
While watching “The 36th Chamber of Shaolin” today, a wonderful Kung-Fu film from Run Run Shaw in 1978 and my favorite of all the Kung-Fu Flicks, it dawned on me that I am more enamored of a Martial Art Film’s training sequences more that the loss and revenge of that loss that necessitated the training in the first place.

Perhaps this may be because I have trained for years, and have trained others, or those were the scenes that drove me to learn in the first place. Some of the sequences are super-imaginative, while others are down-right weird. No matter which camp they fall into, I think that they are all fun!


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I love this about Kung Fu movies also. You ever notice how training montages proliferated in 1980s action movies as well?
Yeah they did! I wonder if these Hong Kong classics had anything to do that that?