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As a student in America, he searched for ancient wisdom. As a teacher in China, he learned to find it within himself.Plot:
Mark Salzman always was interested in Kung-Fu and the Chinese culture, claims to have seen every Kung-Fu movie... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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(Credited cast) | Hangcheng Dong | ... | Teacher Cai |
| Xihong Jiang | ... | Teacher Zhang |
| Jeanette Lin Tsui | ... | Teacher Hei |
| Qingfu Pan | ... | Himself |
| Mark Salzman | ... | Teacher Mark |
| Xudong Sun | ... | Sinbad |
| Funglin To | ... | Old Sheep |
 | Vivian Wu | ... | Ming |
| Yang Xiru | ... | Dr. Wang |
| Xiao Ying | ... | April |
| Hu Yun | ... | Fatty Du |
| Lu Zhiquan | ... | Teacher Li |
| Genyuan Zhuang | ... | Teacher Xu |
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Took four years to film. moreQuotes:
Teacher Hei: You must master each stroke before you go on. Otherwise everything you do will be so-so.Teacher Mark: Tell me about it. Everything I touch turns to so-so.
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One of my best friends introduced this book to me around 1988 or so. I read it and loved it... 1990 came and I was in NY going to college when this premiered in NYC. I couldn't make it to the city to see it and I was sorely saddened.
Eventually I did get a chance to see it in a more "artsy" theater and was happy to go. It's NOT a flashy high production value movie, but still the filming was as good as I'd expect, or even demand for this film.
My original interest in the topic had more to do with the kung fu aspect of it, and for that you won't be let down, unless you NEED flash. There aren't fight scenes beyond the typical training and sparring, all of which are impressive and real. Seeing the young boy in the training hall execute such awe inspiring techniques and Master Pan being a hard-ass was excellent.
The love interest theme was a draw too. My memory of the book (sitting on my shelf at home unread for a loooong time) is thin, so I don't recall how deep it went.
It was short, but I like long movies.
I also bought the VHS of this movie.