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News Article for Monday 24th January 2011

Martial arts continues to be a hugely popular movie genre which is just one reason why The Last Kung Fu Monk, released on rental and retail DVD and retail Blu-ray by Scanbox Entertainment on 21st March 2011 will be another massive hit with martial arts fans.

Directed by and starring Peng Zhang Li (Tooth Fairy and Shaolin Temple), this thrilling, high-kicking adventure delivers on everything the core audience wants ... spectacular martial arts action and extravagant, dangerous villains!

Chinese Shaolin Fighting Monk Li Bao Xin has to emigrate to New York City to look after his dead brother's son. Struggling to make a new life Li Bao faces challenges that test his character and emotional strength rather than his physical prowess.

While setting up a kung fu school he becomes embroiled with the Mafia and must defeat a barrage of deadly fighters to save the day.

Through it all his mind remains filled with the heroic stories of the Shaolin Temple, a great tradition that defines him but which also makes his acceptance of Western culture more difficult.

While in China he was a revered Master but in America he is nobody. To make a life for himself and his brother's son. he must come to terms with a modern society where his great fighting skills and heroic lineage mean nothing.

Eventually he has to decide what is more important ... his dreams or his family.

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