The Snake, The Tiger, The Crane
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The Emperor is under attack by marauders and he is so depressed with his failure to protect his people, that he sees no other option than to kill himself. In his grief, he also decides to maim his daughter by cutting of her arm (there is a long tradition of one armed fighters in Hong Kong cinema).
After being maimed, the Princess wanders around trying to enlist help from anyone who will listen to her, but no matter whom she meets they either prove too weak to fight off the marauders or they wind up betraying her.
Things take a turn for the surreal when her faithful servant girl cuts off her own arm to impersonate the Princess and dies. The Princess goes crazy until she meets handsome Carter Wong, the gentle brute of a butcher who is caring for his Buddhist nun mother. He promises his mom on her death bed he will marry the now lunatic princess. Serious ass kicking ensues, including sword wielding women, and some high kicking action from Mr. Carter Wong. Enjoy!
The Real Bruce Lee
Kung Fu Movies
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Ninja Terminator
Kung Fu Movies
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Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview
Kung Fu Movies
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Enter The Ninja
Kung Fu Movies
As B-movies go, this movie is hilarious and absolutely entertaining. If renegade macho posturing, over-the-top costuming and sound effects and the genuinely comic manners of “flawless kills” can easily coalesce into something transcendent for you; this camp martial arts flick will not be a waste of time.
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The Prodigal Son
Martial Arts Movies
Yuen Biao plays the pampered son of a wealthy businessman who discovers his Kung Fu training has been a sham. He struggles to learn real Wing Chun Kung Fu from a Chinese opera performer (Lam Ching Ying) and his oddball brother (Sammo Hung). This film is simply one of the best and most [...]
Challenge of the Masters
Martial Arts Movies
The Great Gordon Liu stars in this Shaw Brothers classic! Not as polished as later films by Chia-Liang Liu, “Challenge of the Masters” is still a pretty slick accomplishment when gauged against other contemporary Hong Kong films. Shot in 1976, 2 years before Mr. Liu would rise to seminal greatness in “36 Chambers”, [...]
Deadliest Kung Fu Weapons
Martial Arts Movies
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Bruce Lee Fights Back
Martial Arts Movies
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Ashura
Martial Arts Movies
Japan is in serious turmoil: Demons have infested Edo, taking possession of earthly forms and bending them to their unholy will. On top of that, the rebirth of Ashura, Queen of the demons, is nigh. The only thing that stands against this grave threat are the Demon Wardens, a fearsome group of warriors, [...]
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Martial Arts Movies
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Martial Arts Movies
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Martial Arts Movies
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Kung Fu Movies
This film is one of the great Samurai movies. Our story begins with two seemingly unconnected persons (a modern, western-style doctor and an aging samurai) who discover they are inexplicably linked to a third man: Kanichiro Yoshimura.
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Spirits of Bruce Lee
Kung Fu Movies
Yet another fine entry into the genre that is “Bruceploitation”. “Spirits of Bruce Lee” is an early ’70s martial arts thriller filmed in Thailand with a mostly Chinese cast and crew.
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Fantasy Mission Force
Martial Arts Movies
Sit back, relax and get prepared to be dumbfounded. Please…allow me to explain. What if I told you that Jackie Chan made a Kung Fu Movie that combined these stunning plot elements: Crazed Amazons. Ghosts who cheat at cards. Bouncing vampires. Japanese Nazis who attack riding atop 1970s clunker cars. Burlesque musical numbers. [...]
Mafia VS Ninja
Kung Fu Movies
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Naruto Uzumaki Episode 1
Kung Fu Movies
Naruto Uzumaki is the protagonist of the Naruto series. He was the first character created by Kishimoto during his initial conception of the series and was designed with many traits from other shnen characters, including Son Goku of the Dragon Ball series. In the series, Naruto is a ninja affiliated with the village [...]
Lone Wolf McQuade
Kung Fu Movies
This movie ranks as one of the best Kung Fu action films of Chuck Norris’ career and was certainly the basis for his very successful series character “Walker, Texas Ranger”. With this movie we saw Chuck change from his old image of the blond, California boy to the dark haired, bearded, tough guy [...]
Heroes of Shaolin
Martial Arts Movies
The Plot: The Family honor must be avenged and the traitors must be ferreted out and destroyed. Chen Xing plays an aging fighter with traditional values who decides to train the son of a man he has shamed into committing suicide. The relationship between master and student thus becomes extremely complex and may [...]
Shaolin Iron Eagle
Kung Fu Fighting
This just might be on of the greatest Kung Fu Films you’ve never heard of. The fighting is fast paced and well choreographed and that’s the main thing I look for, but in the immortal parlance of Gomer Pyle “Surprise, surprise,” the story is great too! The immortal Judy Lee, one of the [...]
The Big Fight
Kung Fu Fighting
The plot for this actioner involves a Lei Tai competition held by the occupying World War II era Japanese Soldiers in order to cripple the local martial arts masters and thereby prevent them from joining the resistance. Fans of this genre will recognize the plotline as standard anti-Japanese fare that portrays the the [...]
The Young Master
Kung Fu Fighting
Jackie Chan had already established himself in Hong Kong as a major box office star with 1978’s Drunken Master and 1979’s Fearless Hyena, but he was not getting his fiscal due from Lo Wei Productions, so he opted out of his contract with Lo Wei and was hired by Golden Harvest. The Young [...]
Meals on Wheels
Kung Fu Movies
Filmed in beautiful Barcelona, Spain, the story centers around cousins Thomas (Jackie Chan) and David (Yuen Biao) who run a fast food van. The food is delivered by Thomas, who rushes around the busy downtown square on a skateboard. After a melee involving a biker gang, they meet the beautiful pickpocket Sylvia (Lola [...]
Battle of Shaolin
Kung Fu Movies
The talented Don Wong Tao stars as a wagon driver who is in love with a prostitute. He needs $120 bucks to buy her out of the brothel, so he decides to accept an offer to rob some silver. Now he has the “Three Scars Gang” after him including Phillip Ko Fei and [...]
War of the Shaolin Temple
Kung Fu Movies
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Kung Fu: Episode 33
Kung Fu Movies
**Video no longer available. Denver Pyle and Harrison Ford guest star! Caine finds himself in a fight being waged against the railroad. The railroad wants to settle and give amnesty to the Youngblood gang. Unfortunately, the Pinkertons, originally hired to wipe out the group, want to finish what they were hired to do.
“One [...]
Kung Fu: Episode 10
Kung Fu Movies
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Shaolin Vs. Lama
Kung Fu Movies
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The [...]
Rumble in Hong Kong
Kung Fu Movies
Let me be frank: This is not a great Jackie Chan film. This is not even a good Jackie Chan film. Although he portrays a bad guy, which is rare, and sports an odd looking mole on his face, this is no career defining moment. Considering my own personal cinematic proclivities, seeing Jackie [...]
Pray For Death
Kung Fu Movies
Who doesn’t love the eighties? Asymetrical haircuts, day-glo spandex, Flock of Seagulls, and of course that old staple the well-intentioned “Ninja Flick”. The plot? A straight forward revenge story; but the idea of Kosugi as a Ninja who has hidden away his identity, brings the film to a super-hero like level. Kosugi and [...]
The Mars Villa
Kung Fu Movies
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36th Chamber of Shaolin
Kung Fu Movies
THIS IS THE FULL MOVIE. Just Let it Play, Each part will load Automatically….
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Iron Monkey
Kung Fu Movies
Iron Monkey is one of the best Kung Fu Movies ever made. This movie has it all! Brief synopsis: Iron is the son of a devout rebel leader, but prefers to spend his days gambling, drinking and getting into fist fights. When his father is arrested and executed, Iron is forced to flee [...]
The Black Godfather
Kung Fu Movies
The Black Godfather is one of those lost underrated black exploitation films from the 1970’s that will please the palate of even the most discriminating of cinematic connoisseurs.
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Fighting Mad
Kung Fu Movies
Blaxploitation meets kung fu movie in this oddball hybrid revenge flick. As with all these kung fu movies from the 1970’s, you have to wonder why the bad guys always let the unarmed good guy get close enough to lop off their heads!
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Bruce Lee We Miss You
Kung Fu Movies
In this case, time + tragedy does not equal comedy. The spate of “Brucesploitation” movies released after the one and only Bruce Lee’s death can get confusing to anyone on the outside looking in. The important thing to know, of course, is that the real Bruce Lee does not appear in any of [...]
Bruce Lee The Invincible
Kung Fu Movies
This is a worthy entry in the sub-genre aptly known as “Brucespolitation”. When a mercenary abuses the secret fighting technique of “Wonderful Escapement”, it is up to the Dragon to set things right. With Terrific fights from such luminaries a Chen Sing and Chang Li, as well as Bruce Li and Michael Chan; [...]
Bruce Lee in New Guinea
Kung Fu Movies
The tribe of a remote island worships the legendary Snake Pearl. When two masters of kung fu visit the isle, they discover that they are the only ones who can defend the daughter of the murdered chieftain against an evil “serpent” wizard. A good mixture of traditional kung fu and the “Brucespolitation” style [...]
Blind Fists of Bruce Lee
Kung Fu Movies
Here is yet another excellent entry into the far reaching sub-genre of posthumously created “Brucesploitation” films. Needing protection from menacing gangsters a well-to-do villager (Bruce Li) decides to learn the art of kung-fu. With the help of his mentor the skilled student triumphs and rids the town of the dangerous vermin who have [...]
Bruce Lee’s Greatest Revenge
Kung Fu Movies
This is one of the better “Brucesploitation” films. This one stars “Bruce Le”, not to be confused with Bruce Li or the progenitor of this sub-genre Bruce Lee. Bruce Le is no Bruce Lee but he has some of the vintage look, style, posturing, and moves. Bruce Le’s Greatest Revenge is in many [...]
Fists of Bruce Lee
Kung Fu Movies
One of the many so-called posthumous “Brucesploitation” films starring the best of Bruce’s many Hong Kong created look-alikes. In this one an undercover cop (Bruce Li) is assigned to investigate a drug ring. He ends up facing off with the mob’s top martial arts assassin, and it’s kill or be killed. With both [...]
Return of the Kung Fu Dragon
Kung Fu Movies
This complicated story involves the military conquest of a peaceful island-nation by an evil despot and his sorcerer ally. His victory leaves the island’s three heroic protectors dead, but their young children are hidden away to grow to adulthood with different identities, unaware of their heritage, in hope that in time they might [...]
Fearless Hyena
Kung Fu Movies
As far as plots go, Jackie Chan’s Fearless Hyena is nothing special. Here, Chan plays yet another country bumpkin whose venerable master gets killed by a dastardly villain. This, of course, leaves Chan no other option but to train under a new master to avenge his teacher’s death and vanquish all evildoers by [...]
Five Fingers of Death
Kung Fu Movies
This absolutely spectacular mix of martial arts action and Western-style melodrama from the legendary Shaw Brothers Studios helped to light the fuse for the kung fu movie explosion in the early ’70s. Indonesian actor Lo Lieh is the young acolyte caught up in a struggle between rival martial arts schools; after one villainous [...]
Ten Fingers of Death
Kung Fu Movies
Also known as “Master with Cracked Fingers”; Jackie Chan plays the main character whose father dies early on after disobeying the rules of his clan because of not killing “innocent people”. Young Jackie was intrigued by the martial arts from an early age, but his father had strictly forbid its practice. One day, [...]
Hands of Death
Kung Fu Movies
This is one nasty, old-school, blood pulp, kung fu chop sock. Tien Peng approaches this film with the decision to make his Chinese spy in the Japanese-occupied territories as ruthless and deadly as any Western “anti-hero”. So of course he comes up with an anti-hero that is the worst imaginable. I mean, the [...]
Deadly Duo
Kung Fu Movies
Deadly Duo (1971) is one of a group of historical kung fu epics from the 1970’s directed by Chang Cheh and starring Ti Lung and David Chiang. This masterpiece is considerably shorter than the others (The Heroic Ones, Blood Brothers, New One Armed Swordsman), with less in the way of characterization and plotting, [...]
Killer of Snake
Kung Fu Movies
This is a strange and old school martial arts fantasy movie. We see weird fox and snake people, ghosts and magicians, Shaolin masters and evil doers. A veritable cornucopia of Hong Kong style classic Kung Fu, starring Carter Wong. Mr. Wong stars as a powerful martial artist who must protect an old man [...]
36 Crazy Fists
Kung Fu Movies
This is one of the better early Jackie Chan films, when Jackie had finally started to come into his own. Too often, in many of Jackie’s first films, he was relegated to the role of “country bumpkin” and his talents were often overshadowed by poor production qualities and lesser talented players. Here the [...]
Fists of Fury
Kung Fu Movies
Bruce Lee plays a martial arts student who returns to his former school to find that his beloved teacher has been murdered. Set in Shanghai in the 1930s, the Japanese are in control, and it is one of their Bushido schools that is responsible for this outrage. Knowing that the authorities will not [...]
Black Fist
Kung Fu Movies
This action-packed feature stars Richard Lawson as street fighter Leroy Fisk. Leroy works for the mob but wants out, dreaming of one day opening his own nightclub. A classic from the 1970s “Blaxploitation” genre, BLACK FIST follows Leroy’s attempts to seek revenge after a crooked cop teams up with his boss in an [...]
Shoguns Ninja
Kung Fu Movies
Martial arts superstars Sonny Chiba and Hiroyuki Sanada stand on opposite sides of a battle over a hidden treasure in Shogun’s Ninja. Shiranui (Chiba) is a ruthless ninja leader who wants the fortune in gold held by the Momochi clan. In order to find it, he needs two daggers that point the way [...]
Shadow Ninja
Kung Fu Movies
It is obvious that “Shadow Ninja” is not the original title of this film. The words “Shadow Ninja” are pasted over the original title (grind-house style), and stay on the screen for an uncomfortably long time. I suspect that maybe ninja movies were doing better than kung fu movies at the time, since [...]
Death of a Ninja
Kung Fu Movies
A fortuneteller prophesies that whoever marries the beautiful Ukio will become the ruler of the world. Naturally, this makes her very popular with those vying for power, particularly the insatiably greedy Lord Donjo.
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Ninja in the Deadly Trap
Kung Fu Movies
Ninja in the Deadly Trap is a well paced, non-stop Kung Fu fight film and highly watch-able. The great Ti Lung plays the famous Chinese General Qi Jiguang, who has become the target of ninja assassination from Japanese pirates who have had their exploits halted due to his actions. Knowing little about the [...]
Ninja Death 2
Kung Fu Movies
This film is the second part of the Ninja Death trilogy. Please see description for Ninja Death 1.
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Ninja Death
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Tiger is the owner of a brothel who moonlights as a kung fu artist under the watchful eye of “Master.” They run into serious trouble when ninjas inexplicably show up and jeopardize Tiger’s prostitution ring.
The fight choreography in this film is absolutely top notch, fast and accurate. The head evil ninja with the [...]
The Street Fighter’s Last Revenge
Kung Fu Movies
Japan had its Bruce Lee craze just like everywhere else in the early seventies and Sonny Chiba was their answer to Bruce Lee. The action scenes are on par with anything Bruce lee has done, and perhaps have more of a grittier edge. Along with the vicious, fast and furious action scenes there [...]
Return of the Street Fighter
Kung Fu Movies
Director Shigeo Ozawa and Sonny Chiba did this sequel immediately after the first “Street Fighter”. The plot is almost identical to the original hit film as Sonny plays the same super kung fu bad ass street tough that does dirty jobs for the mob and does not seem to suffer from any ethical [...]
The Street Fighter
Kung Fu Movies
Street Fighter is a show case for the kung fu talents of Sonny Chiba. Chiba plays Terry Tsurugi, a man who was orphaned when his Japanese father was executed in China during World War II. Terry is the personification of a bad ass; tough guy, mercenary, and master of the martial arts.
Terry is [...]
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