Jimmy Wang Yu, a Taiwanese actor who was once one of the biggest stars of martial arts cinema, died Tuesday in a Taipei hospital from an undisclosed illness he battled for six years. He was 79 and his ...

He changed the nature of Asian martial arts movies, which had been relying on sword fighting and fantasy, by bringing hand-to-hand combat to the fore. By Richard Sandomir Jimmy Wang Yu, who in the ...

Jimmy Wang Yu pulled off a remarkable feat in the 1970s when he sat in the director's chair for not one, but four martial arts masterpieces. Wang Yu became the first major star to direct a martial ...

One of the two greatest martial arts icons of all time went up against the genre's very first star - not once, but twice - on the big screen. Over the course of Jackie Chan's long career, he's ...