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Happy Birthday Donnie Yen!

Happy Birthday Donnie Yen who hits an impressive 51 today! He’s a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, film director, producer, action choreographer, and world wushu tournament medalist too! Donnie’s best known so far for his role as Ip Man in two hugely successful Ip Man movies with a third on the way.

Donnie displays skills in a variety of martial arts, showing off his talent for boxing, kickboxing, Jeet Kune Do, taekwondo, Muay Thai, wrestling, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Wing Chun, and Wushu. He’s also seen as one of the most popular and highest paid film stars in Asia of recent years.

For one of the busiest men in action movies today we hope he has time to celebrate!

Here then are a selection of cool action clips we found on YouTube.

Flash Point

Ip Man

 

 

Compilation

Jet Li vs Donnie Yen in Hero

Elliot Richards

Elliot is KFK's Web Content Editor, writer and lover of all kinds of movies, including martial arts ones. Favourites include The Prodigal Son, Magnificent Butcher, The Victim, Legend of a Fighter and the Ip Man movies with Donnie Yen.

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