Shaolin Soccer: Action comedy. Starring Stephen Chow, Ng Man Tat, Vicki Zhao. Directed by Chow. Written by Chow and Tsang. Kan Cheung (PG-13. In Cantonese with English subtitles. 87 minutes. At the ...

“Shaolin Soccer” is a silly sports comedy that I quite enjoyed. This a rip-roaring, special-effects-packed farce from Hong Kong is about a “Cinderella” kung fu soccer team led by martial arts ...

HENAN, Central China — In the final minutes of the game, kung fu master-turned-soccer player “Mighty Steel Leg” Sing launches into the air and, with a seemingly light kick, sends the ball flying at ...

Stephen Chow’s over-the-top 2001 martial arts comedy is always worth revisiting, but even more so during World Cup fever Stephen Chow’s over-the-top 2001 martial arts comedy is always worth revisiting ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Shaolin Soccer makes me giddy. More then any film I've seen in the past three years it fills me ...

{image1}Huge in Asia, "Shaolin Soccer," the 2001 film by Hong Kong writer and director Stephen Chow won't likely do big box office in the USA. And that's a shame because although they should have used ...

A soccer training center for teenagers opened on Tuesday at a martial arts school in Dengfeng, Henan province. The move brings to real life the Stephen Chow film Shaolin Soccer, a hit comedy about a ...

What the Marx Brothers were to the drawing-room comedy, Shaolin Soccer is to the martial arts movie. A combo platter of The Matrix and Bend It Like Beckham — and Kill Bill and Crouching Tiger and ...

Ng Man-tat, the star Shaolin Soccer and frequent collaborator of Kung Fu Hustle filmmaker Stephen Chow, has died. The iconic Hong Kong actor, accompanied by his wife and children, died peacefully on ...