That led the way to many greats like Chia-Liang Liu’s The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, the first of about a half-dozen Chamber flicks. And there were no guns or weapons, just hand-to-hand fighting. The Toad, the Lizard, the Scorpion, the Snake, the Centipede! They seemed like superheroes. There was a movie directed by Chang Chen called Five Deadly Venoms and when I saw it, I was totally geeked out. We started going every weekend after that. In 1979, my cousin took me to 42nd Street to see some kung fu movies and I was blown away. ![]() How did you originally get interested in the genre? While finishing the latest Wu album, 8 Diagram, RZA spoke with Film Comment about his devotion to martial arts (which he has also practiced for years). A common thread running throughout his career has been the influence of martial arts cinema, to which he constantly pays homage to with dialogue and soundtrack samples and lyrical references. 1 (03), and has acted or appeared as himself in several films, most notably in a vignette from Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes opposite Bill Murray, and most recently in Ridley Scott’s American Gangster. ![]() (He’s rumored to belong to the largest extended family in New York City.) He scored Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog (99) and Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vol. ![]() The a co-founder (with cousins the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard and GZA) of the renowned Wu-Tang Clan has worked on film projects involving everyone from Judd Apatow to Warren Beatty to Shaquille O’Neal. By Jason Gross in the May-June 2008 Issueīrooklyn-born rap legend, soundtrack virtuoso, and rising movie actor, RZA (aka Robert Diggs) is the epitome of multitask (apparently he was so busy with other projects he had to turn down a supporting role in The Departed).
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