Gong Shu Dao

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GONG SHOU DAO: Jack Ma VS. The Martial Arts World In The Official Trailer

I would say seven minutes is awfully long for a trailer, but this is what’s being doled out ahead of a release of twenty minutes of watching Alibaba founder Jack Ma go toe-to-toe with the best and biggest in film fighting and sports in his shortfilm debut, Gong Shou Dao. No sign of Master Yuen, Tony Ching or Sammo, but we do get the rest of our fighting cast in full form with Ma in fighting garb joined by Donnie Yen, Wu Jing, Tony Jaa, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Jacky Heung, Zou Shiming and Asashoryu Akinori. Of course, we also get Ma’s TaijiZen cohort, action star Jet Li putting in work in a recent and rare show of screenfighting since cutting back over the last four years due to health concerns. It’s a seven-minute feast for the eyes and a feasible morsel to endulge until its full release, so have a […]

ON THAT NIGHT…WHILE WE DREAM Brings Martial Arts Stardom Together In The First Official Shortfilm Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

At around this time next week, expect to hear more from the rumblings in China with Alibaba bigwig, Jack Ma, and his latest filmic musings with a kung fu line-up of big-name stars and athletes. We now have the first official trailer announcing On That Night…While We Dream, aptly hailed on poster art with the characters, Gong Shu Dao, a martial arts prose meaning Guard And Defense. A celebration of Chinese culture via martial arts is the reported goal of the new shortfilm project filmed in late Summer – a personal one at that for Ma, a disciple himself of a 19th generation Master descendant of Chens’ Taiji. That goal now reaches closer with a promo that highlights some of the work from our cast with footage from Gordon Chan’s Call Of Heroes, Donnie Yen as Ip Man, Tony Jaa in The Protector 2 and Ma’s Taijizen International founding partner […]

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GONG SHU DAO: Asian Film Giants Line-Up For A Celebration Of Kung Fu And Culture In The Latest Banner

Lee B. Golden III

It’s not everyday someone can get more than a handful of major Asian film stars and celebrated athletes in the same room to make movie history. Alibaba executive chairman and founder Jack Ma just happens to be the man who can do just that and the power he wields has since been on full display with the latest banner reveal for upcoming ten minute shortfilm, Gong Shou Dao. Action legend Jet Li forwarded the artwork via his official website and social media branches, featuring himself with Ma and a who’s who of film and sports headliners ahead of its promotion on November 11 during Alibaba’s Global Shopping Festival. The title itself (clearly advanced from its previous Master theme) takes its influences from Taiji, Kung Fu, and Martial Arts – the former notably being a paramount focus of Li’s own shared health and lifestyle platform with Ma at TaijiZen.com. “We all have […]