After all the mounting hysteria among Sinophiles about how it would turn out -- including a rumored retitling to "Kung-Fu Soccer" -- Miramax's cut and English-dubbed version of Stephen Chow's ...

HENAN, Central China — In the final minutes of the game, kung fu master-turned-soccer player “Mighty Steel Leg” Sing launches into the air and, with a seemingly light kick, sends the ball flying at ...

“Shaolin Soccer” is light, silly, goofy and deranged — part “Enter the Dragon,” part “Hoosiers,” and part “Naked Gun.” It may not always choose the right parts, but at least it tries. Stephen Chow, ...

Stephen Chow’s over-the-top 2001 martial arts comedy is always worth revisiting, but even more so during World Cup fever Stephen Chow’s over-the-top 2001 martial arts comedy is always worth revisiting ...

Science fiction may replace martial arts as the hottest genre in Hong Kong, if Stephen Chow’s new movie CJ7 takes off. Chow helped reinvigorate the sagging martial-arts genre with Shaolin Soccer and ...

A soccer training center for teenagers opened on Tuesday at a martial arts school in Dengfeng, Henan province. The move brings to real life the Stephen Chow film Shaolin Soccer, a hit comedy about a ...

There are some things that just go hand in hand – peanut butter and jelly, Axl and Slash and, oddly enough, Kung-fu and soccer. Kung-Fu and soccer? Maybe this is not the most likely of combinations, ...

Ng Man-tat, the star Shaolin Soccer and frequent collaborator of Kung Fu Hustle filmmaker Stephen Chow, has died. The iconic Hong Kong actor, accompanied by his wife and children, died peacefully on ...

Mexico’s 0-0 draw against Brazil was one of the bigger surprises of what has been a very interesting World Cup. Mexican goalie Guillermo Ochoa’s acrobatic heroics kept El Tri in the game. Ochoa’s ...

{image1}Huge in Asia, "Shaolin Soccer," the 2001 film by Hong Kong writer and director Stephen Chow won't likely do big box office in the USA. And that's a shame because although they should have used ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Shaolin Soccer makes me giddy. More then any film I've seen in the past three years it fills me ...