What is your all time Favourite Martial Arts Movie

Mine is the Five Deadly Venoms

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Five Fingers of Death

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Now we're talking!!
Besides being into jiujitsu, proper boots, leather jackets, beer & whatnot, you're also into Shaw Brothers! Hahaha, perfect! :D And solid picks too.

I'm quite a big film buff and used to be really into Hong Kong cinema especially when I was younger. So I have to slice this up a bit to get more titles included:

Fave 5 Shaw Bros
1. Heroes of the East (amazing displays of different styles clashing!)
2. The 8th Diagram Pole Fighter (visceral!)
3. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
4. The Kid with the Golden Arm
5. The 5 Shaolin Masters

Non-SB Hong Kong
1. One Armed Boxer
2. Warriors Two
3. Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
4. Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind
5. Duel to the Death (best ninja action!)

American
1. Enter the Dragon
2. Big Trouble in Little China
3. Penitentiary III
4. Bloodsport
5. Out for Justice

Japanese
1. The Street Fighter (Sonny Chiba!)
2. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
3. Yojimbo
4. Sister Street Fighter
5. Three Outlaw Samurai
(Kinda hard to determine how much swordplay is required to make a samurai film also a "martial arts movie" but here's some with a fair amount! :)

Still missing so many........ :D

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Mine is the Five Deadly Venoms https://www.youtube.com/w[...]IPIOXqE4X4

I like 5 Deadly Venoms, Goldenarm, and Challenge of the Ninja.

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Challenge of the Ninja.

Same as Heroes of the East I believe, my #1 pick. Also best movie about a marriage crisis of all time!

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To name a few in no particular order:

- Enter the Dragon
- Rocky movies (boxing is a martial art, right?)
- The Quest
- Equilibrium (Gun-Fu!)
- Bloodsport (I know, I know...Frank Dux was a fraud but it's still a good story).

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To name a few in no particular order: - Enter the Dragon - Rocky movies (boxing is a martial art, right?) - The Quest - Equilibrium (Gun-Fu!) - Bloodsport (I know, I know...Frank Dux was a fraud but it's still a good story).

All great movies!

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I'd find it tricky to rank them, but for me:

1. Dragons Forever
2. Wheels on Meals
3. Enter the Dragon
4 .Iron Monkey
5. Black Belt Jones
6. Prodigal Son
7. Drive
8. Game of Death

I used to LOVE the old Hong Kong Legends DVDs, I think I ended up buying most of them. Also, if Seven Samurai counts as a martial arts film, that's definitely on the list too. And Yojimbo.

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I'd find it tricky to rank them, but for me

Great choices, Can.

Yeah, I too used to collect the HKL dvd's, and before that, the Made in Hong Kong vhs tapes from UK. (Cost a fortune to buy the imports in Finland... something that would be more than 30 euros a tape in today's money!) Now I'm happy to see the same titles getting awesome blu-ray releases in the UK with superb picture quality and original mono audio (Wheels, Iron Monkey are already out, Dragons soon!).

The stuntwork in Dragons Forever's final brawl is insane.

Wheels on Meals & The Prodigal Son's end duels are all-time classics.

By Drive do you mean the 90s Mark Dacascos film?

I don't share the love for Game of Death though... you're better off watching the 40mins of original Bruce Lee fight footage elsewhere than in that sorry excuse of a movie's context (they didn't even use all of what was available!).

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By Drive do you mean the 90s Mark Dacascos film? I don't share the love for Game of Death though

Very specifically, the HKL release of Game of Death. Soooooo many extras, it's amazing. :D

And yep, the Dacascos film, fond memories of that though I haven't watched in a while. This also reminds me I should really get with the times and finally buy a blu-ray player. I'd love to see Dragons Forever with EVEN MORE EXTRAS! ;)

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This also reminds me I should really get with the times and finally buy a blu-ray player.

You're out of time old man... blu-rays are things of the past already, now we have 4K UHD discs! :D

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I'd find it tricky to rank them, but for me: 1. Dragons Forever 2. Wheels on Meals 3. Enter the Dragon 4 .Iron Monkey 5. Black Belt Jones 6. Prodigal Son 7. Drive 8. Game of Death I used to LOVE the old Hong Kong Legends DVDs, I think I ended up buying most of them. Also, if Seven Samurai counts as a martial arts film, that's definitely on the list too. And Yojimbo.

Solid list Can!

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You're out of time old man... blu-rays are things of the past already, now we have 4K UHD discs! :D

LOL!

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Now we're talking!! Besides being into jiujitsu, proper boots, leather jackets, beer & whatnot, you're also into Shaw Brothers! Hahaha, perfect! :D And solid picks too. I'm quite a big film buff and used to be really into Hong Kong cinema especially when I was younger. So I have to slice this up a bit to get more titles included: Fave 5 Shaw Bros 1. Heroes of the East (amazing displays of different styles clashing!) 2. The 8th Diagram Pole Fighter (visceral!) 3. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin 4. The Kid with the Golden Arm 5. The 5 Shaolin Masters Non-SB Hong Kong 1. One Armed Boxer 2. Warriors Two 3. Snake in the Eagle's Shadow 4. Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind 5. Duel to the Death (best ninja action!) American 1. Enter the Dragon 2. Big Trouble in Little China 3. Penitentiary III 4. Bloodsport 5. Out for Justice Japanese 1. The Street Fighter (Sonny Chiba!) 2. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx 3. Yojimbo 4. Sister Street Fighter 5. Three Outlaw Samurai (Kinda hard to determine how much swordplay is required to make a samurai film also a 'martial arts movie' but here's some with a fair amount! :) Still missing so many........ :D

You just names some serious heavy hitters in your post! I am a huge fan of the Samurai genre so Yojimbo is an all time fave as well. Hell any samurai film with Toshiro Mifune is on my list. Great choices Tatu!

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You're out of time old man... blu-rays are things of the past already, now we have 4K UHD discs! :D

Ha - I mostly rely on Netflix these days, but I do miss watching many many commentaries. :D

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...Classic

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Ha - I mostly rely on Netflix these days, but I do miss watching many many commentaries. :D

I'm not familiar with Netflix's UK selection but at least over here, the selection for vintage cinema (pre-2000s movies) sucks badly. Amazon Prime has lots of good non-mainstream movies, including a huge Shaw Bros library streamable in high definition!

The wife watches almost exclusively series these days, I still dig movies more.

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I used to have UK Netflix and any country really here in Canada with a ip masking service but they caught on and disabled it for everyone.
Now I only get Canada Netflix which sucks arse. Can't watch the new Shetland seasons.

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Yeah, I'm mostly series too, rather than films. I dislike how a film is just a few hours, whereas a series can be HUNDREDS of hours, way better for me. I've been on Amazon recently because of Picard (I'm a big Trekkie), which also means I can finally binge on Buffy. Lots of interesting stuff on there, but I'm generally a Netflix guy. Also, just got all the Ghibli films on Netflix, apparently, so it will be cool to rewatch those. :D

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Yeah, I'm mostly series too, rather than films. I dislike how a film is just a few hours, whereas a series can be HUNDREDS of hours, way better for me.

I dislike how a a series can drag on for HUNDREDS of hours, whereas film tells a story in just a few hours, way better for me. :D

It's way less committed time, and I admire how memorable characters & whole worlds can be created, and deep themes explored effectively within the shorter time span. Movies also always have an thought-out ending, whereas series these days just continue until they're totally dry and then pitifully wizzle out...

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Yep, I can see the reasoning behind that argument, though it's totally not what I want at all. I'm a long from kinda person. I also find it annoying when books just end with one book, as opposed to having a gazillion sequels and prequels. MOAR CONTENT. :P

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Yeah, I'm mostly series too, rather than films. I dislike how a film is just a few hours, whereas a series can be HUNDREDS of hours, way better for me. I've been on Amazon recently because of Picard (I'm a big Trekkie), which also means I can finally binge on Buffy. Lots of interesting stuff on there, but I'm generally a Netflix guy. Also, just got all the Ghibli films on Netflix, apparently, so it will be cool to rewatch those. :D

Picard is pretty good. I've only seen 4 episodes as they trickle in.

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Picard is pretty good. I've only seen 4 episodes as they trickle in.

It's a lot better than Discovery, but then it was always going to be, given it features a much loved character played by the original actor, who happens to have greater acting chops than almost anybody else in the whole franchise (with several notable DS9 exceptions, a number of whom have since spent time teaching acting at various universities - e.g., Armin Shimerman, Andrew Robinson, etc).

Star Trek thread? :D

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