Actors - Shih Kien

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Shih Kien (石堅 pinyin shi2 jian1, his name is sometimes credited as Kien Shih in the Western order) is a long time veteran actor of Cantonese wuxia movies in Hong Kong. His name has become synonymous with villain, as he tended to play evil characters. In Hong Kong, there are slangs that compare people's evil deeds with Shih Kien's, despite the deeds were committed by the evil characters he played. Young children who couldn't tell fiction from reality actually hated him personally. In Hong Kong movie industry, he is well respected and recognized as a very kind and passionate man.

His work dated back to the black and white wuxia era. He played the villain of almost all the wuxia classics at the time, such as Ru Lai Shen Zhang (《如來神掌》1964) and (《六指琴魔》1960's) etc.

He is known to the Western audience as Han, the villain in Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon
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