Craig Lines Sep 6, 2017
45 years on, we revisit King Boxer, and find a genuinely great martial arts movie...
Asian martial arts are now deeply embedded in western pop culture, but this wasn’t always the case. In fact, it wasn’t really until the early 1970s that they made the transition into the mainstream, thanks in no small part to the release of a film called King Boxer. Of course, nothing occurs in a vacuum. By the late 1960s, martial arts were already being taught more widely in the west. Bruce Lee was making waves with his role in The Green Hornet (although his martial arts films, while huge in Hong Kong, were yet to break the Us market). James Bond had a ninja encounter in 1967’s You Only Live Twice. Kung Fu, the seminal ABC series starring David Carradine, hit TVs across America in 1972. The west was primed and ready...
45 years on, we revisit King Boxer, and find a genuinely great martial arts movie...
Asian martial arts are now deeply embedded in western pop culture, but this wasn’t always the case. In fact, it wasn’t really until the early 1970s that they made the transition into the mainstream, thanks in no small part to the release of a film called King Boxer. Of course, nothing occurs in a vacuum. By the late 1960s, martial arts were already being taught more widely in the west. Bruce Lee was making waves with his role in The Green Hornet (although his martial arts films, while huge in Hong Kong, were yet to break the Us market). James Bond had a ninja encounter in 1967’s You Only Live Twice. Kung Fu, the seminal ABC series starring David Carradine, hit TVs across America in 1972. The west was primed and ready...
- 9/4/2017
- Den of Geek
Like millions of you around the world, i love Kung Fu movies. It is the only real genre that keeps me going back for more and that is why i will always love Kung Fu movies.
I know many of you have probably seen many of the movies i will post about, but this is also for anyone new to the genre of Kung Fu and even Swordplay and looking for other movies to enjoy. I hope you enjoy the movies i have listed and please feel free to comment about any of the movies.
36th Chamber Of Shaolin (1978)
Studio: Shaw Brothers
Director: Lau Kar Leung
Cast: Gordon Liu, Lau Kar Wing, Lo Lieh, Wilson Tong, Lee Hoi San
Action Director(s): Lau Kar Leung
Invincible Armour (1977)
Studio: Lai Wah Film Company
Director: Ng See Yuen
Cast:John Liu, Hwang Jang Lee, Philip Ko, Tino Wong, Yuen Biao
Action Director(s): Corey Yuen,...
I know many of you have probably seen many of the movies i will post about, but this is also for anyone new to the genre of Kung Fu and even Swordplay and looking for other movies to enjoy. I hope you enjoy the movies i have listed and please feel free to comment about any of the movies.
36th Chamber Of Shaolin (1978)
Studio: Shaw Brothers
Director: Lau Kar Leung
Cast: Gordon Liu, Lau Kar Wing, Lo Lieh, Wilson Tong, Lee Hoi San
Action Director(s): Lau Kar Leung
Invincible Armour (1977)
Studio: Lai Wah Film Company
Director: Ng See Yuen
Cast:John Liu, Hwang Jang Lee, Philip Ko, Tino Wong, Yuen Biao
Action Director(s): Corey Yuen,...
- 3/3/2014
- by kingofkungfu
- AsianMoviePulse
“Lovers Vanished” is a Korean independent which bravely takes on the controversial subject of aids by following the seemingly doomed relationship between a criminal on the run and a young woman with a tragic past. The film is writer director Cho Chang Ho’s follow up to his troubled teen drama “The Peter Pan Formula”, and stars popular actor Kim Nam Gil (who recently found fame through the historical drama series “Queen Seon Duk”) and the up and coming Hwang Woo Seul Hye (“Scandal Makers”) as the two leads. The film begins as Mia (Hwang Woo Seul Hye) catches her magician beau Sang Byun (Jung Yun Min, also in “Lovers of Six Years”) in bed with his male lover, who she accidentally shoots. The HIV positive Sang Byun takes the blame for the crime, and while in jail meets Su In (Kim Nam Gil), a young man who has been...
- 7/9/2010
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
When the World Expo in Shanghai opens on May 1, some of America's leading design talent will be center stage. And not just in the American Pavilion.
If you want to see what state-of-the-art interactive experience design looks like, you'll have to hike on over to the Dream Cube, which is the Chinese corporate pavilion. That's where New York-based Esi Design, in collaboration with Chinese architectural firm Atelier Fciz Architects, will dazzle fair goers with a building that changes color based on visitors' activity, incorporates thousands of crowd-sourced photographs and, in an example of extreme upcycling, its 4,949 square meter exterior is made from used CD cases while the interior is cooled using filtered rainwater.
Asked why he was working for the Chinese instead of his countrymen, Esi founder Edwin Schlossberg had a simple answer: "They called me first."
Indeed, the problems plaguing the American pavilion are well-known: funding issues and conflicts...
If you want to see what state-of-the-art interactive experience design looks like, you'll have to hike on over to the Dream Cube, which is the Chinese corporate pavilion. That's where New York-based Esi Design, in collaboration with Chinese architectural firm Atelier Fciz Architects, will dazzle fair goers with a building that changes color based on visitors' activity, incorporates thousands of crowd-sourced photographs and, in an example of extreme upcycling, its 4,949 square meter exterior is made from used CD cases while the interior is cooled using filtered rainwater.
Asked why he was working for the Chinese instead of his countrymen, Esi founder Edwin Schlossberg had a simple answer: "They called me first."
Indeed, the problems plaguing the American pavilion are well-known: funding issues and conflicts...
- 4/14/2010
- by Linda Tischler
- Fast Company
From Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers, the founding fathers of kung fu film, comes the groundbreaking cult movie King Boxer (Five Fingers Of Death). Required viewing for cinephiles and martial arts fans alike, King Boxer took world audiences by storm with the tale of a young martial artist who battles his way into a national tournament in the name of love, honour and revenge. His journey from young fighter in training to master of the Iron Fist delves deep into mythic kung fu lore and is laced with explosive action and dazzling fight sequences. Amazing special features included extremely rare film commentary by Quentin Tarantino.
As well as the Quentin Tarantino commentary also included are: Interview with filmmaker Chang-Hwa Jeong, Interviews and commentaries with film scholars David Chute and Elvis Mitchell, Interview with action director Lau Kar Wing, Stills gallery, Trailer gallery and Commentator biographies
Directed by Chang Chang Ho, Five Fingers Of Death...
As well as the Quentin Tarantino commentary also included are: Interview with filmmaker Chang-Hwa Jeong, Interviews and commentaries with film scholars David Chute and Elvis Mitchell, Interview with action director Lau Kar Wing, Stills gallery, Trailer gallery and Commentator biographies
Directed by Chang Chang Ho, Five Fingers Of Death...
- 1/28/2009
- by Leigh
- Latemag.com/film
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