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Gordon Liu (Hong Kong)

Gordon Liu (Lau Kar-Fai; Liu Jia Hui, formerly spelled Liu Chia Hui)(born November 30, 1955) is a Chinese Martial Arts film actor. He was born Guangdong Province, China and is the adopted brother of famed Shaw Brothers director and actor Lau Kar-leung (Liu Chia-Liang).

Best known by Western moviegoers for his role as Pai Mei in Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), and as Johnny Mo in Kill Bill: Volume 1, the head general of the Crazy 88, O-Ren Ishii's (Lucy Liu) personal army. Elsewhere Liu is known for his role as San Te from The 36th Chamber of Shaolin and it's sequels from which he adopted his shaved head style. Some fans call him the "Master Killer" after the alternate titled to The 36th Chamber of Shaolin.

Over the years Gordon's movie roles dwindled as younger and more agile martial artists emerged. During the 80's, he was forced to take smaller roles such as in Lau Kar-leung's Tiger on the Beat. However, Liu has been active in television, and was contracted to Hong Kong's TVB company for many years, continuing playing roles as a martial arts master. Though he still commonly plays roles in some martial arts capacity, he's also at home in playing comedic, self-depreciative or emotional characters. His second common role in TVB has been playing a HK police officer.

Quentin Tarantino has long been a fan of Liu, and had one day hoped to find him a role in one of his movies. This eventually came to pass with the roles of Johnny Mo and Master Pai Mei in both Kill Bill movies. His roles in Kill Bill raised Liu's profile again and a renewed interest was shown by Chinese producers. Since Gordon's Kill Bill fame, Gordon has returned to doing movies while continuing to do television for Hong Kong's TVB station.

Because we are a traditional school we are happy to welcome Gordon who was the face of traditional kung fu films through the 70's and 80's.