The cinematography is beautiful, from the lush green hills to the bright olive waters that house the grass stalks where the serenity is only broken by kung fu practitioners battling each other for the right to live.  The choreography is as clean as it gets, making sure that we don’t miss any breaks, blocks or punches. The fighting was Wing Chun styled with...

I wish every old Kung Fu movie that I love could be remastered as perfectly as Brothers Five. The colors are brilliant, the footage is seamless and the sound is excellent. What an enjoyable piece of Kung Fu cinema by the Shaw Brothers this Brothers Five is. I am not sure what the obsession with the number five and Kung Fu is with this team but like Five Deadly...

If there’s any movie to exemplify the honor and selflessness of the Shaolin monks it would be Shaolin Temple Strikes Back. In this epic, monk Ce Ling starts off as a humble warrior whose job it is to protect an 11 yr old princess from the Manchu horde. When the Manchus kill her father and slaughter his kingdom, they attempt to kidnap her in order to ...

“Loss of a fight means death to a Samurai” In concept Chinese Super Ninja is a martial arts enthusiast’s dream come true. Here you have Kung Fu, the mother of all fighting forms going up against Ninjitsu, the most exotic of the fighting forms. Well concept is great but the execution… not so much. Ninjas representing the five elements...

Everyone knows who Bruce Lee is, as arguably the most famous of all movie martial artists dead or alive, Bruce’s legacy transcends time and will not be fading anytime soon. So the opportunity to hear… well better yet, see the life of the man who taught Bruce Lee is an appealing one to put things simply. Ip Man was a master of Wing Chun who lived a life of...

If you’ve ever watched a movie that has a tragedy and find yourself saying “man if that happened to me I would lose my friggin mind”. Well Thundering Mantis presents such a scenario as we watch a local street gang turn a good fish seller into a raving lunatic. Ah Chi (Leung Kar Yan) is a practitioner of Kung Fu, he loves fighting but is a good...