RZA On ?The Man With The Iron Fists,? Gordon Liu, And His Holy Grail Of Kung Fu Movies

Wu-Tang rapper-turned-actor and composer RZA makes an explosive directorial debut with The Man With The Iron Fists, a vibrantly stylized homage to martial arts cinema that could only have sprung from the mind of the lifelong kung fu fanatic, hip-hop fixture, and Quentin Tarantino protege. Who else would think to set a Shaw Brothers-esque opening fight sequence to the infectious battle anthem "Shame on a Nigga," a Wu-Tang classic that RZA also used to inject a little of his late cousin and bandmate Ol' Dirty Bastard into Russell Crowe's swaggering Jack Knife?

RZA also stars in the film, co-written by Eli Roth, as The Blacksmith of Jungle Village, where warring clans, government agents, deadly spies, and secret enemies (including Crowe, Cung Le, Byron Mann, Lucy Liu, David Bautista, Rick Yune, and Daniel Wu) plot to slice, dice, and destroy their enemies for a prized shipment of gold.

Ahead of his Iron Fists tour, RZA rang Movieline to discuss the many influences that inspired his martial arts homage, what he learned from studying under movie master Quentin Tarantino, how he landed the legendary Gordon Liu for a key role, and the elusive and obscure kung fu movie he's been dying to add to his collection.

[GALLERY: Eye-popping images from RZA's The Man With The Iron Fists]

Your history with kung fu, martial arts, and wuxia movies goes back a long way to your early days, but how did your love of these films synthesize within you into this story you?ve wanted to tell for years now? At what point in your life did you realize you could tell it in this way?
There were many days of imagining, of course, about making my own movie,…

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