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Can never understand why he only made a handful of Kung fu movies.For me they are all classics of the genre.He had great shapes coupled with power and speed,and although he is not classed as a super kicker,his kicks where great too👍👍

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DragonClaws
On 7/22/2019 at 1:24 PM, sym8 said:

Can never understand why he only made a handful of Kung fu movies.For me they are all classics of the genre.He had great shapes coupled with power and speed,and although he is not classed as a super kicker,his kicks where great too👍👍

 

Ditto, maybe he just wasnt into making Martial Art's movies, like Alexander Lo Rei.

 

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Billy Chong was a super kicker and so was Carl Scott, especially going by their kicking in Sun Dragon. 

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In one of the many dvds I recently watched, there was an interview with Billy Chong.

He was very simple in it, not putting his ego at a peak, and he still had this charming smile that must have charmed a lot of women in his career...:bs_grin:

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2 hours ago, ShawAngela said:

Does anyone know the titles of the Indonesian TV series he played in ?

I think @Mike Leeder may have a good idea. I could be wrong, but I think he may have appeared in one with him.

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Billy/Willy did a ton of TV series in Indonesia and can't help with the titles I'm afraid

I worked with him on the pilot for Dara Dai Cinta/Love & Blood which was produced and directed by my late godfather Alip Sak/Alip Santosa , we shot the original pilot where Billy comes to Hong Kong to take care of various bad guys including a young skinny me

The show got greenlit and then Billy decided he should be in charge and left to do his own show,  so he left and the show was retooled with Ari Wiboro as the lead, and then after his show didnt work Billy came back to appear in a couple of episodes at the end of the first season, where he is a retired assassin and his memories of his final mission are flashbacks to him killing me etc

Billy did a bunch of TV shows and movies in Indonesia, he was part of the ill-fated GARUDA 7 projects but not sure what he's doing these days

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I know he made a movie l have called Pendikar Liar in his native Indonesia but don't  know  how many more there are but I'd sure like to see them!

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ShawAngela

During his time in Hong Kong, he became known as Billy Chong Chuen-Lei.

On 5/3/2017 at 5:18 PM, AlbertV said:

Born Willy Dozan in Magelang, Indonesia on February 10, 1957

Well, I quoted also this, but it didn't appear, and by copying-pasting, it appears at the beginning of my post...Oh, well...

That's strange, because Wikipedia says on the contrary that he was born Chuang Chuen Lei (and I don't remember where I read that he is of Chinese descent, which would fits with this Chinese name) and that he changed his name to Willy Dozan...

 

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Billy Chong, Indonesian martial artist with Crystal Fist

(Budomate-Magazine)

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Born as Chuang Chen Li (Chong Chuen-Lei) in Magelang, Indonesia on February 10, 1957 he started his acting career in 1977 in a local movie named Pembalasan Si Pitung.

 

Source- https://budomate.com/billy-chong/

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ShawAngela

Thanks to confirm, @DragonClaws, I was not convinced that Willy Dozan was his real name.

And I'm not surprised that his son uses the same family name. It's like here in France with Johnny Halliday's son, whose real name was Jean-Philippe Smet and his son David uses the name David Halliday, instead of his real name...

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Reading several comments about various movies in other posts, I noticed that some members say that Billy Chong was a Jackie Chan's clone. Is it just their opinion, or are there any traces of directors or producers saying that they casted him precisely to be Jackie's clone?

Personally, I don' t see in which way he might be Jackie's clone : they don't fight the same way, they don't do comedy the same way, Billy seems to kick more often and with more power...

I suddenly have the strange feeling that I'm going to have enemies among Jackie's fans...😂🤣

 

 

 

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TibetanWhiteCrane
5 minutes ago, ShawAngela said:

Reading several comments about various movies in other posts, I noticed that some members say that Billy Chong was a Jackie Chan's clone. Is it just their opinion, or are there any traces of directors or producers saying that they casted him precisely to be Jackie's clone?

Really? Did you see Crystal Fist? But yeah, I agree... he sort of had his own vibe, but still. It's not so much that he was a "Jackie clone" in the way the Bruce Lee clones were, but after the success of DM and SITES, the producers were scrambling to find any star that sort of resembled a JC type character to star in similar Kung Fu comedy fare... Billy Chong was definitely among them. John Cheung, Lee Yi Min, Jackie Chen Shao Lung, Charles Heung, Ricky Cheng Tien Chi, Ng Kwan Lung and so on all got a shot. And most of them did great and brought something of their own to the table, but let's not b blind to what was going on in the business at that time.

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Crystal fist is the only movie of his I never watched (I don' t count Aces go place V)...

I never noticed John Chang, Li Yi Min or Charles Heung playing "à la Jackie" either, but I haven't watched all of their movies.

Thanks for the explanations.

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TibetanWhiteCrane

John Cheung in Snake in the Monkey's Shadow, Lee Yi Min in Mystery of Chess Boxing and Charles Heung in Goose Boxer are good and obvious examples.

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And just so we're clear, it's not like JC invented the mischievious student character type... it was sen throughout the 70's. Though he most likely "lifted" it from Fu Sheng.

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3 hours ago, ShawAngela said:

Personally, I don' t see in which way he might be Jackie's clone : they don't fight the same way

Totally agree,if anything he was probably more gifted when it came to martial arts than Jackie(especially in the kicking department)where Jackie leaves him behind are the choreography,stunt sequences and coming up with stuff we never saw before.

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