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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 14 October, 1972 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Anamorphic, Box set, Color, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Action / Adventure, Movie, TV Shows, Television |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 3 |
| UPC: | 085392425020 |
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Customer Reviews of Kung Fu - The Complete First Season
A must have for the Kung Fu series fans The quality was very nice and the interviews with creators and actors from the show was awesome! It is sad that the men who played the Grandmaster and Master Po have pasted away, it would have been great to hear their stories too. Over all a great dvd series and a must have for any Kung fu fan. Five stars!
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Don't buy this DVD expecting killer action scenes with brutal combat. Buy this hoping to learn something about humanity, life, humility, and great philosophical ideals. This is a collection everyone in the family can learn from and enjoy. A must have...really...quit reading this and buy it.
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Like the previous reviewer I have a problem with the episodes having been shortened a few minutes to make room for more commercials, which cuts into the story and makes it choppier. And the screen also seems to have been cropped too. But overall, I guess it's better to have them in this format and versions than not at all. But that's why the three star rating.
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>A brief comment on the martial arts, since I am a teacher of kung fu and also karate. A judo instructor, oddly enough, was the first expert engaged to advise on the martial arts for the show. At some point, someone apparently said shouldn't we get a kung fu expert since that's what the show is about? And so they retained Los Angeles sifu Kam Yuen, a master of the very interesting tai mantis style of kung fu, which is an offshoot of the original northern praying mantis style and considered a very sophisticated system.
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>There are actually dozens of different praying mantis styles at this point, including six harmonies mantis, plum flower mantis, shiny board mantis, 7 star praying mantis, and southern mantis, although the latter probably isn't a true praying mantis sytem.
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>So it was interesting that a master of one of the rarer kung fu styles in this country was chosen, rather than something more common such as Wing Chun, Hung Gar, Choy Li Fut, or 7 Star Praying mantis, all of which are more common styles. But whatever style was chosen, the show introduced millions of people to kung fu in a way that was technically accurate and faithful to the original style.