In the 1972 to 1975 television series Kung Fu, how many people did Kwai Chang Caine kill? Of course there was the emperor’s nephew. Were there any others?
He kills the Shaolin priest bounty hunter who comes after him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoUcvl8VXk4
There were maybe more bounty hunters in later episodes too? There are certainly more fight scenes (on the U.S. side) against other people with martial arts skillz sent to get him.
He … did not wish … to make trouble.
Although Caine didn’t kill him directly, things went very badly for a sorcerer when the demon he summoned couldn’t penetrate Caine’s serenity and turned back against the sorcerer. https://youtu.be/mzSAf64-GNk?t=149
Everybody was Kung Fu fighting. I think Kwai Chang had an onion belt in kung fu, because that was the style at the time.
NeverMind
In the 2-hour pilot that ends with his killing of the other monk, he disappears into the desert around the track crew. They send about a half-dozen people to capture him over a few days, after which we always see their rider-less horses return. Much is made of the fact that Caine should have died out there without food or water, and when they finally make him return by threatening to kill an innocent, he shows up alone.
Those six guys have to be dead, and that’s the pilot having a 7-man bodycount.
Are we supposed to believe Kwai Chang killed them though? Didn’t they just die in the incredibly harsh conditions that would kill any ordinary hired gun? Meh, maybe he did if they attacked him first ninja style.
Then why didn’t the horses succumb to the incredibly harsh conditions?
First, for theatric effect. But I realized the contradiction and mentioned they might have attacked him ninja style leaving him with no choice but to kill each of them. However, it’s possible he just used non-violent means and convinced them to form a circular firing squad and then he ducked at the last moment.
Even if Caine didn’t kill them directly, he knocked them off their horses and disarmed them, leaving them stranded in the desert without the supplies in their saddlebags or weapons. That orchestrated their deaths, deliberately, even if he followed the rules of the temple (disarm rather than hurt, hurt rather than kill, etc.)
I won’t kill you… but I don’t have to save you.
Very good, Grasshopper. You have learned The Way.