Kung Fu Movies

wow theres so many films that i want to see now!
i personally like

drunken master (one of chans best)
kiss of the dragon
dragons forever (just for the fights)
matrix reloaded,matrix
any of chans earlier films

ok i choose heaps but i like them

Hero is my all time favourite

Other include

Iron Monkey
Once Upon a Time in China
Shaolin Soccer
Scorpion King
Hitman

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Hey Martial Art films, great

Personal favourites:

Seven Samurai
Yoshimbo
Musashi Miyamoto Trilogy
Rashomon
Kagemusha (didn't really have much martial arts in it, does it count?)
Iron Monkey
Mr. Vampire
Legend of a Fighter
Drunken Master
Once Upon a Time in China 1&2
Encounters of the Spooky Kind
A Man Called Hero
Hero
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Fist of Legend

and all of Bruce Lee's, apart from Game of Death if you count that.

Was personally a little disappointed with Stormriders

Yeah, Last Hurrah For Chivalry, was an excellent movie. I like the way the two main characters instantly connected, and the swordplay is just astounding. It's a shame this movie is often overlooked, I think John Woo did a superb job on it.

I had totally forgotten about that movie, I think the way that movie used the Kung Fu styles from early Hong Kong movies and put them in a modern day Chinese soccer movie was great. It was an extremely good an funny film, shame their weren't a few more fight scenes in it though.

I was too, dude, I bought A Man Named Hero and Stormriders both on the same day. I wanted to see what these two movies had to offer, I really liked A Man Named Hero, even though I do believe they could have made it a lot better. Once I had watched Stormriders I was left bitterly disappointed, I had expected a whole lot more!

Just a couple of interesting martial arts films more focused on charecters than action. Often overlooked but well worth finding these are US examinations of Eastern Martial Arts philosphy and disciplines that are well worth checking out: (And definetly rank as all time faves)



Sydney Pollock's THE YAKUZA
- Starring Robert Mitchum and Ken Takura

John Frankenheimer'sTHE CHALLENGE
- Starring Scott Glen and Tushiro Mifune

Jim Jaramusch's GHOST DOG:WAY OF THE SAMURAI

Terence Young's RED SUN
-Starring Charlie Bronson and Toshiro Mifune




All these films examine the samurai code and way of the true martial artist in very interesting and unique ways.

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ghost dog a good film i forgot about that one

I see no one has mentioned "The Karate Kid." I really liked the series, and as a child I used to watch them all of the time.

I haven't seen Ghost Dog, I saw it in the video store when it first came out and I have always wanted to watch it. I just never got around to seeing it, I think it has even been on television and I have still missed it.

My favorite would have to be Enter the dragon, but I heard of a new one called FIght NIght It's not supposed to be bad.

yeah ghost dog isnt so much the physical aspect of martial arts more the spiritual side
but its still cool

I haven't seen very many martial arts films, but I'd like to start. The entire "Pai Mei" sequence in Kill Bill Vol. 2 got me interested. I'd like to see more.

Any suggestions on what few I should start with?

Here are some I've already seen:

Enter the Dragon
Game of Death
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Rumble in the Bronx

and if we're including samurai:

The Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
The Hidden Fortress

I have a long list of martial arts films that keep getting mentioned, but I don't know where I should start. Here are the films I have on the top of my list to see:

Once Upon a Time in China
Fist of Legend
Iron Monkey
Drunken Master

I'll wait until the US release of Hero in Aug. of '04, but the trailer during Kill Bill Vol. 2 looked really good.

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I have so many favorite Kung Fu films I'll just list some of them

5 Superfighters
Game of Death
Fists of Fury
Enter the Dragon
Return of the Dragon
Sonny Chiba's Street Fighter
Return of the Street Fighter
Chinese Connection

I like alot of old school kung fu movies.
Because they can get rediculesly funny at times. As well as being entertaining.

Not Academy Award winning though.

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Heh, yeah. I need to check out some of the above titles, I like

Ong Bak
http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/20...ailer-page.htm
Drunken Master 1/2
Anything with Bruce Lee or Sammo
Drive - Mark Dacascos is an incrediably underrated martial artist.

All the Bruce Lee and Jet Li films...I'd be here all day listing them one by one (though v.partial to "The One")

Cant pick one but here is a few great ones
Once Upon a Time in China 1 and 2
The Legend of Drunken Master
The Defender
Fist of Legend
Snake in Eagles Shadow
Iron Monkey
Fearless Hyena
Ong Bak
The Master

Fist of Legend is my favorite. Other tops are Fearless, Ninja Wars, Iron Monkey, Kill Bill, Once Upon a Time in China, Bloodsport, Shogun's Ninja, Chinese Connection, The Octagon, Revenge of the Ninja, Samurai Trilogy, The Yakuza, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, and Sonny Chiba's Street Fighter Series.

i'd go for



and for pure cheese value

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kung fu hustle... laughed all day when i watched that movie! lol

Difficult one, as I like so many, but I would say that one of the best martial arts films per se, has to be Jackie Chan's original Police Story. Never tire of watching it.

James

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Can't decide all of Jet Li movies, especially the ones he made in Chinese there much better than his english version ones