Legitimate movies only. I remember one, The Perfect Weapon, from the early nineties that had enough to make my middle-school self cackle with glee from beginning to end. But I wonder if there are more gems out there that pay homage to the glorious art of Sack Fu?

During the guy's battle against the woman, the woman's daughter/hand in marriage is the prize. But the woman goes to the bathroom and is replaced by an uglier (?) woman and guy sees her face and throws the fight.

Before then though, he has a chance to win even though the opponent has more people helping.

I believe this film has a sequel too. I watched this around 2000 but is older than that I think.

This is one of the greatest Kung Fu movies ever. But the part where he declines the rich girls advances and goes to the poor girl. I’m sorry but me and every other guy in this sub would have had to hit it just once before leaving town.

I've picked up the Drunken Master 2 movie and I'm having a bit of a quandry about whether to go with the Cantonese audio with the English subs, or the dubbed version with Jackie voicing his lines. I know the common advice is to go with the subs, closer to the intended effect and so on, but I've usually been more engaged with these movies when there's a good dub. Does anyone have experience with the dub and can recommend whether or not I go with it?

I’ll get the obvious ones out of the way first:

Raid 1 and 2: GOAT

Fist of Legend: Arguably Jet Li’s best

Ong Bak: Classic

The Protector: One shot scene

Drunken master 2: My favorite Jackie Chan

SPL, ip man, flashpoint, raging fire, etc: Donnie

Ok now here are some underrated ones:

Dragon: I think this is one of Donnie’s best films

Life after fighting: Super low budget but super awesome

Kill: Amazing action on a train from India

Deliver us from evil: Very good thriller from Korea

Chocolate: Final 20 min is incredible

I have more I’ll add later but would love to hear your reccs - more underrated and hidden gem the better!

Hi all, recently joined this sun and makes me want to watch all the great films I grew up watching plus all the cool recommendations you all put.

Does anyone know the best place to find this genre in the UK? Worst case scenario I could use a VPN and get something but they never really work long term I feel and can limit where I watch content.

Thanks

In no order:

1. Bruce Lee
2. Tony Jaa
3. Donnie Yen
4. Jet Li
5. Jackie Chan

Honorable mentions: Michael J White, Iko Uwais, Scott Adkins, Brad Allan, Benny the Jet Rodriguez, Chuck Norris, Taimak, Wesley Snipes, Jean Claude Van Damme, Marko Zaror, Jacky Wu, Sammo Hung, James Lew

I think that’s all I can think of lol.

Hi all - I'm hosting a martial arts film series. I want it to be just right. The first film was the iconic Drunken Master II. I can't decide what to do next.

A few I'm shortlisting

-The Protector: Modern, peak Tony Jaa, where's my elephant. Downside is a bench script and questionable editing.

-Shaolin Wooden Men: Early Jackie Chan classic with awesome training scenes and a nice final battle. Downside is it could seem outdated to general audiences.

-36th chamber of shaolin: We all know this one. Amazing but a bit predictable for a film festival?

-Fist of Legend: My favorite Jet Li film. Brilliant but I just rewatched some fights and they seemed sped up? Made me wonder how this aged for general audiences.

What else?! Thanks for the help!

What's the best Sonny Chiba movie?

Hope someone can help me find the name of a movie i watched alot in the 90s.

The movie was set in the 90s so it was a 'modern' film. It is a cantonese movie about a father (who is a business man I think or maybe triad) who needs his son to come home and help with a white gang. His son was living or studying in the Netherlands. He had a moustache and wore a black leather jacket most of the time. He flew back to wherever his dad was which was either in HK or in America.

The son returned with a group of friends who all knew different martial arts and had different fighting styles/characteristics. They fought the white gang whose members had the same fighting styles. For example I think one the chinese fighters used a 3 section nunchuck and he fought one of the white fighters who had the same weapon. Maybe there was a female fighter on both sides as well but you get the idea.

I don't recall any big name actors in it either so it probably isn't a very popular movie but I hope someone remembers.

Hello everyone,

I'm reaching out with a rather special request. I'm organizing a birthday gathering soon, centered around a movie screening at my place. I want to show Ninja In The Dragon's Den (Ninja Kommando) by Lung Ji Yan Che, but it's impossible to find on DVD or Blu-ray. If anyone happens to have a copy and would be willing to provide me with a file, I'd be happy to pay a fair price that we can agree on.

This would truly save my birthday and introduce this masterpiece to Parisian cinephiles at the same time!

A huge thanks in advance!
Joseph

Hello everyone,

I'm reaching out with a rather special request. I'm organizing a birthday gathering soon, centered around a movie screening at my place. I want to show Ninja In The Dragon's Den (Ninja Kommando) by Lung Ji Yan Che, but it's impossible to find on DVD or Blu-ray. If anyone happens to have a copy and would be willing to provide me with a file, I'd be happy to pay a fair price that we can agree on.

This would truly save my birthday and introduce this masterpiece to Parisian cinephiles at the same time!

A huge thanks in advance!
Joseph

I’ve noticed that every historical Kung Fu/Wuxia movie where there’s the Qing Dynasty, they are always the antagonists.

What’s up with that? Maybe the answer is obvious but I don’t know anything about Chinese history

Side note:

I thought it was weird that Hero (2002) was the only movie where the Qing dynasty were the good guys but I was wrong. That’s the Qin dynasty which was more than a thousand years before the Qing