Browsing Tag Shaw Brothers
Kung Fu Theater: The Duel (1971)
By The Marksman at July 18, 2011 | 8:33 am | 0 Comment
In the early 1900’s Shanghai mob bosses and corrupt politicians were vying for power while women are forced into prostitution and mobs of gangsters were involved in fights to the deathl. On the eve of his retirement, a crime boss (Yang Chih-ching) is killed during a raid by rival gang members and his son, Ren Jie (Ti Lung), goes into exile. About a year later Ren more...
Kung-Fu Theater: OL’ Dirty Kung Fu (1978)
By The Marksman at March 11, 2011 | 9:35 am | 0 Comment
The movie starts out with a guy planning to take his own life by hanging himself, suddenly he gets hit with something. A bum/beggar falls out of a nearby tree, and was the person who hit the suicidal man with something. The suicidal man explains that a man is forcing his daughter into marriage and he can't live with himself because he failed to prevent more...
Kung-Fu Theater: Seven Blows of the Dragon (1972)
By The Marksman at November 5, 2010 | 12:42 pm | 2 Comments
Seven Blows of the Dragon was produced by the Shaw Brothers Studios, it tells the tale of 108 rebels who defended 12th Century China from Sung invaders. Based on the classic Chinese novel The Water Margin, this is one adaptation of a literary cultural milestone that is about as far from stodgy and stolid as it can possibly get. In 11th century China, the corrupt more...
Kung Fu Theater: The Master (1980)
By The Marksman at September 20, 2010 | 12:01 pm | 0 Comment
By: Mark Pollard Gao Jian (Yuen Tak) is a low-ranking kung fu student frequently bullied whose fortunes change when he begins training with a wounded kung fu expert (Chen Kuan-tai) hiding from the ‘Three Devils.’ Forced to leave his school, Gao returns a year later to get revenge for the kung fu expert’s death at the hands of the Three Devils and to more...
Kung Fu Theater: Invincible Armor (1977)
By The Marksman at August 3, 2010 | 6:52 am | 0 Comment
Invincible Armor is another movie brought to us by the Shaw Brothers, and is one of the best movies of this genre. What makes invincible armor great is the simple idea; you have an invincible fighter who has one week spot which has to be found by his opponents. The fact that they had to discover the weak spot made for an entertaining last battle, I would recommend more...
Kung Fu Theater: Two Champions of Shaolin (Aka – Two Champions of Death) Review (1978)
By The Marksman at June 29, 2010 | 7:33 am | 0 Comment
The movie starts out with Chi-San telling Tung Chien-Chen that he has taught him all he can, and that he is ready to leave the Shaolin temple. He gives him one warning that he must avoid getting into fights, but Chien-Chen tells him he must avenge his families death, his master tells him he must wait on the correct time to go after the Manchu’s. Master Chi-San more...
Kung Fu Theater: Eagle vs. Silverfox (1982) Review
By The Marksman at May 24, 2010 | 8:49 am | 0 Comment
Eagle vs. Silver Fox is an independent film in the Kung Fu genre, as with many of these movies it was very difficult to find any information about the actors. Unless it is a Shaw Brothers offering, it can be near impossible to come up with any viable and accurate information. There was some information available on some of the actors, and while this movie is not more...
Kung Fu Theater: Master of the Flying Guillotine
By The Marksman at December 21, 2009 | 3:08 pm | 0 Comment
Story: During the Ching Dynasty, the Ching Empire used a kung fu master to hunt down Han's rebels and Blind Fung-Sheng one of the greatest. But when he heard that the well known One-Armed Boxer killed his 2 disciple, he decide to leave his seclusion life and find that One-Armed Boxer to take revenge for his dead disciples. None the less, Blind Fung-Sheng is the master more...
