Bits of the soundtrack from the James Bond film “The Spy Who Loved Me” would turn up in Jackie Chan’s “Drunken Master”, the theme from the sixties television show “Ironside” was used in “King Boxer/Five Fingers of Death” (and subsequently “ Kill Bill“), and who can forget Jackie Chan training to Jean-Michel Jarre’s “Oxygene Part 2” in “ Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow“?Īs is common in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, many singers act in films and many film stars release songs. In order to keep budgets down, Hong Kong film makers would often “borrow” music from the West.
From the famous “On the General’s Orders” theme song associated with the popular Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung, to the influence of kung fu styling on hip hop artists such as the Wu Tang Clan, there are not many movie genres that can claim such a widespread impact.ĭuring the kung fu craze of the 1970’s there weren’t actually that many original scores.
There has been a long and interesting relationship between martial arts movies and music.
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