free online kung fu movies

[Atherton]

http://pages.tvunetworks.com/channels/index.jsp?g=5#

Not sure if you guys talked about this before. But this site has a couple martial arts movie channels. Right now they're playing JC's Miracles and I believe Kung Fu For Sale.

[Morgoth]

Thanks for the link. Is there any way you can choose a movie, or do you just have to choose a channel and watch what is already playing? and what is this movie on the black belt channel right now? I've never seen it. Looks kinda sucky.

[Mark Pollard]

I just did a little research on this service which is called TVU Networks. It apparently started out as an unlicensed streaming video site for cable TV programming and has now gone legit, in case anyone is concerned about the software player download or legality of the site.

TVU Networks to Announce Enhanced Copyright Protection for Live Internet TV at The Cable Show 2008
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2008_May_18/ai_n25432911

[HAZ]

Is it possible to watch the celestial channel with this?

[thegoldenstate]

Thank you for posting about this thing. It's pretty entertaining to watch.

As far as I can tell, there are three channels which show all sorts of kung fu movies 24/7-- good ones, dubbed ones, subtitled ones, Bruceploitation, Taiwanese cheapies/obscurities...one of the frustrating things, though, is that there doesn't seem to be any schedules available anywhere for those particular channels. Also, the movies don't begin on the hour-- they start at odd times, 10 minutes before the hour and so forth.

Anyhow, so far I've caught at least parts of Thousand Miles Escort; Champ Against Champ; Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth; Eagle vs Silver Fox; The Secret Rivals; Stoner; Half a Loaf of Kung Fu; Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger, Infernal Street...oh, and now as I right this one of the channels is showing...Fist of Fear, Touch of Death!

I've been having fun with this...some of these movies I don't think I've seen in 25 years or so!

[Atherton]

No problem thegoldenstate. I think these films are on some sort of loop, I think that's why they don't play on the hour.

[Atherton]

I think I figured out a list of all the films so far being played on channel 5422

It's on a loop I believe and Secret Rivals just started, they should play/repeat in this order until more titles are revealed.

KUNG FU ON SALE
MAGIC KID 2
SECRET RIVALS, THE
LIGHTNING KUNG FU
DRAGON LEE VS THE FIVE BROTHERS
FIGHTING ACE
LEGEND OF A FIGHTER
HERO'S BLOOD
MONKEY FIST FLOATING SNAKE
MACHO MAN
THOUSAND MILE ESCORT
SWORDSMAN WITH AN UMBRELLA
SHAOLIN VS MANCHU
REVENGE OF DRAGON
CHIVALRY, GUNMAN AND THE KILLER
STORY IN RED TEMPLE LILY
DRAGON INN
EXIT THE DRAGON ENTER THE TIGER
BREATHING FIRE
SHAOLIN DEADLY KICKS
FIST OF FEAR TOUCH OF DEATH
BRUCE LEE THE INVINCIBLE
GUY WITH THE SECRET KUNG FU

[ching li]

It seems that the blackbelt tv station has left. I am on the site now and I don't see the blackbelt tv station in the list

[Rebornman]

i watched 7 movies on the 3 different channels. for some reason, when i close the window to do something else and end watching a movie, it takes away form internet connection. I tested it several times and it does it each time. I called Comcast and they report nothing wrong with my service. I stopped going to the site cuz i got paranoid.

[thegoldenstate]

Hmm, not sure what that's about, Rebornman. I haven't encountered any similar problems.

ching li, the blackbelt station still shows up for me. It mostly seems to show martial arts competitions and more recent-ish (eighties and beyond) HK films.

Atherton, that is some impressive detective work, thanks. I never would have been able to figure out all of those titles, but I'm not surprised that someone here was able to do so, given the depth of knowledge that people here possess.

This is a very incomplete, out-of-sequence list of titles that I've been able to identify on the other (5403 Nostalgia Martial Arts) channel:

Bruce Lee: the Man, the Myth
Champ vs. Champ (weird Godfrey Ho flick w/Dragon Lee)
Eagle vs. Silver Fox (pretty good Hwang Jang Lee one, with "Mario Chan" in the hero's role...somewhat reminiscent of a Lee Tso Nam film)
Stoner (at least I think that was George Lazenby; I didn't have the patience at the time to sit around and identify it for certain)
Half a loaf of Kung Fu
Infernal Street (old basher that I didn't feel like sitting through)
Killer of Snake, Fox of Shaolin (bizarre wuxia/fantasy-based cheapie w/Carter Wong)
Kung Fu Arts (yet another bizarre historical fantasy w/Carter Wong)
Mantis Under Falcon Claws (can't remember now, but think it's the same as the Mantis vs the Falcon Claws that is listed in the IMDB)
Macho Man (some old basher...)
Golden Dragon, Silver Snake (Godfrey Ho flick w/Dragon Lee, but set in present-day, unlike Champ vs Champ listed above)


Anyhow, the films on that channel seem to be looped, as well. Who knows, maybe someday they'll install a new batch!