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Wing Chun (Cantonese) or Yongchun (Mandarin) (Chinese: 詠春 or 咏春, lit. "singing spring") [7] is a concept-based martial art, a form of Southern Chinese kung fu, and a close-quarters system of self-defense. It is a martial arts style characterized by its focus on close-quarters hand-to-hand combat, rapid-fire punches, and straightforward ...
Spiritual Kung Fu: Half a Loaf of Kung Fu: Shaolin Mantis (a.k.a. The Deadly Mantis) Five Deadly Venoms: Game of Death: Shogun's Samurai: Warriors Two: 1979: Re-Enter the Dragon: The Fearless Hyena: Snake in the Monkey's Shadow: The True Game of Death: Dragon Fist: Master With Cracked Fingers (a.k.a. Snake Fist Fighter) Mad Monkey Kung Fu: G.I ...
Kung fu film (Chinese: 功夫片; pinyin: Gōngfu piàn; Jyutping: Gung1fu1pin3) is a subgenre of martial arts films and Hong Kong action cinema set in the contemporary period and featuring realistic martial arts. It lacks the fantasy elements seen in wuxia, a related martial arts genre that uses historical settings based on ancient China. [1]
Box office. $177.4 million [2] Hero (Chinese: 英雄; pinyin: Yīngxióng) is a 2002 wuxia martial arts film [3] directed, co-written, and produced by Zhang Yimou, and starring Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Donnie Yen and Chen Daoming. [4] The cinematography was by Christopher Doyle, and the musical score composed by ...
Kung fu films are a significant movie genre in themselves. Like westerns for Americans, they have become an identity of Chinese cinema. As the most prestigious movie type in Chinese film history, kung fu movies were among the first Chinese films produced and the wuxia period films (武俠片) are the original form of Chinese kung fu films. The ...
Box office. $6,524,620 [1] Warriors of Virtue is a 1997 martial arts fantasy film directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Ronny Yu in his American English-language directorial debut, written by Michael Vickerman and Hugh Kelley, and starring Angus Macfadyen, Mario Yedidia, and Marley Shelton. The film was an international co-production between the ...
The Incredible Kung Fu Master: Joe Cheung: Sammo Hung: 1979: Wing Chun is one of two opposing schools The Prodigal Son: Sammo Hung: 1981: Chinese name: Bai ga jai. A popular pseudo-historical film about Wing Chun and featuring Wing Chun used in most of its fight scenes. [5] Plain Jane to the Rescue: John Woo: Josephine Siao, Ricky Hui: 1982
Wuxia (武俠, literally "martial arts and chivalry") is a genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China. Although wuxia is traditionally a form of historical fantasy literature, its popularity has caused it to be adapted for such diverse art forms as Chinese opera, manhua, television dramas, films, and video games.