Top 10 Must See Martial Arts Movies
Apr 28
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4. Sha Po Lang (SPL / Killzone)
If I had to pick my favorite Donnie Yen movie, this would be by far it. Donnie mixes it up with less graceful more realistic fighting styles such as grappling and ground fighting. MMA fans should not miss this. Sammo Hung stars as the bad mob boss. His last fight scene with Donnie is amazing, it makes you wonder how someone so old and large can move so fast. Sammo’s right hand man is played by new comer, and former member of the Beijing Wushu Team, Wu Jing.
Donnie Yen vs Wu Jing
3. Shaolin Temple
You can’t call yourself a Jet Li without having seen Shaolin Temple. This was his very first movie fresh out of the Beijing Wushu Team. It introduced the world to the famous Shaolin Temple. In this movie, there’s a really cool montage of Jet training with various weapons.
Jet training montage.
2. Drunken Master 2 (Legend of Drunken Master)
What’s known in the US as the Legend of Drunken Master is actually Drunken Master 2. This movie has some of the best fight scenes you’ll ever see. One of the henchmen is Ho Sung Pak of Mortal Kombat fame (and my master’s kung fu brother).
Jackie vs Ken Lo
1. Fist of Legend
This is a re-envisioning of Bruce Lee’s Fist of Fury. It’s about the Japanese occupation of Shanghai during the Second Sino Japanese World War. Basically Jet’s kicks a lot of Japanese butt. This is the movie that sealed my fate as a martial artist. After watching this movie, there was no doubt in my mind I wanted to be just like this guy.
There’s not enough bad guys for Jet.
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Apr 29, 2008 @ 18:24:00
This is a great list! I just want to reiterate how amazing Tony Jaa is, and I’m glad he made the list twice. While Jackie Chan and Jet Li, and all of the others highlighted in this list, are impressive in many ways, Tony Jaa’s sheer power and control make him stand out as a force to be reckoned with in future martial arts films.
Aug 14, 2009 @ 20:52:55
Hey, does anyone remember these two movies? It’s killing me, old channel 5 karate movies late 70′s I guess, saturday afternoons in New York.
One was where they had this flying guiliteen (sp?), they would throw it on a rope, it would go around the victims head and they’d yank the rope and off with his head.
The other one and my favorite one from a kid was where 3-5 guys went off to different parts of the forest to train, one had a bo staff, one had this contraption where it was a few chain links together witha knife on the end that he’d whip around, then at the end, they all face off against individuals in a one on one fight against whoever they were pissed about, the bo staff I belive fought inthe water and swung the staff back and forth to make the water splash around, and I belive it was like 5 deadly venoms, but they would be called something like Earth, Wind, fire, something else and something else.
Can ANYONE HELP ME PLEASE, it’s been killing me.
May 18, 2010 @ 16:30:24
Not sure you will ever see the answer to this question, but the two movies you are thinking of are The Flying Guillotine with Chen Kuan-Tai and the other is 5 Shaolin Masters with David Chiang, Ti Lung, and Alexander Fu Sheng. Both are classic films and could easily be on any kung fu film list. And before folks talk about the lack of realism of old kung fu films as a reason to leave them off many lists….Chen Kuan Tai was the Asian light-heavyweight kickboxing champion in 1969. Many of these guys could fight!
Jan 27, 2011 @ 03:04:12
John, if nobody has answered already, the movie you’re looking for is Master of the Flying Guillotine.