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• Studied at the Peking Opera School under the watch of Master Yu Jim-yuen along with Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, and was a member of The Seven Little Fortunes.
• Got in a real-life fistfight over a comic book with Jackie Chan when they were both 10 years old.
• Adopted the name Yuen in honor of Jim-Yuen Yu, his teacher.
• Began his film career as a stuntman.
• Known for mixing hand-to-hand combat and gun fighting, which is not common in Hong Kong action films.