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Kung Fu Origins: Bruce Lee

November 26, 2012

The world is familiar with Bruce Lee the actor and martial artist. Although he only starred in a handful of films and one short lived television series, he was able to spread the popularity of martial arts movies throughout the world. He remains a household name almost 40 years after his death. In the years after he passed away not only …

36 Hour Sale On Select 36 Styles Tees

November 26, 2012

Holiday shopping season is upon us. Here at Shaolin Chamber 36 I would like to offer a minor sale on a few select 36 Styles t-shirts. So if you have not yet picked up one of the shirts on sale, or you have bought one, but would like to grab one in a different color shirt or shirts, now is the best time to do so. The sale begins 12:00 am Monday November 26 and ends …

FuTube Fridays: Eagle’s Claw

November 23, 2012

Director Lee Tso Nam definitely knew how to make them. Yet another kung fu movie gem, featuring an all star cast, with some of the greatest martial arts film actors to come out of the genre. It’s been years since I have seen this film, but 1 somewhat interesting fact I vividly recall, is that the 2 words “Eagle’s Claw” were spoken a total of …

Would You Watch A Actionless Jackie Chan Movie?

November 20, 2012

Media organizations around the world are repeating the story that Jackie Chan has announced his new film, Chinese Zodiac 2012, will be his last big action movie. This makes sense, as Jackie is approaching 60 years old and can not possibly keep up his style of stuntwork forever. While everyone runs the same story (more or less) repeating Jackie’s …

Ric Meyers Perspective on Martial Arts in Media

November 20, 2012

For longer than many of our readers have been alive, Ric Meyers has been covering martial arts movies. As an author of both fiction and non-fiction books related to movies and TV shows, teacher, actor and even comic book editor, he has a unique perspective on the films of the fist. After over 20 years with Inside Kung Fu as their “movie guy,” …

Hwang Jang Lee’s Canton Viper DVD

November 16, 2012

Thanks to the guys over at Houndslowteam, for those that don’t know, consist of a group of guys who came together after the death of a friend, to collectively find obscure martial arts films, restore and subtitle, then release to the masses, all in remembrance of their lost friend, “Houndslow”, who was a huge fan of classic martial arts films himself …

FuTube Fridays: The Unbeaten 28

November 16, 2012

Joseph Kuo has directed some of the more memorable kung fu films of the late 70s, films such as ’18 Bronzemen’, ‘Return of the 18 Bronzemen’, ‘Born Invincible’, ‘The 7 Grandmasters’, ‘The Mystery of Chess Boxing’, ‘Dragon’s Claws’, ‘The Eight Masters’, and so much more. His career in the film industry started to wind down once the 80s came …

FuTube Fridays: Shaolin vs Ninja

November 9, 2012

Thanks to YouTuber rewtnull, this edition of FuTube Friday features a very nice widescreen, English dub version of the 1983 Alexander Lo Rei “VS” film, ‘Shaolin vs Ninja’. Is this movie as good as Lo Rei’s other “VS” film, ‘Shaolin vs Lama’, NO, but if you haven’t seen this one, it is definitely worth a view. If you have already seen the Ultra-Classic …

Kung Fu Origins: The Water Margin Novel

November 6, 2012

One of the four great classical Chinese novels, The Water Margin is the story of the righteous bandit Song Jiang, aka The Opportune Rain, and his 107 heroic sworn brothers and sisters. It is sometimes called The Outlaws of the Marsh or All Men Are Brothers. The name is derived from the marshes and swamps (or water margin) around Mount Liang where the bandits …