Any Good Martial Arts Movies?
 

Does anyone know of any good martial arts movies, preferably takes place in either Japan or China? The only good ones I know of are:

Fist Of Fury
Enter The Dragon
Mortal Kombat 1995
Mortal Kombat Annihilation
Of course Ninja Turtles 1990's
Ninja Scroll
Grappler Baki
Shanghai Knights/Noon
Big Trouble In Little China
Beverly Hills Ninja
Street Fighter II The Animated Movie
The Forbidden Kingdom
Karate Kid I - IV, Remake, Cobra Kai
Rush Hour 1 - 3

Gee I didn't know I had that many martial arts movies until I wrote them above.

Does anyone know of anymore good martial arts movies I didn't mention? I'm interested.

I love the original Five Venoms.

Youre missing the best one....Kung Pow: Enter The Fist

Yeah, I also got that. I just didn't think of it when I made that list out, because I tried to come up with my list from memory.

Chosen One: And who do you rule; the large dark nipple people?

If you've never seen either one, I strongly recommend both *Drunken Master* movies starring Jackie Chan. Pure classics

I just saw the trailer on IMDb and it looks funny and it's from a classical time period. Also was that a dubbed voice for Jackie Chan; it sounded too clear.

I know you said you prefer Japan or China, but I gotta say The Raid movies are probably some of the greatest martial arts movies you will EVER see.

There's 2 in total, and they take place in Indonesia, and showcase the martial art style of pencak silat. Pretty brutal. Every fight scene is intense, but the 2 final fights in both movies still give me f*cking chills to this day.

Highly recommended.

You mentioned Fist of Fury & Enter the Dragon. But you skipped over Chinese Connection (also very good), and Bruce's best (IMO), Way of the Dragon (released in America as Return of the Dragon).

Bruce wrote, directed, and starred in the movie. It's the most autobiographical of all his films, with the character he plays being a young man who moves to a new place and starts working in a family restaurant. Which was basically exactly what happened when Bruce moved back to America in 1958.

Bruce Lee.

Chuck Norris.

Roman Colleseum (or to be more accurate, soundstage built to look like the Colleseum).

Highly, highly recommeded. I might go watch it again (for probably the 100th time) again right now. Thanks for the inspiration :D.

A lot of people tend to get those movies mixed up. Fists of Fury is really called The Big Boss in Hong Kong, and Chinese Connection is Fist of Fury. I think when they were released in the America theaters, the names were changed. It's really weird why that happened.

Regardless, it's a damn shame Game of Death was never finished as intended since Bruce died by then. I think it would've been his magnum opus... Hell, retroactively, it is.

Wow, such crazy timing for this thread. It was just the other day I was looking to see if I needed to upgrade Iron Monkey to blu-ray and literally five minutes ago I picked up a copy of Shaolin vs Lama :lol:

I've been on this kung-fu flick kick lately and now this thread....

Go look up every Jackie Chan movie ever made. Most of them were in Chinese only though but a lot of them have subs nowadays.

Kung Fu Panda films

Showdown in Little Tokyo is criminally underrated in my opinion. Love that flick!

And don’t forget Rapid Fire! Both films star Brandon Lee.

1000% YES to both of these :D. I was crazy for Brandon Lee when I was in high school. Teen girl crazy. Posters on my wall and everything.

In the very early 2000's, a mentor of mine scored me an invite to a very fancy party in Chicago. The party was at a place called "The Fireside Bowl."

And while I should have been networking, working the room, introducing myself to people and making connections... I really don't think I did. I mean, I did meet a few very cool people, but the whole time, all I could think was "Oh, man. Oh, man. I am standing in the exact same place they shot a big part of Rapid Fire!"

Also well worth the time (although admittedly, not of the same quality) are Brandon's earliest films, Laser Mission, Legacy of Rage, and the movie version of the TV show, Kung Fu.

I might go watch Showdown in Little Tokyo again right now. Besides being a great action flick, IMO that movie also has the funniest line of any Brandon Lee movie.

When he says, "You know that thing I said about the fish?" (perfect pause here) "I can change my mind."

His delivery at that moment kills me. Every time. :lol:

I just made a DVD request for both Drunken Master movies at the local library, but because my location is all checked out, I have to borrow from another library. Jackie Chan always OK.

Oh man, I'm stoked for you. They're so good.

I need to rewatch them soon

Love these.... watched them back in the day at the height of my Crow fandom. He also did "Laser Mission" which is an incredibly misleading title if you ever sat through that one. :lol:

Also, Watched "Shaolin vs Lama" yesterday. Like most martial arts flicks of the era it was equally as fun as it was hard to get through. Basically starts off interestingly enough and fairly strong, but by the middle of it, it turns into a protracted "training montage flick" across time. Highlights were a wacky master jumping 50 feet in the air to snatch a rotisserie chicken, and the bad guy proclaiming "I am evil and I must die to prove that there is a God!" before killing himself. :lol:

Sometime soon I want to sit through "Hero" again too. Probably my favorite Jet Li film. If ever a kung-fu flick was put to film that was "art" it's that one. A lot of the ripoffs of it's era are decent too - "House of Flying Daggers" for example.

I watched Drunken Master II last night and I have to say, this movie is kind of weird. It has a lot of fighting and comedy, which is good, but it didn't have a lot of story. It was about Jackie Chan as a young man living with his father, having to do what he wants and at the same time, fight foreigners that are stealing Chinese artifacts. It was good, but strange.

Now I'm just waiting for the first Drunken Master DVD to become available at the library; hopefully this week.

As in, GOOD martial arts movies where there is GOOD martial arts in them? That'd remove the Karate Kid and TMNT movies from the list by default.

Five Deadly Venoms and Shaolin vs. Wutang come to mind. And you can't go wrong with really any Bruce Lee movie.

I have a buddy that swears by that movie. He "made" me watch it last year and it was OK. I can't say that I was "feeling" it.

Go watch a chinese animation called "Outcast" (I think). There are some fights that are AMAZING