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Kung Pow! Enter the Fist is a 2002 American martial arts comedy film that parodies Hong Kong action cinema.Written, directed by and starring Steve Oedekerk, it uses footage from the 1976 Hong Kong martial arts film Tiger & Crane Fists (also called The Savage Killers) starring and directed by Jimmy Wang Yu, along with new footage shot by Oedekerk, who is also digitally inserted over Wang in ...
Kung Fu Hustle features several prolific Hong Kong action cinema actors from the 1970s. Yuen Wah, a former student of the China Drama Academy Peking Opera School who appeared in over a hundred Hong Kong films and was a stunt double for Bruce Lee, played the Landlord of Pigsty Alley. Wah considered starring in Kung Fu Hustle to be the peak of ...
Legend of a Rabbit (Chinese: 兔侠传奇 Tùxiá Chuánqí), released in the United States as Legend of Kung Fu Rabbit, [2] is a 2011 Chinese animated film directed by Sun Yijun. The film features an original cast of Fan Wei , Yan Ni , Zhang Fengyi , Zhang Yishan and Pu Cunxin .
His 2001 film Shaolin Soccer combined kung fu, modified using CGI, with the sports and comedy genres. [40] Chow's 2004 film Kung Fu Hustle, choreographed by martial arts directors Sammo Hung and Yuen Woo-ping, was a similar mixture of kung fu and comedy that achieved international success. [41]
Hong Kong action cinema is the principal source of the Hong Kong film industry's global fame. Action films from Hong Kong have roots in Chinese and Hong Kong cultures including Chinese opera, storytelling and aesthetic traditions, which Hong Kong filmmakers combined with elements from Hollywood and Japanese cinema along with new action choreography and filmmaking techniques, to create a ...
Choy Lee Fut known as Fight the Fight in the USA (Chinese: 蔡李佛) is a 2011 Hong Kong action film directed by Tony Law and Sam Wong, starring Sammo Hung, Yuen Wah, Sammy Hung, Kane Kosugi and Stephen Wong, with special appearances by Lau Kar-wing and Dennis To.
A Southern family seeks vengeance against the Yankee soldier who raped and impregnated their daughter (Lane Bradbury), setting in motion an escalating cycle of violence that Caine may be powerless to stop.
' Eighteen Ways, Three Skills '; [3] a.k.a. Legendary Weapons of Kung Fu [3]) is a 1982 martial arts wuxia film or wuxia pian directed by Liu Chia-liang. It takes place during the late Qing Dynasty when Empress Dowager Cixi dispatches her agents to various factions of the Boxer Rebellion in order to find supernatural martial artists that are ...