Blog posts from the Unorthodox Faction

If you’re interested in more than just the fiction, I will occasionally post here about tangentially related stuff, such as my own training and whatever topics I personally find interesting. Until qi, murky from years of overindulgence, becomes irreversibly deviated.

  • Review: One Percent Warrior aka One Percenter aka 1%er

    This film has got me all hot. I’m not familiar with the star’s, Tak Sakaguchi, previous work. This film seems to reference his early stuff. But I’ll interpret this film as a standalone. I think there are two ways to see this. 1).  A parody of a bad action film.   One Percenter comes complete…

  • A Great Fight Scene

    I developed a love for martial arts the same way many people did, through movies and tv. There was a lot of ninja themed influence early on. 3 ninjas, Surf Ninjas, Ninja Turtles, etc. These gave me a taste for general martial arts genre of entertainment. But Jackie Chan’s “Police Story” franchise is the earliest…

  • First Post

    Hello all. This page is born out of a lifelong passion for martial arts and martial arts media. My history with martial arts is a long and winding road, but not overly interesting, and I’ve always taken pleasure in my amateurish attempts at writing. After a recent resurgence of my wuxia/murim obsessions, I found myself…