Tag: kung fu

  • Shaw Brothers Blood Brothers Kung Fu Movie Review

    This movie pretty much is the power trio of David Chiang, Chen Kuan-Tai and Ti Lung in their prime with Chang Cheh really coming into his own. It’s a historical/period piece focused on the rise and fall of Ma Hsin I, played by Ti Lung. It’s done as a retrospective where Chang Wen Hsiang, David…

  • Shaw Brothers Vengeance Kung Fu Movie Review

    As a young child, I often watched the old Black Belt theater on channel 11 out here. At the time, I didn’t know them by name, but I would watch Shaw Brothers martial arts movies on Saturday afternoons and later switch to Kung Fu theater on channel 9 later in the evening. However, the Shaw…

  • Old School Kung Fu Movie Review: Master of the Flying Guillotine

    [embedplusvideo height=”388″ width=”640″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/12FmHsl” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/8G0LYfxVq0s?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=8G0LYfxVq0s&width=640&height=388&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep4736″ /] I went on a bit of an old school Kung Fu binge this weekend, checking out both Shaw Brothers and non-Shaw Brothers clips over on YouTube out of nostalgia. I ended up stumbling across Master of the Flying Guillotine, which I never up until now had seen…