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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068767/
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to be re-watched
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aka The Chinese Connection
martial arts entertainment
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Entertainment > Movies >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068000/
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Synopsis from the back of the box: Jackie Chan uses his hands and feet as deadly weapons to avenge the murder of his father. His quest takes him on a dangerous path into the activities of a ruthless gang and the evil mastermind who was responsible for the crime.
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Chinese: 刁手怪招 (diāo shǒu guài zhāo)
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Entertainment > Movies >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081499/
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A surprisingly cool plot. Snazzy music and interesting accents on the dubbing. Features fights with a white fan (folded and out), a good multi swordfight, bench-foo and skirt-foo.
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FIXME – My DVD skips at a cool bench-foo fight. Crap!
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Entertainment > Movies >
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079509/
Completely tongue-in-cheek.. zaney or something.
There are a whole lot of “what the fuck?!” moments. Actually, there are entire scenes of it. Be sure to drop some recreational pharmacuticals, or at least drink a hell of a lot before, while and after watching this. Good lord. No, there is no god.. only Zuul.
80’s-mode fullscreen.
Note to self: My DVD skipped 29 minutes in. Oh well.
 This image doesn't even begin to do this book cover justice
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Entertainment > Reading > samurai >
The Way >
An extraordinary tactician and samurai (Japanese swordsman) had a late-life crisis and retired into monkhood. Over time, he allowed a scribe to record advice from his experience. Though meant to be extremely-selectively passed-on, it ultimately found itself in the hands of enough people to survive to today. It is a book on the martial use of the sword, the way of swords, the way of personal and mass martial strategy, and The Way.
I haven’t read broadly and deeply enough, and I doubt anyone has, to truly judge this work in the context of what humanity has to offer (what has survived, that is), but I feel comfortable saying this is one of the Great works. I should say I highly recommend it, but I fear most people wouldn’t even begin to comprehend it even in any vague sense. This is not a beginner’s book, whatever “beginner” means with this book in that context. At the very least, this ought to be read by people who are deeply passionate about philosophy (of the armchair variety).
My edition of this book has an unfortunately-shiny fabric hardcover, with glossy full-colour pages with photographs which give it an impression of high quality. It even has an integrated ribbon bookmark. When reading it at length, I get the impression that the pages will eventually pull out. I hope this is not true.
- Translated by David K. Groff
- 五輪書 (Go Rin No Sho) in Japanese.
- Miyamoto Musashi
- 2012-05-01 (third edition)
- ISBN-10 178028120X
