For the #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon, it's martial arts comedy Disciples of the 36th Chamber (a.k.a. Disciples of the Master Killer or Master Killer III), a loose sequel to The 36th Chamber and Return to the 36th Chamber, written, choreographed & directed by Lau Kar-leung, and starring Gordon Liu, Hsiao Ho and Lau Kar-leung.

Join us as we watch the movie (each person plays from their own source, e.g. Youtube) and comment live on Mastodon, with the hashtag #KungFuSat.

Synopsis

Fong Sai Yuk's uninhibited arrogance toward a Manchu lord forces him to seek refuge in a Shaolin temple. Although well trained in the martial arts, he is no match for Master San Te, the creator of the 36th Chamber of Shaolin. Exhausted by his frequent defeats, Fong leaves and crosses paths with a governor, who rewards him with a yellow robe granting immunity from any Manchu. But what are the governor's true intentions? Will Fong feed his foolish ego and betray the Shaolin Temple?

Trailer

• Youtube

Full Movie

• Youtube - Shaw Brothers Cinema (1080p, Mandarin, soft subs in English)

Movie Info

• Wikipedia
• NeoDB

Time: Saturday 3rd January, 12pm US ET

• EveryTimeZone.com - Times around the world for the start of the watch party

Watch Party Info

Squirrel has found a restored, widescreen, subtitled print from Shaw Brothers:
DISCIPLES OF THE 36th CHAMBER (1984)
Starring Gordon LIU Chia-Hui
Directed by LIU Chia-Liang
https://youtu.be/kcVWkICe5N8
(link available to most of the world)

Watch Party Calendar

• Info on this and other events

#KungFuSat Collection

Growing collection of movies shown in #KungFuSat, includes all of 2025

• Eggplant.place - KungFuSat

What's a watch party?

• https://joinfediverse.wiki/Watch_party
• https://joinfediverse.wiki/List_of_fediverse_watch_parties

My 1st use of the "Event" option in Piefed.

Might start using this from now on when posting about watch parties (instead of "Link" or "Image"). As well as a post in the community timeline, it adds the event to the sidebar & even creates an iCal feed.

1 issue: event time displayed as GMT with offset (in my case, -6) for local time. I wish it displayed local time & UTC.

I also notice the event is only shown in the sidebar when viewing the the main community timeline, not when viewing a post.

I wonder how many people bother viewing the community timeline as opposed to just viewing posts that come up in their main PieFed / Lemmy feed.

EDIT: Wait, I see now that it's visible in the sidebar for ALL PieFed! Cool!

This is the first time I've seen and clicked on an event, and I want to watch the GONG FOO! I figured out when, but I'm not 100% on how. I'm on mastodon.social, how do I uh, join the stream?

Sorry, I only just saw your reply, so the event is over today. 🙁 But we're here every week! 😁

#KungFuSat is an example of a "bring your own media" watch party. But today the movie was on Youtube worldwide (AFAIK), from the licensed Shaw Brothers Cinema channel. So everyone could watch from the same link.

In one window or device, have the Youtube video.

• https://youtu.be/kcVWkICe5N8

In another window or device, have Mastodon open and go to the #KungFuSat hashtag.

• https://mastodon.social/tags/KungFuSat

Then at the appointed time, the host posts on Mastodon "Press Play now!", everyone presses Play and begins watching & commenting.

Here's an example of me doing it all on my laptop with two browser windows side-by-side (there are other ways):

Next week, the film Code of Silence is not on a worldwide-licensed Youtube channel. In that case, the host (next week @MatthewTitus88) will post a streaming link from another site a few hours before the watch party.

You can use that link or find the movie another way. E.g. DVD/Blu-Ray, paid site (Netflix, Prime etc).

Have a look at the "What's a watch party?" links in the OP for a bit more info.

What the hell? Did I not understand how timezones work again? How long ago was this?

I need my GUNG FHOO! Haiiyya!

It started 5 hours & 20 minutes ago, finished about 3 hours ago.

Huh, weird, because it said event starts at midnight GMT+1, and that's my timezone.

Wait, no it doesn't. I must have mixed it up with some other event! My bad.

See you next sat then! :)

Just dealing with the time change a xouple months ago (most watch party hosts in places that do Daylight Savings, I am not) did my head in. 😂

See you then!