Despite its focus on a potentially fascinating subject, "The Real Shaolin" is a curiously underwhelming docu about four martial arts students who travel to China’s legendary Shaolin Temple, the ...

(PRESS RELEASE) -- After a sold-out world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and a successful worldwide festival tour, THE REAL SHAOLIN is finally available for purchase on DVD! THE ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - They went to kick butt and gain enlightenment, but what the men in new documentary "The Real Shaolin" found in China was loneliness, pain, bad food and angry kung fu teachers. For ...

As the East Coast suffers under chilly winds and snow, a sojourn in foreign climes seems called for. But as ticket prices soar and the economy dawdles in its recovery, such vacations seem unlikely. At ...

On the second floor of Far East Plaza in Chinatown, six kung fu students assume warlike expressions and ball their hands into fists. Shaolin Master Shi Yanxu bellows a command: “Mao Bu” — Chinese for ...

Shi Yan Feng closes his eyes and breathes deeply with ancient form. His palms rise face up on the inhale, then fall slowly, face down, on opposite sides of his torso then stretch straight upwards, ...

Following is a transcript of the video. - For me, real fighting is not really like this. Shifu Yanzi: My name is Shifu Yanzi. Shifu Yanzi is the Shaolin Temple name. Since 1983, I went to Shaolin ...

The hushed silence that descends over the old courtyard inside the Shaolin Temple carries the expectation of something magical. Abbot Shi Yongxin, a rotund Buddhist monk with a shaved head and a ...

"That's the bamboo garden. I became enamored with the Shaolin Temple and all the kids studying at the schools. It took me five years to build up a relationship with the abbot. I lived in Asia for 10 ...

This documentary from filmmaker Alexander Sebastien Lee follows four martial arts students from divergent backgrounds as they journey to China's storied Shaolin Temple in hopes of becoming kung fu ...