Kung Fu movies.....
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I really liked Musa. I liked the characters. The young ambitious general who is afraid he doesn't measure up, and who also refuses to acknowledge that the former slave is now a free man...The weary and wise sergeant...the former slave with the incredible fighting skills...Scenes such as when they track the Mongols through the forest...fun stuff imo.
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I think it's awesome and amazing you guys remember all this. I try but fail. All I know is there is a renaissance happening with this genre and many of the films are outstanding. Way beyond, 'just a kung fu movie'
The renaissance of period kung fu dramas started back in the late 80s with "A Chinese Ghost Story". The genre went out of fashion in the late 70s when both Jackie Chan arrived on the scene and the arrival of Cinema City Studios (home of John Woo and Tsai Hark). After "A Chinese Ghost Story", the period kung fu drama genre went into full bloom with "The Swordsman". The rest, as they say, is history....Another one to look out for is Tsui Hark's new epic DETECTIVE DEE AND MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME. Chinese Sherlock Holmes set during the Tang Dynasty with action choreography by Sammo Hung.
Good to see Carina Lau finally making it into a big international movie. Last time I saw her, she couldn't act herself out of a paper bag. -
I see you are in SF; I went to school in Santa Cruz. I mention this because having peers who were interested in the same art forms helps to keep one current. There is no one I'm aware of in my part of Montana who could have a discussion of these films. This is not Flathead or Bozeman- this is Eastern Montana cattle country.
The only time I see these films are on the independent film channel. So it's been hit and miss.
I'm very impressed.
There has also been an emergence of great films out of Australia, though these aren't martial arts per see.
Scratch the surface of a polk speaker owner and find a wealth of cultural information. -
Maybe it's high time that Australia represented in the martial artes genre lol
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I see you are in SF; I went to school in Santa Cruz. I mention this because having peers who were interested in the same art forms helps to keep one current. There is no one I'm aware of in my part of Montana who could have a discussion of these films. This is not Flathead or Bozeman- this is Eastern Montana cattle country.
Having never been to eastern Montana, or Montana at all, I assume it must feel "strange" to discuss this genre of movies locally.
Earlier this year, I saw a documentary called "A Moment In Time" by Oscar-winning filmmaker Janet Yang. It's about the decline, and ultimately the disappearance, of Chinese theaters in Chinatowns of the US. A quote from the documentary shocked me into remembering the times when my father took me to San Francisco's Chinatown for the weekly kung fu double features....By 2000 there wasn't a single remaining Chinatown theater anywhere in the U.S.
Therefore, seeing a kung fu movie on the big screen in a city with a large Asian population can still be quite difficult.
Btw, "A Moment In Time" was featured on PBS and I highly recommend it. Try to catch it if it's even on rerun. -
I need to see that documentary. My cousins and I used to catch the double feature in Alhambra in the early to mid 90s. $5 for two Chinese movies playing back to back. Those were the days
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NOT a movie, but was Japan's number one comicbook for some time, anyone hear of Lone Wolf and Cub? I think there was a film adaptation, but I'm not sure.
(a samurai carries his toddler on his back as he travels across Japan seeking truth, righting wrongs, and loosely looking for those that wronged him)
comics are important. They influence other art forms and artists. A lot of the style and content of kung fu movies today was first attempted in comics.
I think a college student in 20 years will look back to this time and see, 'the good old days'. This thread has cheered me up. There's so much crap in this world, wars and struggle, but in these films there is a renaissance.
Beauty, wonder, and a__kicking.
I'm going to write down every film in this thread.
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The director of "Warlords" is remaking One-Armed Swordsman with Donnie Yen playing the titular character.anything by the shaw brothers is good.
i'm a fan of the one armed swordsman films... not all by the shaw brothers... but the best ones are...
i didn't read the whole thread but i hope someone mentioned master of the flying guillotine...
one armed swordsman fan page
Btw, there are no less than six Lone Wolf and Cub movies made in the 70s. The action gets progressively more violent and the body count ridiculously higher with each sequel. -
Wow. I have an American distributor's re-release of perhaps 50 Lone Wolf and Cub comics. The paper is better than average and this is a decent rendition. I guess the series must be in hundreds-
I don't recall any ridiculous body counts, unlike Kill Bill l for instance.
Looked it up- I have the 45 editions from First Comics, which includes a cover by Frank Miller and other well known artists.
Dark Horse released the entire series starting in 2000 and finished in 2002
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Does anyone remembrer the spoof on martial arts movies that was part of the movie, Kentucky Fried Movie? I remember it being pretty funny.
One of the opening scenes as i remember is some poor schmuck being executed. They chop off his head. Then the head bad guy says, "TAKE HIM TO BE TORTURED"
I also remember a Movie of the Week TV movie called Men of the Dragon.
Escrimador here. If anyone knows what that is. I studied under Grandmaster Angel Cabales. -
I studied eskrima. Doce Pares, under one of Grandmaster Dionisius Canete's students. Had to take a break cause I sprained my right ankle pretty bad during full-contact stick sparring three months ago
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I've seen demonstrations of Doce Pares. Cacoy is way cool. Yeah, when they lock you up espeically with a stick, they can easily send you put you on the groud.
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Yes I'm in the Los Angeles area. We had the honor of seeing Guro Dionisius Canete demonstrate some incredible joint locking arnis techniques in empty hand vs knife, single stick, double stick, long stick technique, etc. when he came to visit us several months ago. He moves so fast and effortlessly, especially for someone in his 70s!
A lot of my classmates are also into kungfu movies, especially the stick vs knife duel in SPL -
Lest it be forgotten, Story of Ricky. I laughed so hard the first time I saw this one my sides hurt. The violence is so over the top it's hilarious.2007 Club Polk Football Pool Champ
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Hammer of God with the orange-ish blood.
36 Chambers of Shaolin
Ok did anyone else get suckered into buying the crappy 3 dvd set of Tony Jaa movies from Big Lots?
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NOT a movie, but was Japan's number one comicbook for some time, anyone hear of Lone Wolf and Cub? I think there was a film adaptation, but I'm not sure.
(a samurai carries his toddler on his back as he travels across Japan seeking truth, righting wrongs, and loosely looking for those that wronged him)
There are 6 movies and they are fantastic. Lots of blood spray and cool fight scenes. Also some good nudity thrown in.
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I hope I see one someday.
