Monday, May 15, 2017

The Art of Action Documentary


Bruce Lee snaps Jackie Chan´s neck in Enter the Dragon
In the History of Martial Arts Class, we learned about the many different styles of karate and other martial arts. Today, we found out about the impact of martial arts cinema and motion picture stars like Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. They brought martial arts to new levels into the movies and started whole new genres of martial arts action and comedy films. 

We saw a scene from the movie, The Brave One, with Jodie Foster and was shocked to see the actors in the same Shorinjiryu Headquarters we had just visited the other day for our field trip!!! Sensei also showed us his Shorinjiryu senior instructors, Kaicho Shunji Watananbe and Hanshi Michel Laurin in another Hollywood movie, The Ninong. You never know what you might find in the movies.


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