What are the top 10 Kung Fu movies?

[Chief Fox]

I have several kung fu movies. I've tried to rent as many as possible and then buy the ones I like. Here's what I have in no particular order.

Iron Monkey
Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin
5 Deadly Venoms
Decendent of Wing Chun
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Rumble in the Bronx
Spiritual Kung Fu
Fists of Fury
Return of the Dragon
Enter the Dragon
HERO
Mortal Combat

What do you think? What are some of your favorites and why?

[SevenStar]

I would remove mortal combat and add "master of flying guillotine". I'd take off:

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Rumble in the Bronx
Spiritual Kung Fu

also.

When I can think of ten, I'll post them.

[David Jamieson]

off to the media forum with you! :D

cheers

[Chief Fox]

Yeah, sorry about that. didn't see the media forum until after I made the post. You didn't put any movies in.

[Phil Redmond]

Chief Fox, did you mean the original, (and best) Iron Monkey with Chan Kwan Tai or the newer Donnie Yuen version? Also add Mad Monkey Kung Fu.
I haven't seen it yet but I'm hearing that the Thai movie Ong Bak is better than any martial arts movie made to date.

[Chief Fox]

No, I haven't seen the original Iron Monkey. I'll have to check it out. Any others?

[Phil Redmond]

MUSA, it's Korean.
Chan Kwan Tai was the 1969? SE Asia full contact champion and he really studied Monkey style before he got into movies.

[n0rmann]

No particular order

Iron Monkey (Donnie Yen)
Once Upon a Time in China
Twin Warriors
Drunken Master
Fists of Fury
Five Deadly Venoms
Dirty Ho
Heroic Trio
Young Master
Project A

[SanSoo Student]

Prodigal Son should be up there to...

[Sho]

(In alphabetical order)

Choy Lay Fut
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Drunken Master
Enter the Dragon
Fong Sai Yuk
Once Upon a Time in China
Tai Chi Master
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

[norther practitioner]

Invincible Armor
Born Invincible
Shaolin V. Wutang
Hero
Any of the Venoms movies together
36 Chambers (any of the series or cuts)
Snake in the Eagles Shadow
Fong Sai Yuk
Shaolin Temple
Shaolin V. Lama


I could go on I guess..

I own a bunch (around 175 now) started watching my favs. again

Other must sees..

Any of the Jet Li movies pre US stuff..
Any pre 86 Jackie Chan
Just about any Gordon Liu flick
Tony Leung's stuff is pretty good too.

[MasterKiller]

Shaolin Temple
Enter the 36th Chamber (AKA Shaolin MasterKiller)
Return to the 36th Chamber (AKA Return of the MasterKiller)
Disciples of the 36th Chamber
Iron Monkey (Donnie Yen version)
Secrets of Chinese Chess Boxing
Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon
Hero (C'mon, now. That movie was awesome).
Snake in Eagles Shadow
The 5 Deadly Venoms

Master of Flying Guillotine gets honorable mention. :D

[mortal]

What about Fist of legend!

[KungFuFighting]

Shaolin temple
hero
Cradle to the grave (the last scene primarily with jet li and mark decascos)
Any old Jackie Chan movie.....except city hunter
definately Snake in eagles shadow
master with cracked fingers
the legend of red dragon

[Ikken Hisatsu]

general consensus that jet lis movies have turned to ****e now he is hollywodised, but I do think that cradle 2 the grave and that one where he is in france is pretty ultimate. bloodsport at LEAST deserves an honourable mention. also fist of legend is one of the best.

[norther practitioner]

the legend of red dragon

I believe that is also called new legends of Shaolin

It has Jet and his boy, meet up with some kids from shaolin with a map on there backs

The villian looks like Freddy Kruger.

[redtornado]

Crouching tiger hidden dragon, Bruce lee's movies, and america Ninja


There are alot more so these are the ones
right now on my mind......

[Shaolinlueb]

oh man where do i start....

not in any order

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Iron Monkey (donnie yen)
5 deadly venoms
return of the 5 deadly venoms
fists of legend (jet li)
once upon a time in china
wing chung
rumble in the bronx
drunken master
shaolin north and south

agh some others worth mentioning are
master of the flying gillotine
hereos two
shaolin vs wutang 2
invincible pole fighter
shaolin master killer
shaolin temple
magnificent butcher
kid with the golden arm
shaolin vs lama
www.automotivespecs.com/dvdlist.doc and basically somemmore on my list/

[Phil Redmond]

Look for Ong Bak on ebay. It's in Thai with English subs. It's got some of the best fight scencs ever, PERIOD. I just watched it.
Sing Lung (Jackie Chan) and Jet Li have nothing on the star of this film.

[KWUsCRD]

Originally posted by mortal
What about Fist of legend!

I second that.

[Vash]

In no particular order . . .

Hell's Windstaff
Buddha Palm
Anything from the Shaw Brothers
Shaolin vs Wutang 2
Once Upon a Time in China 2

[CaptinPickAxe]

Drunken Master (the original)
Snake in the Eagles Shadow
Hero
Once upon a time in China (only the blind-folded sword fight scene)
Dragons Forever (the lucky stars are the shiz)
Project A
Spirtiual Kung Fu (Lo Weh Studios shafted jackie on that one, but the 5 animal fist is nice)
Half Loaf of Kung Fu
Master of the Flying Guilliotein and the One Armed Boxer
Kill Bill

[norther practitioner]

Some of you need to go see some more kung fu flicks.

[wall]

10 in no particular order:

Fist of Legend
36th Chamber of Shaolin
Drunken Master II
Once Upon a Time in China
Drive
Hero
Ong Bak
Shaolin Temple
The Master
Police Story II

Add to these all old Jackie stuff, despite the cheesy stories the action is always great, the Matrix trilogy for sheer techno-CMA cool, Crouching Tiger for mainstream romance-CMA, a lot of old Shaw Bros titles, etc etc etc.

W

[jethro]

fist of legend
legend of a fighter
return to the 36th chamber
shaolin vs lama
iron monkey
drunken master
dance of the drunken mantis
secret rivals
young master
chinese connection


I just can't stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
11.Once upon a time in china
shaolin strikes back-joseph kuo-chen shan
five fingers of death
7 GRANDMASTERS-sorry, this is a top ten
ong-bak
hellz windstaff
snake in the eagles shadow-for the 6 kick in one jump in the final fight and the scene when hwang shows jackie he is the master, and hwang looks just plain scary in this movie
Hero
Mad Monkey KUNG FU FU HA HA HA HA OOOHH
crippled avengers
I'm sorry I have to stop
:eek: :eek:

[Chief Fox]

Nice job brining back this old thread. :)

Here's few recent ones for me.

Master of the flying guilotine
Twin Dragons
Execusioner from Shaolin

[jethro]

I absolutely had to bring this one back, a couple more are:
Ninja in the dragons den
The one with the shrimpy but awesome fong-sai yuk, and gordon lui as his instuctor, it might be disciples of 36th chamber
Also the one where gordon has to use the soft acupuncture style on lo lieh
AND
Hitman in the Hand of Buddha
And I forgot Enter the Dragon OK, but how do you not have a fight between Bruce and Bolo?
AND
Taoism Drunkard

[jethro]

Some of you need to go see some more kung fu flicks.
Show your list then, I'm sittin here trying to think of em without IMBD, kungfucinema, OR ANYTHING, SO BRING IT ON.;)
Oh yeah I saw the nothern pratiionerrr had the invincible armour, also
Prodigal Son
Dreadnaught
Iron fisted monk
Sorry Sammo and Mr. Biao, and Sir Frankie Chan.

[Phil Redmond]

Tom Yum Goong
Fighter in the Wind (the life of Oyama)
Legendary Weapons of China
Heros of the East aka Shaolin Challenges Ninja
Iron Monkey the original with Chan Kwan Tai
Mad Monkey Kung Fu . . . . . .

[jethro]

The Sword
The Sword Stained with Royal Blood-old one
InframaN
Anything with CHEN SHAN(shaolin vs. Lama), or HWANG JANG LEE(Drunken Master)
Killer Clans