Bryan Leung Karyan Chinese 梁家仁 born 20 January 1949 is a Hong Kong film and television actor and film director who has played roles in numerous acclaimed martial arts films He joined Shaw Brothers in 1974 and soon met up with Sammo Hung and the two of them hit it off Sammo has described Leung as a phenomenon Sammo could show him any style of kung fu or any intricate choreography and Leung could learn it immediately In the 70s and early 80s Leung was to appear in some terrific kung fu Like so many other kung fu fighters once the popularity of those films faded in the mid 80s he had to switch career gears and become more of a character actor He had a reasonably successful career though through to the middle of the 1990s credits to the author at hkcinemagic