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 Downside is it could seem outdated to general audiences.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

Japanese live action movie series. It's an adaptation of the epic manga of the same name, about the Qin Emperor of China. Fantastic set production. Spot on casting. Great action, and epic large scale battle scenes! Forth one just came out, strong recommend!

Anyone seen Re:Born, or his new movie One Percent Warrior?

Since Versus (2000) I've thought of him as a solid B-Grade martial arts action star, and the "pet" of director Ryuhei Kitamura (he's like the Bruce Campbell to RK's Sam Raimi, shows up somewhere in all his films).

However, his recent movies, especially the ones he's produced or directed (like the one-cut movie Crazy Samurai Musashi), he gets to demonstrate his martial arts skills/obsession that much more. In fact, his latest movie One Percenter/One Percent Warrior is kind of like his "JCVD" (complete with self-referential dark humor).

When he's not doing martial arts-centric kung fu cinema, he's on Youtube going around to various dojos in Japan and comparing styles in a very warm and total "martial arts geek" way.

I've been a general fan of his (and director Ryuhei Kitamura) since Versus, but his more recent stuff - even as he's getting older - is interesting in a "cinematic but still sorta realistic" kung fu vein.

Same kinda vibe I get from "Martial Arts Obsessed Action Coreographers First, Actors Second" actors/producers like Tony Jaa, Andy/Brian Le, Michael Jai White, etc.

Any insight on what the wine many characters often drink in Shaw bros movies is? Is there a Chinese equivalent to sake? Is it what is now baijiu?

Not sure if this is the correct place to post this but it is kungfucinema history of Jackie Chan. I was wondering if anyone knew a place this could be accessible? You can buy it but its not in english, If this was released in a PDF format then we could buy a digital version and then use A.I to translate it to english!

It would be extremely interesting to read as this is so old, he was in his prime when writing this so I imagine it would be quite different to his much later 1998 book "I Am Jackie Chan" thats basically almost a 15 year difference so the details might be different and I imagine more detailed since all he had to write up to that point was 84'

One thing I'm wondering about is if in this book he mentions the almost full film they filmed in South Korea before they scrapped it and then did "Dragon Lord"