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How Sammo Hung Mixed Crude Comedy and Authentic Martial Arts
Mixing comedy and kung fu – humour and violence – could be considered a strange idea, and some kung fu comedies work better than others. The two films which popularised the genre, Snake in The Eagle’s Shadow (1978) and Drunken Master (1978), poked gentle fun at the kung fu itself and were amusing as a result. Others, like The Prodigal Son (1979) and The Magnificent Butcher (1981) – the former directed by Sammo Hung Kam Bo, the latter featuring Hung as an actor – simply intersperse full-on combat scenes with corny humour, and the jokes often detract from the action....
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Terracotta’s Classic Kung-Fu Collection
Looking for something different this Christmas as a stocking filler or to add to the collection? Then why not check out these classic kung-fu films The Shanghai 13 There aren’t too many kung-fu films like Shanghai 13, if you are to be truthfully honest, where you forget you’re watching a kung-fu film, because you get caught up in the plot of the story, in this case it’s a cat and mouse espionage thriller. Even though you know how it ends, as you’ve seen it before, it still gives you a feeling of what if it doesn’t work out this time?...
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