Whats your favorite Martial Arts movies ?

[dcsma]

Whats everyone's top five favorite martial arts movies?

Here are mine in no particular order

Only the Strong
Best of the Best 1
Mortal Kombat 1
All 5 of the Karate Kid movies
Ninja Assassins
Enter the Dragon

Ok so I mentioned six here lol

 

[Master Dan]

I had to pay $52 dollars for a VHS copy some are being sold for as high as $2,500 it is called The Challenge with Scott Glen about two samari brothers fighting over possesion of two swords one brother is modern and criminal and the other moral and traditional and Scott Glen is just great. It has great humor and all the clasic good guy bad guy stuff but also a look into traditional training in Japan beautiful to watch for its time I recomend it to anyone

 

[Black Belt Jedi]

I have so many favourite Martial Arts movies that I don't have a top 5.

Enter the Dragon, The Chinese Connection, Fists of Fury, Mortal Kombat, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Kingdom of Heaven, The Last Samurai, 10,000BC, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

 

[dfiumano624]

Way Of The Dragon
Enter The Dragon
Game of Death
Above The Law
Marked For Death
Glimmer Man
The Perfect Weapon
Blood Sport
Kickboxer
A Force Of One
An Eye For An Eye
Good Guys Wear Black
Billy Jack

 

[ATC]

1. Enter the Dragon
2. IP Man
3. Return of the Dragon (Way of the Dragon)
4. Billy Jack
5. Five Fingers of Death (an oldie but goodie - chop seuy Kung-fu theater style)

 

[Instructor]

1. Enter the Dragon
2. Ip Man
3. Ip Man 2
4. Dragon the Bruce Lee Story
5. The Hunted (starring Christopher Lambert)
6. The Best of the Best
7. My Lucky Stars (favorite Jackie Chan movie)
8. War of the Arrows
9. Game of Death
10. Marked for Death

 

[Touch Of Death]

Kill Or Be Killed
Fear City
Nine and 1/2 Ninjas

 

[lklawson]

There are a bunch of good ones.

Kingdom of the Sun
Rob Roy

If the characters in The Duelists weren't so thoroughly detestable (both the antagonist and the protagonist), I would have enjoyed the movie.

Bunch of them like that. Sadly, the martial arts in Braveheart were abysmal. It was a fun movie, but NOTHING was right about it.

For wirework martial arts movies, I rather enjoy the Star Wars flicks.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

 

[Gentle Fist]

The Perfect Weapon

 

[Balrog]

A History Of Violence.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Forbidden Kingdom
The Karate Kid (original)

 

[Gemini]

Fearless
Ong-Bak
Forbidden Kingdon
Seven Samaurai
Enter the Dragon (tie)
House of Flying Daggers (tie)

Okay..not really a tie but I like all six.

 

[Zero]

- Ong Bak
- Enter the Dragon
- Blood Sport
- Lone Wolf & Cub (all five of the set of movies) - actually, this I recommend to anyone (don't get the spliced together English dubed movie called Samurai Assassin or something like that where all five are jamed into one!!! - go for the original Japanese individual movies) this is on the basis you can stomach subtitles...
- Zato-Ichi - the recent remake (I also highly recommend the originals) These movies, as with Lone Wolf, are done with style.

I have just ordered the first Billy Jack movie as noted by a few above, never ever even heard of this...

 

[kitkatninja]

Too many to name just 5...

However I am a bit partial to the early works of Jackie Chan and Jet Li (and their modern stuff too).
Van Damn's early stuff (from the 80's and 90's).
The Matrix
The Raid (martial arts with guns, practically no dialogue )
Karate Kid and the remake
Stephen Chow's movies (Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer, etc)
Chocolate
District 13

Plus more, like I said, I can't narrow it down

 

[sfs982000]

I had to pay $52 dollars for a VHS copy some are being sold for as high as $2,500 it is called The Challenge with Scott Glen about two samari brothers fighting over possesion of two swords one brother is modern and criminal and the other moral and traditional and Scott Glen is just great. It has great humor and all the clasic good guy bad guy stuff but also a look into traditional training in Japan beautiful to watch for its time I recomend it to anyone

Agreed "The Challenge" is a great movie in my opinion. I wish they would release it on DVD.

 

[sfs982000]

Thre are alot to choose from but here goes:

Enter the Dragon
Return of the Dragon
The 5 Deadly Venoms
The Karate Kid (original)
The Perfect Weapon
Out for Justice
The Raid:Redemption
The Best of the Best
Kiss of the Dragon
Ip Man 1 & 2

 

[jasonbrinn]

1. The Last Dragon
2. The Karate Kid (1,2,3, and 5)
3. Rapid Fire
4. Trained to Fight
5. Chinese Connection

 

[RobinTKD]

Black Belt
Seven Samurai (does that count?)
Ip Man
Best of the Best 1
Ong Bak

 

[Cirdan]

Oh there are so many...

Enter the Dragon
Hero
Crouching Tiger hidden Dragon
The Matrix and Matrix Reloaded
Blade 1 and 2 (superhero movies but plenty of MA to enjoy)
Equilibrium
Seven Samurai
Romeo must die
The Karate Kid (the original, the rest are meh imo)

 

[kgoffin]

You guys have mentioned so many great flicks. For me, these are some of my favorites:

The Protector
Perfect Weapon
Equilibrium
Seven Samurai
Enter the dragon
Hero
Billy Jack
The Bodyguard is a thai action movie with a bit of martial arts and humor that I really enjoyed.
I still want to see The Raid Redemption, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

 

[Black/Red Block]

I agree with all the films mentioned here, I'm supprised no one has mentioned

"Fighter in the Wind"

"The Streetfighter" series with Sonny Chiba

"Oyama Trilogy" with Sonny Chiba

AND

"Kuro Obi"

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