Choy Lay Fut Kung Fu in the Movies: a compilation

If you want to get a flavour of Choy Lay Fut Kung Fu, what better than to see it in action from top kung fu actors. I found these videos on youtube, not the best quality, but you can make out the action scenes at least.

For more scenes of Choy Lay Fut in movies part 1


Choy Lay Fut in the movies part 2

Classic Kung Fu Cinema: Duel of the Seven Tigers

Classic Kung Fu cinema with those curiously unsynced dubbed english and the wacky music. I came across the 1979 film - Duel of the Seven Tigers on Youtube. According to a review, it's inspired by the Kurosawa classic Seven Samurai.
  It's of interest to me, as it stars my late Choy Lay Fut Grandmaster Lee Koon Hung, Tat Mau Wong's Sifu.

You'll see Grandmaster Lee Koon Hung 57" seconds into the film.

Classic Kung Fu Cinema: The Last Dragon (1985)

One of my favourite films in the 1980s, has to be the cult classic Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon (1985), it was one of the films that inspired me to keep practicing martial arts. I also like the soundtrack, which was under the direction of Gordy, founder of motown records; you can hear the songs in the following clips. First of all, a trailer which features lead actor Taimak.


Shonuff - the villain Shogun, demands Le Roy calls him Master. It turns out the one place he hadn't looked in his training was within, he is the master - then a magical glow appears! This glow is probably alluding to Qi - internal energy that you cultivate in the internal kung fu arts.

Choy Lee Fut - the movie! Bruce Lee probably would have approved!

I am assuming the success of the biopic films about Bruce Lee's Wing Chun teacher - Ip Man films (Ip Man and Ip Man 2) starring Donnie Yen, has sparked an interest in films about legendary kung fu styles.

Choy Lee Fut (Cai Li Fo in mandarin) style kung fu is a combat system, which Bruce Lee respected:
"Choy Li Fut is the most effective system that I've seen for fighting more than one person. [It] is one of the most difficult styles to attack and defend against. Choy Li Fut is the only style [of kung fu] that traveled to Thailand to fight the Thai boxers and hadn't lost."
-from Bruce Lee - Between Wing Chun and Jeet Kune Do, by Jesse Glover.
According to Black Belt magazine, Bruce Lee studied Choy Lee Fut, before studying Wing Chun.. Here's a manual of a Choy Lee Fut book that is purported to belong to Bruce Lee.

Here's Sammo Hung's film trailer - Choy Lee Fut, released in 2011.



Wushupedia on Youtube - shows 15 minutes of footage from the film.


As a film itself, the reviews haven't been that spectacular (here's one from LoveHkFilm). But as a practitioner of Choy Lee
Fut, I'm dying to see it!