Next to making music and filing tax reports, I spend a lot of my waking hours with martial arts in one way or another. Ever since I bought a bootleg copy of "Pick Your Poison", I've been hunting rare kung-fu films like Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones.

So I felt it's time to pass on some of the knowledge I aquired by reading hand-copied fanzines in the 80'ies to the next generation, and I submitted this list of my favourite kung-fu actors from the golden age for Knowledge magazine's "Top 5"-section:

Kabuki's Top 5 Classic Kung-Fu Actors (post 80'ies need not to apply)

Alexander Fu-Sheng

The James Dean of kung-fu cinema. Died young in a sportscar accident and left a good looking corpse

Lieh Lo

Shaw Brothers' first actor worth a million dollar; his kung-fu was superior over any other martial art in "The Five Fingers of Death"

Gordon Liu

As if getting street cred through the classic "36 Chambers" wasn't enough, "Kill Bill" turned him into a worldwide celebrity 25 years later

Cheng Pei Pei

Youngsters only know her as the Jade Fox from "Tiger & Dragon", but in her heyday she was dubbed "The Queen of Swords" and considered the most lethal female on celluloid

Yu Wang

The star of the first "real" kung-fu flick "The Chinese Boxer". See the sweeping hand of death strike without mercy!

If you want to find out what kung-fu cinema is about, go and check out any flick starring these icons - you're in for a ride!