48 - Zen Kwun Do Strikes in Paris (superkicker John Liu vs. Meng Yuan-Wen, Tino Wong, Dan Schwarz, and Roger Paschy in a collection of scenes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7WxPapoBNo
49 - Rob Roy (Liam Neeson vs. Tim Roth)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27M5KWI_q50
50 - Game of Death 2 (Tong Lung, a.k.a., Kim Tae-Chung vs. Casanova Wong)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlV9pnvN-ms
51 - Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth (Bruce Li a.k.a. Ho Chung-Tao vs. Chiu Chi-Ling)
52- Shaolin Plot (Final Fight)- Chen Sing, Casanova Wong, James Tien, Sammo Hung, … (Side note: Chen Sing was one of the few actors who threw a back thrust kick in choreography. His kicking ability, in my opinion, was greatly underestimated).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgpd5hJQn2c
53-Tiger in a Cage 2- One of the more important films for Donnie Yen Fans. It is this film that introduces Donnie’s use of the dramatic with his fight scenes. In doing so he introduces aspects to characters that dialogue alone does not justify. He introduces us to the warrior, the killer, the hero, the heartless, the sentimental and so on. And he achieves this through the silences and through the bearing of the characters: not at all out of line with Peking Opera. But Donnie achieves this famously and it is beautiful.
Donnie Yen vs Michael Woods
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZGZUL_gruM&feature=related
Donnie Yen vs John Salvatti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEe52nPeevk
Donnie Yen vs Robin Shou
A new name for this thread, Jimbo? I don’t know.
The name “Kung Fu Espresso” came from an idea that never took root (much like this thread). In NYC there was once a store on 43rd Street between 8th and 9th avenues called “The 43rd Chamber.” They sold kung fu movies almost exclusively. People went out of their way to provide them with stuff from their personal collections so they could sell to other collectors and patrons, as well as keep them in business. It had a good run until people started to get greedy. Well, there was always a group of people that was there almost all of the time, taking up space (it was a very small store). I suggested the idea of having a coffee shop that would show kung fu movies continuously. It would have premieres and retrospectives. This was before Starbucks hit the city. The guys did not have the heart to take the pearl I gave them and run with it. This thread is somewhat representative of what it could have been like had they listened.
mickey
Cool, mickey. I was not aware of the meaning this thread’s title has for you. That sounds to me like you had a very cool idea.
54 - Drunken Tai Chi (Donnie Yen vs. Wong Tao & Yuen Hsin-Yi)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW6uI6IH4L8&feature=related
Donnie’s first movie. Oddly enough, there’s seems to be a lot of people who think of Donnie as a “new-school” star, when in reality he’s a veteran old-schooler who’s been making movies for nearly 30 years (Drunken Tai Chi dates from approximately 1983).
tAIJI vs bAGUAzHANG.
#55:D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYdl9DX25Rc&feature=related
Welcome, Palmstriker.
You forgot to number your entry.
Jimbo,
You are most welcome to use my idea. Just break me off a chunk every now and then. Considering the spike in views since I posted that idea, somebody is really thinking about it.
mickey
56- Circle of Iron (David Carradine as Chang Sha)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EU2vOsvxTg&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
57- Kill The Golden Goose (Ed Parker sets up a hit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEiDQAPBp_0
58- James Lew in 18 Fingers of Death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A1QfhiMQ0c
59- Jet Li in Lethal Weapon 4
60- By the Sword (Eric Roberts, F. Murray Abraham) This is a decent movie that slipped under the radar. the story is centered around the sport of fencing.
A former colleague of mine, Heidi Runyan, was a fencing champion, and she was one of the extras in By The Sword, in the fencing academy scenes. Though I wasn’t able to identify her in any of those shots.
61 - Dragons Forever (Jackie, Sammo, Yuen Biao, Billy Chow, Yuen Wah, & the Jackie/Benny “The Jet” rematch)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khWcczhXgKQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYTvpcP2YJQ&feature=related
62 - The Odd Couple (Sammo Hung, Lau Kar-Wing, & Leung Kar-Yan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO0YEVCHRqQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaJfJVebGcU&feature=related
63 - My Young Auntie (Epic fights with Lau Kar-Leung, Hsiao Hou, Hui Ying-Hung, Wang Lung-Wei, Kwon Young-Moon, Tang Wei-Cheng, Yuen Tak, etc.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1yJsyIRY1M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6C-5rsTAXE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iTgyCmXlgc&feature=related
64 - Shaolin Martial Arts (training & final fight, w/Fu Sheng, Chi Kuan-Chun, Wang Lung-Wei, Leung Kar-Yan, Feng Ke-An and Chiang Tao)
65 - Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin, actually doubled by Bong Soo Han)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRnra0KRnDk
66 - Marlowe (James Garner vs. Bruce Lee…well, not technically a “fight,” but worth noting, nonetheless)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxfPxZhhkqc
67 - Yellow-Faced Tiger, a.k.a., Slaughter in San Francisco (Wong Tao vs Chuck Norris…not a great fight, but another curiosity piece; Wong Tao’s first movie, and Norris’s acting is more expressive here than in most of his own movies, even though the fight itself doesn’t ‘flow’ very well. This movie was one of those ‘guilty pleasures,’ so awful it’s fun to watch).
68- The Sentimental Swordsman. Ti Ling starring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n7QdtCWnYA
69- Return of the Sentimental Swordsman. Ti Lung and Fu Sheng starring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ0KCnOQ72A&feature=related
70- Evil Brain From Outer Space. Ken Itsui starring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiPNfCnxz2g&feature=related
71- That Man in Istanbul. Hort Bucholzz, Klaus Kinski starring. This was a really good spy movie from the 1960’s. Very Hard to find.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hNjiXO3FVc&feature=related
72-Hercules Unchained. Steve Reeves starring
73- Superargo vs Diabolicus (Trailer) Ken Woods starring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWYe0JkJdHk
74- Superargo and the Faceless Giants Ken Woods, Guy Madison starring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xof1ehdUaTg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mKqjC82IqU
Entrees 73 and 74 form the source template for Enter the Dragon. I am the FIRST person to mention this. The ideas stolen from this two flicks include:
73 a-The opening fight scene
b- The Braithwaite discussion
c- The underground fight scene and imprisonment
74 a- Underground Prisoners Escaping and Fighting their way out
b- The overhead body lift used by Bolo
c - Bruce Lee Fighting a villain with an edged weapon
d- Jumping into a tree
e- Use of Kidnapping
These two movies are worth getting just to see the similarities. I did not list them all. One can see similarities to ETD with just the trailer to Superargo and Diabolicus. Once you have you will understand why Clouse and Weintraub did not have a significant hit after ETD.
75 - Return of the Tiger (Paul Smith vs. Chang Yi)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz3mCatqhuw
Paul Smith is more remembered for his roles in Midnight Express, Popeye, Red Sonja, and Maverick (w/Mel Gibson & Jodie Foster). The main fight is actually between Smith and Ho Chung-Tao/Bruce Li, which comes right after this, but I couldn’t find any clips on youtube that show that complete fight. My guess is that Smith’s character was inspired by The Six Million Dollar Man and The Incredible Hulk TV series which were popular at the time, probably in Taiwan, too, where Return of the Tiger was filmed.
76 - The Loot (David Chiang & Hsu Shao-Chiang vs. Phillip Ko and Lily Li)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR8kLebvSf8
mickey, I can see the influences that #'s 73 and 74 had on ETD. Also, as has been mentioned many times, Dr. No is known to be a big influence as well.
But I really believe the reason Clouse/Weintraub never had another hit after ETD is because they kept trying to recapture the ‘magic’ of Bruce Lee, which was impossible. The reason that ETD was such a success was because of BL, not Clouse or Weintraub. After BL, it was the chemistry between the characters and dialogue. But replace BL with any other actor/performer, and it would have flopped. Supposedly, Clouse had directed an earlier film that impressed BL enough to want him as a director, but Clouse has shown himself to be very limited.
77 - Hell’s Wind Staff (end fight; Meng Hai, Meng Yuan-Wen & Kwon Young-Moon vs. Hwang Jang Lee)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbcb6q1Hf2M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z0wK3kA1Ac&feature=related
78 - The Young Master
(Hwang In-Shik unleashed)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PMhkUH8ARU
(Hwang In-Shik vs. Jackie Chan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa8Cg0wxMyc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apMrwJPVq3o
Number 78, as well as Dragon Lord and a few other films, shows that Hwang In-Shik was far better than he was allowed to show in Way of the Dragon, where he was squashed by Chuck Norris and then by Bruce Lee. If BL’s choreography had allowed Hwang to really show off his stuff, Hwang and BL could have potentially created one of the greatest fight scenes; almost certainly the best of BL’s fight scenes.
Mad Skills here: Beijing Opera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB-p3Fi_6i4
San Cha Kou
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NH8w3kGaoc&feature=related
Beijing Opera: A Monkey King
80- Blade: Opening Scene, Wesley Snipes starring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0mx0dBXkw4
81- This is the fighting movie that could have been. It is the Pepsi commercial with Beyonce, Pink and Britney Spears. Beyonce has the same weapons that the late Woody Strode had in Spartacus, a very beautiful homage to a great person and a great film:
81- For a Few Dollars More, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Clief, Gian Maria Volonte:
Final Duel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-rFT-uHm4w&playnext=1&list=PL0AB5994FEFA77974
Final Duel with Ensemble Concert:
82 - Lone Wolf & Cub (various scenes w/ Tomisaburo Wakayama)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_LmrcD938s
83 - Heroes Two (Fu Sheng, Chen Kuan-Tai, Lau Kar-Wing, Lee Hoi- San, Zhu Mu, etc.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2TkNcz0oOk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18JCHUhBRdg&feature=related
84 - Hapkido (demo scene, w/ Hwang In-Shik, Angela Mao, Sammo Hung, Ji Han-Jae, and Carter Wong)
85 - Shaolin Temple (1982; Jet Li’s four-season training sequence, filmed at Shaw Brothers Studios)
86 - When Tae Kwon Do Strikes (Jhoon Rhee and Angela Mao vs. Hwang In-Shik)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQqE24wKIMg
When TKD Strikes was the only movie appearance of Jhoon Rhee, a well-known TKD pioneer in the U.S., who was often referred to as “The Father of TKD in America.”
87 - The Association (Byong Yu vs. Hwang In-Shik)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4aZx4OcszI&feature=related
Byong Yu was a famous Tang Soo Do (or TKD?) teacher and tournament competitor in the U.S. in the 1970s; he competed against many well-known U.S. fighters of the time, like Joe Lewis, etc. He had many well-known students, including Donnie Williams and Jennifer Garner. This was also Byong Yu’s only movie.
88 - Dragon Lord (Jackie Chan and Huo Hsing vs. Hwang In-Shik)