One of the things that really piqued my interest about these movies is that both of them were both directed by Martha Burr and Mei-Jun Chen and the thing I found most interesting is that they were women who had directed these documentaries about Kungfu. So far, from my understanding, it seems as though this recreation/sport/way of life seems to be predominantly male (although the documentaries did show women and girls doing it) as far as historically speaking. I was really interested in these two women though and what drew them to this so I decided to do a little bit of research.

One thing I learned about Martha Burr was that at one point in her life she was “named the Executive Editor of Kungfu Magazine”
(ITVS.org) and so I was able to better understand why she went on to direct two documentaries about Kungfu in particular.

With Mei-Jun Chen who is a native of Taiwan  founded the Lotus Film Productions and has focused her career on primarily making documentaries. (newvideo.com)

Overall I liked that both documentaries were similar in the ways in which Martha and Mei-Jun obviously wanted to focus on each individuals stories of how they got into Kungfu and the interviewees history with it and what was nice about watching the both of them back to back is that I was able to pick up on some of the similarities in the stories between the films. Even in two different countries and two completely different times, most of these Kungfu masters all at one point in their life saw someone else doing Kungfu and feeling overwhelmed by it, they also wanted to take part in it.