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Shaolin Temple Shi, a ranking monk at the famous Shaolin Temple in the hills of central China, arrives in a ski jacket, blue turtleneck sweater and denim vest. Shaolin Temple is the wellspring of Zen Buddhism and home to the renowned "fighting monks" who inspired the 1970s television series Kung Fu. The Shaolin Temple owes its fame less to history -- the monks are said to have rescued a Tang Dynasty prince from rebels in A.D. 621 and helped save the empire -- than to a 1980 Hong Kong movie of the same name that inspired a generation of Chinese martial artists. www.dotaichi.com /Articles/ShaolinTemple.htm   (906 words)

The Shaolin Temple SHAOLIN TEMPLE’s exact pedigree is a bit clouded for while indeed the film was made inside Mainland China and showcased Mainland born Wu-shu performers, it was produced by a H-K based film company, Chung Yuen. SHAOLIN TEMPLE’s heroes might be nearly all monks but the film pokes fun at some Buddhist rules by having its monks drink wine as well as eat a bit of meat with a mischievous smile on their face or how they justify breaking the supreme Buddhist rule of not killing. SHAOLIN TEMPLE became a tremendous success in the Mainland which is no wonder considering that’s it populace had never seen a martial art movie before and hundreds of Chinese youths even flocked to the Shaolin site itself in the hope to be taught Wu-shu as Li Lian-ji’s character in the film. www.brns.com /pages2/jet14.html   (3525 words)

Martial arts film: Just the facts...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Martial arts film is a film genre (additional info and facts about film genre) that originated in the Pacific Rim (additional info and facts about Pacific Rim). This genre of film is one kind of action film (additional info and facts about action film) characterized by extensive fighting scenes employing various types of martial arts (Any of several Oriental arts of weaponless self-defense; usually practiced as a sport). Martial Arts film stars can be classified in two types, namely genuine martial artists who pursued a filming career vs dancers and actors who acted in martial arts film under the directions of choreographer (Someone who creates new dances) s. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/martial_arts_film.htm   (774 words)

Fast as lightning, kung fu finds adept new pupils - The Boston Globe SHAOLIN, China -- Revered in myth, extolled in film, and almost destroyed by revolution, China's Shaolin Temple, where kung fu was created, has been reborn to fascinate a new generation. The rebuilt temple was torched again by a local warlord in the civil strife that gripped China in the 1920s, and in the early 1940s the invading Japanese attacked the complex. In Shaolin's courtyards on a recent morning, surrounded by the modern and restored buildings of the 300-acre complex, thousands of boys and girls in red and fl uniforms practiced lightning-fast kicks, twirls, chops, and gave exuberant displays of swordsmanship. www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/09/28/fast_as_lightning_kung_fu_finds_adept_new_pupils?mode=PF   (993 words)

Shaolin Temple News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Shaolin Temple of Mt. Songshan is a renowned Buddhist temple in the world and also the place of origin for Shaolin boxing. Shaolin Temple was built in 495 by Emperor Xiaowen of the North Wei Dynasty (386-534) for an Indian monk who then founded the Chan, one of the largest sect of the Chinese Buddhism. The temple was built in 496 in the period of Northern and Southern Dynasties (420-581) for the fabulous Indian monk, Bodhidharma, who came to China to spread Buddhism and introduced an Indian form of exercise. www.russbo.com /shaolin_temple_news.htm   (3456 words)

Shaolin Temple (1976) The very real destruction of the famed Shaolin Temple during the Qing Dynasty in China is one of the most important events in the history of kung fu. The film follows kung fu legend as traitors from within the temple conspire with a Qing lord (Guk Fung) to lay siege to the temple. Shaolin Temple could technically be considered the first 'Venoms' film with appearances from five cast members of the infamous Five Venoms (1978). www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/shaolintemple1976.htm   (1351 words)

Variety.com - Temple gets hip to film crews SHANGHAI Shaolin Temple, home to China's most famous branch of kung fu martial arts and scores of films about fighting monks, has tightened rules controlling the use of its name in commercial ventures, and the use of the location in film shoots. Images of the temple used for commercial purposes will also have to be approved by representatives from the ranks of resident monks, and the words "Shaolin" and "Shaolin Temple" are now registered trademarks. Shaolin Temple in China's central Henan Province has been the inspiration for many of China's best-known kung fu films, including Jet Li's breakout movie "Shaolin Temple" (1982), which was also shot on location there. www.variety.com /index.asp?layout=story&articleid=VR1117894162   (454 words)

Independent Lens . SHAOLIN ULYSSES: Kungfu Monks in America . About Shaolin . The Temple . | PBS The Shaolin Temple’s 1500-year old history is a chronicle of Chinese culture and legend. However, the Temple’s fortunes were reversed during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) when martial arts were forbidden and the Shaolin monks were perceived as threats to the empire. The Temple was rebuilt, and by the 1911 Revolution, a strong enough entity that it could contribute fighters to the resistance against the emperor. www.pbs.org /independentlens/shaolinulysses/temple.html   (677 words)

High Impact Reviews: Shaolin Temple (1976)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The Shaolin Temple has always been a traditional place, where the select chosen enter and train in martial arts and inner peace. Upon arriving at the temple, a group of men kneel and are determined to kneel as long as it takes. This is a wonderful near 2-hour film based on fact/myths about the legacy of the original Shaolin Temple. www.megspace.com /entertainment/highimpact/reviews/st/shaolintemple1976.html   (868 words)

Shaolin Temple (1976)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) First, we have Alexander Fu Sheng and Chi Kuan-Chun as two of the three friends who come to Shaolin seeking to acquire skills to exact bloody vengeance on someone for something, it is never clear who or what, but we know their cause is just because they are cute. They wait for days at the temple but are not admitted until the Chief Abbot (Tong Dik) decides the political fate of the establishment. All the ones with a "higher" purpose (rebellion or revenge) survive to carry on the Shaolin spirit. www.gotterdammerung.org /film/reviews/s/shaolin-temple-chang-cheh.html   (903 words)

Shaolin Temple Fights for its Soul -- ThingsAsian Article Shaolin temple has seen many a great battle over the 15 centuries since it was founded, but none greater than the one it faces today. Shaolin monks built on and perfected the exercises, later adding animal-inspired movements, to become Shaolin martial arts - the mother of all that we know as kung fu, including Japanese and Korean martial arts. As night falls on the temple, and the last busloads of tourists leave the dusty, souvenir stand-filled parking lot, it's finally quiet and beautiful here at last -- but one has to wonder is Shaolin hasn't lost the very essence of what it once so proudly and bravely stood for. www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.3053.html   (1822 words)

Amazon.com: The Shaolin Temple: DVD: Ji Chun Hua,Hu Jian Qiang,Cheng-Hui Yu,Du Chuan Yang,Sun Jian Kui,Ding Lan,Yan Di ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Shaolin temple and it's warrior monks are revered by movie goers and film makers, to the same extent they are admired by martial arts students the world over, so naturally shaolin and it's monks are featured as agents of virtue fighting for good in almost half the kung fu films out there. Shaolin Temple is a true classic of the kung fu genre and landmark film for many reasons. The Shaolin Temple was the first Chinese martial arts film to use real gongfu practitioners as actors (Bruce Lee's films are exempt because he did not use Chinese gongfu in his films; his style, which died with him, was primarily western martial arts with Asian kicking). www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005B31Y?v=glance   (2037 words)

People's Daily Online -- China's Shaolin monks to try filmmaking at kungfu birthplace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Shaolin Cultural Broadcast Company, an affiliated unity of the Shaolin Temple, said the new picture and TV series, both of which were named "Legends of Monk Warriors from Shaolin Temple," were based on a real story about martial-art monks who once lived at the Temple. The Shaolin Temple, located in central China's Henan Province, was famous for its martial arts, or kungfu. The Temple was built in 495 and abounds in the legendary stories on the martial monks. english.people.com.cn /200509/11/eng20050911_207933.html   (539 words)

Shaolin Temple   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The term "shaolin" has been trademarked in Euroland, or whatever they call themselves now, and shaolinwolf is referring themselves as "Shaolin Temple Austria". Shaolin Temple in China who are teaching martial arts - and Buddhism - in the United States. Shaolin Temple, founded 1500 years ago by a wandering monk from India, "a cleansing, healing experience." Now he longs to bring wushu (kungfu) to Las Vegas as a philosophy rather than a martial art. www.russbo.com /artman/publish/cat_index_10.shtml   (1221 words)

Needcoffee.com DVD Review: Shaolin Ulysses (2003) Shaolin Ulysses, an official selection of the Denver and L.A. International Film Festivals, tells the stories of a five Shaolin monks who have journeyed to America for a variety of reasons. Monks Xing Hao and De Shan were assigned by the Shaolin Temple to remain in Houston, TX after a tour stop in 1998. The doctor, Richard Russell, travels frequently to the Temple in China to regain a degree of spiritual peace that he finds unattainable in America, but he hopes to change all that with the opening of the temple he and Xing Hong are planning. www.needcoffee.com /html/dvd/sulysses.htm   (803 words)

SHAOLIN TEMPLE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Also, with the film being shot in the Shaolin Temple and around Hu Nan Province the scenery is beautiful. Its based on an actual story of Shaolin though so I suppose it was original when first written, and some of the moments in the film are true life events. The music is different in style to that found in HK martial arts films of the same period. www.freewebs.com /hongkongcinema/reviews/shaolintemple.htm   (574 words)

SHAOLIN TEMPLE 3 Shaolin Temple 1and2 martial arts sequences were designed by the actors themselves. Considering the film was made in '86 the action is very different to other films of the time. While this film is very classical in style with long takes and traditional martial arts moves. www.freewebs.com /hongkongcinema/reviews/shaolin_temple_3.htm   (712 words)

Asia Pacific Arts: Cinema as the 36th Chamber In both Shaolin Temple and Lau Kar-leung’s The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978), the temple elders deliberate whether or not to open the school to secular students. But mostly, it’s the allure of the Shaolin Temple as a place where heroes are built, one chamber at a time, and where suffering pays off into a kind of muscle/mind harmony outsiders can’t even begin to comprehend. The film takes place in contemporary Hong Kong, where a high school loser (Jimmy Lin) falls in love with the campus babe (Vivian Hsu), only to have his ass kicked by her evil boyfriend (Chang Chen-yueh) in a scene where they’re dressed up as characters from Street Fighter. www.asiaarts.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=30198   (1641 words)

Amazon.com: Shaolin Temple Strikes Back: DVD: Mark Long (II),Joseph Kuo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) SHAOLIN TEMPLE STRIKES BACK (1981) is one of the better Shaolin-themed kung fu films to come from the directorial hand of Joseph Kuo who turned out a steady stream of kung fu hits in Taiwan throughout the 1970s and 80s. This one tells a simple, compelling tale of a Ming princess hiding out at Shaolin Temple during the early days of Manchu rule under the protection of her Imperial Bodyguard, Si Lin, and the patriotic monks of Shaolin. As Si Lin trains in Shaolin kung fu, the stage is set for a series of pitched battles between the Qing guards and the Shaolin monks. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002B925G?v=glance   (831 words)

Beijingwushuteam.com: Shaolin Tour By this I mean the historical Shaolin Monks, popular in Chinese history, folklore, literature and movies, who practiced Shaolin wushu while staying devote buddhist monks, living in the Shaolin Temple have disappeared. As Jet Li alluded to, and anyone who has travelled to the temple and surrounding village can attest to, The Shaolin Temple and surrounding areas have been transformed into more of a 'tourist trap' by the Chinese and local governments and the local villagers in the years since the film. From what I understand there are no true Shaolin monks in existence and even the village and the temple at Shaolin have become nothing more than a tourist trap in recent years. www.beijingwushuteam.com /articles/shaolintour.html   (2369 words)

Independent Lens . SHAOLIN ULYSSES: Kungfu Monks in America . The Film | PBS The famous fighting monks of the Shaolin Temple have seen a resurgence throughout the world, aided in part by the popularity of kungfu movies starring Jet Li and the Academy Award-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. SHAOLIN ULYSSES explores the stories of five immigrant kungfu monks from China's Shaolin Temple: the legendary birthplace of kungfu, Zen Buddhism and today's contemporary kungfu mecca. Interspersed throughout the documentary is footage and history of China's Shaolin Temple in Henan province, chronicling the creation of Zen and kungfu by a wandering monk named Bodhidharma, 1500 years ago. www.pbs.org /independentlens/shaolinulysses/film.html   (417 words)

Fury In The Shaolin Temple His field is exploitation and within these very well-defined boundaries he succeeds in creating the occassional film of interest, usually by directly exploiting what is popular at the time. It's hard to explain the plot of 'Fury In The Shaolin Temple' in a few lines, such is the hackneyed nature of the film. With films like 'Prodigal Son', 'Knockabout' and 'The Young Master' (not to mention scores of other classics) around near the same time, the choreography here looks hopelessly out-dated and is a certain fl mark in the career of the usually dependable Chien Yuet San. www.dragonsdenuk.com /reviews/fury_in_the_shaolin_temple.htm   (578 words)

global vision presents fantasia 2005 | films + schedule | Shaolin Temple   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) It is an appropriately stormy night when the elder monks of the Shaolin Temple gather to discuss what to do about the three determined young men who’ve been kneeling outside the monastery, demanding to be admitted and schooled in the Shaolin way of kung fu. Arguably the closest that the Shaw Bothers’ major director Chang Cheh came to an epic, Shaolin Temple could be regarded as the kung fu equivalent to the Japanese kaiju genre’s Destroy All Monsters. Shaolin Temple serves as something of a hub in the Shaw Brothers’ interwoven martial-arts mythology, leading from and to other exciting entries in the genre. www.fantasiafest.com /en/films/film_detail.php?id=80   (440 words)

The Shaolin Temple review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Rather than tell a single story the film is a tangle of sub-plots through which the conditions and training undertaken by the monks is colourfully illustrated. The film is split into three sections; getting into Shaolin temple, training in Shaolin temple and fighting in Shaolin temple. The film builds up to an absolutely blistering final reel in which the Manchus storm the Shaolin temple and fight with the students. home.clara.net /carly/shaolintemple.htm   (420 words)

Shaolin Temple Movie DVD A young boy (Jet Li) escaping from a slave camp is taken in by the monks of the Shaolin Temple. This was Jet's first big film, and the first of three Shao Lin pictures. In the late 1980s this rating splintered in two ratings: IIA and IIB) Films rated Category II may contain mild to strong violence, nudity that is usually not sexually oriented, explicit language and adult situations. www.chinesetapes.com /movie_chinese/shaolin_temple.html   (168 words)

Amazon.co.uk: The Shaolin Temple [1981]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The first installment in box office idol Jet Li's Shaolin franchise, introducing the story of a renegade boy who is adopted and trained by the kung-fu monks, only to later resume his quest to avenge his father's murder. "The Shaolin Temple" is the story of a young slave (Jet Li) whose father is killed by the slave master during a fierce battle. He escapes to the Shaolin Temple where he becomes fascinated by the skills of the Shaolin Monks. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004D0FR   (583 words)

At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Shaolin Temple (1979) Shaolin Temple is Jet Li's first movie, and it's easy to see why he became a star after it. Very little wire work is used in the film, and, with incidental exceptions, not much in the way of editing tricks are used to suggest greater physical feats than what the actors are actually performing. Shaolin Temple 3: Martial Arts of Shaolin (1986) (aka: "North and South Shaolin") www.rinkworks.com /movies/m/shaolin.temple.1979.shtml   (223 words)

Shaolin Temple (1982) In the film, he is leader to twelve young monks who all become fast friends with Yuan as he begins to learn kung fu which is limited to a few short scenes. The first half of the film is somewhat slower as characters are established and Li recovers at the temple. Aside from sparking Jet Li's film career, Shaolin Temple was also responsible for a renewed interest in the actual temple that was eventually reopened after having been shut down for many years by the government. www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/shaolintemple.htm   (777 words)

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