Love Richard Norton, comes across as such a lovely guy and anyone who can hold his own against Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan and Cynthia Rothrock in multiple movies is right up there with the very best action heroes!

I think Mr Nice Guy is somewhat underrated as a Jackie Chan movie. The fights on the streets of Melbourne are great, there’s some excellent visual comedy, and Richard Norton plays a mean bad guy!

Richard Norton is a great action star. Love watching him fight

I always say If you want to put a person who is great at what they do then let them be who they are. This was the same reason that Jackie's first couple of movies in the early 80's didn't work well, The Big Brawl and The Protector. The action films in Hong Kong I still believe is much better than anything produced here in America and there is still a cult follow of people here that still loved those movies.

Sammo is now a underrated action hero... Lot of this generation do see the flow of the sammo hung action and fight.. Just a huge wave 🌊 not a water

Jackie, Samo n Yuen...what a legend. Most fights so well choreo. There won't be anor trio with such talents n with such passion in giving us comedy kungfu movies that's par excellent, unrivalled n never to be repeated again, sadly.

Many thanks, appreciation and respect for the distinguished videos that take us back to the golden age of martial arts films and distinguished actors without cinematic tricks and computer effects. You are a legend.

What a legend! Thank you for bringing us so many great movies that we grew up watching and get inspired in many ways!

i used to watch these 80s martial arts movies on video tapes when i was a kid in hong kong, still my favourite, and part of 80s that i miss nowadays...

Those 80’s action movies❤️

How interesting to hear all this! Thank you for uploading it. It is awful hwo in America they do nto allow the expersts on coreographing fight scenes Sammo and Jackie do anything. The system is so very rigid. No wonder they were and Jackie still is frustrated by that. He often tells the audiences how it feels, on shows.

I believe that Benny Urquidez had a different experience for a reason. Jackie checked his abilities as a fighter, when he sent a man of his stunt team to fight him. Once he saw that and he sparred a little with him he realised the man is a pro in a sense that he was a great figther. Whereas Norton admits he was in the middle range. So, when Benny showed what he knew, Jackie went aha, great and so he let him contribute. Also, because Benny took on immediately the rythm and Norton did not, so Jackie had probably thought that Benny's input would be in the right rythm and it was. That's my two pence on it I may be wrong. Because there was only one person who was allowed to have in input, and that was Benny. Everybody else had to just obey. Of course, Brad Allen himself became part of the amazing team, so he had great input but that is an entirely different story.

His acting in City Hunter was very memorable to me

Nothing like those movies anymore! They were the best.

80"s was golden era it never be the same it won't

Great interview and getting Richard's perspective of HK action movies then.

Richard Norton is among my faves - Richard & Cynthia duo is awesome! They're perfect together!

80s and 90s martial arts action movies are the best. Film industries put too much emphasis on CG nowadays.

I grew up watching HK action and honestly the current action choreo from mainland china isn't as good. You can tell people like Richard, Sammo, Jackie, Tony Jaa, Donnie and Wu Jing have real skill. When you have great martial artists doing action, you know immediately! The cultural context for why movies and tv series over dramatize is two parts. The first is beijing opera the actors had to make sure the audience could see it. The second is chinese culture represses emotions, so movies is an outlet. Things have been changing. In the 80's public display of affection (PDA) was strictly taboo, but today it's more acceptable. As a result, acting styles have been evolving.

What a great interview! I feel like I am understood the real Richard Norton for the first time!

What a lovely guy Norton is!

I loved seeing your interview and although some fights might be too long sometimes I would say that the end fight sequence in city hunter is a perfect movie fight as we have a great exchange among the 2 protagonists with each one getting the upper hand and surprising the adversary with a trump card followed by a great adaptation from Jackie. The fight in itself tells us a story and you can't imagine how great it was to see a normal looking guy being able to do a good fight against Jackie, instead of the usual over the top bad guy you incarnate in other movies (big bad guy beard and muscle in display). In city hunter this fight is so unexpected due to your look it makes it even better

Great insight! I did some pro-wrestling in the early 2000's, then some stunts in LA in the late 2000's, then stunts in Japan in the late 2010's. It's been fun to see the differences of eras or how locations are different. Very cool of Mr. Norton to touch on that stuff.

Lots of westerners in HK movies are really nice. Richard Norton, Gary Daniels

Love your rolls and you are looking good at this age.

I respectfully disagree when he says many of the Kung Fu movies are dated. Not really, I've seen many young people becoming fans to all these 80s, 90s Kung Fu movies. Yes, many the characters are one dimensional, but it works for the movies.

The Octogon! I loved Richard Norton in that movie. I don't believe we see his face in it.

Wow another one,the best bad guy in city hunter

I kind of respectfully disagree with a little bit of what Mr. Norton says here regarding the evolving onscreen fighting styles of Jackie Chan, & Sammo Hung, I think if those guys were still physically capable of doing the kind of stuff they did in the 80s & early 90s, they'd still be doing that stuff. Yes, some of the action they've done in the last 20 years or so (Jackie's stuff in The Foreigner, for example) has been more "realistic", less fanciful, but that "realistic" stuff is also much easier & less time consuming than the stuff those guys were doing in the 80s. I recall reading an interview with Richard Norton in a 90s fanzine in which he told the same story about Sammo asking why the Hong Kong films didn't get a chance in America, but when movies like Rumble In The Bronx, Legend of Drunken Master (Drunken Master 2), Supercop, Mr. Nice Guy, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, even Sammo's TV series, Martial Law all featured 80s Hong Kong style action & American audiences enjoyed that action enough to pay for it! I think the primary reason American audiences "didn't go for" that classic style of Hong Kong action was because, until Rumble In The Bronx came along, 99% of Americans had never seen it! With all due respect (& I do respect Richard, he should write a tell-all autobiography, he's had an amazing life, I'd certainly buy it), Richard starred in his own martial arts movies with "better" plots & more "realistic" action scenes, but when did any of them ever have a successful theatrical release in America? All those "over the top" Hong Kong style action movies from Jackie, on the other hand, made money both in theaters & on home video.

Loved the observation on the evolution of their styles through the decades. No wonder they stayed great. What a waste they couldn't get more of their input in for American films.

Norton has had some work done

This channel is so underrated

Richard Norton! Wow sorry I almost forgot about him. But I still remember watching him all dressed up in fancy suits smoking big cigars and amazing leg kicks.

Van Damme have said that he didn’t want to get beat by Jet Li, that’s why he wasn’t in The expendable part 1. Damn it could have been one of the greatest fight all time in movies to date

could someone recommend some new hong kong movies? i really dont know any since i dont follow the movies that much...but as jackie was part of my childhood would really love to see how the hong kong genre is novadays

bruh what the heck dude you deserve more than million subs would yu remember me when 1 million ?

Sha Po Lang : SPL ( killzone) Donnie Yen has incorporated MMA and grappling into his fight choreography. SPL is one, Flash point and Big Brother. Of course the one that starting using ground fight was Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon and Game of Death where he bite Kareem's leg.

I find it funny when Richard touched on Jakie's frustration with the American style of movie making, but when American's have frustrations with Hong Kong style, they have to shut up and just deal with it. What goes around, comes around. Don't get me wrong though. I know for a fact whatever Jackie's input was would have been great to incorporate in the Rush Hour movies no doubt.

What he wanted to say is "Sammo, Americans don't like fat Action Stars."

American asked Samo hung to act in the States yet not allowing him to have creative input? What a waste of his talent and expertise. Also show how great the Americans think about themselves.

Painfull?

Painful?

Thats not Richard Norton? Why does he look like a different person. I understand people age. TF? is going on here? lol!

His plastic surgery makes him unrecognizable.

americans.... even their jokes are scripted, and not funny. letterman for example.