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.

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.

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

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.

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...