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DRAGONFEST Returns This Sunday!

Following previous coverage on the revival of Martial Arts History Museum founder and president Michael Matsuda’s upcoming events for Dragonfest 2014, a fresh new press release was unveiled this weekend announcing more details on who will attend. The festival appears to have an amazing slate of programs and guests lined up, including a wide array of seasoned film and martial arts veterans, actors and filmmakers alike, including Dragonfest’s original founder, actor Gerald Okamura. Moreover, one of the biggest bookmarks of the festival also happens to be the screening of a scene from director Michael Baumgarten’s new film, The Martial Arts Kid, a drama-heavy action picture which just recently announced its partnership with New Jersey-based outreach program, Bullying…We’re Kickin It. The film co-stars Don “The Dragon” Wilson and Cynthia Rothrock, the latter who will be among other big names in martial arts cinema going to the event this Sunday. All of […]

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DRAGONFEST Returns This Year!

If you are a martial arts enthusiast and were lucky enough to live in or around Santa Clarita or Burbank in the past fifteen years, chances are you got to share some pretty cool experiences, most notably, the annual Dragonfest convention hosted by actor and martial artist Gerald Okamura who since retired the event in 2004. This year, that all changes when Dragonfest makes its return to the public eye this month in Burbank, California, hosting a wide array of events that will not only explore martial arts as an entertainment venue, but also as a fundraiser for Burbank’s one and only Martial Arts History Museum, owned by fellow martial artist, founder and president Michael Matsuda. I got to share a few words with Matsuda on Thursday, who himself used to be a magazine writer, among other things, to learn more about what it was about martial arts that inspired […]

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