Helmed by prominent martial arts movie director Lau Kar-Leung, Heroes of the East was an old-school kung fu film set in the 1930s. Headling the movie was Gordon Liu, who played Ho Tai, a Chinese ...
Nowadays, it remains one of the most renowned classics in the history of Kung Fu movies, an eternal testament to Bruce Lee's legacy. The Big Boss's original title means "My Old Brother From China ...
Over the years, many of these movements and techniques have been used not just in real life but also by characters on the big screen. We recall five films where snake kung fu makes an appearance.
The mid-1980s were a strange time for martial arts movies, both in the U.S. and abroad. The broadly termed “kung fu” genre had run amok with wild abandon in Hong Kong cinema in the 1960s and ...
Over the past decade Shi Yongxin, the 45-year-old abbot, has built an international business empire—including touring kung fu troupes, film and TV projects, an online store selling Shaolin-brand ...
Aiding Bruce is The One-Armed Swordsman (hero of kung-fu films), Kain from the U.S. tv series, Kung-Fu (actually played by a Chinese guy this time), and Popeye the Sailor Man! Yes, Popeye the ...
He stumbles into a slum ruled by eccentric landlords who turns out to be the greatest kung-fu masters in disguise. Sing's actions eventually cause the Axe Gang and the slumlords to engage in an ...
Jesse Freedman has found another helpful, albeit unexpected source: kung fu movies. Five or six years ago, the Jewish director and playwright was watching the martial arts film “Canton Viper ...
Narrator: Wirework, or "wire-fu," has long been a signature of kung fu movies, with OG Hong Kong films using wires so thin they were invisible on-screen, even if they sometimes broke. These wires ...
Kung Fu champion Zak Song rates seven spear and staff fight scenes in movies, such as "Ip Man," for realism. Song discusses the accuracy of spear and staff scenes in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden ...