Were you into the philosophy of the show? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pdsZ3wnElo"]The Tao of Kung Fu #14 - " Cowardice is wisdom of weakness." - YouTube
martial arts humor, it is kind of slapstic and fantasy and its fun, but it doesn't really have that much to do with belief. although sometimes wise stories can be told by it. there was that little korean guy who made a lot of better ones. i can't remember right now his name. and then a lot of anime have a lot of stuff like and about this too. but still, you know, story telling for entertainment is story telling for entertainment. it usually isn't trying to be accurate about beliefs. just tell and entertaining story. though yes, sometimes the stories illustrate points of belief. buddhist, shinto, tao, what have you. the gestalt of mixed beliefs in different asian countries.
Can the Buddhist restitute matter for the substance of the usage of these instruments. A kind of passing on of the wisdom in a trade? I understand Hinduism does very well to know of the substance of technique being worldly em-parted into the body of knowledge, Nature for human nature.
It was the coolest! Bonanza with badass that beat up the bullies. Still watch here and there, but never bought the series.
Here's one more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNrRmsXMUOE"]The Tao of Kung Fu #26 - "Nature is always impartial." - YouTube
Meh, it was ok when I was a kid... most of the episodes were shallow as fuck and boring, light on Kung-Fu, heavy on the watered down eastern philosophy, little actual martial arts... found out later Bruce lee actually got burned for the role of his own conception. Just think how cool it would have been with Lee as Cain... Wiki
I remember watching it and being crazy about it. For a time I was a David Caradine fan because of this show. I can't watch utube, movies or anything like tv on my computer because I have a dial-up connection. Yes, I would like to go back and watch some of those old Kung Fu shows and see how I would view them now...I'd probably quite like watching a young D Caradine do that martial arts stuff.
Maybe Bruce would have done it differently but David Carradine made that role his. I honestly can't see no one else playing Caine like he did. He came off like a real monk.
He was awesome parodying himself in Rob Schniders "Big Stan" where he plays a washed-up, chain-smoking kung-fu master Stan's hired to teach him to be a bad-ass in preparation for an upcoming prison sentence.
Kung Fu is unique amongst Hollywood and TV. I can't think of any other trying to show Eastern philosophy in action, and a lone Chinese man in the provincial West, a person trying to uphold high moral quality of life. Can anyone name any other such TV shows?
