive collaboration with Jet Li, directing a series of the latter’s successful Hong Kong films (including The Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk, The Bodyguard from Beijing and My Father Is a Hero). Yuen’s final directorial credit was the 2006 video game adaptation DOA: Dead or Alive, starring Jaime Pressly and Holly Valance, but continued to work as a fight choreographer or second unit director on high profile titles including War, Red Cliff and The Man With the Iron Fists.

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