Here we take a deep dive into the second and third instalments. Kung fu comedies were all the rage in the 1980s, so Shaw Brothers decided to capitalise on the success of The 36th Chamber of ...

His first movies were immediate hits — 1925’s A ... and built the identity of the classic “kung fu flick” from the ground up. Thank you Shaw Brothers, for your contributions to the genre. Pictured is ...

Kung fu comedies were all the rage in the 1980s, so Shaw Brothers decided to capitalise on the success of The 36th Chamber of Shaolin by turning the follow-up into a comedy. This decision was not ...

Image Credit: Shaw Brothers Studio. Easily one of the most iconic kung fu action adventures to emerge from the Shaw Brothers Studio, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin continues to influence Shaolin ...

Perhaps he was best known for always allying himself with the late Alexander Fu Sheng in a series of period pieces. After leaving Shaw Brothers, Chi went to Taiwan, where he proved to be a top kung fu ...

Also to Mexico, and a Korean martial arts school pulled straight out of some old Shaw Brothers kung fu movie, which doesn’t make sense culturally, but consider what we’re discussing.

Perhaps no other studio captured the zeitgeist of the period better than the Shaw Brothers studio, setting a high mark with the celebrated Come Drink with Me. Image Credit: Golden Harvest. In the ...

Based on the bestselling novel by Deborah Levy, (though, as Shaw points out, is not an adaptation but “a film adapted from a book”) the movie follows Rose and her daughter Sofia (Emma Mackey ...

Most come to martial arts movies for action. It’s impressive to watch a kung fu movie with choreography so intense that Olympic judges could give them scores. The genre isn’t as popular in the ...