Shaw Brothers backed Lau Kar-leung to make two sequels to The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, one so bad it was the studio's last ...

As the famous setting of countless Kung Fu movies, the original Shaolin Temple of China was brought back from near-destruction by a Jet Li movie.

Despite only having a short stint as a kung fu movie star, Bruce Lee had a tremendous impact on the genre, one that steered the direction of so many Hong Kong movie studios for years. For ...

The mid-1980s were a strange time for martial arts movies, both in the U.S. and abroad. The broadly termed “kung fu” genre had run amok with wild abandon in Hong Kong cinema in the 1960s and ...

Over the years, many of these movements and techniques have been used not just in real life but also by characters on the big screen. We recall five films where snake kung fu makes an appearance.

Kung fu films are often filled with superhuman feats ... and in the 1970s and 1980s, even the Chinese government investigated theories that Qigong enabled you to ‘read’ unseen objects or ...

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, the 1978 film directed by venerated ... into the second and third instalments. Kung fu comedies were all the rage in the 1980s, so Shaw Brothers decided to capitalise ...