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Recommend me some (old) kung fu movies

posted 17 years ago by robbevl
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Yes, I'm relatively new to the genre, but I absolutely love it.. Can somebody post me a list of great Kung Fu movies? I don't care about acting or storyline at all, only the action scenes, the fighting and especially the technique. The longer the fight scenes the better. I like good martial arts scenes, not all cut up so you don't see what's happening. Long shots is what I like (oldfashioned that means, because all the new movies have hyper cut up editting).

I've seen the Master Of The Flying Guillotine vs One Armed Boxer and I loved it. That's the kind of movies I'm talking about. I like Bruce Lee's style, but apart from Enter The Dragon I haven't seen anything of his.

Come on! Give me some titles (plus some explanation about the movie, as to why exactly you think I should see it).

I'm thinking of buying Ong Bak (Thai Box), Zhan shen tan aka Beach of the War Gods (swordfighting), Du bei dao wang aka The Return Of The One-Armed Sword Fighter (Yu Wang) and Meng long guo jiang aka Return of the Dragon (Lee). Good start?

[–] FOLEYAXEL 17 years ago

welcome new member:)

if you want to start.....go with the oldies

wait for the new releases from (dragon dynasty) this is from the Weinstiens with Tarentino who loves these movies take them and re-master them:

36th Chamber of Shaolin
King boxer (aka 5 fingers of death)

also look into:
5 deadly venoms
Invincible Shaolin
7 Grandmasters
Drunken master (Jackie Chan original 1978)
Snake in the eagle's Shadow
The Prodigal Son
Shaolin Temple (aka Death Chamber)
Fists of the White Lotus
3 evil masters

some new 90s stuff
iron monkey
fist of legend (Jet Li)
Once upon a time in china
Legend of the drunken master ( Jackie Chan drunken master official sequel)

yes if you want to see Tony Jaa i would suggest watching the Protector awesome fight scenes

if you want Bruce Lee then

watch them all...and Enter the Dragon which is consider the best "American" martial arts film ever made

this should get you started for now:)

[–] DirtyGrainius 17 years ago

some more....
Iron Monkey - old one/Chen Kuan Tai
Mad Monkey Kung Fu
Snake In Monkey's Shadow
Born Invincible
Fists and Guts - Liu Chia Hui

Return of the Dragon is my fave Bruce Lee movie.

thats it for now... there are so, so many.

"Inside the Dusters there were 3 men... So?... Inside the men there were 3 bullets." - d{^_^}b

[–] lartrak 17 years ago

The Return of the One-Armed Swordsman/Fighter is a sequel to One-Armed Swordsman. Both are worth picking up. One-Armed Swordsman just got a very good US DVD release, BTW. Return is a direct sequel, so I suggest seeing the first one before it.

Other old ones: One-Armed Boxer, the film before Master of the Flying Guillotine... Chinese Boxer, King Boxer (AKA Five Fingers of Death), Boxer from Shantung and Come Drink With Me.

[–] flyingguillotine13 17 years ago

Beach of the War Gods is a winner all round (nearly as good as Master of the...).

Don't think its had an offial dvd release tho'. There's a poor bootleg knocking about (might well have burned-on dutch subs).

&

Return of the Chinese Boxer. It's got exactly nothing to do with the original film- but it's got the old Wang Yu mad-cap n' meyhem bent to it!

There's a good few SB films he did in the late 60's (from one-armed swordsman onwards)- but the pace tends to be a bit slower than you might hope for. Golden Swallow is about the best of 'em.

Beheaded 1000- I think, one of Wang yu's last efforts before he 'retired' to do other things. It's insane...seriously!!!

http://imdb.com/title/tt0121103/