How Jet Li’s Debut Film Saved the Real-Life Shaolin Temple
As the famous setting of countless Kung Fu movies, the original Shaolin Temple of China was brought back from ...
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Battle for the Soul of Kung Fu
A boy dressed in the school's dove gray robes and sneakers ... most enigmatic student on an isolated mountaintop above the Shaolin Temple. There Shi Dejian, a 47-year-old Buddhist monk, had ...
Martial arts maestro’s 36th Chamber of Shaolin sequels, from comedy gold to chaotic flop
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 martial arts film The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, the 1978 film directed by ...
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Eight enlightening facts about the history of kung fu
in defending the Shaolin temple from a historical raid by the Red Turban bandits. Others say the monk Pu’en received his spear technique from a divine being, while the Wudang school of martial ...