Kung Fu

TV Series
2021–2023
TV-14

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5.7/10

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Kung Fu Martial Arts Superhero Action Adventure Drama

A young Chinese American woman, Nicky Shen, leaves college and makes a life-changing journey to a Shaolin monastery in China. She returns to her hometown and uses her martial arts skills to ... Read allA young Chinese American woman, Nicky Shen, leaves college and makes a life-changing journey to a Shaolin monastery in China. She returns to her hometown and uses her martial arts skills to fight crime and corruption.A young Chinese American woman, Nicky Shen, leaves college and makes a life-changing journey to a Shaolin monastery in China. She returns to her hometown and uses her martial arts skills to fight crime and corruption.

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IMDb RATING

5.7/10

5.2K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

4,424

390

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Awards
- 4 wins & 10 nominations total

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Trivia
Ludi Lin is the only reoccurring actor on the show who regularly practices martial arts outside of his work.

Goofs
There is a stock footage sequence every week, that shows the streetscape outside the "Harmony Dumpling Restaurant" in Chinatown. There a fake San Francisco cable car in that sequence. You also hear the brassy, insistent ding of a cable car bell, being rung twice. The fake cable car is clearly a two axle motorized vehicle running on four pneumatic rubber tires. The roadway is also missing the required steel tracks as used by a real San Francisco cable car.

San Francisco cable cars have a complicated undercarriage, and the car rides on a pair of four-wheel trucks with flanged iron wheels (no pneumatic rubber tires), designed for the cable car narrow gauge track of 3 ft 6 in (1.067 mm).

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3/10

Ripping the Heart Out of "Kung Fu"

The original "Kung Fu" TV series was about morality. Yes, the fight scenes were fun and brought something new to Western audiences that amazed us all, but at the heart of the series was a map for how to live a moral life; how to connect with all things.

This series is a disgrace to the "Kung Fu" name. It is written for a young audience and it appears to center around a sword with magical powers (Holy Green Destiny, Batman) and only its rightful owner can hold it (shades of Thor's hammer).

The first episode hints at magical powers to come, and it implies that the charismatic young heroine has developed amazing kung-fu skills in three short years at a monastery. At least in the original series, Caine grew up learning kung-fu and the ways of their Taoist. Zen philosophy.

Apparently the producers of this new series believe young people are not interested in thinking deeply. The plot is as thin as a bad kung-fu movie where the plot centers around, "You killed my teacher!" And of course, they threw in a Tong war. So far, there is no hint of the series that might have been -- a wise and skilled young woman coming back home and helping people not only with her fists of fury, but also helping teach them to accept others and live a more balanced life. As a result, the producers have ripped the heart out of the "Kung Fu" series and shown it to us, beating in their hands, before the series dies.