How RZA channelled Shaw Brothers for his flawed kung fu epic The Man with the Iron Fists

This is the latest instalment in a feature series reflecting on instances of East meets West in world cinema, including China-US co-productions.
When Brooklyn-born rapper/producer RZA (real name Robert Diggs) made his 2012 kung fu opus The Man with the Iron Fists, he had been in training ever since he was a child. “I saw my first martial arts film at nine years old,” he told the news website HuffPost.
Having found fame as the leader of the Wu-Tang Clan and as an actor in the likes of American...