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Chiang Sheng - Also discovered when Chang setup his film company in Taiwan. This was where he, Lu Feng, and Kuo Chui, Sun Chien, and Lo Mang joined "Chang's Film" company. They would all become a part of his last team of successful actors, later known as the "Venoms". He was the most playful of the group and the one who was most interested in the art of film-making and camera work (another was actor, later turned director - Robert Tai). He was the only acrobat in this group and was more adept with weapons. Along with Lu Feng, he would work with the director more closely than any of the other Taiwanese actors. They worked with him even after the close of Shaw studios, helping him with his directing and film work.

Chang liked him because of his spirit. If you look at the way he acts in the films he's played, you'll see his characters are just like the ones that Fu Sheng played (only not as heroic in nature). He's always the "rascal" (Shaolin Temple sticking his tongue at behind the monks back) or some type of mischievous character proding/teasing others into fighting (Crippled Avengers, Invimcible Shaolin). The roles that Chang gave him in his films could have easily been written for Fu Sheng. Even the outfit he wore in "Invincible Shaolin" matched that of Fu Shengs's character in Life's Gambles. He would star in Magnificent Wanderers, along with (Fu Sheng, David Chiang, and Chi Kuan-Chun) the standouts of their previous film - "Shaolin Temple".

He, too, would play martyr as Fu Sheng did in countless films, eventually dying before the end of the film. This is where these two really were similiar, as both would normally die a "Heroic" death as their testimony of greatness in their films. Heroes that died were basically remembered always, as their deeds were the last things people remembered them for. Director Chang seemed to make sure that regardless of the films they played in, that by the last reel, you'd walk away remembering their performances.

He died in 1991, as a result of depression, brought on by excessive drinking. While in Hong Kong, he was just short of Superstar status as a part of the Venoms, yet, living in Taiwan, he was just another struggling actor. The limelight had faded and virtually everyone he'd worked with before was in Hong Kong and making the switch to "New Wave" productions. It was reported that his friend Cheng Tien-Chi found his body after he didn't hear from him and went to check on him. He had been dead for about (3) days when he was found.

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