Kung Fu movies with tournaments
I love tournaments in classic kung fu movies and this has one of the best I've seen. I'm looking for more movies that has tournament style martial arts. Anyone know any?
shareGame of Death (Bruce Lee)was supposed to have a different fight at each level of the building Lee was fighting up but only the fight with Kareem Abdul Jabbar was filmed...
In the TV series and Manga for Dragonball, the fight up Muscle Tower is set up the same way, with a different bad guy at each level.
King Boxer/5 Fingers of Death has a major tournament near the end of the movie.
Many other kung fu films also have tournaments to show off different styles and weapons. You'll have to check some out....
The above for Bruce Lee and Game of Death is incorrect. There are actually two other scenes that were filmed and retained. You can actually view them on a documentary on Lee and the movie. The previous two levels has Lee squaring off against a Hapkido master and a weapons master. He finally ascends to the Jabbar level after besting the previous two.
The Jabbar sequences are stunning in that Kareem moved so well for someone his size. He could cover fifteen feet easily with a combination of spinning round and reverse kicks.
In some ways, I'm glad the film never got made. It was too metaphorical as Lee was using the dissolution of fighting forms too literally as a metaphor for self. It was too constructed and could've been a truly wooden treatise on Lee's obssession with the obliteration of style.
In fact, Enter The Dragon is the perfect vehicle for Lee and remains the penultimate expression of Lee's art at an extremely high level.