Like many, growing yup I was equally captivated and by the characters of Bolo in Enter the Dragon and Chong Li in Bloodsport, I would scour every shelf of my local video store to find any VHS tapes with his name on the cover.
Thankfully, aside from these two Hollywood blockbusters, where he starred opposite Bruce Lee and Jean Claude Van Damme respectively, the ‘Beast from the East’ also appeared in a raft of legendary Kung Fu flicks in the 70s, 80s and 90s.
Despite being typecast as a villain in the vast majority of these films, the ‘Chinese Hercules’ also got the chance – although rarely – to flex his muscle as the hero in films such as Shootfighter: Fight to the Death (1993).vHowever, despite being a kind and generous family man off-screen, it is the menacing roles that best display Bolo’s formidable talents on-screen, and the following is a list of 5 best Bolo performances.