Hello, my name is Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Slown.

And you're listening to the Important Cinema Club.

And today, we're doing something that we haven't done in a long time, especially someone

who has very few directorial credits, because we're talking about an action choreographer,

specifically Tong Kai. Most weeks we podcast just with our bare hand. you directorial credits because we're talking about an action choreographer, specifically

Tong Kai. Most weeks we podcast just with our bare hands, but what if this time we used weapons?

Oh no, and wacky weapons like broken blades and moon scimitars. So yes, Tong Kai and he goes under a

number of different names. Yeah, I've seen Tongai, Tang Xia, Tang Xi, Tang Xia, Huatang, Wang Tong, and Hua Longji.

So we're calling him Tong Kai because on Hong Kong movie database, that's the one at the top.

And I trust Hong Kong movie database.

Anyway, he directed only three movies, all between 1982 and 1984, Shaolin Prince,

Shaolin Intruders, and Opium and the Kung Fu Master.

But he is best known as an action choreographer and stunt coordinator on dozens of Shaw

Brothers classics, the one-armed swordsman, golden, Human Lanterns, such Western crossover hits as

Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires and Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold.

And he's also an action choreographer that you don't hear singled out very much in English

language circles.

And that's because the bulk of his work was done with one of the greatest action choreographers of all time, La Carloong.

We've done an episode on La Carling before.

And I wanted to talk about Tonkai because...

And La Calung, just in case people don't know, did 36 Chamber of Shaolin, many Shaw Brothers classics.

Legendary Weapons of China.

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