36th Chamber of Shaolin El Rey Network Salutes the Shaw Brothers Hosted by The RZA

36th Chamber of Shaolin El Rey Network Salutes the Shaw Brothers Hosted by The RZA. El Rey Network has saluted the Shaw Brothers through its programming, which included broadcasting classic martial arts films from the Shaw Brothers library. In 2014, El Rey Network made a deal with Celestial Pictures to show titles like The 36th Chamber of Shaolin and Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, often featuring them during its monthly Saturday kung-fu marathons. This was a way to honor the legacy of the legendary Hong Kong film studio, which shaped Chinese action cinema.
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Chinese: 少林三十六房, also released as The Master Killer and Shaolin Master Killer) is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts film produced by Shaw Brothers Studio, directed by Lau Kar-leung from a screenplay written by Ni Kuang, starring Gordon Liu and Lo Lieh. The film follows a highly fictionalized version of San Te (Liu), a legendary Shaolin martial arts disciple, who lived in the Qing dynasty during the 17th-century.
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin is widely considered to be one of the greatest kung fu films and a turning point in its director's and star's careers. It was followed by Return to the 36th Chamber (1980), which was more comedic in presentation and featured Gordon Liu as the new main character with another actor in the smaller role of San Te, and Disciples of the 36th Chamber (1985).