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'Wu-Tang Vs. The Golden Phoenix' Trailer: RZA Has an Old Film Filter

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With the RZA long-ago establishing an intense love for old kung fu films and a friendship with Quentin Tarantino, I suppose Earth was only meant to go so long without Bobby Digital showing up in a martial arts tribute to Hong Kong cinema. Or maybe two, it turns out. /Film mentions the modern renaissance man has both a new film with Eli Roth set up at Universal--The Man with the Iron Fists, which will see RZA as "the title character, a blacksmith who forges weapons for the inhabitants of a village in feudal China"--and another, extremely low-budget film called Wu-Tang Vs. The Golden Phoenix, which plays out like a near-parody of its Shaw Brothers influences. Below the cut are two trailers for the latter. Play them at work to prove you're interested in both hip-hop and Asian cultures, despite what you said at the last work party.

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