The mid-1980s were a strange time for martial arts movies, both in the U.S. and abroad. The broadly termed “kung fu” genre had run amok with wild abandon in Hong Kong cinema in the 1960s and ...
Starting in the late '70s, Chan was just one of the actors to ... like Donnie Yen and Michelle Yeoh. Kung fu movie techniques ...
A movie within a movie, created to spoof the martial arts genre. Writer/director Steve Oedekerk uses contemporary characters and splices them into a 1970s kung-fu film, weaving the new and old ...
Jesse Freedman has found another helpful, albeit unexpected source: kung fu movies. Five or six years ago, the Jewish director and playwright was watching the martial arts film “Canton Viper ...
Narrator: Wirework, or "wire-fu," has long been a signature of kung fu movies, with OG Hong Kong films using wires so thin they were invisible on-screen, even if they sometimes broke. These wires ...
Kung Fu champion Zak Song rates seven spear and staff fight scenes in movies, such as "Ip Man," for realism. Song discusses the accuracy of spear and staff scenes in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden ...
From snake-themed events to whether your luck is in: discover all you need to know about the coming Lunar New Year in our Year of the Snake 2025 series. For centuries, animals have been a source ...