Kung Fu Movies - The Monkey King 3D! - Top Grossing Movie in the World - with Donny Yen!

 


 The top grossing movie in the world right now is a Kung Fu movie! The latest version of the Monkey King Starring Donny Yen in 3D!

Man of Tai Chi - Movie Trailer

                                             New Keanu Reeves movie - Man of Tai Chi

Tai Chi Hero

Kung Fu Movie Posters

 

Gordon Liu - 36 Chambers of Shaolin

 

Jackie Chan's - Drunken Master

Jet Li - Hero

Donnie Yen - Ip Man

Old School Parkour with Yuen Biao

Yuen Biao is Jackie Chan's younger Kung Fu brother and an amazing acrobat and stunt man.

36 Chambers of Shaolin - Gordon Liu - 1978

Kung Fu vs Karate!

"Taichi" Movie Trailer (HD)

A movie about the founder of Yang Style Tai Ji. The trailer looks interesting........

Drunken Master!

Jackie Chan in Drunken Master 1 & 2 - fantastic athleticism and choreography!

                                              My favorite fight scene from Drunken Master 2

The Last Airbender Practices Bagua!

On the popular cartoon The Last Airbender, the hero practices the art of "air bending". Which looks suspiciously like Bagua Zhang (at least the wushu competition form of bagua).

A Movie Worth Watching!

Donnie Yen in Yip Man - The story of Bruce Lee's Wing Chun Kung Fu teacher.

Master Killer!

Cool pic of Gordon Liu from the Kung Fu classic "Enter The 36 Chambers" AKA Master Killer!

Amazing Chinese Acrobats!

A short tribute video to Yuen Biao, Jackie Chan's classmate and brilliant stunt man.

True Story of Wong Fei Hung

This is part 1 of the classic Hong Kong film originally released in 1949 that pioneered the Wuxia film genre. Visionary Director Wu Pang cast Chinese Opera star Kwan Tak Hing in the role of the legendary folk hero Wong Fei Hung; a role that he was to hold for more than 40 years in over 100 film and TV productions.

In this film, grand disciples of the real life Wong Fei Hung were enlisted as consultants and background actors

The Knights of Kung Fu

Re-Blogged from http://www.plumpub.com

Here is another word I would like to add to our martial vocabulary: Wu Xia (Wu Hsia). This translates pretty well into the English term, Knight-errant. Wu of course comes from the word for “martial” as in Wushu (martial arts). Hsia is a Chinese word composed of the characters for person and “in the middle”, somewhat like the term Ronin in Japanese.

Like a Knight of the Round Table, the Wu Xia (Shee-Ah) was a real figure following a creed of altruism, disdain for money, justice, individual freedom and loyalty. Up until the Qing dynasty, these Kung Fu Knights made a real presence in China, supplying an iconic figure in the Chinese consciousness. For centuries these brave men were hired to protect and advise those in need. This became a heroic image in the Chinese mind and only started to dispel with the rise of insurance companies and the Pao Chu (Body Guards). Many of the latter came from the Wu Xia, but now they were absorbed into the “system” and lost their reputations as lone wolves.

We still watch them today, flying through the air with their swords held out like banners, striking their poses, running across the rooftops. In Iron Monkey, Crouching Dragon, Emperor and the Assassin and hundreds of others films we thrill to the exploits of these colorful knights. They represent that part of us we feel we are refining by bringing the awareness we find in martial practice. Think about it: many millions of practitioners all feel worth here, despite the media continually misunderstanding the importance of the art. The idea itself if no more exclusively Chinese than breathing. It is the archetype of the hero, the trickster and the magician. However differently it may dress from culture to culture, it remains real and inspiring.

Here is a translation of a Chinese poem.

Song of the Eastern Gate by Lu Yu

Presented to Ch’in Yi-Chung

Don’t you see
The man from the Eastern Gate has the spirit of Hou Ying;
He killed someone in broad daylight in the dusty market-place,
The Metropolitan Prefect knew his name but dared not arrest him,
While he leant his sword against the sky on Mount K’ung-T’ung.
He made friends with three or four like-minded men,
Together they rode freely on their piebald horses,
Looking up to heaven, he laughed and made light of all things,
Then went into his house and received guests no more.
Yet his line prospered and his descendants became officials at court,
Ah!

From The Chinese Knight-Errant by James J. Y. Lu

Most of us are not jumping over walls or spinning staves so fast we fly like helicopters, at least not yet. But with a little practice…

Shaolin (2011) HD Movie Trailer

Kung Fu Movies on You Tube

This user has uploaded a ton of old Jackie Chan (and other) Kung Fu Movies on You Tube

KUNG FU MOVIES

1911 - Jackie Chan - Official Trailer

Could be good. I like the premise.

"At the beginning of the 20th century, China is in a state of crisis. The country is split into warring factions, the citizens are starving, and recent political reforms have made matters worse, not better. The ruling Qing Dynasty, led by a seven-year-old emperor, is completely out of touch after 250 years of unquestioned power.
With ordinary citizens beginning to revolt openly, the Qing Dynasty has created a powerful, modern army (the "New Army") to quash any rebellion. But weapons are expensive, and desperate for cash, the Qing leaders are trading anything they can get their hands on with foreign countries... and selling China's future in the process.
Huang Xin (Jackie Chan) has recently returned from Japan, where he has studied the art of modern warfare. When he finds his country falling apart, he feels he has no choice but to pick up the sword, leading an increasingly desperate series of violent rebellions against the powerful Qing Dynasty and the New Army- several with tragic consequences.
From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, with no expense spared in production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy, 1911 is a true epic in every sense of the word."

The Sword Identity (2011) - Movie Trailer

"In a martial arts event during the Ming Dynasty, a young swordsman must use not only his exquisite swordplay technique, but also his wits, when competing against the masters of four different philosophies of combat."

Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate (TSUI HARK) - Jet Li - 龙门飞甲 (2011)

Looks good :)