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Happy Birthday Yasuaki Kurata!

Happy Birthday Kurata-san! Today, he’s a spritely 67.

Yasuaki Kurata is a Japanese actor and martial artist. He is perhaps best known for his battle against Jet Li in Fist of Legend. He’s been working in film and television since the early 60’s and is still working today!

You can read our profile of him here.

Here’s the fight scene against Jet Li in Fist of Legend.

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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