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How Chinese opera influenced Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, the movies of King Hu and Chang Cheh, and Golden Swallow’s white outfits




One of the beautiful things about martial arts films is the different influences that are present in them: real-life combat forms like hung gar and wing chun kung fu, and circus skills like wirework and trampolining, to name a few.But the main influence on martial arts as they are depicted on screen is certainly Peking opera – or more accurately Chinese opera, as martial arts films choreography also draws from many regional Chinese opera forms.The first martial arts film, The Burning of the Red…



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