adding new fighting techniques as often as needed. In fact, some would even say that hapkido was actually the world’s first, original mixed martial arts system. As presently practiced, hapkido does seek to be a fully comprehensive, contemporary fighting style. As such, it tries...
The movie has little actual kung fu and instead is heavily laden with knife fighting and judo. At the 16th Asian Film Festival, Director Chang Cheh won the Best Director Award, David Chiang won the Best Actor Award and received Asia's first Movie King Award, and Vengeance went on to win...
It is an adaptation of Yusuke Kishi's 2010 novel of the same name. The film contains many references to German culture, such as to Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther and in the film a vinyl record with the German song about Mack the Knife written by Bertolt Brecht is played. Actors...
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Where Did the Tanto Blade Sword/Knife Come From? Invented about a thousand years ago, during the Japanese Heian period, Tanto blades were made for tough, armor-piercing power in close-up or confined fighting. It just takes one look at this "short sword," and you see how perfect it wou...
(Paul Greengrass, who’d take the reins on the next few Bourne movies, would double down on that last part.) Watch Damon’s Bourne take down three embassy security guards in quick succession and prove to an assassin that it’s ok to bring a pen to a knife fight, and you’ll see ...
A knife isn’t necessarily your first thought when it comes to self defense. Most people think of other forms like martial arts to help keep you and your family safe from a perpetrator. In some cases though, a weapon can be a vital part of your defense especially if you are facing a ...
Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back: Directed by Phillip Rhee. With Phillip Rhee, Christopher McDonald, Gina Gershon, Mark Rolston. A martial arts instructor comes to the defense of a schoolteacher who has taken a stand against a local white supremacist
The killer scene: James Coburn’s knife-slinging cowboy gets called out by a cocky gunman—guess who prevails in the showdown? Japanese import, retooledMaking movies can be an international conversation spanning cultural differences and economic divides. Was Akira Kurosawa was the most important dir...
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