36 Chambers Of Shaolin

The 3. 6th Chamber Trilogy Essential Kung Fu Movie Viewing If youve watched more than a handful of Chinese martial arts films, youll be familiar with the iconic Shaw Brothers logo that adorns so many credits sequences. The brothers in question Runme, Runje and Runde, later joined by little brother Run Run set up the first incarnation of their film studio Tianyi in 1. Chinese film industry. Their Movietown studio in Hong Kong was one of the largest and most technically advanced in the world and the martial arts films it made in the 1. WUWEAR the official brand of the WuTang Clan was founded way back in 1995. Long before anybody else in the HipHop business the clan members were already wearing. Chiskie sztuki walki charakteryzuj si niezwykym bogactwem technik walki broni bia oraz bez broni, za pomoc zadawania ciosw, kopni, dwigni. Re7EVqQ4Qg4/VATwaLq6DrI/AAAAAAAAKvM/CqxzkGroixg/s1600/36th-chamber-4.png' alt='36 Chambers Of Shaolin' title='36 Chambers Of Shaolin' />Chinese cinema to the west. At the height of the kung fu boom, the Shaws were producing 3. Many of the big names in Hong Kong cinema got their start working at Movietown and the system allowed the star directors tremendous creative control over their output. As Wu Tang Clans RZA whose work has been heavily influenced by the Shaws so eloquently puts it, the difference between a Shaw movie and a regular martial arts movie is like the difference between cornflakes and frosted flakes adding if its Shaw Brothers, you know itll be dope. Indeed, choosing the dopest Shaw Brothers movie is a near impossible task, but this month for our ninja and martial arts special, Im taking a look at one that would end up in almost everyones top five at least  The 3. Chamber Of Shaolin 1. The 3. 6th Chamber Of Shaolin was one of the first films directed by Lau Kar leung, although he had been around the industry for some time, working as an actor and an action choreographer for the Shaws. Lau was also a highly skilled martial artist and master of the difficult Hung Fist style, which is how he initially met Gordon Liu. Years after theyd trained together, Lau insisted Liu his favourite student play the lead in 3. Enter the WuTang 36 Chambers is the debut studio album by the American hip hop group WuTang Clan, released November 9, 1993, on Loud Records and distributed. Jahr Titel Chartplatzierungen Anmerkungen DE AT CH UK US 1993 Enter the WuTang 36 Chambers 83 3 Wo. Wo. Erstverffentlichung 9. November. WuTang Corp. WuTang Clan and all its members and affiliates. We offer loads of audio and video. Wu Tang Clan WuTang Clan in 2007 Algemene informatie Land Verenigde Staten Labels Lady of The Lake, 14th Floor Records, Warner Bros. Records, Warner Music Group. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, also known as The Master Killer and Shaolin Master Killer and Shao Lin San Shi Liu Fang is a 1978 Hong Kong kung fu film directed by Liu. Staff Weapons Jo, Bo, Gun, Bang, Staff, Cane, Zhang, Walking Stick Pole, Quarterstaff, Spear, Short Staff, Stick, Rod Bibliography Links Quotations Equipment. Chamber despite having little experience in front of a camera. Ni Kuangs screenplay took Lau and Lius idea of a more realistic and philosophical approach to onscreen kung fu and turned it into a political piece based on Chinese folk hero, San Te. The end result is a compelling, sophisticated martial arts film. Gordon Liu plays Liu Yude, a working class student in Qing Dynasty Guangdong. Hes the son of a fishmonger, sick of seeing his family and friends persecuted by the Manchu oppressors who rule the province with an iron fist. Although he joins a group of revolutionaries, their plans are discovered by the Manchus and a bloody massacre ensues. Liu escapes and manages starving and injured to literally crawl his way through the woods and up the mountains to Shaolin Temple, the place where hes heard they teach kung fu. Although Shaolin is closed to outsiders, the monks take him in and heal him, seeing his arrival as an act of providence. Theres initial resistance to training him but, when its clear hes not giving up, they give him a monk name San Te and allow him to enter the 3. Its quite a daring narrative in that at least an hour of the film is devoted to training sequences something most films get finished in a five minute montage but its never dull. Most of the chambers are iconic and imaginative. The earlier ones play San Tes incompetence for laughs but, as he moves through the chambers and improves his skills, the tasks become harder and more exciting. Some focus on training individual parts of the body, such as the incredible Head Chamber where he has to fight his way through hanging sandbags using only his head. There are chambers devoted to the practice of individual weapons. Others focus on mental discipline, like the Eye Chamber where he stands between two flaming sticks and tries not to move his head while watching a pendulum swing. Its almost like a Saw trapEventually, San Te creates his own weapon a three jointed nunchaku that needs to be seen in action to be believed and becomes both physically and mentally ready to become true Shaolin. Having completed the training in record time, he petitions the Temple to open a 3. Chamber that allows laymen to learn kung fu, thus creating a force of highly trained martial artists ready to start a full blown revolution against the Manchus. The rest is, literally, history. So what makes 3. 6th Chamber so special Well, for one, its beautifully made. The sets and costumes are as lavish as youd expect from the Shaws but the technicality of the filmmaking is off the scale. Lau insisted on shooting all the fights at regular speed many directors of the era used sped up film for their crazier stunts and getting exhaustive long takes. Sometimes were watching as many as 2. Its balletic and breathtaking, a testament to the killer combination of Laus artistic vision and Lius phenonemal Hung Fist skills. Liu reportedly suffered many injuries during the filming, and watching, say, the incredible blade fight between him and superstar Lo Lieh, its easy to see why. The blades are real and the camera doesnt flinch. Technical accomplishments aside, 3. Chamber has genuine emotional resonance. Its characters are well drawn and it has more political and philosophical depth than your average revenge plot. It shows elements of Chinese history and allegorical folklore that, in 1. Softball Socks With Paws. RZA described the effect it had on him as awakening a sense of social justice and historic awareness, particularly the struggle against an oppressive government. As a black man in America, I didnt know that story existed anywhere else. Indeed the Wu Tang Clans determination to train hard and become the best at what they do was also inspired in part by the film honored in the title of their seminal debut, Enter The Wu Tang 3. Chambers. Clan member Masta Killa took his moniker from the US retitling of the film Master Killer because, as the youngest and least experienced rapper, he felt an affinity with the character and saw himself as needing to go through the training chambers in order to reach the standard of the others. I mention this trivia because it just shows the profound, life changing impact that a film like this could have on people, even if they werent the obvious target audience. Obviously, a sequel would have a lot to live up to but the films success demanded one. In perhaps one of his most audacious moves, Lau Kar leung reunited many of the cast and crew in 1. Return To The 3. 6th Chamber similar to Sam Raimis tonal shift between Evil Dead and Evil Dead II. Gordon Liu returns not as San Te but as a conman called Chao Jen Cheh. The plot runs in parallel with the original Jen Chehs friends and family are punished by Manchu overlords so he goes to Shaolin to train hard and defeat them but Gordon Lius surprising skill with comedy makes the film fly higher than it perhaps should. Hilariously, he manages to sneak his way amongst the monks thanks to his uncanny resemblance to the legendary San Te funny, thatThe best thing about the film, however, is the way the training sequences are inverted. Jen Cheh is terrible at kung fu and unable to learn so the real San Te played this time by Lee King chue, now a temple abbot, sets him to work on erecting a difficult scaffolding all around Shaolin instead. He spends years doing it and inadvertently learns all the skills required for Shaolin kung fu without realising it, creating a whole new style known as scaffolding kung fu. Its a great tragedy of martial arts cinema that to my knowledge this unusual style hasnt popped up anywhere else but its used here to hilarious and exciting effect.