[Closed] martial arts movies

Only two I can recall are:

Enter the Dragon
Kickboxer

Kung Fu Hustle.
Incredible film.

Kung Fu Hustle.
Incredible film.

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But unless you have watched all the 70/80 tv serials from HongKong you will never realise how good/funny this film actually is.

Ip Man

[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1220719/ ]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1220719/[/url]

Movie about Bruce Lees teacher.

Karate Kid.

Chocolate.

OLD BOY is quite good if not a bit mad, though if you would call it a Martial arts film i'm not so sure, some good fighting scenes though...

Swordsmen (Donnie Yen) is excellent (and fairly recent)

The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk.

Most recent-ish recommendation would be Zatoichi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zat%C5%8Dichi_(2003_film)

I'm a big fan of classic Japanese samurai stuff and some lesser known favouries include

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_Assassin

&

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_doom

I quite liked the first Ong Bak (although the two sequels weren't as good in my opinion) ...

Ong Bak, lesser known Japanese favourites... bah. Nothing can beat the life-changing philosophy of "wax on, wax off". And The Crane*:

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* Granted, there is a slight risk that your opponent might, just possibly, guess what you're about to do... but the sheer awesomeness of The Crane overcomes all.

Zatoichi is ace.

Warrior is superb btw if you haven't seen it

~15 years ago at Uni, my housemates took it in turns to buy a 1970-80s film each week. I now have 20-30 VHS tapes unwatched for years without a tape player 😥

Anything with Hwang Jang Lee. Snake in the Eagle's Shadow! Boooom

saw Red Cliff recently, not specifically martial arts, there's battles/ warfare in there too.
not classic John Woo but that's a good thing.
think Crouching Tiger meets Lord of the Rings/ Braveheart type battles.
I really like it.

Fist of Fury
Iron Monkey
Game Of Death
Who Am I
Project A
Once Upon A Time in China

Are all great & worth a watch

Drunken Master is an interesting one if you have not seen it

Ong Bak

My favourite: Drunken Master

My all time cheesy 80s favourite is

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Due to my lazy-stoner-couch-potato hazy past I've watched way more than my fair share of Kung-fu films 🙂

Some decent ones are mentioned above; this is the best I've seen:

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Sadly the dubbing is proper Chop Sockey, but if you can lay your hands on the subtitled version Channel 4 broadcast many moons ago the narrative actually fits the action.

Snap Rob - can remember very few of them though!

^ I only remember cos I held on to my collection until last month 🙂
Then literally binned the lot cos I didn't think our local charity shops needed to be inundated with bin-bags full of unintelligible VHS tapes.

Now wondering what to do with a load of wobbly-noise vinyl...

I was lucky enough to have a grandad that owned a video shop in the 1980s. My knowledge of crap kung-fu films is quite extraordinary.

2nd Drunken Master - my personal fave !

Had a copy of channel 4's airing of Prodigal son on VHS for a long time.
I fully agree with Rob up there ^^

Luckily it's one of the few that I stuck onto disc before getting rid of a load. (quite pleased with myself and awaiting my kids to come of age and start the Friday night kung-fu beer fests)

Most from the list above are good, beware of some of Jackie Chans cutting room floor films!

The legend of Fong Sai Yuk are good films (just named The Legend for uk).

Fearless
Warriors two
Fist of Legend
City Hunter and Rumble in the bronx
Last Hurrah for chivalry

thought of a couple more good 'uns.

The young master
Shaolin and wu-tang

^ I only remember cos I held on to my collection until last month

Had a call from my Mum a couple of weeks back asking if she could bin all my old VHS tapes, bye bye probably a grands worth of skateboard vids and a whole load of Kung-Fu.

No mention of jean claude, chuck norris or steven segal yet?

no Sammo Hung movies either?

Are any of these new ones any good like unleashed and others like it?

Sammo Hung crops up in a few of the ones mentioned.

Unleashed is very good, and there's a lot of recent kung-fu films that are equally good. It's worth taking a chance on them as occasionally you get one that is sooooo bad it's fun to watch.

evil cult - jet li - subtitled version (ala ch 4 for comedy value)

fist foot way - most excellent but not so much for the fighting but excellent story + script

Shaw brothers classics

so many to mention --- Mr Vampire!

Fearless
Unleashed
Meals on wheels
Armour of god
Kiss of the dragon
Ong bak trilogy
Only the strong
Cradle to the grave

Then there's the Chris crudelli doc, Mind body and kick ass moves which is always good.

Hero is a great watch if you've imbibed a raucously spiritual cocktail of hallucinogenic drugs..

[b]Zatoichi
Crimson Bat
Kyoshiro Nemuri
Miyamoto Musashi
Lone Wolf and Cub
Sanjuro/The Ronin with No Name[/b]

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_cinema ]Samurai Cinema[/url]

2.59 onwards, amazing choreography

I watched this 20yrs ago and it still remains fresh/amazing today.

Any of Jackie Chan/Police Story/Samo Hung tie-up's. The fight scenes are the result of hardwork and fluid motion/team work whereas I felt alot of Kung Fu films seemed like short-staged events.

Miyamoto Musashi

Not a martial arts film however still utterly timeless and almost Noh theatre; Ran. Amazing. They even brought it back into 'print' with a DVD run 😀

I think I'll rewatch The Killer tonight 🙂