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9th International Shaolin Wushu Festival

October 22, 2012

The 9th International Shaolin Wushu Festival opening ceremony was held in Zhengzhou City, central China’s Henan Province, on Oct. 21, 2012. The festival will last five days, and will include activities such as a welcoming ceremony, Wushu competitions, Wushu seminars and a closing ceremony. 195 Wushu teams with 1,500 athletes from 73 countries and regions …

Horror Fu: 2000 and Beyond

October 22, 2012

Well, the good news is that Asian horror is alive and well but the bad news is that the genre is moving further and further away from martial arts. In a way that makes sense because so many parts of the world stereotype all Chinese movies as kung fu movies! I bent the rules a bit early on to include movies such as “Black Magic,” mainly because it features classic kung fu …

POLL: Yuen Wo Ping’s Greatest Decade?

October 21, 2012

Yuen Wo Ping, a man of many talents, has been involved with the martial world of Asian cinema since the early ’60s as an actor, then began his career as a action director in the ’70s, then moving on to directing some truly great films beginning in the late ’70s. Yuen Wo Ping began working in the early ’60s as an actor with the legendary Shaw Brothers studios …

Alternative DVD Covers Update

October 20, 2012

It has been quite some time since I featured a Covers update, and thanks to the Shaolin Chamber 36 Forums brother, DongFangXu, whom in fact made all these alternative covers featured in this update, I am please to present to you 9 new covers for your visual pleasure. If any of you out there have any retail DVD/Blu-ray covers not already featured on this site …

FuTube Fridays: Fatal Flying Guillotines

October 19, 2012

What’s better than a classic kung fu film featuring some of your favorite actors coming together to make a great action filled film, how about a kung fu film featuring some extraordinary lethal weapons? With this movie you get to see a pair of flying killing machines in the form of dual guillotines being delivered to their victims with …

Fab 5 Freddy, “Kung Fu Wild Style”

October 17, 2012

Fab 5 Freddy, a lot of you may remember him as the original host of the late 80s – mid 90s MTV rap video show, Yo! MTV Raps. Fab 5 Freddy is a pioneer of this thing we call Hip Hop, original member of the graffiti group known as “The Fabulous 5″. I remember first seeing him in the 1983 groundbreaking film, ‘Wild Style’, which for me personally …

The Presidents of the U.S.A., Jackie Chan Movie Equivalents

October 17, 2012

In this very unique article, the author Will Sloan of Thought Catalog compares Presidents of the United States of America, to Jackie Chan movies. Linking the Presidents personal traits and accomplishments, with that of Jackie Chan movie characters or complete movies is quite interesting. If you are familiar with the past Presidents …

Horror Fu: 1990s

October 15, 2012

In our third installment on the intersection of kung fu flicks and horror movies we are ready to look at the ’90s. Ahhh…. the ’90s: Vanilla Ice, OJ, Titanic. Dude, the ’90s sucked. Well, they might not have been all bad. Jackie finally broke through as an action star in the US, John Woo brought Hong Kong action to the world and Chuck and Sammo …

FuTube Fridays: The Kid With The Golden Arm

October 12, 2012

What else can you say about any of these Shaw Brothers films that feature the cast of the cult favorite, ‘The 5 DeadlyVenoms’. All these films can easily be categorized as “Must See”, and rightfully so. Under the direction of legendary Chang Cheh, these films (Venoms Shaw Brothers) so proudly represent the genre as a whole, and once you’ve seen one …