Flashbacks are often used to recall specific lessons from Caine's childhood training in the monastery from his teachers, the blind Master Po ( Keye Luke) and Master Chen Ming Kan ( Philip Ahn). Searching for his family, he meets a preacher (played by real-life father John Carradine) and his mute sidekick Sunny Jim (played by real-life brother Robert Carradine), then his grandfather (played by Dean Jagger).

After each such encounter he must move on, both to avoid capture and prevent harm from coming to those he has helped. Īlthough it is his intention to avoid notice, Caine's training and sense of social responsibility repeatedly force him out into the open, to fight for justice or protect the underdog. A recent tombstone in a season 3 episode dated 1874 places the story approximately between 18. With a price on his head, Caine flees China to the western United States, where he seeks to find his family roots, and ultimately, his half-brother, Danny Caine. In the pilot episode, Caine's beloved mentor and elder, Master Po, is murdered by the Emperor's nephew outraged, Caine retaliates by killing the nephew.

After his maternal grandfather's death he is accepted for training at a Shaolin Monastery, where he grows up to become a Shaolin priest and martial arts expert. Kwai Chang Caine ( David Carradine) is the orphaned son of an American man, Thomas Henry Caine (Bill Fletcher), and a Chinese woman, Kwai Lin, in mid-19th-century China. Many of the aphorisms used in the series are adapted from or derived directly from the Tao Te Ching, a book of ancient Taoist philosophy attributed to the sage Lao-tzu. The series follows the adventures of Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin monk who travels through the American Old West, armed only with his spiritual training and his skill in martial arts, as he seeks Danny Caine, his half-brother. Kung Fu is an American action- adventure martial arts Western drama television series starring David Carradine.

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