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Ching Siu-tung

Ching Siu-tung was born in Hong Kong on 31 October 1953, the son of Ching Gong, a director at the Shaw Brothers. As a child he trained in Peking opera, then became a stuntman in his father's films and, in the seventies, an actor and martial arts instructor. He directed his first film in the early eighties, then choreographed the fights of many Chinese and foreign films, which earned him choreography awards in Hong Kong and Taiwan. In 2003 he shot his first American film.

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