Why Kung Fu Movies Have Endured In Africa:Podcast/Article

[DragonClaws]

Why Kung Fu Movies Have Endured In Africa.

While Chinese news media struggles to find an African audience, Bruce Lee draws crowds across the continent to the films.

Link- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kung-fu-movies-africa_us_581a0bf1e4b092edafb59550

Dirty Ho(1976)

[sifu iron perm]

Africa embraced the kung fu fever back then and also Bollywood.

 

 

[DragonClaws]

On 21/04/2017 at 11:21 AM, sifu iron perm said:

Africa embraced the kung fu fever back then and also Bollywood.

They were also popular in Jamaica, recall seeing footage of children playing in the Jamaican slums. This was shown in a Bob Marley documentary, and the kids were all doing shapes/animal style moves on each other. They had clearly been watching some old school Kung Fu movies in the local cinema. Leung Kaar Yan's Jamaican nick name is mentioned in Top Fighter, but I'm not 100% sure what it was?. I think they called Leung Kar Yan the brigadier over the brigadier or some such name?.

 

Leung Kar Yan, in a scene from Cantonen Iron Kung Fu(1979)

[sifu iron perm]

48 minutes ago, DragonClaws said:

They were also popular in Jamaica, recall seeing footage of children playing in the Jamaican slums. This was shown in a Bob Marley documentary, and the kids were all doing shapes/animal style moves on each other. They had clearly been watching some old school Kung Fu movies in the local cinema. Leung Kaar Yan's Jamaican nick name is mentioned in Top Fighter, but I'm not 100% sure what it was?. I think they called Leung Kar Yan the brigadier over the brigadier or some such name?.

 

Leung Kar Yan, in a scene from Cantonen Iron Kung Fu(1979)

 

 

[DragonClaws]

Thanks for posting the above video @sifu iron perm.

I liked how African Cinemas would get local artist to create movie posters for the films they screened. If they didn't get hold of an official poster to use that is.

 

A couple of examples below.

[Cognoscente]

The 18 Bronx Men would make for a good title of a Wu-Tang Clan album.