Run Run Shaw, RIP

I'm not sure that I can do adequate justice to how important and influential the career of Sir Run Run Shaw has been to me and my interests in film, books, comics and more. Rather, I will link to several other posts I have seen today marking the passing of this film legend.

http://modernappendixn.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-passing-of-kung-fu-icon-run-run-shaw.html

http://www.geekyandgenki.com/r-p-run-run-shaw/

http://www.kungfucinema.com/news/legendary-film-producer-sir-run-run-shaw-dies-at-106

Some of my favorite Shaw Brothers films:

• Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, starring Gordon Liu
• Heroes of the East, directed by fight choreographer Lau Kar-Leung
• The One-Armed Swordsman, directed by Chang Cheh and starring Wang Yu
• Super Inframan, aka Infra-Man
• The Five Deadly Venoms
• 36th Chamber of Shaolin
• Fist of the White Lotus, directed by and starring Lo Lieh as White Eyebrow Monk Pai Mei.