Downtown Huntsville Library
Kung Fu Hustle: An International Film Series
Monday, August 18, 2025 5:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
Shaolin Soccer (Hong Kong, 2001)
A washed up and penniless huckster, who just so happens to also be a master of Shaolin kung fu, finds himself recruiting a team of similarly hapless kung fu masters to field a soccer team against the might of the seemingly unstoppable Team Evil.
Yes, their team name is literally “Team Evil.”
Kung Fu Hustle: An International Film Series
This series explores kung fu cinema during the decades bridging the last century and our current one, alternating between the comic (Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow) and the serious (Donnie Yen, Jet Li).
August 4: Jackie Chan in Project A (Hong Kong, 1983)
August 11: Donnie Yen in Iron Monkey (Hong Kong, 1993)
August 18: Stephen Chow in Shaolin Soccer (Hong Kong, 2001)