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The choreography is beautiful but appreciably restrained in reality, which was rare to see in a high-budget film in the years following Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Chocolate is a pretty odd premise that succeeds because the action is just so good. One might summarize it thusly: After a childhood spent mnemonically absorbing martial arts movies, however, she turns into a tool of vengeance unleashed upon the gangster threatening her mother. The fight scenes are over-the-top ridiculous but thankfully wireless, which makes for a stylish, exuberant film.

Executioners From Shaolin Year: If you remember the story of Pai Mei, the white lotus, that David Carradine tells to Uma Thurman around the campfire in Kill Bill , then you essentially know the story of this film. A true monster, he butchers the monks of the Shaolin Temple with his nigh-invincibility, and is only brought down eventually by characters who have trained for decades specifically to find his few vulnerabilities. Gordon Liu appears as a badass monk in the beginning who sacrifices himself against a small army of fighters to help his Shaolin brothers escape.

This is a film that feels a bit smaller in scope that some of the other Shaw Bros. The plot concerns a kung fu school being taken over by the titular three evil masters, each of whom has weird, distinctive stylistic flourishes. A variety of dependable, familiar performers appear, particularly Chen Kuan Tai, who has a great early scene where he fights all three of the evil masters at once.

I particularly love the guy in green, who uses his long braid of hair as a whip throughout the fight. Dude smashes through a table with his hair! Watch that clip and simply appreciate the long, uninterrupted take that begins at 3: So proceeds Kill Zone , a prototypical Hong Kong crime flick that, like any salient martial arts hybrid post, devolves into the shady moral gray of umpteen different action genres to prove a point about the malleable nature of our modern moral compass.

Then, cue Donnie Yen, who will later play the definitive Ip Man, here a whirlwind of limbs in a brutal knife vs. Way of the Dragon , aka Return of the Dragon Year: Way of the Dragon stands as the only film that Bruce Lee ever finished directorial duties on, passing away before he could complete The Game of Death or the co-credit he might have shared on Enter the Dragon. It stands, therefore, as perhaps the most accurate and complete piece of work that Lee personally envisioned, a story about a Hong Kong fighter who travels to Rome in order to protect a family restaurant being threatened by the mob.

As one would expect, it has some great fights, but nobody has quite the same presence on camera as Lee. Chuck Norris, the final opponent, which takes place among the ruins of the Roman Colosseum. That classic fight is no doubt worth the price of admission alone—just feel the tension as both of them warm up and crack their knuckles before the battle begins.

Five Fingers of Death Year: Enter the Dragon is often the martial arts film cited as being the start of the kung fu craze in America, but in reality it was Five Fingers of Death that kickstarted the genre in the U. As such, the dubbed version at least is a little more naive in its presentation and attitude toward the martial arts, treated with a sort of aloof, mystic reverence. It proved extremely influential—once again, Kill Bill borrows elements here, in particular its instantly recognizable battle music , which was itself lifted from the TV series Ironside.

Perhaps most importantly, films like this one paved the way for martial arts cinema to soon explode into crossover popularity in the U. Flash Point could probably have gotten away with spending its whole running time simmering through its central cat-and-mouse crime yarn, so long as it still ended with Donnie Yen and Collin Chou beating the tar out of each other.

Theirs is a brawl for the ages, a knock-down, drag-out scrap between two titans of the martial arts genre that holds back nothing in the brutality department. Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons Year: Stephen Chow and Derek Kwok. Every list of this nature needs a lot of Chow. So much more than a martial arts flick, this feels like a super-gifted filmmaker doing exactly what he was born to do.

This is where it all started for a young man named Bruce Lee, his first starring vehicle in a Hong Kong action movie. The Brave Archer Year: The Brave Archer is a true martial arts epic by Chang Cheh and the Shaws, taking full advantage of a large budget and access to expansive, lavish sets.

He was truly a talent taken before his time, but The Brave Archer stands as a testament to his skills as a performer. Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski. While there are plenty better, there is no movie in the canon of martial arts films bigger than The Matrix , and even today we still have this film to thank for so much of what we love about modern kinetic cinema.

This is our red pill; everything else is an illusion of greatness and everything else is an allusion to what the Wachowskis accomplished.

Legendary Weapons of China Year: This film is a bit of a storytelling Gordian knot, but all of the interconnected plots means tons of colorful characters and combat. The real attraction is the incredible array of styles: This film highlights the styles and uses of traditional Chinese weaponry better than any other on the list.

Dragon Gate Inn Year: An influential film that one might call the birth of the modern wuxia epic, Dragon Gate Inn was actually made in Taiwan, despite being set in historical China. But when a brother-sister team of martial artist allies arrive, they help even the odds for the refugees. The action is stylish and heavy on the swordplay.

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Michelle Yeoh would become well-known six years later with the release of cross-cultural smash hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , but she was a star in martial arts cinema from the s onward, and Wing Chun is one of the best overall star vehicles for her great physical and comedic talents. It manages to be both charming, as the story of a country woman protecting her village, and a thrilling collection of set-pieces largely practical in their special effects.

The Story of Ricky Year: Adapted from a Japanese manga and one of the few films on this list that should definitely not be watched in its original language, Riki-Oh is a hallucinatory smorgasbord of flying viscera and exploding bone fragments—either a deadpan attempt to translate gratuitous comic book violence to the screen, and thereby comment on the kind of jading culture perpetuated by martial arts media, or just a movie made by a seriously crazy person. It is all—all of it—just totally fucking insane: Rather, The Duel is something more unique, a moody and well-acted crime drama that still has tons of bloody martial arts action sequences, many of them being knife fights.

The film features perhaps the two biggest stars of the day, Ti Lung and David Chiang, as the participants in the titular duel, and this was a pretty big deal. Both had typically played heroes in the past, and both had been paired together as allies. For the Chinese audience, seeing the two of them finally come to blows in a duel to the death was a bit like watching Macho Man Randy Savage turn against Hulk Hogan and break up the Mega Powers.

David Chiang alone kills nearly people in this freaking movie. Come Drink With Me Year: King Hu with Sammo Hung. Martial arts fans tend to praise films almost exclusively for realism and real acrobatics, but Swordsman 2 is a great example of the mystical artistry that good wire-work does bring to the film when used to set a visual aesthetic properly. The Thai Warrior Year: When future generations look back upon the beginning of the 21st century and seek a way to understand the claustrophobia and fear that defined so much of our popular media of the time, let them look upon The Raid and weep.

The Raid is what martial arts cinema looks like in our young century: This is brutality at its barest. Do you know how you can tell just how iconic he is? Mad Monkey Kung Fu Year: Another Lau Kar-leung classic for the Shaw Brothers, Mad Monkey Kung Fu is just an inherently likable film that deftly balances feats of athleticism with broad humor. Hsiao Ho, a martial artist who does not get the recognition that he deserves, stars as a young street urchin and thief who is taken in by a street entertainer who performs alongside a trained monkey. Eventually, he must use his new style of monkey kung fu to seek out a local brothel owner who is holding a young woman hostage.

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Hsiao Ho is wonderfully expressive in the role, and his acrobatics in particular are top-notch. He plays the part of the long-suffering, then overconfident, then humbled student perfectly. The Street Fighter Year: The Street Fighter was the first film to ever receive an X-rating in the U. This is the film that made a star of Sonny Chiba, who you will again recognize as the wizened sword-maker Hattori Hanzo in Kill Bill. The rage and intensity in his face goes a long way, and they got mileage out of it for multiple sequels.

Magnificent Butcher has the slapstick and bawdy humor that one usually expects from a Sammo Hung star vehicle, but it also knows how to be deadly serious at the same time, which makes it rather unique. Hung stars as a literal butcher who has learned the ways of kung fu from folk hero Wong Fei-hung, played here by the truly magnificent Kwan Tak-hing, who was 74 at the time but puts on an incredible physical performance.

Butcher Wing, meanwhile, reunites with his long-lost brother and must help him rescue his kidnapped wife.

Sammo Hung really was one-of-a-kind. Wing chun is a very influential style of martial arts when it comes to film, but it might be surprising for martial arts fans to know that true, traditional wing chun is actually quite rare on screen. Warriors Two , a modest, straightforward story of a young man training in martial arts to protect a town, is one of those few films well-regarded as featuring quite a lot of authentic wing chun, in the style which master Ip Man would have taught to a young Bruce Lee. Rumble in the Bronx Year: Jackie Chan was 41 years old in , when Rumble in the Bronx succeeded in making him an American film star.

The irrepressibly youthful Chan plays a Hong Kong cop who comes to New York for a wedding and gets sucked into a criminal underworld. Fast pace, lots of physical comedy and death-defying stunt work. Do look for classic stunts, like Chan leaping off a building and onto a fire escape with no wires or nets. Wheels on Meals Year: Wheels on Meals is a silly, silly movie, but damn, is the action amazing.

You really have to see it to believe it. A loose chronicle of the nascent legend of Yip Man, the film skirts the line between noir-ish tragedy and chiaroscuro thriller, rarely leaving room to discern the difference. The first is an all-out brawl in a theater that sends bodies flying in all directions as members of multiple schools clash. The second is the really iconic one, as Gordon Liu takes on Wang Lung Wei in a truly unique location—the ultra-cramped alleyway between two buildings. As the fight progresses and they drive deeper into the alley, space becomes tighter and tighter until the two have only a foot or two in which to conduct combat.

It completely changes the aesthetic of a traditional kung fu battle, and the choreography evolves with it. The film is unconventional in portraying the Japanese not as outright villains but simply aggrieved, honorable fighters. What we get from that set-up is a fascinating contrast in styles, and fights that pit balanced elements of combat against one another—for example, Chinese drunken boxing vs.

Or Japanese weapons such as the sai against Chinese butterfly swords. Kid With the Golden Arm Year: Another Venom Mob film from Chang Cheh, and one of the best. It was a shift for Lo Mang, who usually played characters who were sort of powerful, likable galoots, but he shines by giving what is likely his best performance in a story about a gang of outlaws who plot to intercept a large shipment of gold.

The heroes are a team of familiar Chang Cheh faces assembled to stop Golden Arm and his gang: A Touch of Zen Year: A film of style, grace and gravitas, A Touch of Zen is unusual in that it features a veritable non-combatant as its lead protagonist, although he is surrounded by many others who know how to fight. Remember that scene in The Blues Brothers where Jake and Elwood drive the Bluesmobile through a mall and wreck it up good? Chan plays a cop again who goes after bad guys again. Why complicate the plot synopsis any more than that? The only sensible way to rank Jackie Chan movies is simply to focus on the action and the death-defying stunts, which all the films in the Police Story series have in spades.

Chan has called the first Police Story his greatest film, though, and who are we to argue? Tai Chi Master Year: Leave it to Jet Li to invent Tai Chi. Junbao handles a ball of wind-bonded leaves as a raver would a pair of glowsticks. Shogun Assassin is bizarre to explain, hilarious to watch and incredibly entertaining from start to finish, a garish but gorgeous piece of exploitation cinema that transcends its grimy aesthetic and becomes something absolutely beautiful. Shogun Assassin is the American name for the film, which is assembled from footage clipped together from two Japanese samurai films adapted from a popular manga called Lone Wolf and Cub.

The American release, however, completely transforms the experience by cutting down the story to its barest necessities, adding voiceover narration from the point of view of a toddler, and preserving all the fight scenes in their hyper-violent glory. The tale of a father on the run with his young, vulnerable son just gets more and more ridiculous from start to finish, and the body count is too high to count.

The film was such a huge influence on the style of Quentin Tarantino that you can actually hear some of it in Kill Bill Vol. Fist of Legend Year: I actually prefer one of the earlier fights, though, when Jet takes on an entire school of Japanese karate students—and then punches their master right on the bottom of the foot in a particularly goofy bit of violence.

The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter Year: Because revenge will never bring your murdered loved ones back to life, right? This is just what happens when you mess with a monk dead-set on breaking his vows. Master of the Flying Guillotine Year: Only the coolest weapon in martial arts cinema history. This semi-historical film succeeds gloriously: The greatness of Kill Bill Vol. In the early s, there was perhaps no cinematic experience like it well, at least until Vol. The gory but graceful tea house battle with the Crazy 88; the intensely claustrophobic kitchen showdown—these are only two excellent examples of everything that makes a martial arts movie superb.

That Tarantino filled two movies with this stuff of greatness makes for some truly transcendent viewing. Purely entertaining, Iron Monkey never takes itself overly seriously, striking an easygoing balance between hyper-kinetic, somewhat unrealistic action and a broadly appealing, Robin Hood-like story.

If what you want out of a martial arts movie is to just watch an invincible engine of destruction wreck his way through everything in his path, then Tom-Yum Goong is your movie. Tony Jaa is nothing short of incredible as a physical specimen and performer, in a movie where the primary plot point is driven by…stolen elephants? The action is realistic, impactful and on a whole other level in terms of brutality. The scene where Jaa takes it upon himself to break the arms and legs of everyone he comes into contact with.

Perhaps the greatest single-shot fight scene in movie history, as Jaa ascends from the bottom of a tower to the top, fighting dozens of mooks in a single, unbroken shot that lasts four minutes. Absolutely gorgeous, and insanely ambitious to even attempt. The format of the scene actually brings the audience out of the film slightly, making us aware of the cameraman following Jaa, which only gives us a greater appreciation for the stunt work and movie magic involved. Each group of ninjas has their own absurd costumes and ridiculous quirks.

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Gold ninjas use their shields to blind enemies. Water ninjas use snorkels and pull opponents down underwater to drown them. Fire ninjas use smoke shields to hide and move. Wood ninjas pose as trees and use claws to slash and tear. And finally, the supremely goofy Earth ninjas are somehow able to tunnel through solid soil like freaking earthworms and explode out of the ground with an almighty bang. Here he leads as Wong Fei Hung, a Chinese folk hero who employs his Zui Quan Drunken Boxing skills to stop the corrupt British consul set on illegally exporting Chinese artifacts out of the country.

Although nearly all the action sequences are wonderfully exhaustive and memorable, the final fight is a breathless show-stopper. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Year: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi play 19th-century warriors whose loyalty and vitality are tested by a series of events that lead each to contemplate their many life decisions that brought them to that point.

Beyond the entrancing and lyrical storytelling, Crouching Tiger stands as a rare, beautiful beacon of hope: In a time when exploitation cinema seemed the standard for cheap movie houses the world over, no martial arts flick got much better than this Shaw Brothers staple, which eventually adopted the much more PC title, Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms. Movies like this are the reasons we get up in the morning. That we then later get the privilege of watching Jet Li, in a short-brimmed straw sunhat, fight off a gang of thugs with an umbrella is a many-splendored thing.

Enter the Dragon Year: What remains to be said about Enter the Dragon?

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Jim Kelly is also valuable as a second talented performer, in the role that would make him a blaxploitation icon. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin Year: And this is why any kung fu fan will always love Gordon Liu. In each of the 36 chambers, San Te must toil to discipline his body, mind, reflexes and will. They make up the whole center of the film, and are unforgettable. The film just has a gravitas—it imbues kung fu with a great dignity, because true kung fu can only be attained through the greatest of sacrifice.

Five Deadly Venoms Year: This is what vintage kung fu—and martial arts cinema, with it—is all about. The mythology alone is exquisite: Five Deadly Venoms is the first Venom Mob film, and gave each of them a name for the rest of their careers. Is it on the cheesy side? Sure, but how many great martial arts films are completely dour? Five Deadly Venoms is emblematic of an entire era of Hong Kong cinema and the joy they took in delivering beautiful choreography and timeless stories of good vs.

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