![]() It would take the business acumen of four brothers named Shaw to break down these doors and though it would require an almost infinite amount of patience, when they finally managed to export their movies to the world it turned out the world hungered for Kung Fu far more than anyone could’ve ever known. Meaning that the lucrative American and European markets were closed, but they wouldn’t stay closed forever. This was because nobody was looking to import Asian films. From a history steeped in Chinese opera to its eventual transition to film, it became a cultural phenomenon, but one that seemed destined to forever languish in the country of its origin. In the first part of A History Of Kung Fu, I took a look at the birth of the genre. ![]()
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