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Chua Kah Joo

Chua Kah Joo

Singapour - Singapour

Chua Kah Joo is a Singaporean actor who is a trained professional Ballet dancer and Kung Fu Master (Grand Sifu of Wing Chun). He worked with with Germany's Wuppertal Ballet, the Scottish Ballet and London City Ballet in the 1970s and also collaborated with famed ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev for several years. He taught Wing Chun Kung Fu in London (starting in 1980), and it was there that he was cast as "Chen", an evil henchman, in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. In 1990 he returned to Singapore to teach Kung Fu at his studios there.

Filmography
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Soursweet
1988 • Lo
No Image
Elphida
1987 • Chinese Man
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Scoop
1987 • Lascar Steward
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Absolute Beginners
1986 • Dancer
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1984 • Chen
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High Road to China
1983 • Wong's Aide