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. Abraham Lincoln as a World War II general. Gratuitous violence. Chinese guys dressed in kilts and Elvis jumpsuits, and, er, Jacky Chan and his pet chicken.
Yes this movie has it all. So…sit back, don’t try to think to much, smoke a fatty, crack open a beer and let this movie warp your sensibilities. DO NOT try to figure out what this movie is about. PLEASE. Viewing this film through the veil of contemplation will only BRING YOU PAIN. Trust me. This Film is for the select few who have the uncanny ability to appreciate the weird, the offbeat, the senseless and obscene. To those few: This just may be the GREATEST Kung Fu Movie ever made.
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 [...]
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Anyone familiar with the hip-hop super-group the Wu-Tang Clan knows that “The 36th Chamber of Shaolin” (a.k.a. “Shaolin Master Killer”), directed in 1978 by Liu Chia-Liang, is essential viewing for any serious, self respecting martial arts movie freak. This movie claims responsibility for the whole “good-guy-gets-his-butt-kicked-and-undergoes-martial arts-training-to-exact-vengeance” storyline that’s been used so many [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]