This film ranks as #9 on the Hong Kong Film Awards Best 100 Chinese motion pictures of all time and is one of two King Hu films to make the top ten. This Kung Fu classic is a very unusual entry into the cannon of Kung Fu movies and has often been imitated. Thematically, ‘A [...]
Kung Fu Movies Produced by the Shaw Brothers, The One-Armed Swordsman would help define Chang Cheh as a premier director with his own eclectic blend of Japanese-style action, western rebelliousness and Chinese wuxia heroes. This film would not only be the first film to break the 1 million dollar box office barrier in Hong Kong, [...]
Kung Fu Movies This is arguably Jackie Chan’s best movie and truly exemplary of his unique ability to combine Bruce Lee martial acumen with three stooges-like humor. Director Yuen Woo-Ping really brings out the best in Chan and this film is one of his finest performances, setting the bar for all films to come. The [...]
Kung Fu Movies: This is considered by most aficionados to be the first great Kung Fu genre film to come out of Hong Kong in the 1960′s and is most certainly a great film by any standard. Produced by the inimitable Shaw Brothers and written and directed by King Hu, this film is an absolute technical [...]
Kung Fu Movies: This is one seriously bad ass Shaw Brother’s classic that will totally blow you away. This film easily ranks as one of the top 10 Kung Fu Movie classics, and has influenced many of the films that came after. The venerable Chang Cheh directs this unintentional masterpiece and stars Kuan Tai Chen, Feng [...]
Kung Fu Movies: A sequel to the International smash hit “Ip Man”, Wilson Yip takes another turn in the directors chair and Donnie Yen reprises his role as the title character, Ip Man. Picking up right where the first film left off, the sequel centers on Ip’s life in Hong Kong, which is under British colonial [...]
Kung Fu Movies: This is Donnie Yen’s breakout performance and one incredible Kung Fu movie. The plot, fight choreography, setting, cinematography, overall production value and performances are superb. When Ip Man’s son, Ip Chun, saw the movie for the first time he was exuberant, and it’s no wonder. Donnie Yen inhabits this movie like he was [...]
Kung Fu Movies: This wonderful film serves as a loose sequel to 1977′s Executioners from Shaolin, but the film is technically more of a remake. I know what you’re thinking: How can they re-make a film 1 year after it’s release? Let me assure you: With Shaw Brothers Studios producing, Liu Chia Hiu (otherwise known as [...]
Kung Fu Movies: This is one amazing Kung Fu classic, compliments of Shaw Brothers Studios circa 1977. Even more incredible is that this film is directed by none other than the venerable Lar Kar-Leung, the same director who brought you the “36th Chamber of Shaolin”. This is a very unusual entry into Shaw Brother’s Shaolin Temple [...]
Kung Fu Movies: Here’s a little gem you may have overlooked, starring the venerable Bruce Li and the wonderful Angela Mao. Loosely classified as a Bruceploitation film and once promoted as the sequel to “Exit The Dragon, Enter the Tiger”, though it has absolutely nothing in common with the former film. Return of the Tiger centers [...]
Kung Fu Movies: This is the original “Bruceploitation” classic and arguably the grand daddy of them all. This film encapsulates all things good and bad about the post-Bruce Hong Kong cinematic era. Our story centers on a former disciple of Lee (the inimitable Bruce Li) who launches a private investigation in an attempt to determine the circumstance [...]
Kung Fu Movies: The Guy with the Secret Kung Fu stars Meng Fei and Li Chung Chien as two anti-Qing rebels and kung fu fighters who frequently rescue damsels in distress. The action kicks off when thugs try to board a boat carrying a pretty lady and the two heroes (who are fishing nearby) leap onto [...]
Kung Fu Movies: Master of the Flying Guillotine’ is a sequel to the film the One Armed Boxer. It is very rare that a sequel exceeds it’s counterpart, but ‘Flying Guillotine’ is a clear exception as this is one of the greatest martial arts movies from the post-Bruce Lee era 1970′s Hong Kong.
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Kung Fu Movies: The Five Deadly Venoms is a cult classic and one of the best Kung Fu Movies ever made. This film represents the absolute pinnacle of Shaw Brothers Studios film making with a unique and creative plot line, excellent production values and phenomenal martial arts technique. The story revolves around the aging martial arts [...]
Kung Fu Movies: This is Jet Li’s first film and one of his best! Treachery is afoot in the Tang dynasty. The emperor is soon betrayed by one of his ambitious generals, who installs himself as potentate of the East Capital. The General is a cruel and viscous man. When he murders an innocent slave worker, [...]
Bruce Lee Movies: As Brandon Lee once said: “Game of Death has 40 minutes of footage and the rest is junk.” Before Bruce Lee died he worked on scripts for Game of Death and shot some 40 odd minutes of footage including test screenings and actual fight sequences. The central theme of the film is an [...]
Kung Fu Movies: In this classic martial arts film, Lo (Hwang Jang Lee) is a Kung Fu fighter who kills for money schooled in the powerful Eagle’s Claws style of fighting. Lo is hired to kill a man named Tai (John Chang), and Tai prepares himself by seeking out a Kung Fu master to teach him [...]
Kung Fu Movies: Tai Chi Master is the greatest “wire-fu” film from director and choreographer Yuen Woo-ping, best known as the martial-arts choreographer of the Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Kill Bill films. “Wire-fu” films were became popular during the martial arts film resurgence of the late 80s and early 90s, and in terms of [...]
Kung Fu Movies This “Brucesploitation” classic was billed as starring the “3 Greatest Masters! Bruce Lee, Fred Williamson, Ron Van Clief”. This is Brucesploitation at its finest (cheesiest) moment and unabashedly pure exploitation schlock. Oh, and yes, it is hysterically, unintentionally funny. Despite what many purists would consider a “disgrace” to the name of Bruce Lee, [...]
Kung Fu Movies While the rest of the world was transfixed with Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sonny Chiba and their countless clones, “Jimmy” Wang Yu was creating several minor masterpieces that have been overlooked by many hardcore fans, but still remains as an enormous and apparent influence upon today’s martial arts films. Along with Jimmy’s [...]
Kung Fu Movies 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 [...]
Kung Fu Movies The real Bruce Lee is back in this mash up of early footage found in the Chinese archives. This feature also stars the sensational DRAGON LEE, and of course that master of all things “bruceploitation”: BRUCE LI. This is really a half-hour documentary about Bruce, followed by a full-length Kung Fu feature [...]
Kung Fu Movies Ninja Terminator is the King of Bad 80′s Ninja Movies! Its got it all: Richard Harrison, Bad dubbing, bad dialogue, an insane and senseless plot line, gratuitous violence, and an endless array of black clad, sword wielding Ninjas! As with all the other ninja movies by Godfrey Ho, what we are witness [...]
Kung Fu Movies This is an absolutely wonderful lost interview with none other than the master himself, Sifu Bruce Lee. This interview was conducted live from Hong Kong by for the Pierre Berton show, which interestingly, was filmed in a different international location each week. Here Bruce talks about everything from his Martial Arts philosophy [...]
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. After this movie, I got [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Martial Arts Movies Countdown of the 10 deadliest weapons in the Kung Fu combat arsenal. This video is slightly off topic, but contains some absolutely amazing footage of Martial Arts weaponry and techniques. If you love Kung Fu, then you will really appreciate this documentary. I found the footage extremely interesting and very informative. It [...]
Martial Arts Movies “Bruce Lee Fights Back From The Grave” is a very misleading title from legendary grind-house distributor Aquarius. Run by the late Australian-born exploitation genius Terry Levene, Aquarius, renowned for their lowest-of-low budget Martial Arts Movies and Sonny Chiba re-edits, hobbled together this low budget gem with an extremely mild Bruce Lee impersonation [...]
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 [...]
Martial Arts Movies Season 1 Episode 2: Zatoichi befriends a young boy named Tarokichi, who is the son of a wealthy merchant. Zatoichi generously agrees to take the boy to his father after learning that that the boy’s mother has died. Zatoichi and the boy soon find themselves being pursued by greedy Yakuza who aim [...]
Martial Arts Movies Season 1, Episode 1: While traveling, Zatoichi meets a kindly stranger named Tatsuso. They travel together to Ashido Village, home to a copper mine, where corrupt government officials and a ruthless Yakuza boss named Yasaburo terrorize the locals and slowly run them out of their businesses. Zatoichi learns that his traveling companion [...]
Martial Arts Movies Eighteen Claws of Shaolin (also known as “18 Jade Pearls”) may not be up to the same standards as a classic Shaw Bros epic, but there’s an interesting blend of murder mystery and Martial Arts action that makes the movie worth watching. A white-maned powerhouse Lord goes off to duel with a [...]
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. The plot thickens when we gradually find out that one of the men (the doctor) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Kung Fu Movies WAR OF THE SHAOLIN TEMPLE is among the many movies about the Shaolin temple made in Hong Kong and Taiwan during the golden age of Kung Fu Cinema. It seems that after Lau Kar-Leung’s fantastic 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (available in its entirety on this website) everybody just threw up their hands [...]
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 [...]
Kung Fu Movies **Video no longer available. Jodie Foster guest stars! Caine gets caught up in a stage hold-up and an honest young girl thinks she sees him shoot a man. On her eyewitness testimony, he is sentenced to hang. In flashbacks the young Caine, who is sent on a mission with a 400 year [...]
Kung Fu Movies Shaolin vs Lama is a highly regarded old school kung fu flick with iconic dialogue sampled by musicians such as Depth Charge and Wu Tang Clan. It features use of the ‘Buddha finger’ and a training technique where our hero punches circular holes in scrolls hanging from the ceiling, (with just one [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Kung Fu Movies The Mars Villa (also known as Wu Tang Magic Kick) is an old-school kung fu movie that offers a great showcase for both the acting and high kicking fighting talents of the legendary Mr. John Liu. While the basic plot is a simple one of bad guys getting revenge on a hero [...]
Kung Fu Movies THIS IS THE FULL MOVIE. Just Let it Play, Each part will load Automatically…. 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. [...]
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 [...]
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. J.J., a rising star in the black crime scene, is in the process of consolidating his power over the neighborhood. One of the only [...]
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! Our hero is double crossed by his partners on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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. Only the master Ninja Jotaro can stop Donjo’s evil plan, but to do so, he must first battle the [...]
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 [...]
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Kung Fu Movies 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]