film about yang luchan
The Magic Beggar
THE MAGIC BEGGAR
Stars: Wang Qun. MA rating: 5
Epic mid-1980s mainland Chinese production (China Film Inc.), fictionalized legend of Yang style tai chi founder Yang Luchan, and his attempts to learn tai chi from Chen Chan Hsing (of the original Chen style. (Yang modified the Chen style to incorporate more sweeping motions). The second half features more drama than action. Nevertheless, this is a serious tai chi student's dream, and is full of well-choreographed tai chi training, performed by Wang and a high caliber mainland Chinese cast (many players from the Beijing Wu Shu Academy). Very obscure and probably hard to find.
(note: 5 is the highest possible rating)
I'd been looking for this for a while and found it here
slightly different title but obviously the same movie. Gonna try to find it with some subs though
I do not ever see Sifu do anything that could be construed as a hula dancer- hasayfu