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Spiritual Kung Fu: Kung Fu: Half a Loaf of Kung Fu: Kung Fu: Shaolin Mantis (a.k.a. The Deadly Mantis) Five Deadly Venoms: Game of Death: Shogun's Samurai: Warriors Two: 1979: Re-Enter the Dragon: The Fearless Hyena: Snake in the Monkey's Shadow: The True Game of Death: Dragon Fist: Master With Cracked Fingers (a.k.a. Snake Fist Fighter) Mad ...
Brandy Yuen's Master of Zen is a rare gem in the realm of martial arts movies. It contains equal parts wuxia -styled martial arts, drama and religious philosophy. Yuen manages to create an action-filled homage to Bodhidharma (known as Tamo in China), the symbolic father of Shaolin wushu while staying true to the figure’s influence on the ...
Jue Yuan begins Northern Shaolin kung fu training. After a time, he has gained impressive fighting abilities, but while sparring, he pictures the Emperor and nearly kills his partner. He is punished by facing the wall for three days and runs away from the Shaolin Temple. Jue Yuan attempts to assassinate the Emperor, but fails and is forced to ...
Subsequent to the Anthology of the Patriarchal Hall, the only dated addition to the biography of Bodhidharma is in the Jingde Records of the Transmission of the Lamp (景德傳燈錄 Jĭngdé chuándēng lù, published 1004 CE), by Daoyuan (道原), in which it is stated that Bodhidharma's original name had been Bodhitāra but was changed by ...
Kung Fu: The Movie is a 1986 made-for-television film and the first in a series of sequels which continued the story of the Shaolin monk, Kwai Chang Caine, first introduced in the 1972–1975 television series Kung Fu. David Carradine reprises the role of Caine. The role of his son, Chung Wang, is portrayed by Brandon Lee in his acting debut ...
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin [2] is a 1978 Hong Kong kung fu film directed by Lau Kar-leung and produced by Shaw Brothers, starring Gordon Liu. The film follows a highly fictionalized version of San Te , a legendary Shaolin martial arts disciple who trained under the general Chi Shan.
Shaolin kung fu has more than hundreds of extant styles. There is recorded documentation of more than a thousand extant forms, which makes Shaolin the biggest school of martial art in the world. In the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Shaolin monks chose 100 of the best styles of Shaolin kung fu. Then they shortlisted the 18 most famous of them.
Kung fu films are a significant movie genre in themselves. Like westerns for Americans, they have become an identity of Chinese cinema. As the most prestigious movie type in Chinese film history, kung fu movies were among the first Chinese films produced and the wuxia period films (武俠片) are the original form of Chinese kung fu films. The ...