Corey Yuen
Audiences rate Corey Yuen’s films higher than 65% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
Free to watch now (26 Oct): The Legend (Plex) · Yes, Madam! (Tubi, Fawesome) · DOA: Dead or Alive (YouTube, Roku Channel, Plex, Tubi, Fawesome) · The Legend II (Shout! TV, Plex, Fawesome) · So Close (Roku Channel) · The Bodyguard from Beijing (Roku Channel, Shout! TV, Plex, Fawesome).
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The ThumbScore for Corey Yuen (73.3%) is the average audience approval rating across 11 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Corey's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Corey Yuen Kwai (Chinese: 元奎; Cantonese Yale: Yuen4 Kwai1; 15 February 1951 – 2 March 2022) was a Hong Kong film director, film producer, action choreographer, and actor. Yuen attended the China Drama Academy and was one of the Seven Little Fortunes. In Hong Kong, he worked on several films such as Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury (1972), Hwang Jang-lee's Snuff Bottle Connection, Secret Rivals 2, The Invincible Armour (all 1977), Dance of the Drunk Mantis (1979), Ninja in the Dragon's Den (1982), Millionaire's Express (1986), and Jet Li's Fong Sai-yuk II (1993), The New Legend of Shaolin (1994), High Risk, and My Father Is a Hero (both 1995). Yuen gained fame in American cinema beginning with his work as an action director on the 1998 film Lethal Weapon 4, followed by the 2000 blockbuster X-Men and six of Jet Li's English-language works: Romeo Must Die (2000), Kiss of the Dragon, The One (both 2001), Cradle 2 the Grave (2003), War (2007), and The Expendables (2010). He also served as director and fight choreographer on Jason Statham's 2002 action film The Transporter, and served as second-unit director and fight choreographer on its two sequels.
Born 1951-02-15 in Hong Kong, British Crown Colony. Died 2022-03-02.
On ThumbScore, Corey Yuen appears in 11 films with an average audience score of 73.3%, most frequently in the Action genre.
