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 ...
"The Karate Kid" spinoff went on for too long, but it ends by recalling what made it great in the first place.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
EXCLUSIVE: Filming has begun in Dublin and County Meath, Ireland, on Kung Fu Deadly, a martial arts supernatural ...