What's your favorite Billy Chong film?

[Chinatown Kid]

I'm a big fan of Billy Chong and like all the films he made, my favorite would probably be Sun Dragon aka A Hard Way to Die strictly for the awesome fight action followed closely by Kung Fu Executioner. Chong and Carl Scott made a good pairing on screen imo. What's your favorite Chong movie? :)

[Chen Zhen]

definetely Crystal Fist. billy looks fantastic under Yuen Clan choreography.

kung fu executioner rocks too, altho i was more interested in watching Carl Scott fight..even tho he has absolutely no purpose in the story, outside from providing an entertaining fight here and there..

[Chinatown Kid]

Yes Crystal Fist aka Jade Claw featured awesome action as well, for some reason I like Super Power a little better though....

One of my favorite scenes in Kung Fu Executioner is when Billy takes on Chiang Tao and his fellow Samurai gang, can Billy use those Chucks or what! Carl Scott also showed he was very proficent with them as well. I love the opening intro in KFE, definately bad ass!

[Dion Brother]

for a pure movie, FIST FULL OF TALONS. For the best display of fighting, caught between CRYSTAL FIST and KUNG FU EXECUTIONER.

[rdenn]

my favourite is super power, check out this billy chong movie called pendekai liar - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FKredhdmLM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FKredhdmLM)

[dager in the cotton]

crystal
sun
super
executioner

like them all the same amount ,all top class shows

[Chinatown Kid]

That clip of Pendekai Liar looked pretty good, I'm gonna have to see this film! Any idea what year it was made?

[rdenn]

1983, hes done quite a few movies in Indonesia

[thundered mantis]

SuperPower, then Crystal Fist

[monk sante]

Crystal Fist. 8)

[iron flag]

I loved Super Power and Fistful of Talons, I gotta check out Crystal Fist...whats the best version?

[WalkOn]

Billy Chong's one of my top favorite stars. It's tough placing them in order, but here goes...

1. Kung Fu Executioner
2. Crystal Fist
3. A Hard Way to Die
4. Super Power
5. Kung Fu Zombie
6. A Fistful of Talons
7. Pendekar Liar
8. Kung Fu Beyond the Grave
9. Aces Go Places V (too bad it was such a short cameo)

Black Belt Karate nor Invincible Monkey Fists didn't leave too much of an impression.

[Isfahani]

for a pure movie, FIST FULL OF TALONS
Seconded.

I like Kung Fu From Beyond the Grave next to that... It's all good tho.

[SunChien2004]

My favorites would have to be Super Power and Crystal Fist.



On a side note, I have a question about a couple of Billy Chong movies, in Kung Fu Executioner and Sun Dragon, does Carl Scott and the various foreigners throughout the film speak actual Chinese? I mean, before the English dub of course.

[Chinatown Kid]

That's a good question, I'm not sure but I would guess that Carl, Joseph Jennings and Louis Neglia were not fluent in the Chinese language and where speaking English when they delivered their lines. Carl Scott might have picked up the Chinese language some though because he went to HK and made not only KE and Sun Dragon but was also in Soul Brothers of Kung Fu and Bruce Lee: The Man/The Myth both starring Bruce Li. All these films were from Eternal who he must have had a contract for so my guess is he would have probably picked up some of the language being in HK around a mainly Chinese enviroment. I think Sun Dragon was supposedly filmed in Arizona but I believe the majority of it was probably filmed in HK or Taiwan masquerading as Arizona.

[Iron Boat]

Super Power (Super Dragon)
Invincible Monkey Fist
Fistful of Talons

[GwaiLoMoFo]

1.Kung Fu Zombie-man I love this one!!
2.Super Power
3.Crystal Fist
4.Kung Fu Beyond The Grave

Its just too bad he wasnt able to match onscreen skill with some of the bigger names in the genre.

[hanak]

Crystal Fist is for me i gues he's best movie.

[rederror]

Well i havent seen all of Billy Chong's films but i got hold of Fistful of Tallons many years ago and would have to put that down as my favourite. Its a very well directed movie, very slick, stylish and brutal to say the least.

[Frank Lakatos]

1) Jade Claw(Billy and Yuen clan greatness)
2) Fistfull of Talons(wacked out of place but interest and all with Hwang In Shik and Robert Tai)
3) Kung Fu Zombie(hard frenetic action the way I like it. the only movie that matches the speed and power of the action[not choreography] in this movie is The Victim and Pedicab Driver)
4) some parts of Pendekar Liar.
5) Sun Dragons(Billy and his friend doing a double team against the white fighter in the middle of the desert as if it was some double team against a kung fu master in China is wickedly crazy!)

There are a few other 70's taiwanese movies he did with Chen Kuan tai that I haven't seen yet and there's still much more wicked Indonesian made Billy Chong movies out there. His Pentjak Silat choreography is just as interesting as his Taiwanese Kung Fu choreography.

Wan once told me that Golden Harvest considered hiring Billy Chong to replace the injured Jackie Chan during the Armour of God production.

Walkon, email me at lakatosfrank@hotmail.com, I'm on hotmail now, not yahoo anymore. Send me your postal address as soon as you can.

Thanks

Frank

[Iron Boat]

The film he did with Chen Kuan Tai is Invincible Monkey Fist, and that is one different kind of flick. Its shot on location in Taiwan, a lot of beautiful scenery. The main villian is one memorable cat, they look almost like Pirates.

[morgoth]

Kind of sad that Chong never became a big star. I always liked him better than Jackie Chan.

[Chinatown Kid]

To be honest, I prefer Chong over Chan as well. Billy was more intense in his style of fighting imo. They are both great though.

[morgoth]

2 of the best for sure, but Chong just looks so much tougher. He was a pretty good actor too.

[rdenn]

he was excellent one of my favourites for sure but i think becuase he was indonisian he wouldnt of been a big star in hong kong anyway (well he proberley was in his home country) plus i think he was quite cocky in real life.

[Yakuza954]

He looks like an ethnic chinese to me. Lo Lieh also made plenty of movies and was from Indonesia. This is the first time I've ever heard of him being cocky though. Conan Lee, anyone?

[Chinatown Kid]

I always thought Lo Lieh was Chinese, that's interesting info. Billy looked like he was either from India or maybe of a mixed ancestry but never thought he looked full Chinese. Alexander Fu Sheng also looked like he was mixed with other than just Chinese ancestry as well.

[wizard12220]

Lo Lieh is Chinese and I heard that he was born in Medan, Indonesia.

Billy is Indonesian from Chinese descent.

His brother, Leo Chandra was also used to be an actor, and starred in many Indonesian action/martial arts movies

[Chinatown Kid]

That's interesting info, thanks. I think I keep confusing Indonesia with India, which is two different places. I always thought Billy had features like the people of India although he looked like he was mixed with other Asian blood as well.

[Yakuza954]

Alexander Fu Sheng is german mixed with chinese, just like Bruce Lee.

[WalkOn]

Wizard12220, do you still have Rio sang juara available? (trade/sell/whatever!) Please let me know, or show us a clip. :D

Regards,

Cesar

[Chinatown Kid]

Thanks for that confirmation Yakuza, I knew Fu Sheng didn't look like he was 100% Chinese. I wonder if if he felt a kinship with Bruce being from the same mixed races? Fu Sheng bought the same house Bruce had lived in in HK and probably looked up to him.

[the dirty tiger]

Kind of sad that Chong never became a big star
Well in Indonesia he is pretty damn popular, everyone knows who he is ( except under his real name ), he doesnt exactly get mobbed in the street but he is on tv there and is still making shows. He is a household name in Indo, but their stuff doesnt exactly travel well especially since it is all super low budget and so damn frickin hard to find outside of Indonesia in the first place. Apart from that it never ever has english subitles so nobody who doesnt speak Bahasa will bother watching it except for a few of us

[rdenn]

i remember reading an interview a while ago with robert samuels from red wolf, i dont give a dam.. and he said he made a film with billy chong in indo.. does anyone have any info on this..