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...

The film starts out with a kata being performed by a Kung-Fu expert. The narrator explains to us, the animal techniques that make up the different styles. He explains that there are a number of forms, two of the hardest being the Crane with it’s deadly beak strikes and the Snake with it’s stealthy maneuvers. What he wants us to understand is that out...

Easily one of my favorite Kung Fu films, 3 Evil Masters delivers in both dynamic choreography and excellent quotes. The dubbing is phenomenal in this Shaw Brothers gem as you will finish the movie repeating the jokes or threats by the characters “‘I despise your killing, and raping… your… despicable!” (quotes such as this). The only...

There’s usually a pre-requisite to being dubbed the “Silver Fox” in Kung Fu theater. Not only must you be evil… or naughty, but you must master your Kung Fu to the point where one opponent isn’t enough to take you on. Then if one man is dumb enough to go at you solo, you toy with him endlessly before dangling his life before your...

Kung Fu Theater was to the 70s and 80s what anime was to the 90s, it was the cool thing to watch and knowing the “good ones” placed you in the know and made you cool with everyone who was into it. Newcomers to the genre probably have a hard time understanding the love for it and wonder what it is that makes us fans so crazy about it. If asked,...