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.
Michael Chan stars as a man who travels to Thailand to avenge the murder of his brother. Of course, Chan is more than suitably equipped to deal with the bad guys, as he just so happens to possess some serious supernatural bad ass martial arts mojo.
Chan is aided by an undercover cop and a Chinese family living in Thailand; together they raid the palatial estate of the lead villain, a fellow who mutters “Gol-damn” (that’s right: “gol-damn”, not “goddamn”) when he’s angry and spends most of the film clenching a cigarette holder between his pursed snarling spout and blotting his moist brow.
After Mr. Cigarette Holder has finally been dispatched, a couple of his henchmen show up (one of them who’s rail-thin and dressed as a cowboy sporting a whip – Fabulous!) and Chan has his way with them too. He works them into a lather, working them hard, until finally blowing them away. Yes!
“Spirits of Bruce Lee” suffers from all the usual deficiencies of the genre, of course: poor pacing, not-very-funny comic relief (provided by a heavyset young man known only as ‘Fatty’), ridiculous dubbing.
But it’s filled with hardcore martial arts action, and that’s the only thing you can reasonably expect from a Kung Fu Movie. Michael Chan is, as always, impressive in the fight scenes…and this is one of the few films in which he manages not to look too sinister. The soundtrack is a trippy HeeHaw sounding funktified Chinese mash-up. Weird. Enjoy! (Please disregard the innuendos. Not a bad flick overall.)

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
Usually there are those who enjoy bad horror movies and those that enjoy bad kung-fu movies and few movies can be enjoyed by both, but Mafia vs. Ninja is immensely watchable (and laughable) even if you are amongst those that believe America has enough trash without foolish video distributors importing more. The movie [...]

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 [...]

Spirits of Bruce Lee