#Ten Tigers from Kwangtung

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Spring 2024 - Week 8 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am proud to announce that I’ve actually fucking done it – my last episodic Evangelion writeup is already sitting in my drafts, and I’m feeling confident it’s one of my best so far. Charging through this last act of the show in a matter of weeks turned out to be the perfect way to approach it; I could feel the same sense of desperation and…

[fuforthought]

I love Five Deadly Venom's and Return Of Five Deadly Venom's. Are these the only two? I looked it up and there seem to be many films that feature some of the characters, but not all of them.

Five Deadly Venoms and Return of the Five Deadly Venoms aren’t technically a series of films. Return of the Five Deadly Venoms is actually Crippled Avengers but was renamed for American audiences to cash in on Five Deadly Venoms.

Five of the actors in these films (Lo Meng, Philip Kwok, Lu Feng, Sun Chien and Chiang Sheng) became known as the “Venom Mob” by kung fu cinema fans and went on to star in a bunch of films together; the majority of which were directed by one guy: Chang Cheh.

You’ll hear a lot of people talk about “Venoms films” when referring to movies with three or more of the Venom Mob in them. The Venoms are pretty much their own sub genre.

Some Venom films include…

Invincible Shaolin

Kid with the Golden Arm

Two Champions of Shaolin

Ten Tigers from Kwangtung

Masked Avengers

The Rebel Intruders

Shaolin Rescuers

The Magnificent Ruffians

I don’t think any of them are less than three star films. Most are four stars and, of course, some are five star classics. They’re definitely worth seeking out.

[fourstarvideocoop]

1/3

The Ten Commandments Armageddon Time (DVD & Blu Ray) Black Adam (DVD & Blu Ray) The Enforcer ('22) First Men In The Moon (Blu Ray only) Framed Ghostwatch (Blu Ray only) Man On A Swing Missing ('21) Nothing But A Man Prey For The Devil Shawscope Vol 2 (The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin, Return To The 36th Chamber/ Disciples Of The 36th Chamber, Mad Monkey Kung Fu/ Five Superfighters, Invincible Shaolin/ The Kid With The Golden Arm, Magnificent Ruffians/ Ten Tigers Of Kwangtung, My Young Auntie, Mercenaries From Hong Kong/ The Boxer's Omen, Martial Arts Of Shaolin/ The Bare-Footed Kid)(Blu Ray only, 8 discs rented separately) The Shoes Of The Fisherman Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 Vol 1

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You've been lucky. I wish I got you last time. En garde, I'll let you try my Wu-Tang style. -- Liang Sen Kuei [x]

[cultfaction]

Preview- Shawscope Volume Two (Limited Edition Bluray)

Preview- Shawscope Volume Two (Limited Edition Bluray)

Picking up where Volume One left off, this sophomore collection of Hong Kong cinema classics draws together many of the best films from the final years of the Shaw Brothers studio, proving that while the end was nigh, these merchants of martial arts mayhem weren’t going to go out without a fight! Armed with stunning special features and ravishing new restorations, this boxset is even bigger and…

[iamghostwriter]

“Unguard, I’ll let you try my Wu-Tang style.”

[venom-mob-network]

Was Sun Jian really on the plum blossom poles?

Yes, he was!

Sun Chien is, as stated before, a taekwondo master. Obviously, this mastery of skill translates into a mastery of one's balance and feet placement -- both things that are exemplified on the plum blossom poles! In the clips where you can see him running across the poles and performing martial arts atop them, he really is doing that stuntwork.

Sun Chien can be seen on the plum blossom poles in both Shaolin Rescuers (1979) and Ten Tigers of Kwangtung (1979), but right now I'll just be using examples from Shaolin Rescuers.

You can see here very clearly that those are his feet actually making contact with those poles. And since this was Chinese cinema in the 70s, their special effects weren't yet advanced enough to fake these visuals. However, just because Sun Chien was capable of these stunts, that's not to say that all of his coworkers were. There are a few times in these movies where his character and another have a fight atop the poles, and with smart editing and quick cuts, and very deliberately not showing their feet, they shot the fights on the ground but made it look like they were both still on the poles.

Ku Kuan-Chung is a magnificent actor, but I don't think he would have been able to do fight choreography while atop the plum blossom poles. On the other hand, I do think Sun Chien could. And in fact, he does! It really depends on the martial arts capabilities of his partner. Where Ku Kuan-Chung was unable to film atop the poles with him, Lau Fong-Sai was able.

Now, the choreography here isn't that complicated, and Sun Chien is the only one who's actually moving around on the poles. But the fact that their feet are visible in this shot implies that Lau Fong-Sai had the ability to keep his balance while fighting, and Ku Kuan-Chung couldn't.

Anyway, this is a long winded post to say and to show that Sun Chien really was doing his stunt work on the plum blossom poles.

[silveremulsion]

Arrow Films Shawscope Volume 2 Available for Pre-Order!

The films included are:

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978) [My Review]

Return to the 36th Chamber (1980)

Disciples of the 36th Chamber (1985)

Mad Monkey Kung Fu (1979)

Five Superfighters (1979)

Invincible Shaolin (1978)

Kid with the Golden Arm (1979)

The Magnificent Ruffians (1979)

Ten Tigers of Kwangtung (1979)

My Young Auntie (1981)

Mercenaries from Hong Kong (1982)

The Boxer’s Omen (1983) [My Review]

Martial Arts of Shaolin (1986)

The Bare-Footed Kid (1993)

Get it at Amazon, Diabolik DVD, or your retailer of choice!

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Wu-Tang’s RZA Breaks Down 10 Kung Fu Films He’s Sampled

Ever wonder where Wu-Tang Clan got their amazing samples from? Watch as Wu-Tang's producer, rapper and founder, RZA, takes you through scenes from "Master of the Flying Guillotine," "Executioners from Shaolin," "The 36th Chamber," "Enter the Dragon," "Five Deadly Venoms," "The Mystery of Chess Boxing," "Ten Tigers of Kwangtung," "Shaolin vs. Lama," "Shaolin and Wutang," "The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter," and explains how they influenced and provided samples for their tracks.

[worldhammerer-old]

ok i just watched TEN TIGERS FROM KWANGTUNG as the first movie in my 'every enter the wu-tang sample' adventure

maybe i just wasn't paying close enough attention but i ended up feeling kind of confused by this one! the way it works is that there's one scene that results in a fight and death at the very start, and then afterwards there's a flashback to like a generation before to set up why these people want to fight and murder these other people. this flashback is pretty long and easily encompasses like half of the movie BUT i feel like the specific point at which it ends wasn't very well signposted because i was like 'oh, shit, are we back to the present now? how long has that been happening?' 

other than that though it’s pretty cool i guess? i don’t watch a lot of martial arts films (especially not from this period) so i dont feel up to the task of making a comparison. someone kicks another dude’s head clean off in the end fight sequence and i said “oh my god...” out loud

[venomous-five]

This scene is from Ten Tigers of Kwangtung (1979), and it has one of the most uniquely choreographed fights I’ve seen. The two in white, Lin Fu Shing played by Chin Siu-Ho and Wang Chiu Ming played by Lung Tien-Hsiang, have learned that an assassin in the building is after them. So this is their solution to draw him out without letting him know they’re aware of him. To go even further, they pretend to fight against each other while in fact protecting each other from the assassin’s attacks, all the while acting like he’s not even there. The result is some super fun choreography imo!

Chin Siu-Ho and Lung Tien-Hsiang are recurring members of the B-Tier Venoms, so although they aren’t part of the OG line up, I feel like this scene really highlights how skilled every member of the Venoms crew was. This fight is just so cleverly designed and performed!

What’s more, this is Chin Siu-Ho’s first starring role in a movie, and I think it really helped him stand out as an actor.

[fuforthought]

[hellomahirposts]

Total Sampledelia: The World Lo Fi and Sample-Based Music

In the world of sampling, the original copies of audio recordings have also received the same treatment. From horror movies being sampled in death metal records, to Wu Tang Clan using audio clips from old martial arts movies such as Shaolin and Wu Tang and Ten Tigers of Kwangtung. The use of the crackling old audio clips, transposed with the hip hop beats produced by RZA, the album takes a more thematic approach as the clips create a cohesive story, binding the album together. The worn samples clashing against the filtered shouts of RZA, OBD and others, similarly we find this technique on Nas’ Illmatic, as much of the record is soaked in vinyl hiss, bringing a sense of nostalgia to the song.

This low fidelity sound was pioneered by Daniel Johnston but has been more commonly used by bands such as The Mountain Goats, Ariel Pink and John Maus. Much of the Mountain Goats discography taps into that sense of nostalgia by using old recording equipment, give a degraded, worn out, lo-fi sound. The same can be said of John Maus, who has his delicate vocals contrasting to low fidelity synth pop ballads and soft timbre of his instruments.

Similar to the use of using old equipment to bring forth new sounds, sampling being repurposed for music isn’t a common occurrence, the earliest use of sampling originated from Pierre Schaeffer, who recorded sounds to tape and spliced them together to create sound collages. This technique became used by reggae DJs in order to produce rhythm tracks they could play over. However, the use of sampling is commonly associated with hip hop, during the era of Golden Age Hip Hop, many acts from NWA, De La Soul to A Tribe Called Quest and Wu Tang Clan were using samples within their music. 

Similarly, The Caretaker (Leland Kirby) ��known for his blend of classical, ambient and shoegaze sound, The Caretaker’s seminal record, An Empty Bliss Beyond This World, Kirby used samples from pre-World War II 78-rpm ballroom jazz, as well as crafting an ambient sound that sounded faded, and worn, many comparisons were made to the soundtrack to Bioshock and William Basinki.

Kirby used record scratches and popping and clicking sounds to create, what Rowan Savage described as ‘steampunk glitches’, The Caretaker, similar to vaporware artists, used an array of already existing sounds and merged them together with his album to create a new, effective experience. Along with the composition of the record, there is the echo filters giving the album a sense of degradation and nostalgia. The repurposing and digital composition of these tracks are a feat to behold as Kirby creates a pure ambient atmosphere, similar to Basinki’s Disintegration Loops. While the samples are less obvious, since they are deeply laden within the atmosphere of dementia and anguish. The Caretaker’s use of sampling and reusing of old audio artifacts brings new meaning to the samples he uses. Much of the album was inspired by the plight of dementia patients and conjure memories of a forgotten, longing past. The use of the ballroom jazz creates the ambience of a mental ward, or a decaying memory, perfectly capturing the raw emotion.

Meanwhile, in the world of vaporware and chill-hop, was a different story, lazy nocturnal synths, vocal sample sourced from self-help tapes, old cartoons, Nintendo 64 games, or public-access tapes, vaporware and chill-hop were popularized by James Ferraro, Daniel Lopatin, and Ramona Xavier — the movement was built on sites like Reddit and 4chan, artists turned towards Bandcamp and SoundCloud for distribution. A highly surrealistic world, that repurposing 3D images, glitch and video game samples with layered synth pop, anime and cyberpunk tropes. While still a somewhat niche genre, following the wider exposure of vaporwave in 2012, many sub-genres such as future funk, mallsoft, and hardvapour. An album that pioneered this genre was James Ferraro’s Far Side Virtual which had elements of elevator music, corporate mood music, obscure samples and old Windows sound effects, to create a hyper real, nostalgic mood. Loptain’s album Replica, was another album that was in the genre of Plunder-phonics, a hyper-sample-based sound collage, a niche genre in which Loptain built the entirety of Replica around, blending 90s and 80s ads with synth waves and chaotic drum patterns.

Vaporware artists like Vektroid, 2814 and Death’s Dynamic Shroud, took Ferraro’s recipe to the logical extreme trying to blend these sounds and styles together. While chill-hop artists took to YouTube, channels such as Ryan Celsius became hubs for chill hop artists to preview their tracks on 24/7 playlists, with other online DJs such as COLLEGE MUSIC doing the same, with an online community of DJs and listeners tuning in every day for a listen, DJ Celsius said this in a VICE interview:

The 24/7 streams often give people music they didn’t know that they would like

The advent of vaporware and chill-hop changed much of the groundwork for what it means to make music, with the re-purposing of sound and digital landscape serving as a foreground for the strange, absurd art and vaguely anti-capitalist, retro-futuristic world of vaporware.

Overall, sampling, as well as lo-fi music has become an art-form in itself, with many artists use technology to create a new sound with sampling, and reusing old audio artificats and machinery to create a lo-fi sound and style, to give us, the audience, a new sense of meaning.

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#onceuponatimeinshaolin Ten Tigers from Kwangtung 🙏👲 (at Sportski Centar Pozarevac) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6GeR9LAUEu/?igshid=wqkl159t5ibf

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Wu-Tang’s RZA Breaks Down 10 Kung Fu Films He’s Sampled (Vanity Fair, 9/3/19)

Ever wonder where Wu-Tang Clan got their amazing samples from? Watch as Wu-Tang's producer, rapper and founder, RZA, takes you through scenes from "Master of the Flying Guillotine," "Executioners from Shaolin," "The 36th Chamber," "Enter the Dragon," "Five Deadly Venoms," "The Mystery of Chess Boxing," "Ten Tigers of Kwangtung," "Shaolin vs. Lama," "Shaolin and Wutang," "The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter," and explains how they influenced and provided samples for their tracks.

[sheilacwall]

Wu-Tang’s RZA Breaks Down 10 Kung Fu Films He’s Sampled

Ever wonder where Wu-Tang Clan got their amazing samples from? Watch as Wu-Tang’s producer, rapper and founder, RZA, takes you through scenes from “Master of the Flying Guillotine,” “Executioners from Shaolin,” “The 36th Chamber,” “Enter the Dragon,” “Five Deadly Venoms,” “The Mystery of Chess Boxing,” “Ten Tigers of Kwangtung,” “Shaolin vs. Lama,” “Shaolin and Wutang,” “The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter,” and explains how they influenced and provided samples for their tracks.

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