Kung Fu - The Complete First Season
by Alex Beaton, Allen Reisner, Barry Crane, Charles S. Dubin, Gordon Hessler
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Actor: David Carradine, Khigh Dhiegh, R.L. Armstrong, Radames Pera, Regis CordicDirector: Alex Beaton, Allen Reisner, Barry Crane, Charles S. Dubin, Gordon Hessler
Brand: WEA
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 780 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
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- He is a man of peace in a violent land. He is Kwai Chang Caine, schooled in the spirit-mind-body ways of the Shaolin priesthood by the blind, avuncular Master Po and the stern yet loving Master Kan. Caine speaks softly but hits hard. He lives humbly yet knows great contentment. He is the Old West's most unusual hero. But hero is not a word Caine would use. He would simply say, "I am a man."Running
DVD Reviews of Kung Fu - The Complete First Season
DVD Review: Not just Kung Fu
Summary: 5 Stars
A great series with great plots ( if you look into the story line )
Loved the narration comments by David Carradine
DVD Review: Excellent Series!
Summary: 5 Stars
I enjoyed this show as a child so now some years later I'm enjoying it even more because it makes more sense to me. There is always some lesson to be learned and good morals that we could all take on board. I cannot recommend this DVD enough!! Buy it; you won't regret it.DVD Review: "as quick as you can, snach the pebble from my hand"
Summary: 4 Stars
David Carradine- bless his recent departed soul, continues his quest 37 years latter in commercial free digital dvd's. He has his "yen and yang" going on in style just as I remember him, only better with HD LCD large screen TV. Now my 13yo understands when i call him "grasshopper". DVD Review: Enjoyable with reservations
Summary: 2 Stars
I enjoyed this show when it first aired and was looking forward to buying it. I read one of the reviews which criticized the show for categorizing all whites as evil. I have to say that after watching it I find that true. It is almost comical how the white characters are portrayed as ignorant, barbaric racist. People of color and Asians are almost always portrayed as smart, sensitive, and loving victims of some evil, perpetrated by those evil whites. I guess they went out of their way to reverse discrimination. It seems over the top but consider the times.
I think most people wish the lead went to Bruce Lee who was supposed to get it. Little did they know who would become the superstar.
Enjoy it for what it is, a fun piece of nostalgia.
DVD Review: :) Grasshopper
Summary: 5 Stars
Ah Grasshopper.....There is much to learn from all the seasons ; the journey starts here :)
Description of Kung Fu - The Complete First Season
He is a man of peace in a violent land. He is Kwai Chang Caine, schooled in the spirit-mind-body ways of the Shaolin priesthood by the blind, avuncular Master Po and the stern yet loving master Kan. Caine speaks softly but hits hard. He lives humbly yet knows great contentment. He is the Old West's most unusual hero. But hero is not a word Caine would use. He would simply say, "I am a man."Everybody was kung-fu fighting after the 1972 premiere of this mystic western starring David Carradine (snatching the role from Bruce Lee) in his signature, Emmy-nominated role as Caine, a stoic Shaolin monk forced to flee China after killing the royal family member who slew his Master. Our wandering hero roams the west in search of his long-lost brother, while eluding American and Imperial bounty hunters, and imparting his ancient wisdom on those he encounters and is compelled to aid. Kung-Fu was never a ratings force, but its cult status was assured long before Samuel L. Jackson referenced it in Pulp Fiction. Along with the inaugural 15 episodes, this three-disc set contains the feature-length pilot that establishes the series' iconography: the inscrutable aphorisms ("When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding"); the flashbacks to Caine's youth, where the orphaned half-American and half-Chinese boy served as disciple ("Grasshopper") to the Old Man; and, of course, the anticipated moments when the peaceful Caine, like Billy Jack, is reluctantly compelled by some frontier bigot to use his fighting skills. Look for appearances by father John Carradine and brothers Keith and Robert in the episode, "Dark Angel." That's 11-year-old future Oscar-winner Jodie Foster in "Althea." Other notable episodes include the Emmy-winning "An Eye for an Eye" and "Chains," featuring an Emmy-nominated turn by Michael Greene as a not-so-gentle giant to whom an imprisoned Caine is chained. "With each ending," Caine observes in the episode, "The Third Man," comes a new beginning." Kung Fu's new beginning comes on DVD. Thanks to the timeless frontier setting and the uniqueness of its genre-bending concept, Kung Fu dates better than other '70s series. As these episodes demonstrate, the show still has plenty of kick. --Donald Liebenson
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