Member ShawAngela Posted August 7, 2020 Member Share Posted August 7, 2020 Two movies that come to my mind at once about this, showing the ritual of the boxers before the beginning of the duel, are : Rage of the masters Duel of fists Are there any other martial arts movies from Hong Kong, Mainland or Taiwan with such sequences ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member NoKUNGFUforYU Posted August 7, 2020 Member Share Posted August 7, 2020 There is a thai boxing dance in One Armed Boxer, for sure, I think the sequel as well. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member TibetanWhiteCrane Posted August 7, 2020 Member Share Posted August 7, 2020 I seem to remember both The Tournament and The King of Boxers having that stuff in there. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DrNgor Posted August 8, 2020 Member Share Posted August 8, 2020 1 hour ago, NoKUNGFUforYU said: I think the sequel as well. Having watched that earlier this year, I can confirm that it does. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Killer Meteor Posted August 8, 2020 Member Share Posted August 8, 2020 The Meng Fei King Boxer? That one was full of elephants! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DrNgor Posted August 8, 2020 Member Share Posted August 8, 2020 4 hours ago, Killer Meteor said: The Meng Fei King Boxer? That one was full of elephants! Yeah, @TibetanWhiteCrane mentioned it as its other title, King of Boxers. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member edher_M.A. Posted August 8, 2020 Member Share Posted August 8, 2020 There's also the old movies made by Panna Ritikrai who i guess show more legit Thai Boxing techniques influenced by chinese martial arts choreography style. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member HyperDrive Posted August 9, 2020 Member Share Posted August 9, 2020 Master of the Flying Guillotine The Roaring Lion The Great Chase (aka Prominent Eunuch Chen Ho) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DragonClaws Posted August 9, 2020 Member Share Posted August 9, 2020 On 8/7/2020 at 11:32 PM, ShawAngela said: Are there any other martial arts movies from Hong Kong, Mainland or Taiwan with such sequences ? The Greatest Thai Boxing(1974) directed by Hsu Tseng-Hung, featuring Fong Yao, San Kui, Bolo Yeung, Chieh Yuen. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AbeRudder Posted August 9, 2020 Member Share Posted August 9, 2020 Donnie fights a muay thai fighter on a double decker bus in Tiger Cage 2. As a side note there haven't been many proper representations of the style in kung fu movies, it usually gets caricatured. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DrNgor Posted August 9, 2020 Member Share Posted August 9, 2020 Are there any ritual dances in Kickboxer's Tears and Dreaming the Reality? @Drunken Monk, can you help us? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member odioustrident Posted August 9, 2020 Member Share Posted August 9, 2020 Sham Chin Bo, who played a similar role in Master of Flying Guillotine someone mentioned, really steals the show in He's a Legend He's a Hero with this type of performance. His techniques in that movie are probably the biggest departure from actual Muay Thai I have ever seen outside of anime / manga like Tatakae Ramenman. The Japanese film Karate Wars also has a notable scene like this. Mark Dacascos in Legend of Bruce Lee is a more recent example. My favorite "muay thai" screen fights are probably in Secret of Chinese Kung Fu and Ninja in USA but I'm not sure either has those dance sequences. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member sifu iron perm Posted August 9, 2020 Member Share Posted August 9, 2020 The man the myth. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShawAngela Posted August 9, 2020 Author Member Share Posted August 9, 2020 Thank you very much or all the answers. I wouldn't have thought that there were so many movies with this kind of scenes ! There are some titles mentioned above that I haven't watched as yet. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Drunken Monk Posted August 9, 2020 Member Share Posted August 9, 2020 5 hours ago, DrNgor said: Are there any ritual dances in Kickboxer's Tears and Dreaming the Reality? @Drunken Monk, can you help us? Hmm...I don’t recall. My memory is a nightmare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member TibetanWhiteCrane Posted August 9, 2020 Member Share Posted August 9, 2020 5 hours ago, DrNgor said: Are there any ritual dances in Kickboxer's Tears and Dreaming the Reality? @Drunken Monk, can you help us? Don't remember any Wai Kru being done in the Muay Thai ring fights in those movies..... but it has been a while. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Killer Meteor Posted August 13, 2020 Member Share Posted August 13, 2020 Tattooed Dragon - where we're expected to believe that Sam Hui, who probably tipped the scales at a buck-fifty, can best a Thai champion! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DragonClaws Posted August 13, 2020 Member Share Posted August 13, 2020 The Brutal Boxer(1972) starring Raymond Lui & Chan Sing, features a local Thai champion in a small cameo role. He helps the hero of the movie, when a gang of thugs attack him. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted August 15, 2020 Moderator Share Posted August 15, 2020 On 8/8/2020 at 8:32 AM, ShawAngela said: Two movies that come to my mind at once about this, showing the ritual of the boxers before the beginning of the duel, are : Rage of the masters Duel of fists Are there any other martial arts movies from Hong Kong, Mainland or Taiwan with such sequences ? Are you looking for movies specifically with the wai khru (the ritual dance before the fight) or just any movies that feature an element of Muay Thai, as a lot of the movies being mentioned in the more recent posts only feature the latter. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShawAngela Posted August 19, 2020 Author Member Share Posted August 19, 2020 On 8/15/2020 at 10:56 AM, One Armed Boxer said: Are you looking for movies specifically with the wai khru (the ritual dance before the fight) or just any movies that feature an element of Muay Thai, as a lot of the movies being mentioned in the more recent posts only feature the latter. Both, I think. There is a Thai boxer doing a ritual dance while a Japanese fighter plays flute in a forest in the movie Right overcomes might I watched yesterday, and I must confess that when this scene arrived in the movie, I was wondering what was the link between this and the story, but it was explained later... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Ramji Posted August 19, 2020 Member Share Posted August 19, 2020 No wai khru but there’s a nifty little Thai boxing fight between Ken Lo and Mark Dacascos in China Strike Force 😛 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AbeRudder Posted September 4, 2020 Member Share Posted September 4, 2020 Was watching blonde fury, one of cynthia rothrocks hk movies and there is a fight with a thai boxer (who's wearing a comically oversized suit). He roughs up chin siu ho with some knees and elbows from the clinch then fights cynthia after that. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member NoKUNGFUforYU Posted September 5, 2020 Member Share Posted September 5, 2020 What's interesting is how the art is always portrayed as used by bad guys when it is primarily a sport. I mean like 99%. You have to arrange a match. People would not go to a Muay Thai gym to learn martial arts, it's too hard. They'd just carry a weapon, etc. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member NoKUNGFUforYU Posted September 5, 2020 Member Share Posted September 5, 2020 Duel of Fists isn't far off in some respects. https://www.vice.com/sv/article/8gdbng/muay-thai-kickboxer-bangkok-alexander-reynolds-898 https://www.vice.com/en_asia/article/bmedgw/the-rise-and-fall-of-klaew-thanikul-the-mafia-godfather-of-muay-thai https://nypost.com/2017/02/23/stepping-inside-the-ring-to-keep-a-killer-behind-bars/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AbeRudder Posted September 9, 2020 Member Share Posted September 9, 2020 It's often portrayed as a sort of 'brutish' style where it's all about conditioning and power when in reality a lot of the great fighters in the sport (samart, saenchai, karuhat, namkabuan..etc) are technical fighters who use movement and defence. The gambling aspect is true(ish) though, gamblers do have a big influence on the sport in thailand unfortunately. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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