Eastern Influenced/Inspired Western MA Movies Recommendations

[DrNgor]

I suppose you could put Ronnie Yu's Warriors of Virtue, which has choreography from Tsui Siu-Ming, on your to-watch list.

[DragonClaws]

On 8/19/2020 at 9:29 PM, ShaolinMasterKiller said:

Found an issue of Black Belt magazine from 1993 that has an article by Craig Reid listing Breathing Fire as one of the "10 Best Choreographed Martial Arts Films" (amongst "American-produced films featuring American actors in primary roles")... I, uh, wouldn't have gone that far, even in '93, but still funny to see.

College Kickboxers is also on the list (under the title Trained to Fight), along with all 3 of the No Retreat, No Surrender movies and King of the Kickboxers.

https://books.google.com/books?id=FtIDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA1&pg=PA38#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

The choreography in Breathing Fire and Trained to Fight, was ahead of what Hollywood was doing at the time. I didn't know BlackBelt magazine had rated them both so highly.

 

 

[ShaolinMasterKiller]

On 8/22/2020 at 5:09 AM, DragonClaws said:

 

The choreography in Breathing Fire and Trained to Fight, was ahead of what Hollywood was doing at the time. I didn't know BlackBelt magazine had rated them both so highly.

 

 

MVD Rewind just released a Bolo Yeung double feature of Bloodfight and Ironheart: https://mvdshop.com/collections/mvd-rewind/products/bloodfight-ironheart-bolo-yeung-double-feature-blu-ray .... It’d be pretty cool and certainly on brand for them if they were able to acquire the rights to and put out a definitive version of Breathing Fire.

[One Armed Boxer]

On 8/16/2020 at 4:20 PM, ShaolinMasterKiller said:

I was just looking at Manhattan Chase on IMDB the other day because of the Avedon + Rothrock factor and wondering if it was worth checking out.

Probably 3 years too late, but I recently got around to checking out 'Manhattan Chase', and whether it's "worth checking out" or not is probably subjective.  I gave it the full review treatment over at COF -

https://cityonfire.com/manhattan-chase-2000-review-godfrey-ho-loren-avedon-cynthia-rothrock-hall/