Movie Kung Fu Killers
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Kung Fu Killers was shot in Hong Kong and featured clips from Golden Harvest movies. This developed contacts that Trenchard Smith later used to make The Man from Hong Kong (1975). He sold the film to Channel Nine for $18,000. Trenchard-Smith later commented that his intentions with the film "were simple":
Commence the process of launching Grant Page to local audiences as an Australian personality with an [sic] unique gift. Have him trigger a lot of Asian action sequences, which were really entertaining. Come in on budget. Turn a profit... Viewed 35 years later, KFK is a long trailer for Asian Cinema masquerading as a Documentary Special. Somewhat scrappy and heavy-handed in places too. But now, with the advantage of 20/20 hindsight, it is a really interesting time capsule. Grant is engaging as ever, and the kung fu combats are lively. Nine made a spectacular promo, and were rewarded with ratings and repeats for a while, particularly in Adelaide, Grant's home town. Mission accomplished.[1]
Mo (Yen), a kung fu master, is in prison for accidentally killing a man. But when a serial killer (Wang Baoqian) is targeting other martial arts masters in Hong Kong, he convinces Detective Luk (Charlie Yeung) to temporarily release him and assist her team in attempting to capture the killer.
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A very simple setup leads to a multi themed action movie that is both old school kung fu and a post modern Valentine to the kind of action films that used to dominate Hong Kong film studios like Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest.
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After doing a rope over water stunt, stuntman Grant Page heads off to Lawrence Lee's Sydney-based kung fu school for a little instruction in the ancient martial art (grandmaster Lee was the founder of the Tong Kune Do kung fu system).
Page then heads off to Hong Kong to check out the booming kung fu movie scene, taking time to interview former Bond actor, Australian George Lazenby, then doing a kung fu movie, followed by a shorter interview with American actor Stuart Whitman, who was also filming there.
The action builds to a showdown between Page and Carter Wong, a rising eastern movie hero and martial arts expert, with the first fight using bare hands, and then Wong, armed with a single fighting stick, tackling Page as he comes at him with a grappling hook, knuckle-duster and knife.
The production is clunky, and clearly made on a very low budget, but Page is an amiable companion, part tourist (naturally he heads off to Macau and peddles a rickshaw), part kung fu movie fan, and part stunt man. He does all the right sort of noddies interviewing amiable George Lazenby, and Stuart Whitman, who doesn\'t have much to say, but at least it means his name can go into the head credits.
The way the film was pitched to readers of The Australian Women\'s Weekly in 1974 almost amounted to deceptive advertising. It was proposed that the film would answer the question as to who would win, between one man highly trained in the western style of unarmed combat, up against another man skilled in the eastern art of kung fu.
But this isn\'t the UFC, it\'s really a chance for Trenchard-Smith to stage a couple of movie-style fight scenes between Carter Wong, rising eastern movie hero, and expert in martial arts, and Grant Page, diploma in advanced physical education and Australian commando for four years, using views of Hong Kong as the background.
Viewed 35 years later, KFK is a long trailer for Asian Cinema masquerading as a Documentary Special. Somewhat scrappy and heavy handed in places too. But now, with the advantage of 20/20 hindsight, it is a really interesting time capsule. Grant is engaging as ever, and the kung fu combats are lively.
Director Brian Trenchard-Smith very early in his career settled on an interest in kung fu and action material, stunt men in general and Adelaide-based stunt man Grant Page in particular, and Kung Fu Killers was yet another step in that march.
A year earlier, while making The Stuntmen which featured Grant Page, I realized I was working with an extraordinarily talented all rounder whose personality was marketable in front of the camera as well as behind it. So I became his manager for the first five years of his career, promising to get his name above the title of a movie within that time frame. Kung Fu Killers was the perfect project to fulfill that promise within 18 months.
My one hour documentary World Of Kung Fu (1973) was a ratings success for the Seven Network, so I quickly sold a sequel concept to Channel Nine, this time 75 minutes for a 90 minute slot. The film would follow Australian stuntman Grant Page going to Hong Kong to learn more about kung fu, and to find who would succeed the late great Bruce Lee as Asia's top martial arts star.
The movie clips also featured Yu Wang, the one armed swordsman in many historical pics, who would star as the man from Hong Kong, billed as Jimmy Wang Yu, and playing Inspector Fang, the man who headed from Hong Kong down under to clean up Sydney town and interviewee George Lazenby ...
...my intentions were simple. Commence the process of launching Grant Page to local audiences as an Australian personality with an unique gift. Have him trigger a lot of Asian action sequences, which were really entertaining. Come in on budget. Turn a profit. Channel Nine paid $18,000. Not a great profit but enough to keep me afloat for a while. Remember, this was 1974. Viewed 35 years later, KFK is a long trailer for Asian Cinema masquerading as a Documentary Special. Somewhat scrappy and heavy handed in places too. But now, with the advantage of 20/20 hindsight, it is a really interesting time capsule. Grant is engaging as ever, and the kung fu combats are lively.
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A vicious serial killer is targeting top martial arts masters, and convicted criminal and kung-fu master Hahou (Donnie Yen) is the only one with the skills to stop him. Released from jail and into police custody, they soon have their doubts about Hahou's true allegiance after a series of mysterious events. Hunted by an unstoppable killer (Baoqiang Wang) and the entire police force, Hahou finds himself on his own, leading to a final battle you have to see to believe in this action-packed, kung fu crime thriller.
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As someone who grew up as a competitive fighter, and spent the majority of her teenage years with fellow martial artists traveling from one tournament to another on a bus with a small black-and-white TV which screened every martial arts movie ever made on a 24-hour loop, I am certain about one thing: Coming up with a great plot for a kung fu movie is not an easy task.
Australian stuntman Grant Page travels to Hong Kong to find Bruce Lee's successor and looks at the cultural phenomenon that Asian martial arts has become in the West. He talks to actors such as Angela Mao, Stuart Whitman and George Lazenby - who were all making movies in Hong Kong at the time - and fights Carter Wong twice.
In this action-packed made-for-TV documentary legendary stuntman Grant Page unravels the mysteries of kung fu by travelling to Hong Kong to interview and/or fight various martial arts experts, climb mountains and hang out in topless bars. Bonus points for colorful narration and an excellent selection of movie excerpts.
A made-for-TV documentary in which Grant Page travels to Hong Kong and talks to some experts about kung fu there, ultimately ending up as Angela Mao's punching bag, to stay with the movie's terminology. Interesting experts and in addition to well-known scenes from movies, there was also enough material that I was not familiar with that aroused my interest.
Austrlian stuntman Grant Page gets sent to Hong Kong to learn about the ways of kung fu in this fascinating documentary by Brian Trenchard-Smith (who apparently used the contacts he made on it to get Man From Hong Kong made).
There really isn't a lot out there like this that blends behind the scenes footage and frank (if totally unbelievable) interviews with the stars making the movies at Golden Harvest at the time. As a time capsule of an important yet largely undocumented era of cinema, this is pretty much incomparable and that means it's easier to overlook its faults just to get to see this.
Good time capsule documentary aired on Aussie tv when Hong Kong kung fu films were the hot genre for fleapits around the world. Some hilarious gaffes ("Raoul Jabbar of the Harlem Globetrotters") and Andre Morgan telling tall tales of karate masters fighting for real on the set add to the PT Barnum aspect. At times, seems like an excuse for Grant Page to party in seedy bars. 2b1af7f3a8