World of Hurt » kung fu http://worldofhurtonline.com Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:14:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Exit The Dragon http://worldofhurtonline.com/2009/06/11/exit-the-dragon/ http://worldofhurtonline.com/2009/06/11/exit-the-dragon/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:00:31 +0000 Jay Potts http://worldofhurtonline.com/?p=555 Frequent commenter and WORLDOFHURTONLINE.COM regular, Ramon, pointed out last week that venerable Hong Kong actor, Shih Kien, died last week at the age of 96.  Kien had a long career in film, but I, and most other film buffs in the Western hemisphere, knew him best as the evil Han from the legendary 1973 Bruce Lee film, Enter The Dragon. 

 Although in a previous post, I stated only a passing familiarity with kung fu movies, Enter The Dragon is the exception.  I know the film quite well, because my older brother Philip,  my cousin Clarence, and I used to make it ritual to watch my uncle’s bootleg, taped-off-HBO-copy of the movie whenever we got together over a holiday break.  Jim Kelly’s comment to Han, once he discovers the evil mastermind’s villainous intentions, “Man, you come straight out of a comic book,” is the inspiration for the name of the ”comic book blog” link tag on this site.

 RIP Shih Kien.

- JEP

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David Carradine, star of "Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & II" and the television series "Kung Fu"

Kill Bill star, David Carradine was found dead today in a Bangkok hotel room , apparently by his own hand.  Very sad. 

The Juice* has more on the story.

R.I.P. David Carradine.

- JEP

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