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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790791128
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790791129
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 18, 2005
Running Time: 1167 minutes
Sales Rank: 11902
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 14, 1972
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Description:
He is a man of peace in a violent land. He is Kwai Chang Caine, schooled in the spirit-mind-body wasy of the Shaolin priesthood by the blind avuncular Master Po and the stern , yet loving Master Kan. He is the Old West's most unusual hero. Season 2 guest stars include Harrison Ford, Don Johnson, Slim Pickens, Gilbert Roland, Tina Louise, John Carradine, Benson Fong and More!
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Rating:  - Classic
From a time when good morals could be learned from TV. An excellent introduction to Eastern Asian philosophy. Actors who guest starred were varied. Watching Keye Luke as a mature man is fascinating to anyone who remembers the old Warner Oland "Charlie Chan" series when Mr. Luke played 'No. 1 son'. If you get a chance to see "The Good Earth" with Paul Muni you can see both Keye Luke and Philip Ahn as young men.
Rating: - OK
It got here quickly and in great condition. It was not as good as the first season, but better than the third. If you like Kung Fu, you will like this.
Rating:  - Nostalgia
I'm one of those boom babies who grew-up watching "Kung-Fu", and thought Chinese Shoalin monks were all-knowing, superhuman demigods who could throw-down with the bad guys and kick the snot out of them. Now it seems like a funny show, where they may spend five minutes debating the merits of a spider web. Very, very slowly. After a few of these you realize that everyone talks slow and acts slow, and the fast forward is taking you right to a decent fight scene, filmed in -yes!- slow motion! Yet, it's all good, Kane is slooooow but believable, and lessons are learned. Most of all, it's awsome nostalgia for guys like me who get sick of brainless action movies where the opposite is true; everything is too fast with a million explosions. Sometimes you need to slow things down and meditate a bit . . . then kick butt in slow mo. Good times.
Rating: - The Journey Continues
A few years ago, I gave the first season a positive review, but this is light years beyond it. Caine began progressing on his path because everyone associated with the show began finding their way as well. Year One, like the beginning of Caine's journey, was random and confused. Here, there's a purpose. Talk about a productive off-season. A few mid-season slumps, but no clunkers between a strong start and a stronger finish.
The immersion in the atmosphere is absolute, and it's extremely easy to forget you're watching actors on a film set. The atmosphere, the wide variety of natural beauty that the US offers (I can't believe I wrote that), the trademark use of music to maximum effect, the joy of seeing actors you know well popping up here. Much cross-pollination from the original Star Trek. Don Johnson as a teenaged Indian back when he could (believe it or not) act. Tina Louise confusing volume with emotion, which could be why they shipped her off to Gilligan's Island. Slim Pickens, of course. Boss Hogg before he wore white, back when he was just a sheriff. George Dzundza as a customer in a whorehouse. Denver Pyle (Dukes of Hazzard, Grizzly Adams) as a clean-shaven doctor, with a pre-Star Wars Harrison Ford in the same episode. But I've gotta give the award to Jack Elam as a sympathetic "good guy" character. Probably the most dialogue he's ever delivered in his career, and he's amazing.
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Rating: - Transforming The American Landscape One Person At A Time
`Kung Fu - The Complete Second Season' continues the odyssey of Kwai Chang Caine on his sojourns across the American west in search of the half-brother he has never met. His search is continually complicated by a myriad of hired assassins sent by the Chinese Emperor to kill him for the accidental death of his nephew along with the constant racial prejudice he must encounter at every new town he enters. Tough circumstances even for a martial arts priest to overcome.
If you're open to Buddhist philosophy or just open in general I encourage you to give it a try and join the wandering, flute playing monk on the road less traveled. This series not only entertains, it teaches.
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