What has the Chinese kung fu actor John Liu been doing since 1984?  Has he
appeared in any TV shows or movies, and are they available?

I've found filmographies around the net, but they usually end at 1984 with
"Ninja vs. the CIA".  But then I see this:

http://www.orientalfilms.co.uk/trinity/trinityhome.htm
http://www.orientalfilms.co.uk/trinity/trinityc+c.htm
http://www.orientalfilms.co.uk/trinity/robertosays.htm
http://www.orientalfilms.co.uk/imagegallery/trinity/action33.jpg

And I think he must still be active somehow.  Is that movie available, and are
there others?

The links you mention refer to "Trinity Goes East" (1998) of which John Liu was 
a producer and also an actor. While the movie itself does not appear to be 
available in most regular outlets, it is available through Ground-Zero 
Entertainment. This is the film's distributor and can be purchased through them 
at http://www.ground-zero-ent.com/Press_Room/trinity.htm. Also available is the 
movie's soundtrack. It can be purchased on Footlight Records website at 
http://www.footlight.com/product.cfm?product_id=8929. Unfortunately there are 
no track samples.

As to where John Liu has been in regards to movies and television, the previous 
movie he took part in was "Robby the Rascal" (1985). This is an animated 
feature and John Liu did the voice of Maximo. "Trinity Goes East" marked his 
reentry into the industry. 


Further information about "Trinity Goes East":
"A new 'Trinity' film has just been completed in Italy and Spain. The film
is called 'Trinity Goes East' and it's part Spaghetti Western and part Kung
Fu. The film is currently being dubbed into English in Rome.
The film stars two new actors (playing Trinity and Bambino) and from what I
can gather the actor playing Trinity is British or American and the actor
portraying Bambino is a Bud Spencer look alike from South America.
The music is (apparently) great. It was composed and directed by Alessandro
Alessandroni who as we all know is responsible for the whistle and chorus on
the best Italian Western scores. Over 90 minutes of music has been recorded and 
it is currently been mixed for a possible CD release in November. The CD will 
probably be released by Lionel Woodman who was responsible for the "El Puro" CD 
a couple of years ago."
http://members.aol.com/Sartana/news1.html


Additional information:

Internet Movie Database: Trinity Goes East
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0304850

Internet Movie Database: Robby the Rascal
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0290047

Internet Movie Database: John Liu
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Liu,+John+(I)

EZBoard about Trinity series
http://pub9.ezboard.com/fthedigitalterrorforumfrm15.showMessageRange?
topicID=48.topic&start=21&stop=26


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Clarification of Answer by researcher-ga on 19 Apr 2002 11:50 PDT

According to ifilm, it appears John Liu has also starred in two other movies 
since 1984 in addition to the ones mentioned above. These two pictures (which 
may just be rereleases of older films, not easily determined as IMDB does not 
list these movies in their filmography of John Liu or as movies released in 
their database) are "Dragon On Fire" (1987) and "Northern Kicks/Southern Fists" 
(1986). 

IFilm's Filmography of John Liu
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilm/people/people_index/0,4128,176493,00.html

This is a very good answer, if correct.  I wonder what he was doing during those
years, instead of making movies?

http://us.imdb.com/Name?Liu,+John+(I)

I believe Northern Kicks, Southern Fist was made in 1979 and Dragon on Fire was
1978.  '87 and '86 are probably re-release dates.

The best filmography I've found was posted on a message board:

http://pub95.ezboard.com/fkungfufandomfrm1.showMessage?topicID=633.topic

(view with Google cache, scroll to "John's Filmography including AKA's...")

Thanks for the clarification though!  I'm trying to contact Ground Zero now to
see if Trinity Goes East is really available.  I can't find it for sale at any
of their "retail partners".  They're not really a retailer.