American Shaolin

"American Shaolin" (1991) is an action film you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Lo Yuen-Ming. Drew loses a kickboxing match — badly, publicly — and decides not to go home until he can win properly. That takes him to China and the Shaolin Temple.

He shaves his head, gets the robes, and immediately disrupts everything: Playboy magazines, American football, arguments with every instructor who'll engage. Lo Yuen-Ming plays it light; the film isn't reverent about Shaolin or about martial arts cinema — it's cheerful about the collision between two cultures that both think they know how to fight. Daniel Dae Kim and Jean Louise Kelly appear in early roles. Stream "American Shaolin" (1991) online on iFILM.