Jet Li's role in a 1986 kung fu movie marked an early - but important - career milestone that is surprisingly not shared by ...

A martial arts star from the 1970s and 1980s revived what was arguably his best kung fu movie by directing a stellar remake in 2016.

How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World. Shaw Brothers: Wuxia Warriors and Kung Fu Masters premieres on Mubi on Dec. 22. Watch the trailer for the collection above.

GammaRay and Celestial Pictures will be hosting a Twitch stream featuring 44 full-length features from the Shaw Brothers Studio's kung fu collection. The marathon will be happening from February ...

Kung Fu Hustle,' you know, is a film about hybridity," UCLA's Cheng-Sim Lim explains. "So were the Shaw Brothers' martial art films. It took a lot from samurai movies, the spaghetti westerns ...

Run Run Shaw, a pioneering Hong Kong media mogul whose studio helped to bring kung fu movies to the wider ... Eventually with his brothers he opened 139 movie theaters across the region.

(SOUNDBITE OF FANFARE MUSIC) GREENE: The television and movie mogul popularized the Kung Fu genre, opening Shaw Brothers film studio in Hong Kong, in his early 20s. (SOUNDBITE OF A MOVIE TRAILER ...

And we have a feeling that you do too, which is why we’ve launched a brand new film series entitled Shaw Brothers Kung Fu Theatre on Alpha, Nerdist and Geek & Sundry’s new streaming service.

Shaw Brothers movies from the 1960s such as the kung-fu film “The One-Armed Swordsman” and the musical “The Kingdom and the Beauty” once accounted for more than half of Asia’s box-office ...