“Hero”, with Jet Li. Donnie Yuen and Li have a great sword play scene near the begginning.
“Musa”, a Korean epic film.
“Equilibrium” A Sci-Fi flick with “chi gun”. Must see
“Bichunmoo” Korean
Ernie mentioned a Thai flick that he said was good. Hopefully he’ll post the name.
Riki-oh
Buchimoo is awesome, I really recomend that one.
Master of the Flying Guillotine
Storm Riders (if you like the dragon ball z type kung fu movies)
Shaolin Soccer - I thought it was hilarious.
Any Kurosawa film - Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Ran, Samurai Trilogy, Throne of Blood - all good classics.
Zatoichi: The blind Swordsman - great series of movies.
I guess I could go on and on and on about this, but I will refrain myself here.
One last thing I forgot, the movie Wing Chun starring Michelle Yoeh.
Gangsterfist, You’d love Equilibrium if you’re in to Sci-Fi. It’s Matrix-like and there are some great gunfight scenes including a chi gun fight at the end. I think EQ is going to become a cult classic. Christian Bale is the star.
In terms of CMA
Jet li:
Tai chi master
Fist of legend
Jackie Chan:
Wheels on meals
Drunken master 2
Who am I
Armour of God 1 and 2
Police story 1 and 2
Also
Iron monkey
Prodigal son (wing chun)
Warriors 2 (wing chun)
In terms of boxing
Raging Bull beats Rocky every time.
In terms of gun play
The killer
Hard boiled 1 and 2
And finally
Any film by ‘Beat’ takeshi
especially
Hana Bi
Sonatine
Violent cop
Brother
Cool, thanks Phil. I have some friends who manage a video store not too far from where I live. I will call to see if they have it, and if they don’t they will probably order it for me.
Tai Chi II is really good too. That guy (I am horrible with chinese actor names) who plays the main character does an awesome job.
I saw this really awesome japanese action flick a few years back and I cannot remember the name. Its about 4 business men who cross paths with some x gangster (or perhaps gangster) guys. It turns out to be a thriller action movie. It starts off in a bar and the x gangster guys beat the crap out of one of the business men. Later on they see one of the gangster guys and get revenge, but they accidently kill him. This turns into a chain of events where they all try to kill each other. I can’t remember what its called but it was awesome. Maybe someone can help me out here? The end action scene was in a parking garage…anyone know what movie this is. Sorry I am so bad with the details but I rented once when I was in denver and never saw it again. That was like 3 or 4 years ago.
EQ trailer
Here’s a link to the Equilibrium trailer
http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/equilibrium.html
Nick Forrer,
The Donnie Yuen Iron Monkey is OK, but I personally prefer the original Iron Monkey with the “real” fighter Chan Kwan Tai.
Mad Monkey Kung Fu is one I forgot.
Hi Phil
I just like the bit where he chops noodles into the wok from 6 feet away:p
kinda like the bit in prodigal son where sammo demonstrates his calligraphy(?) skills.
regards
the movie is called ong bak it’s off the hook as far as thai fighting goes .
as far as movies go gentleman i got over 500 old school shaw brother type flicks , some dude let me have a access to his server and he was a serious collecter , so i figured fo free why not ,
so if you have any questions about a movie just let me know, i probably got it ,
modern movies to get all that stuff for free , just to give an example , last samuri got it , lord of the rings 3 got it , and so on
here is the site to get ong back , but you need to use a program like emule to download it , there are tons of martial movies hear just go to the main page http://www.acfmovies.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=14798
Gangsterfist- I dont think that the Samurai Trilogy was a Kurosawa film though Mifune played Musashi.
In boxing- Anthony Quinn in Requiem for a Heavyweight was superb. Good acting- a few fights.
There is Kirk Douglas in the oldie- Champion
Errol Flynn in Gentleman Jim
The original Billy Jack movie was action packed(Hapkido)
Here and there in the multi segmented MAHABHARATA series on Indian TV—there are some good fight scenes— wrestling and fighting with clubs, archery, some pitched battles.
The series is often available for rental in Indian grocery
or video stores. India is the largest producer of movies in the world but generally when they do have fight scenes here and there- its very poor choreography. But some of the dance choeography is good.
some of my favs will always be:
-any of the old Sammo movies with a bunch of same guys in a comedy action. Always great fights at the end.
-Jackie’s Armour of God 1 & 2
-Dragon From Russia based on the Crying Freeman comic
-The older Crying Freeman movie. Forget the name.
-Once Upon a Time in China 1 & 2
-Swordsman 1 & 2
-Fong Siu Yuk 2 (forget how 1 was like)
-Prodigal Son
-Hero
-Iron Monkey
Yuanfen is right. Samurai Trilogy was not by Kurosawa. I just saw all three within the last month, and I am sorry to say that I can’t recall the director (or directors).
Sword of Doom is one of my favorites. If you haven’t seen it, I think it’s one of the best Samurai films of all time. Beautiful cinematography along with great actors and a good story. Mifune has a good cameo scene in it too.
and let’s nor forget Van Damme and Steven Seagal. Kickboxer and Under Seige!
oh and Kill Bill and The Last Samurai. The last Samurai made kill bill look like yesterday’s forgotten B-movie…
Under siege has a wicked knife fighting scene between Tommy Lee Jones and Seagal that is definitely an FMA style. I think it looks pretty much like Pekiti-Tirsia Arnis. Anone else with FMA knowledge know what style it is?
My favorite Jackie Chan movie was one of his earlier ones, before he got into comedy. “Snake and Crane Arts of the Shaolin” I saw it in Taiwan when it was first released in 1978 - Mandarin soundtrack, English/Chinese subtitles.
He had a couple opening sets that were the best I’ve seen before, since and after for that - Spear, Sword and Tonfa, Double Swords, and a three man set.
He had another one prior to that that I also saw over there - “Shaolin Wooden Men” - also a great flick, although I don’t remember much about it.
Geez, now you guys got me wanting to go out and rent it again (if I can find it).
In Jackie’s “Who Am I?” he fights on the rooftop with two guys, one asian and one white. The asian guy didn’t impress me at all (and in one scene a body double was sooooo obvious it was ridiculous) but the white guy did. I loved his footwork. Anybody know who that was?
Gorgeous’ white guy had nice footwork too but I don’t like the way they sped things up and used wires. Yet I liked that more than the normal Jackie “comedy” fights b/c it’s more serious. I never did like Jackie’s style in movies as much as I liked Sammo’s.
One of the coolest Sammo sequences was in this movie where he plays a undercover cop pretending to be gay. He fights a few guys on the street by a parked car and that sequence was smooth as heck. In Skinny Tiger Fat Dragon he does a very nice Bruce Lee vs Chuck Norris impersonation in his fight and a nice nunchuk sequence too. I love Sammo
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The guy you mention is dutch. I have seen him perform kata at a tournament. The name escapes me at the moment. You can see him in the Jackie Chan doc. ‘my stunts’. There are parts in the fight scene where they use a double because he kept using ‘real’ kicks rather then the kind of ‘film’ kicks they wanted.
Sammo Hung does some WC in the last fight scene of "Gambling Ghost. And I’ll have to agree with Jackie Chan’s,
"8 Steps of The Snake and Crane (aka) Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin. The fist fight scene near the water edge was one of the best I’ve seen him do.
“Ong Bak”, the Thai movie discussed earlier is really excellent.
Its as good as the Korean “Musa”, but in a totally different way.
Still great filmatography, the juxtaposition between the westernized decadence of Bangkok and the abject poverty of the countryside is not rammed in your face, but is still obvious.
And lest you think I’m getting too arty, those flying knees, elbows and headbutts! Brutal. A good half of it is fighting. And as a long term viewer of HK movies, the hero does acrobatic stuff without wires that blew me away. Thought I had seen everything.
Try it. You might like it. If you feel like being a pirate, the acfmovies site posted by ernie earlier has it.
I just picked up some new kung fu dvds today.
I got a sammo movie called, moon warriors - its pretty sweet.
and I got Tsui hark’s - Vampire Hunters which is cool. It reminded me of evil dead on how the vampires looked.