36th Chamber's nearly hourlong training sequence overshadows the rest of the movie, but it's the stuff of action-cinema legend.

Liu Chia-Liang’s trend-setting classic mythologizes the true story of a monk who took his martial teaching out of the temple and into the secular world as it boils the revenge drama down to almost abstract levels.

Undeniably one of the greatest and most influential kung fu films of all time.

Despite its relative lack of star power and modest budget, this Shaw Brothers kung fu movie was acclaimed in its day and is regarded as a landmark of the genre.