Another day in the life of, eh retro apes? Tell us what some of your favorite martial arts flicks are, from the 60's to around the early 90's, before fight scenes became to heavily reliant on wires and computers. I've got a few. Earliest one, well early in the year it was made, as i hadn't even been born yet, was Billy Jack. Excellent fight scenes, though the film was a bit counter-culture preachy to me. Tom Laughlin was/is an excellent exponent of hapkido, and his instuctor, Bong Soo Han, was his stunt double for the fights.
Another was Perfect Weapon, with Jeff Speakman. The acting wasnt the greatest, but the fight scenes where well done. Speakman is an 8th degree black belt in Ed Parker's kempo karate and many of the fights are done using kempo techniques. I also liked most of Steven Seagal's early stuff, like Above the Law, Marked For death and Under Siege. Van Damm's early stuff was good, Bloodsport and Kickboxer. Van Damm's stuff got old fast, though. Bloodsport was supposedly about a real life westerner trained in ninjutsu, Frank Dux, though most of his claims have been questioned and disproved. Dux managed to convince an editor over at Black Belt Magazine to print his stuff and it got turned into a movie. And believe it or not, when i was a kid, i actually liked the american ninja movies.

All of Bruce Lee's Movies are a given.

No Retreat No Surrender, Bloodsport, Rapid Fire, Karate Kid, 5 Deadly Venoms, Big Trouble in Little China, Showdown in Little Tokyo

I love cheesy martial arts flicks. My dad was a martial arts instructor so he had me watchin them all of the time.

For more recent times.. Tony Jaa has some neat ones too

Guys, don't forget the cheesiest, yet most awesom martial arts film of the 80's



Bruce Leroy will mop the floor with anybody's ass. The guy can catch a bullet with his teeth for crying out loud. Weird Al Yankovic is the only other person to perform such a feat.

Who's the masta?! Sho'Nuff!!!

Classic.

Well, i like Kickboxer, The karate kid and The 3 ninjas series.

All the Shaw Brothers shit.

What about Hot Potato?
That's a good Kung Fu movie.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0074646/

I got all excited because I thought it said that the lead was played by Jill Kelly. Then I noticed that it was "Jim Kelly"...I have no idea who Jim Kelly is.

Whhaaaaaaat?
Jim Kelly is Black Belt Jones. I'm pretty sure he was in Enter the Dragon, too.
I would however, like to see Jill Kelly in a kung fu movie. With Jenna Jameson.

The DOA movie should have just had porn stars, It's not like anyone would have watched that movie for the martial arts or the acting anyway.

Yes Jim Kelly was in Enter the Dragon. My favorites I should are

1. Enter the Dragon
2. The Chinese Connection
3. The Shalion Temple
4.The five dealy venoms
5. Fist of Fury
6. The Last Dragon
7. Iron Monkey
8.Return of the Dragon
9. No Retreat No Surrender
9.Bloodsport
10. The Karate Kid

Enter the Ninja, if the first 10 minutes of the movie don't convince you that an ex -marine can join a secret school that doesn't usually take outsiders to be ninjas, then nothing will.

Revenge of the ninja, 5 deadly venoms , Fearless and enter the dragon..