Film
Baji Quan
2020 · 4m · Documentary
Discover the beautiful brutality of China’s most explosive Kung Fu style
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Overview
NOWNESS China has released a new series of films focusing on traditional Chinese culture as defined by a new generation of young people. Young Masters: Baji Quan is the first episode and focuses on a 23-year-old man from Hebei province who is a stalwart practitioner of Baji Quan—a traditional Chinese fighting style known for its graceful stillness and sudden moments of targeted and ferocious violence. Director Haonan Shen traveled to the Mengcun Baji Quan International Training Center to profile Wu Hao whose paternal ancestor Wu Zhong (1712–1802) was the first recorded Baji Quan teacher. In this evocative portrait of a young man’s passion for sharing his family’s rich heritage, we get up close and personal with the violent elbow strikes, staff jabs, fierce rising and firm falling stances that characterize the martial art.
Crew
- Shen HaonanDirector
Details
- Release date
- July 3, 2020
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 4m
- Genres
- Documentary
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