What was the last classic martial-arts film you watched?

[Tex Killer]

master with cracked fingers. US dub was 1st JC movie I saw and one of first martial art films ever and still rate it very high. I was aware this had different ending and while owning excellent German release for some years just today viewed that first time.

I prefer finale in dub. Mah jong scene was funnier than I recalled, Dean Shek while usually is dire is perfect fit for that kinda character in JC movies. +Dance of drunk mantis

 

Edited March 6, 2017 by Tex Killer

[Tex Killer]

warriors two. Was about as good as I remembered...Boss of small town wants to get rid of certain people. There is master&mother to be avenged etc, pretty standard script..

Comedy is not bad, have seen far more irrating and training scenes while nothing flashy there are still quite enjoyable. Action is great, with cast including superb kicker Ca Sa Fa, samo, leung kar yan & fung hak on anything less would be disappointing.

However as director samo did one bad flaw. End fights are great and noncomedic otherwise except one tiny moment samo is beating already dead fighter but unfortunately he decided to bring Deak Shek there with his grins and stupid kung fu tactics. Without shek in the end fight movie would have left even better overall impression.

 

Edited March 10, 2017 by Tex Killer

[Tex Killer]

magnificent chivalry. Jimmy wang yu is Bamboo Sword, agent sent to infiltrate black dragon gang and recover stolen gold...At the gangs headquarters he learns about his past and difficult task is waiting for him...

Even as inferior to movies JWY made at Shaws not in too distant past before this, still enjoyable tale with no dragging. Action could be better but it´s 1971 movie and does it`s purpose. 

Vengeance video DVD is so-so quality and maybe not fully wide or some sloppy camera work(at few scenes sides look incomplete), but at least it`s mandarin audio with english subs.

Edited March 11, 2017 by Tex Killer

[NoKUNGFUforYU]

Watching Angela Mao and Carter Wong in the Tournament before bed. I have a bunch of movies on hard drive, but I saved them under funky names, like Angela Mao 3, etc. So.... I was actually going to get around to Stoner, after all these years (like started watching in 73'). But still......

Anyway, seen this one before, it's a fantastic print on Shout DVD Double header. I wonder if this (the Tournament) was ever released to the grindhouses back in the day? Sure it was in Chinatown and I probably missed it. Would have been great in a theater. Also, I have to give the movie credit. Even though Kung Fu triumphs in the end, it is only after they adopt, not refute Thai Boxing. Also, when the young fellow goes to fight his teacher warns him "They'll kill you! They are professionals! They fight for a living!" Believe me, back in the day, a lot of martial artists would watch Thai boxing and think they could do their little point fighting scrapping and hang with those guys. No one did with the Thais, not even Benny the Jet. Simply too hardcore compared to what was passing for martial arts at the time. Now a days, with Sanda and MMA it is different, but back then, they were to be feared. At least this movie doesn't have them easily defeated by the iron fist of David Chiang, LOL!

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[lungfei]

 proper barrelroll shapes.  

watched this one too with choro done by shapes master chan siu pang.

 

 

 

 

[lungfei]

chang yi double bill.

chang yi goes all ip man in this one.

 

Edited May 8, 2017 by lungfei

[lungfei]

double bill of wilson tong classics.

 

[DragonClaws]

21 minutes ago, lungfei said:

double bill of wilson tong classics.

Snake Deadly Act features one of the late Fung Hak On's finest performances, and the final fights great. Never sat down and watched The Young Avenger, Wilson Tong is a great performer but I've gone out of my way to seek his movies out.

[Tex Killer]

On ‎10‎.‎5‎.‎2017 at 9:21 PM, DragonClaws said:

Snake Deadly Act features one of the late Fung Hak On's finest performances, and the final fights great. Never sat down and watched The Young Avenger, Wilson Tong is a great performer but I've gone out of my way to seek his movies out.

SDA is great, have it in eastern heroes doublebill with...uhm don`t remember what other title was there. Great cast with Bolo and Angela Mao..

Got confused for a second when watched "young avenger" clip as there is Shaw movie with same name. Haven`t seen linked one either but as it stars wong yu not so interested to see full flick...

[bobostilllives]

SWORD OF JUSTICE (1980)------very good movie,reminded me of a shaw bros movie style. it was english dubbed with most of the classic voice crew---watched it on my big tv from youtube.  movie was in only watchable condition, far from being remastered.  thanks.

[DragonClaws]

Re-watch this classic recently, for @KenHashibe mutual reviews thread. Anyone interested in my Kung Fu themed ramblings, can clickon the link below, thanks.

[DragonClaws]

Re-visited this old school Hong Kong actioner this week, anyone interested can read my ramblings in May Mutual Reviews thread.

Just click on the link below, thanks.

[Omni Dragon]

@DragonClaws, I'm sorry but I'm also the victim, no wait!.. @DragonClaws, I also watched The Victim recently.

It's been a few months since I've seen a MA movie (I really have to be in the mood these days, sadly) but seeing the threads for  'POLL: Best Martial Arts Movies by Year' I thought I'd have a look a some clips from the movies but and ended up watching the whole of The Victim I don't know maybe, it was the music, the dub (not sure why but the voices seemed extra classic in this one) the larger than life characters and the obvious slick shapes.

[DragonClaws]

1 hour ago, Silver and Gold Dragon said:

I thought I'd have a look a some clips from the movies but and ended up watching the whole of The Victim I don't know maybe, it was the music, the dub (not sure why but the voices seemed extra classic in this one) the larger than life characters and the obvious slick shapes.

Growing up with the old dubs I have a soft spot for them, most are just plain awful/grating. Yet for some reason the old English dub for The Victim just seemed to work for me too. Same with the old Young Master dub, loved getting the extended version on DVD, but it featured a new english track thats inferior in my opinion.

[ThunderScore]

Personally, I find the majority of Ocean Shores dubs grating and annoying - and I prefer dubs to subs.

[DragonClaws]

20 minutes ago, ThunderScore said:

Personally, I find the majority of Ocean Shores dubs grating and annoying - and I prefer dubs to subs.

The Ocean Shores dubs Ive heard, were the ones for the early Jacie Chan movies he made with Lo Wei. They all appeared to be done by the same dubbing team, except for Fearless Hyena. Somebody released bootleg copies of the Ocean Shores releases in the U.K, you can imagine what the picture quality was like. The up-side was Magnificent Bodyguards, Half a Loaf Of Kung Fu, Shaolin Wooden Men and New Fist Of Fury were Uncut, unlike previous U.K VHS releases.

[Tex Killer]

drunken master. Not one of my fav JC movies partly because I hate his character in 1st half of film. There is still nice scenes at marketplace with aunt and tino wong.Proper opening too. Jackie becomes more bearable after his first encounter with hwang jang lee. Training scenes are great and so is fighting, I specially dig moment when HWL uses his devils hand. Simon Yuen is again excellent, decent flick but I prefer "sequel" dance of drunk mantis over this.

Solid release by Eureka, BR was definitely worth buying as did not have any version of this some time ago. Hopefully they deliver dragon fist or snake in the eagles shadow one day.

 

[DrNgor]

The Himalayan (1976)

 

 

Edited February 3, 2022 by DrNgor

[Tex Killer]

Thousand mile escort. There is evil prime minister around, letter which poses theat to him and wandering hero with orphan. Externally at moments couple looks like copy of Babycart but there is no hidden weapons in cart and kid does not attend into killings..Lo Lieh is right hand man of PM who is on a mission to get letter...

Very average, fights are nothing to praise about and one of weaker performances of Lo Lieh. Best moment of movie is in quite beginning@spear display where they are tossed into air. Reminds of masked avengers end, though this was done lot earlier...

Maybe movie would have made better impact in proper form but dutch dvd is very poor presentation. Dubbed, fullscreen and vhs quality.

Chui Chang Wang is great director, responsible for "red lotus" trilogy, silver fox and 12 deadly coins among others for shaw brothers + involved in excellent Zatoichi meets onearmed swordsman but with mediocre script, seems not much money here and mostly so-so actors could not make wonders.

However movie has one good thing, gorgeous Michelle Mai Suet is around. She is great in ambitious kung fu girl and does solid job here too.

Edited June 19, 2017 by Tex Killer

[DragonClaws]

Re-watched this old school American actioner, you can check out my thoughts by clicking on the link below, thank you.

[saltysam]

Tough Guy (aka Kung Fu The Headcrusher)  A early 70's Chen Sing basher co-starring Henry yu Yung, Mars,Hark-On Fung ? yes please. Chen plays an undercover cop who infiltrates a gang of villanious smugglers. great stuff- the 3 main baddies from Fists Of The Double K are back as yep, the 3 main baddies,the climax seems to have been filmed in the same location as Double K.

[DragonClaws]

32 minutes ago, saltysam said:

Tough Guy (aka Kung Fu The Headcrusher)  A early 70's Chen Sing basher co-starring Henry yu Yung, Mars,Hark-On Fung ? yes please. Chen plays an undercover cop who infiltrates a gang of villanious smugglers. great stuff- the 3 main baddies from Fists Of The Double K are back as yep, the 3 main baddies,the climax seems to have been filmed in the same location as Double K.

One of my favorite Chan Sing movies, not sure if my review is still on the forum?, might have to re-post it.

Love the Cheung Nik double nunchaku sequence, and the epic brawl in the muddy quarry at the end.

[NoKUNGFUforYU]

The Living Sword 1969 Cathay

Paul Chang Chung saunters around, opening a can of whip ass where he needs to, not as action packed as Forbidden Killing or Jade Dragon, but worthy of one of my off the cuff sub jobs that will probably be stolen by FLK at some point. Anyway, worth a watch if you can find a good copy with subs. More later.

 

[Tex Killer]

Revisit to choi lee fut kung fu made certain it goes to recycle...Very simple plot, 2 mings escape ching commander. Hunt is on although that part is forgotten for most of time in flick. Training scenes are quite dull, cliff lok catching fish with bare hands, lifting bricks to baskets and some kung fu forms...Director probably had very little money with this, lot of movie happens in outdoors(that is not actually bad thing, there is some nice locations) and most of costumes look like old rags and had feel some scenes are there just to make something for running time..

Good things in movie are end fight with excellent kao fei and sharon yeung has few good scenes.

Quite poor print rarescope had but at least it`s proper widescreen and original audio with english subs. Not very bad movie but there are several better in old skools kung fus by independent labels.

[Killer Meteor]

4 hours ago, Tex Killer said:

Revisit to choi lee fut kung fu made certain it goes to recycle...Very simple plot, 2 mings escape ching commander. Hunt is on although that part is forgotten for most of time in flick. Training scenes are quite dull, cliff lok catching fish with bare hands, lifting bricks to baskets and some kung fu forms...Director probably had very little money with this, lot of movie happens in outdoors(that is not actually bad thing, there is some nice locations) and most of costumes look like old rags and had feel some scenes are there just to make something for running time..

Good things in movie are end fight with excellent kao fei and sharon yeung has few good scenes.

Quite poor print rarescope had but at least it`s proper widescreen and original audio with english subs. Not very bad movie but there are several better in old skools kung fus by independent labels.

 

Probably the worst subtitles ever "Name of boxing act" indeed!