Pui Chan: Kung Fu Pioneer (2012)
• September 1st, 2012 • 1h 25min
Documentary
Overview
Step into the extraordinary life of a Chinese immigrant who overcame the challenges to achieve the American dream. This biography follows the path of a young boy who learns the value of hard work and perseverance through kung fu training. He escapes the harshness of political oppression, bravely ventures out on his own, and embraces opportunity in a new land. The now highly recognized Grandmaster Pui Chan is one of the pioneers responsible for bringing traditional kung fu to America. He built his first kung fu temple in America, and leads and internationally renowned martial arts system across the world. Pui's eldest daughter and successor Mimi Chan confronts a new set of challenges, trying to keep the traditional values alive in an increasingly modernized era.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
Released on: 1938-04-21
Documentary
Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greec...
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty
Released on: 1938-06-02
Documentary
Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...
Love Hotel
Released on: 2014-04-26
Documentary
Pensioners, lawyers, married couples and teenagers are all customers at the Angel Love Hotel in Osak...
Meet the Patels
Released on: 2014-06-14
Romance, Comedy, Documentary
Finding love is never easy. For Ravi Patel, a first generation Indian-American, the odds are slim. H...
The Prince of Nothingwood
Released on: 2017-06-14
Documentary
French documentarist Sonia Kronlund follows actor and director Salim Shaheen, an Afghan movie star w...
Refugee
Released on: 2016-04-23
Documentary
Five acclaimed photographers travel the world to provide detailed insight into the difficult conditi...
Mother of Many Children
Released on: 1977-09-18
Documentary
This film is an album of Native womanhood, portraying a proud matriarchal society that for centuries...
Kreator - Hate & Hope
Released on: 2025-09-04
Documentary, Music
From a school band from Essen to an internationally celebrated thrash metal legend: To mark Kreator'...
Poisoning Paradise
Released on: 2017-06-03
Documentary
Journey to the seemingly idyllic world of Native Hawaiians, whose communities are surrounded by expe...
Keepers of the Fire
Released on: 1994-04-23
Documentary
For half of a millennium, First Nations women have been at the forefront of aboriginal peoples' resi...
Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.
Released on: 2014-06-09
Documentary
Robert De Niro, Sr., was a celebrated painter obscured by the pop-art movement. His life and career ...
Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
Released on: 1985-11-01
Documentary
Examines the impact a century of struggling for survival has on a native people. It weaves the Crow ...
Life May Be
Released on: 2014-06-21
Documentary
An epistolary feature film: a cinematic discourse between a British director Mark Cousins, and an Ir...
Wintopia
Released on: 2019-11-23
Documentary
IDFA and Canadian filmmaker Peter Wintonick had a close relationship for decades. He was a hard work...
Beyond the Powder: The Legacy of the First Women's Cross-Country Air Race
Released on: 2015-07-24
Documentary
The first Women’s Air Derby was flown in 1929 with brave women making history by breaking into a com...
Back on Board: Greg Louganis
Released on: 2014-06-25
Documentary
Feature-length documentary about the greatest diver of all time. Four-time Olympic champion Greg Lou...
Bigger Than Us
Released on: 2021-09-22
Documentary
For six years, Melati, 18, has been fighting the plastic pollution that is ravaging her country, Ind...
Shameless: The Art of Disability
Released on: 2006-01-01
Documentary
Art, activism and disability are the starting point for what unfolds as a funny and intimate portrai...
Mountain
Released on: 2017-11-30
Documentary
An epic cinematic and musical collaboration between SHERPA filmmaker Jennifer Peedom and the Austral...