Craziest, Weirdest, Most Bizzare Weapons In Kung Fu Movies

[ShawAngela]

In the same movie, I also spotted one of the heroes creating a kind of flying guillotine with a Chinese large bamboo hat and some fine pieces of wood, if I saw well.

[Light in the Dark]

Not really crazy and bizarre but more on the rare and uncommon side in kung fu movies are the Hook Sword and Sleeve Knives.  I keep a list, that is when I remember to write them down, about such weapons.  

Here's my list of movies that have the Hook Sword:

Iron Monkey Strikes Back

Shaolin Revenger

Have Sword Will Travel

Lady Assassin

Crimson Charm

The Stomp (similar concept without the crescent blade handle and spike)

 

Here's my list of movies that have the Sleeve Knives:

Avenging Eagle

The Jade Fox

Shaolin Intruders

[Chu Liu Hsiang]

In TO KILL WITH INTRIGUE they try to kill Jackie with large dusters (in a later close-up one can see that there are indeed feathers on the sticks) and huge clubs with a crude face on it (on the left). 

 

Edited June 10, 2020 by Chu Liu Hsiang

[Cognoscente]

On 12/30/2018 at 9:00 PM, DragonClaws said:

 

Do you mean this weapon? @Shosetsu, the Monk's Cudgel Staff?.

 

 

It looks like a whisk.

[DrNgor]

On 6/9/2020 at 4:09 AM, Light in the Dark said:

Here's my list of movies that have the Hook Sword:

Iron Monkey Strikes Back

Shaolin Revenger

Have Sword Will Travel

Lady Assassin

Crimson Charm

The Stomp (similar concept without the crescent blade handle and spike)

They also show up in:

Sword Stained with Royal Blood '81

Shaolin Rescuers

Invincible Iron Armour

To Kill with Intrigue

Fight for Glory

Seven Grandmasters

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

[DrNgor]

Some individual posts about weapons:

The Dagger-axe

 

The Trident-Halberd

 

The Pole-Pick

 

Edited February 3, 2022 by DrNgor

[DrNgor]

I think that whenever I watch movie that has a scene set at a kung fu school, I'm going to take a print of the weapons rack, post it here, and identify the weapons. Just for fun.

Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976)

(from left) Flying Fork (fei cha); Trident-halbert (tang); Trident-halberd (other variation); [unknown--looks like a combination of a snake-tongued spear and a hook spear]; the crescent blade end of a Monk's Spade (Yue Ya Chan); Kwan Dao

(from left) Halberd (dan ji); [unknown--looks like a combination of a crescent-moon shovel and a golden coin shovel]; Monk's Spade (yue ya chan); Two-point fork (liang jian cha); Spear (qiang); Two-point fork (liang jian cha)

Edited February 24, 2022 by DrNgor

[Super Ninja]

1 hour ago, DrNgor said:

I think that whenever I watch movie that has a scene set at a kung fu school, I'm going to take a print of the weapons rack, post it here, and identify the weapons.

I welcome that idea. Been struggling with identifying some of the weapons, this might prove to be quite useful. 

[DrNgor]

48 minutes ago, Super Ninja said:

I welcome that idea. Been struggling with identifying some of the weapons, this might prove to be quite useful. 

Hope I can help!

[DrNgor]

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

(from left) Kwan Dao (lying against wall); Straight Sword (Jian - first rack); Short axe (Fu); Pole (Gun); Long-Handled Battleaxe (yue);  Spear (Qiang); Spear (Qiang); Snake Halberd (She Ji); Kwan Dao

 

(from left) - Hard Whip (ying bian); two or three variations of broadsword (dao); Nine Ring Broadsword (Jiu Huan Dao); Meteor Hammer (Liu Xing Chui); Robe Dart (Sheng Biao); two variations of Kwan Dao; Spear (Qiang); Pole (Gun); two Spears (Qiang); Monk's Spade (Yue Ya Chan)

[Chu Liu Hsiang]

21 hours ago, DrNgor said:

I think that whenever I watch movie that has a scene set at a kung fu school, I'm going to take a print of the weapons rack, post it here, and identify the weapons. Just for fun.

What a great idea, thanks for your efforts!

Edited February 25, 2022 by Chu Liu Hsiang

[Chu Liu Hsiang]

EIGHT ESCORTS: A long piece of cloth with some kind of blade on one end, carried around the waist like a belt or flung towards the enemy (in this case, Lily Li), and a net with mirror pieces, probably to further distract by the glare. 

Edited September 19, 2022 by Chu Liu Hsiang

[BigDruDogg]

I still love the Oscar that Wang Lung-wei uses in Ten Tigers from Kwangtung

[kungfucorner]

I'm not sure if this counts but in Crippled Kung Fu Boxer , there's a villain with a hunchback that uses it during his kung fu methods. Maybe not exactly a weapon, but still something unusual. I mean, that and Dracula showing up in one movie I just saw. 

[ShawAngela]

19 hours ago, Chu Liu Hsiang said:

EIGHT ESCORTS: A long piece of cloth with some kind of blade on one end, carried around the waist like a belt or flung towards the enemy (in this case, Lily Li), and a net with mirror pieces, probably to further distract by the glare. 

Where did you find this ?

 

[ShawAngela]

Just now, ShawAngela said:

Where did you find this ?

 

I must be a little bit blind, since you wrote the title right at the beginning of you r post !!  

[D1 Ma]

Don't remember the title of the movie, but it was about two protagonists who joined their forces to fight a bad guy.

One of the protagonists had a very unique weapon - a portable trap of some kind shaped as a tiger's(?) head. He used it to catch swords for the most part.

I remember, during the final fight, when above-mentioned protagonists were fighting the main bad guy armed with a sword and were losing, one of the good guys sacrificed himself by intentionally letting the bad guy pierce him through the back. When the tip of the bad guy's sword showed up from the good guy's chest, the good guy used the trap weapon to catch the tip of the sword, kinda like a vice, so the bad guy couldn't pull the sword out. That was one hell of a way to disarm your opponent! Meanwhile, the second good guy managed to beat the disarmed villain.

I saw this movie back in the mid 80s, and to this day have no idea that movie was that. Curious to see if anybody can identify that

 

[NinjaX]

There's a guy in beach of the wargods that fights with two huge shields.

[DarthKato]

I saw a video on YouTube the other day of three women fighting with "Ass Blades". I think the movie was called "RoboGeisha". When I saw that, I immediately put that movie on my to-buy list. lol

I found the video(!): 

Ass Blade Fight

[Ah_Tao]

On 9/23/2022 at 10:11 PM, D1 Ma said:

Don't remember the title of the movie, but it was about two protagonists who joined their forces to fight a bad guy.

One of the protagonists had a very unique weapon - a portable trap of some kind shaped as a tiger's(?) head. He used it to catch swords for the most part.

I remember, during the final fight, when above-mentioned protagonists were fighting the main bad guy armed with a sword and were losing, one of the good guys sacrificed himself by intentionally letting the bad guy pierce him through the back. When the tip of the bad guy's sword showed up from the good guy's chest, the good guy used the trap weapon to catch the tip of the sword, kinda like a vice, so the bad guy couldn't pull the sword out. That was one hell of a way to disarm your opponent! Meanwhile, the second good guy managed to beat the disarmed villain.

I saw this movie back in the mid 80s, and to this day have no idea that movie was that. Curious to see if anybody can identify that

 

Was it 18 bronzemen? Fits the exact description.

 

 

[D1 Ma]

22 hours ago, Ah_Tao said:

Was it 18 bronzemen? Fits the exact description.

 

 

It DOES  fit the description, probably that's the one. It's been over 30 yrs, hard to remember. Thank you for solving the mystery for me!

[Ah_Tao]

2 hours ago, D1 Ma said:

It DOES  fit the description, probably that's the one. It's been over 30 yrs, hard to remember. Thank you for solving the mystery for me!

You're very welcome 😁😁😁

[DrNgor]

On 6/13/2019 at 11:43 AM, AlbertV said:

Secret Rivals 2: A pair of short staff weapon that he can spin when he opens his hands. James Pax uses a similar weapon in Big Trouble in Little China

 

On 8/12/2019 at 12:37 PM, DrNgor said:

I believe those are called Emei Piercers. They also show up in KNIFE OF DEVIL'S ROARING AND SOUL MISSING with Dorian Tan Tao-Liang.

 

Movies that use them:

Knife of Devil's Roaring and Souls Missing (1976)
Secret Rivals II (1977)
Yao's Young Warriors (1983)
Chen Zhen: The Tokyo Fight (2019)

[DrNgor]

Does anybody know which movies feature the Deer Horn Knives?

I know of American Samurai (1992); Mortal Kombat (1995 -- Gerald Okumura wields them briefly at the climax); and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).

[Shaolin Patriot]

I've always found Ti Lung's two handled, spinning sword in Magic Blade rather exotic.