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Early experience

Tang long, formerly known as Kim Tae Chung, was born in 1943. He is a Korean kung fu movie star and a master of Taekwondo. He used to be the main stand in for Bruce Lee in the American sequel of "game of death". The profile is a bit of a mess. In "game of death", Tang Long takes the role of Bruce Lee instead of him, so he doesn't have a close-up on the front; he mostly takes the roles of side, back and shielding, which causes the illusion of Bruce Lee. In later "death tower", as the first actor, he can clearly see his face. His independent film is the death tower directed by Wu Siyuan, in which he plays Bruce Lee's younger brother and continues to act as a stand in for him. It is said that Tang Long immigrated to the United States in the 1980s, and his whereabouts are unknown. According to his age, if he had not died, he would be over 70 years old.

In fact, the real leading role of "Bruce Lee's last work" game of death, which has been circulating all over the world for decades, is Tang long; the original shot of Master Li Xiaolong himself is only ten minutes, and the rest is Tang Long's stand in performance. It's just that Bruce Lee's name is still on the cast at the end of the film, so Tang Long has become a non leading actor. This remake is totally different from Bruce Lee's original idea. The original story is about a group of peerless experts going to a five story tower to seize a treasure. Each floor of the tower is guarded by an expert. On that day, in addition to Bruce Lee, the other two actors (whose parts were deleted in the make-up version) went to the tower together to break through the barrier, while Lee was fighting in the play and telling his martial arts theory. However, in the film version released in 1979, all of these scenes were deleted in the later editing.

In 1977, after the fourth anniversary of Bruce Lee's death, Jiahe film company completed the remake of the film. In the past 30 years, people have widely used "Bruce Lee's death" as a sequel. Although there is a word difference between the remake "game of death" and the original "game of death", the content of the two films has changed a lot. In order to accommodate the double, the film has a big change in the plot, even "beyond recognition" compared with the original version of Bruce Lee.

Acting experience

After Bruce Lee's sudden death in July 1973, he left behind four fifths of the movie "game of death" and a movie "death tower" with only the beginning. The owner of Hong Kong Jiahe film said that since most of the films had been sold in Hong Kong, it was necessary to complete the rest. So producer Peng Changgui went around and finally found this Aikido expert surnamed Jin, who looks like Bruce Lee and has powerful fists. After he arrived in Hong Kong, Jiahe sent Wu Siyuan and Yuan Heping to test him. After they thought he was qualified, they changed his stage name to Tang Long and successively made two films marked "Bruce Lee starring" in "game of death" and "Tower of death". And sign a contract before shooting, which means that he will leave secretly after shooting; he is not allowed to see reporters, and he is not allowed to disclose his identity. Therefore, it was not until 2008 that the true face of the Tang dragon was made public for the first time.

"Death tower" is Wu Siyuan's work to excavate Bruce Lee's surplus value, in which a large number of martial arts scenes use Bruce Lee's scenes in other films; and it is skillfully combined with Tang Long's performance to make its image more completely reproduced on the screen. This work only borrows some scenes from Bruce Lee's films. In fact, Bruce Lee has never played "death tower". If you take a closer look at "death tower", you will find that the front scenes of Li Zhenqiang, who is played by Bruce Lee, are all the scenes that have appeared in Bruce Lee's five movies, while the back and side scenes are performed by Tang long, who is a double. The fighting action of Li Zhenqiang is also different from that of Bruce Lee. This movie just borrows Bruce Lee's fame to launch Tang long.

Main works

Game of death, 1978

Run, balloon, 1980

Death tower, 1981

1981 Rensi Yezhou

Ireonyeojaeobtnayo, 1981

Please be patient, miss, 1981

College hooligans, 1982

Shuang Dai, 1982

Mojeong, 1983

Drama life, 1983

Those with wings, 1985

Separation, 1985

The game of blood, 1986

Free wife 2, 1986

Desperate fugitives, 1988

When a woman breathes in the forest, 1988

Black hat, 1992

Frog boy back in 1993

Hot rain, 1993

Take off your headphones, 1994

Character evaluation

1. Tang Longyuan practiced Taekwondo with Huang Zhengli, the villain Qin Gu in the tower of death.

2. In the remake of Bruce Lee's sequel "game of death", after a short period of special training, he came to the right to try to imitate Bruce Lee's own martial action. However, if you look at it carefully, you can still see that his style is different from that of Bruce Lee, because it has obvious traces of over emphasis on leg techniques; although Bruce Lee has not shown less leg techniques in "the Dragon across the river", especially for the film and television effect, he used one leg fast kick for the first time. This is exactly the same as some training methods in Taekwondo; when Tang Long imitates Bruce Lee's kick in "game of death", the camera is released from the side; Tang Long's fast leg is still very natural and unrestrained, and finally imitates Bruce Lee's cushion step and side kick; the camera is released from the back to kill the opponent.

3. Based on Taekwondo and integrating into Bruce Lee's Jeet kune do, Tang Long shows his Kungfu style in death tower.

4. Du Weidong, a senior person behind the scenes in Hong Kong films, once wrote an article pointing out: Tang long, the only "real Bruce Lee double" in history, was originally a Korean surnamed Jin. After Bruce Lee died, he filmed the rest of "death tower" and "game of death" for him, and then quietly returned to Korea.

It is said that Tang Long's whereabouts are unknown after he immigrated to the United States in the 1980s. If he had not died, he would have been nearly 70 years old. After Bruce Lee's sudden death in July 1972, he left behind four fifths of the "game of death" and one of the "death tower" which only started. The owner of Hong Kong Jiahe film had to complete the shooting of the two films, so producer Peng Changgui went around and finally found Tang long.

Comeback news

Some netizens commented that Tang Long quietly returned home after playing in "game of death" and "death tower", and never appeared on TV or in movies. In fact, this is wrong. In fact, Tang Long later played Bruce Lee in the movie "just wait for this day" (also known as "the game of blood") directed by Yuan Kui. This is a fresh fashion kung fu film invested by the Americans, starring a local fight champion, and the villain in the film is played by the unknown Shang geyunton. Bruce Lee appeared in the protagonist's dream and taught him the concept and technology of "Jeet Kune Do" in a straight line, so that he finally overcame himself and overcome the difficulties, and knocked down the invincible Russian strongman in the ring. Tang Long's image is very successful this time. When he first appeared, he really meant Bruce Lee's rebirth. Unfortunately, he didn't take part in the fight performance. In addition, Tang Long has shown his kung fu in many of his later works.