I can't tell if this was meant to be a joke or they really had no idea about the differences between Chinese and Japanese martial arts when making this film.
The so called Kung Fu master using Japanese to greet his parents as "San" and calling the Wu Kwan a Dojo..
In the early-to-mid '80s, non-Asian movies emphasizing Asian culture often attributed certain art forms to countries that were not known for them. The "Ninja" craze being the most blatantly guilty of this.
I don't recall any actual Chinese kung fu in "The Last Dragon", despite all of the characters referring to their art as such. All of it looks Korean or Japanese. Taimak clearly uses Tae Kwon Do throughout most of the film, as do most of the actual fighters.
These things also happened in traditional kung fu movies. In the '70s, many Korean actors starred in Chinese films as Chinese masters. Almost every actor known for good kicking skills in Hong Kong during this era was Korean and a practitioner of either Tae Kwon Do or Hapkido: Dorian Tan, Hwang Jang Lee, Cassanova Wong, Whang In-Shik, etc. Exceptions like John Liu, who was Chinese, was a student of Dorian Tan.
Don't pay the OP no mind. He's just another white guy that gets disturbed at seeing a black man doing martial arts. For some reason, it frightens them.
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