But the comedy pays its biggest respects to the Shaw Brothers, the most prolific film studio in Hong Kong until it gave up movie production for television in 1984.

Hong Kong film magnate Run Run Shaw, who built the Shaw Bros. studio into the largest in Asia in the 1960s and ’70s, popularized the kung fu genre around the world and later became a major ...

On Dec. 22, Mubi, the highly curated, cinema-forward streaming service, is unleashing a collection of films celebrating the high-impact fight films of Shaw Brothers Studio.

Brothers Run Run and Runme Shaw founded their Shaw Brothers studio in Hong Kong in 1958. Over the next four decades the company would produce close to 1,000 films, turning martial arts cinema into ...

HONG KONG – Shaw Brothers Studio owed recently-deceased film director and martial arts master Lau Kar-leung bonuses of up to $650,000 (HK$5 million) for his films at the studio in the 1970s, his ...

GammaRay and Celestial Pictures will be hosting a Twitch stream featuring 44 full-length features from the Shaw Brothers Studio's kung fu collection. The marathon will be happening from February ...

Film magnate Run Run Shaw, who built the Shaw Bros. studio into the largest in Asia in the 1960s and ’70s, popularized the kung fu genre around the world and later became a major philanthropist ...

Shaw’s studio, which he ran with his brother, Runme, produced more than 1,000 films over more than five decades. ... The Shaw Bros.’ martial arts movies did more, though, ...

Distributed by the Hong Kong’s Shaw Brothers, the film not only delivered a knock-out punch at the box-office but […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 59°F.

Shaw Brothers Studio certainly understood this, locking in a formula for many of its best productions, and having a generally consistent output, occasionally making a stone-cold classic, too.