Corey Yuen, the actor, action film choreographer and director of “So Close” and “DOA: Dead or Alive,” died in 2022, the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers confirmed to Variety.
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According to local and English-language reports, Yuen died of COVID-19 in Hong Kong on an unknown date. He was born Ying Gang-ming on February 15, 1951.
His death was initially kept secret at the request of his family. But on Monday, the news was revealed on Chinese-language social media by fellow action star Jackie Chan, who paid tribute to Yuen and others in the industry who had died.
Yuen and Chan were contemporaries, having trained at the Peking Opera School with Sammo Hung Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu and Yuen Biao. Together they were sometimes referred to as the Seven Little Fortunes or The Lucky Seven, and they left their mark on the heyday of Hong Kong cinema from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.
