"Kung Fu": TV Series with David Carradine, Sun and Cloud Shadow

#8 (Prod #166148) "Sun and Cloud Shadow"
Teleplay By:: Halsted Welles^*2*
Directed By:: Robert Butler (also #11, 13 & 15)
First Broadcast: ABC, February 22, 1973
Guest Stars: Morgan Woodward, Aimee Eccles, Ronald Feinberg, Soon-Taik Oh (also #34 & 48 and as the villain Bon Bon Hai in "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues"), Richard Lawrence Hatch, Dennis Lee Smith, John Mamo, Yuki Shimoda (also #50), Tad Horino (also #45-46 & 47), Clyde Kusatsu (also #35, 45-46 & 56,)
Regular Cast: David Carradine, Philip Ahn, Keye Luke, Radames Pera

Caine becomes involved with a village of Chinese miners who are in conflict with a man who claims their mountain. One killing leads to another. Meanwhile, a Manchu assassin arrives from the Dowager Empress.*1*

Pilot & First Season
Available on DVD

"As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all." - Master Po

"'Other men not knowing me, will find me hard to understand.' - Caine
'Accept the ways of others. Respect first your own." - Master Po

"I ask you to excuse us. We do not drink." - Caine

"He doesn't look like much." - about Caine

"I wish an end to your trouble, not a beginning to more killing." - Caine

"Between giving up and making bombs must lie many paths." - Caine

"Will shooting guns and making bombs make you men and not dogs?" - Caine

"In games children teach - sometimes more than books...Look beyond the game as you look beneath the surface of the pool to see its depths." - Po

"Each in turn conquers the other. There is no stronger or weaker." - Caine (said about the game done with fists called 'scissors, paper, stone'

"'I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy for from mercy comes courage. The second is frugality from which comes generosity to others. The third is humility for from it comes leadership.' - Master Po (referring to the TAO TE CHING chapter #67 [F, though reorganized])
'Strange treasures. How shall I hold them and keep them? In memory?' - Caine
'. . . No. . . not in memory but in your deeds.'" - Master Po

"I am a man of peace." - Caine

"A man of peace who fights like ten tigers." - to and about Caine

"A worker is known by his tools: a shovel for a man who digs; an ax for a woodsman. A gun is not a tool for peace." -Caine

"'Didn't the Chinese people invent gunpowder?'
'Yes, and silks and medicines and the compass and printing. Not guns.'" - Caine (history does, indeed, claim that firearms were introduced into China by foreigners)

"I was taught a good soldier is not violent. A fighter is not angry. A victor is not vengeful." - Caine (referring to TAO TE CHING chapter #68 [F])

"If it will not offend you, I would prefer to drink tea." - Caine, when offered champagne

"Shall I advise you it is right to obtain good for some by debasing another?" - Caine, when asked for advice

"Faced with two evils, must not every man choose?" - Caine

"Peace lies not in the world...but in the man who walks the path." - Master Po

"To reach perfection a man must develop equally compassion and wisdom." - Master Po

"In a heart that is one with nature though the body contends, there is no violence. And in the heart that is not one with nature, though the body be at rest, there is always violence. Be, therefore, like the prow of a boat, it cleaves the water yet it leaves in its wake water unbroken." - Master Po

"Choose!" - Caine

"What you suggest is inviting. My way is on." - Caine, asked to stay

"'But how shall we learn to be one with the universe without you?'
'The path is known to each man by finding it.'" - Caine

This is the one episode which accurately reflects the Imperium of China in the 1870s. The assassin from China herein comes from the Dowager Empress and is a Manchu agent. China was ruled much of this time by a Dowager Empress of the Manchu (Ching) Dynasty.*1*