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The Spiritual Boxer II
''The Spiritual Boxer Part II'' (), also known as ''The Shadow Boxing'', is a 1979 Mandarin-language Hong Kong martial arts comedy film directed by Lau Kar-leung. It is the thematic sequel to his debut film '' The Spiritual Boxer'' (1975). Several of the actors from the first film return, albeit in different roles. The film is notable for being an early ''jiangshi'' film based on Chinese folklore, predating both ''Encounters of the Spooky Kind'' (1980) and ''Mr. Vampire'' (1985). Plot During the Qing Dynasty in Xiangxi, Taoist priests working as corpse herders guide the dead back home to their burial place by using Maoshan arts to cast incantations on ''jiangshi'' ("stiff corpses") to animate their movement, but due to the onset of rigor mortis, the dead travel by hopping. As such, the priests carry a large amount of various ''fulu'' incantations to permit the dead to perform different movements over various types of terrain. Master Chen Wu and his apprentice Fan Zhen Yuan are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lau Kar-leung
Lau Kar-leung (; born 28 July 1934 – 25 June 2013) was a Hongkongers, Hong Kong Martial art, martial artist, filmmaker, Stage combat, fight choreographer and actor. He is best known for the films he made in the 1970s and 1980s for the Shaw Brothers Studio, notably those starring Gordon Liu. He is considered one of the most influential figures in the history of Martial arts film, martial arts cinema. In many of his best-known films, Lau was credited as Liu Chia-liang, the Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin spelling of his name. He was part of a lineage of Hung Ga practitioners originating from Wong Fei-hung. Early life Lau was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, Guangdong Province in 1934. He had a younger brother, Lau Kar-wing, Kar-wing, also a prominent martial arts actor and filmmaker. Lau began learning kung fu when he was nine years old, under strict tutelage from his father, Lau Cham. The elder Lau was a well-known practitioner of the Wong Fei-hung lineage of Hung Ga, as a discipl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |