柯受良

简介

Blackie Ko was born in 1953 in Zhejiang Province, eastern China. His family moved to Taiwan in 1955 during the Dachen Islands evacuation and settled in Taitung County. He grew up in a family with over 200 years of fishing history and was fluent in the Minnan dialect. He left school at age fourteen due to poverty and helped his family in fishing work, then moved to Taipei at age sixteen. He enrolled in a movie star school in 1972 and worked as a script clerk and martial arts performer, specializing in stunt performance. He moved to Hong Kong in 1977 and worked as a martial arts director, action film actor, and director. He achieved major fame in 1982 through the film "Aces Go Places" where he jumped a motorcycle from the second floor of a building at 200 km/h. He was known as "Daring Blackie" and served as stunt coordinator for many Hong Kong films. He was renowned for pushing the limits of stunt performance, riding a motorcycle across the Great Wall of China and the Potala Palace in Tibet. He achieved a historic feat in 1997 by crossing the Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River by car to celebrate Hong Kong's handover, earning the title "Asia's First Flying Man." He passed away on December 9, 2003.