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Favourite Kung Fu Movies.
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Movie: Kung Fu Hustle ( 2004 )
In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.
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Movie: Bloodsport ( 1988 )
Follows Frank Dux, an American martial artist serving in the military, who decides to leave the army to compete in a martial arts tournament in Hong Kong where fights to the death can occur.
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Movie: Enter the Dragon ( 1973 )
A Shaolin martial artist travels to an island fortress to spy on an opium lord - who is also a former monk from his temple - under the guise of attending a fighting tournament.
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Movie: Seven Samurai ( 1954 )
A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.
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Movie: Kickboxer ( 1989 )
Kurt Sloane must learn the ancient kick boxing art of Muay Thai in order to avenge his brother.
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Movie: Tiger Claws II ( 1997 )
The cops Tarek Richards (Jalal Merhi) and Linda Masterson (Cynthia Rothrock) in New York on investigating mysterious murders of martial arts masters, whose bodies have wounds similar to scratches tiger. The evidence seems to lead to Chong (Bolo Yeung), a serial killer on the loose who is thus arrested. Chong, however, is escape done by men of his brother, a wealthy crime lord of San Francisco's Chinatown. Cops Richards and Masterson chase him but are captured by two criminals and their followers. The Masterson is locked in a cell, while Richards is forced to participate in a strange martial arts tournament held in the underground city. The four finalists should, with their mystical powers, open a time portal of the Chinese New Year.
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Movie: Drunken Master ( 1978 )
Wong Fei-Hung (Jackie Chan) is a mischievous, yet righteous young man, but after a series of incidents, his frustrated father has him disciplined by Beggar So (Siu Tin Yuen), a Master of drunken martial arts.
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Movie: Ninja Scroll ( 1993 )
A vagabond swordsman is aided by a beautiful ninja girl and a crafty spy in confronting a demonic clan of killers - with a ghost from his past as their leader - who are bent on overthrowing the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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Movie: The Legend of Drunken Master ( 1994 )
A young martial artist is caught between respecting his pacifist father's wishes or stopping a group of disrespectful foreigners from stealing precious artifacts.
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Movie: Shao Lin shi san gun seng ( 1980 )
The invading Manchu army leed a vicious attack on the Shaolin Temple, seeking to destroy all its 3,000 master monk-fighters at the Shaolin Temple. The monastery's only hope is that (despite being drunk due to treachery) the monks will still beat their attackers to death, in countless one-on-one kung fu duels to the death.
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Movie: Police Story ( 1985 )
A virtuous Hong Kong Police Officer must clear his good name when the drug lord he is after frames him for the murder of a dirty cop.
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Movie: Fist of Fury ( 1972 )
A young man seeks vengence for the death of his teacher.
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Movie: The Way of the Dragon ( 1972 )
A man visits his relatives at their restaurant in Italy and has to help them defend against brutal gangsters harassing them.
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Movie: Police Story 3: Super Cop ( 1992 )
A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.
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Movie: Once Upon a Time in China ( 1991 )
Set in late 19th century Canton this martial arts film depicts the stance taken by the legendary martial arts hero Wong Fei-Hung (1847-1924) against foreign forces' (English, French and American) plundering of China. When Aunt Yee arrives back from America totally westernised, Wong Fei-Hung assumes the role of her protector. This proves to be difficult when his martial arts school and local militia become involved in fierce battles with foreign and local government. As violence escalates even Aunt Yee has to question her new western ideals, but is it possible to fight guns with Kung Fu?
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Movie: Operation Condor ( 1997 )
Jackie is hired to help the UN find Nazi gold hidden in Sahara. He's accompanied from Spain by 2 (later 3) cute women. As there are others wanting the gold, lots of kung fu fighting and comedy follows.
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Movie: Project A ( 1983 )
Fighting against pirates at the turn of the 20th century, the Hong Kong navy are failing miserably. It's up to Sergeant Lung (Jackie Chan) to take matters into his own hands.
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Movie: Police Story 2 ( 1988 )
The Hong Kong supercop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers, while the villains of Police Story (1985) are out for revenge.
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Movie: Nowhere to Run ( 1993 )
Escaped convict Sam Gillen single handedly takes on ruthless developers determined to evict Clydie - a widow with two young children. Nobody knows who Sam is.
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Movie: The Big Boss ( 1971 )
Cheng is a city boy who moves with his cousins to work at a ice factory. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fight. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the factor, the resulting mystery and pressures forces him to break that vow and take on the villainy of the Big Boss.
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Movie: Death Warrant ( 1990 )
In a violent and corrupt prison, decorated cop Louis Burke must infiltrate the jail to find answers to a number of inside murders. What he finds is a struggle of life and death tied in to his own past.
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Movie: Game of Death ( 1978 )
A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.
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Movie: No Retreat, No Surrender ( 1986 )
Jason, a Bruce Lee fan, sees his karate instructor/dad beaten by martial art thugs. They move to Seattle where, after humiliations, he trains with Bruce Lee's ghost so he can defend himself and others against thugs.
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Movie: The 36th Chamber of Shaolin ( 1978 )
A man studies kung fu at the Shaolin Temple to fight back against the oppressive Manchu government.
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Movie: Wheels on Meals ( 1984 )
Two Chinese friends, who operate a food truck in Barcelona, Spain, use their martial arts expertise to help their private investigator friend protect the pickpocket Sylvia, who's been targeted by a ruthless gang.
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Movie: Best of the Best ( 1989 )
A team from the United States is going to compete against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do tournament. The team consists of fighters from all over the country--can they overcome their rivalry and work together to win?
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Movie: Armour of God ( 1986 )
Asian Hawk (Jackie Chan) and his bumbling sidekick are sent on a quest through Europe to find a mysterious treasure held by a shadowy organization of monks.
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Movie: Shogun Assassin ( 1980 )
When the wife of the Shogun's Decapitator is murdered and he is ordered to commit suicide by the paranoid Shogun, he and his four-year-old son escape and become assassins for hire, embarking on a journey of blood and violent death.
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Movie: American Warrior ( 1985 )
American soldier, obviously very skilled in martial arts, single-handedly takes on mercenaries in the Philippines.
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Movie: Sanjuro ( 1963 )
A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.
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Movie: Legionnaire ( 1998 )
Alain is a boxer in 1925 Marseille, France. When he doesn't take the dive paid to take by a mob boss, he has to split. He joins the Foreign Legion and is sent to Morocco. He makes 3 friends and they watch each other's backs.
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Movie: Once Upon a Time in China II ( 1992 )
In the sequel to the Tsui Hark classic, Wong Fei-Hung faces The White Lotus society, a fanatical cult seeking to drive the Europeans out of China through violence, even attacking Chinese who follow Western ways. Wong must also defend Dr. Sun Yat Sen, a revolutionary, from the military. With his friends, loved ones, and the future of China itself at stake, Wong must once again use his martial arts skills to defend the innocent.
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Movie: Five Deadly Venoms ( 1978 )
A dying teacher instructs his final student to check on the activities of five former pupils, each of whom he taught a unique and special style of kung-fu: Centipede, Snake, Scorpion, Lizard, and Toad (hence the title). His final student, who knows a little of each style, must team up with one of the other good students to destroy the evil ones, if there are any. Greed and treachery ensue as the student discovers that some of the students are indeed evil, but which one can he trust enough to team up with?
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Movie: Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky ( 1991 )
A young man with superhuman strength is incarcerated at a prison run by corrupt officials and seeks to use his martial arts to clean up the system.
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Movie: Snake in the Eagle's Shadow ( 1978 )
An orphan who has been raised at a kung fu school, where he is treated as little more than a dogsbody and practice target for the students, has a life-changing experience after helping an old peripatetic beggar.
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Movie: Shaolin Temple ( 1982 )
A young man, hounded by a psychopathic general, learns martial arts at the Shaolin temple to avenge his father's death. To achieve this he forgoes a budding romance with his kungfu master's daughter, a shepherdess.
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Movie: Fist of the North Star ( 1991 )
In a post-nuclear hellscape, a master of the deadly martial art "Hokuto Shinken" allies with two kids and an expert in "Nanto Suicho-Ken" to battle the tyrants who kidnapped his lover.
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Movie: Best of the Best II ( 1993 )
The Colosseum is the fighting arena owned by the champion Bracus. Now after the death of their friend, Rhee and Roberts want revenge.
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Movie: The Twin Dragons ( 1992 )
Identical twins are separated at birth, one becoming a streetwise mechanic, and the other an acclaimed classical concert conductor. Finally meeting in adulthood, they each become mistaken for the other and entangled in each other's world.
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Movie: Shootfighter II ( 1996 )
Shingo and the boys (Nick and Ruben) are blackmailed into helping Rawlins infiltrate an underground shootfighting ring in Miami
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Movie: The Young Master ( 1980 )
After failing his fellow students in a Lion Dance competition, Dragon (Jackie Chan) is sent away from his school in disgrace, on the condition that he must find his errant brother. Much martial arts mayhem and mistaken-identity silliness ensue.
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Movie: Tiger Claws ( 1992 )
The police do not know what to do. They have to deal with a serial killer who aims at martial arts masters. One after another is killed in the same brutal way. This may be a chance for detective Linda Masterson to work on her first murder case. She gets the job and to her side an other martial arts specialist, Sgt. Tarek Richards. Now they need to find a tiger style master, because the killer obviously uses tiger style kung fu. Not a simple task, since tiger is a very ancient and rare style.
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Movie: Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance ( 1972 )
The story of a Ronin (i.e. a masterless samurai) who wanders the countryside of Japan with his small child, having various adventures.
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Movie: The Octagon ( 1980 )
A martial artist must defeat a plan by ninjas to create a worldwide training camp for terrorists.
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Movie: Ninja III: The Domination ( 1984 )
An evil ninja attempts to avenge his death from beyond the grave, by possessing an innocent woman's body.
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Movie: Xia nan yang ( 1974 )
Decent, simple, honest Chinese farmhand and ace martial artist Tai-Lin goes to the Philippines to seek his fortune. He befriends scruffy petty street hoodlum Siao-Mao and gets a job as a dock worker. When Tai-Lin discovers that the people he works for are involved in a crime syndicate that specializes in smuggling opium, he quits his job and joins forces with two fellow martial artists against the evil organization.
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Movie: Shaolin Temple ( 1976 )
The Shaolin Temple is the last place to resist defeat by the Manchu Dynasty, mostly because of their unique fighting style. Men from far and wide come to wait outside the temple, hoping that they will be admitted as pupils. As the Abbot becomes older, he realizes that the Manchus are determined to destroy the temple and eradicate the Shaolin fighting techniques. To this end, he decides that it is time at last to admit worthy men into the temple as students, to learn the way of Shaolin.
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Movie: Project A 2 ( 1987 )
Dragon is now transferred to be the police head of Sai Wan district, and has to contend with a gangster kingpin, anti-Manchu revolutionaries, some runaway pirates, Manchu Loyalists and a corrupt Police Superintendent.
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Movie: Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin ( 1978 )
A martial arts book, which Hsu Yin-Fung (Jackie Chan) carries, is being highly sought by various clans and gangs, but he is in pursuit of someone himself.
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Movie: The Kid with the Golden Arm ( 1979 )
Director Chang Cheh reunites the Five Venoms in his second biggest cult hit in the West. It's Lo Meng's most memorable performances whose showdown with fellow Venom Kuo Chue is artistically violent while being graphically artsy.
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Movie: Enter the Ninja ( 1981 )
After just completing his training at a ninja school, an army vet travels to the Phillippines and finds himself battling a land grabber who wants his war-buddy's property. He must also fight his rival.
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Movie: Kung Fu Cult Master ( 1993 )
A wild and rollicking martial arts fantasy extravaganza that features prized swords -- and swordsmen, a crazy monk attached to a rolling boulder (yup!), serious clan and cult rivalries, and lots of magic and flying.
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Movie: Nine Deaths of the Ninja ( 1985 )
Two anti-terrorist agents are assigned to free a busload of American schoolchildren in the Philippines who are taken hostage by terrorists.
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Movie: Dragons Forever ( 1988 )
Three successful Hong Kong lawyers are hired by a chemical company of questionable ethics and must eventually make a difficult decision when their employer's motives become clear.
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Movie: Pray for Death ( 1985 )
After a peace loving Japanese immigrant and his family become victims of a crime syndicate, a master ninja emerges.
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Movie: Ironheart ( 1992 )
An L.A. cop goes after a gang of murderous drug dealers.
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Movie: Crippled Avengers ( 1978 )
Three men who have been physically disabled by an evil warlord and his physically-disabled son become friends and learn kung fu so that they can seek revenge with help from an elderly martial-arts teacher and his mentally-disabled pupil.
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Movie: A Chinese Ghost Story ( 1987 )
After a string of bad luck, a debt collector has no other choice than to spend the night in a haunted temple, where he encounters a ravishing female ghost and later battles to save her soul from the control of a wicked tree demon.
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Movie: Zatoichi ( 1989 )
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.
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Movie: Onibaba ( 1964 )
Two women kill samurais and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.
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Movie: Masked Avengers ( 1981 )
Philip Kwok (Lizard venom) plays a repentant killer who vows to destroy the masked gang of which he was a member. A young fighter and his martial arts brothers (incl Chiang Sheng, venom student) come to the town to catch the killers, but one of them is not to be trusted!
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Movie: Shao Lin zhen ying xiong ( 1979 )
When a young boy finds himself alone in the world when his adoptive father disappears after a fight, his first thought is to go to Shaolin.
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Movie: Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo ( 1970 )
Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same side?
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Movie: Kong-Fu Wonder Child ( 1986 )
A clan leader's spirit essence is captured by an evil wizard and it's up to the Kung fu Wonder Child and her friends to save the day.
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Movie: Winners & Sinners ( 1983 )
Fresh from prison, five friends try to stay crime free but inadvertently find themselves caught in a Triad war.
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Movie: Ninja Death II ( 1987 )
The second part of Ninja Death. A young martial artist named Tiger is in training and is being stalked by an Evil Ninja. However, his master is killed and young Tiger continues to study the ways under various other masters.
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Movie: Ninja the Protector ( 1986 )
Two brothers, Warren and David, try to defeat the evil forger who is making their lives a misery.
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Movie: Five Shaolin Masters ( 1974 )
The story is simple (Shaolin vs. Manchu traitors), but the effect was anything but, as the screen's most charismatic action actors team with a legendary director and revered choreographers (Liu Chia-liang and brother Liu Chia-yung) for scenes of unparalleled power.
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Movie: Slaughter in San Francisco ( 1974 )
A Chinese-American cop, skilled in martial arts, battles the most powerful criminal gang in San Francisco that is responsible for the death of his partner.
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Movie: Five Elements Ninjas ( 1982 )
When five ninjas whose fighting styles are based on natural elements unleash their fury on a rival school, a lone survivor vows deadly revenge.
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Movie: Drunken Monkey ( 2003 )
Wa Biao (Lau Kar Leung) securities company is being used for smuggling. His shady associates try to eliminate him. He returns with a vengeance with the help of 3 young students he has taught drunken monkey.
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Movie: Five Fingers of Steel ( 1982 )
An evil martial arts school attempts to take over a small village, killing the benevolent head of a security service in the process. Revenge is of course the order of the day.
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Movie: American Ninja 2: The Confrontation ( 1987 )
On a remote Caribbean island, Army Ranger Joe Armstrong investigates the disappearance of several marines, which leads him to The Lion, a super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors.
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Movie: Mi tie ( 1979 )
The denizens of the martial world seek to obtain a secret message detailing an exceptionally powerful form of kung fu. The more unscrupulous amongst them have no hesitation to kill for it, as demonstrated by the massacre of the Beggar Clan by the forces of Pai Mei (Phillip Ko Fei).
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Movie: Fists of the White Lotus ( 1980 )
The monk Hung Wen-Ting fights against the evil priest White Lotus.
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Movie: Goliathon ( 1977 )
King Kong goes Hong Kong as a giant Himalayan beast tries to save a sexy Russia Tarzanette from a sleazy show-biz promoter. The action, locations set in India, and interracial romance made Variety reach this verdict: "High camp, Chinese style."
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Movie: Gymkata ( 1985 )
An American gymnast travels to a foreign country to compete in a deadly game not won by anyone other than a native in more than 900 years.
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Movie: Ninja Death ( 1987 )
Tiger is the owner of a brothel who moonlights as a kung fu artist under the watchful eye of "Master." They run into serious trouble when ninjas inexplicably show up and jeopordize Tiger's prostitution ring.
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Movie: Ai nu ( 1972 )
The Four Seasons Brothel is run by a ruthless madam, Lady Chun Yi. Countless young girls have been kidnapped or bought and then sold into a life of servitude, prostitution, and torture at this brothel. Ai Nu, an honest, but poor family's only daughter, is one of the newest girls that was recently kidnapped and sold to Lady Chun. To complicate matters even more, Lady Chun is a lesbian and quickly falls in love with the virginal Ai Nu, who will not let her spirit be broken and tries to escape again and again. This causes Lady Chun to use all of her resources to break her, including auctioning off Ai Nu's virginity to a group of wealthy businessmen. She eventually entrusts Ai Nu with a number of ancient kung-fu secrets like the Ghost Hands, which allows you to thrust your fists into an opponent's chest. Soon after murder erupts within the brothel. A diligent detective, Chi Te, visits the brothel and becomes increasingly involved in the murder investigation. He realizes he must do everything he can to prevent Ai Nu from taking her much deserved revenge on everyone that has wronged her over the years.
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Movie: Dragon Fist ( 1979 )
Tong Huo-wan (Jackie Chan) seeks redress from the man responsible for his master's death, but becomes entangled in a feud between a local clan and gangsters.
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Movie: Mr. Vampire ( 1985 )
The planned reburial of a town elder goes awry as the corpse resurrects into a hopping, bloodthirsty vampire, targeting everyone responsible for digging the grave. A Taoist Priest and his two disciples attempt to stop the terror.
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Movie: Battle Creek Brawl ( 1980 )
A young Asian-American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fighting competition.
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Movie: Ninja Kung Fu Emperor ( 1981 )
The 4th son of the emperor fights to become the next emperor with the help of the people and of course Kung fu
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Movie: The Prodigal Son ( 1981 )
A rich man's son (Yuen Biao) believes himself to be the best kung fu fighter in Canton. Unfortunately, his father, anxious for his son's safety, bribes all his opponents to lose. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of an actor in a traveling theatre company, the son resolves to find a better teacher. Furious kung fu battles and slapstick comedy.
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Movie: Five Fingers of Death ( 1972 )
Two martial arts schools prepare for an important tournament.
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Movie: The Protector ( 1985 )
Two New York City cops, Billy Wong and Danny Garoni, head to Hong Kong after the daughter of a rich businessman is kidnapped by the drug lord, Mr. Ko.
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Movie: Shaolin Wooden Men ( 1976 )
After witnessing the murder of his father, Little Mute trains in Shaolin Temple for revenge and is taught by various teachers, one of which is clandestine.
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Movie: Martial Arts of Shaolin ( 1986 )
Jet Li weasels out of the north Shaolin temple to assassinate a despotic ruler at the ruler's extravagant public birthday celebration. Two other men from the south Shaolin temple also set out to assassinate the ruler, but all three fail and are chased all over by soldiers. Meanwhile, one of the southerners turns out to be a cross-dressed woman, who is also discovered to wear a footbell to match Jet Li's, meaning they are somehow slated for an arranged marriage.
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Movie: Revenge of the Ninja ( 1983 )
After his family is killed in Japan by ninjas, Cho and his son Kane come to America to start a new life. He opens a doll shop but is unwittingly importing heroin in the dolls. When he finds out that his friend has betrayed him, Cho must prepare for the ultimate battle he has ever been involved in.
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Movie: The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter ( 1984 )
Mongols with the help of an insider, ambush the influential Yang Family, defenders of the dynasty. The Mongols must hunt down all Yang survivors so their insidious plot to overthrow the dynasty will not be uncovered.
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Movie: Red Beard ( 1965 )
In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.
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Movie: Shi ren guan shi ba qi ( 1980 )
Wu Shao Tung is raised to be the leader of the Wu Tang clan, who previously have been defeated by the evil Yen Chan tin and his clan. He is taught roughly and is shown how to defeat the Unbeaten 18, a cave of treacherous traps.
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Movie: The Vampire Raiders ( 1988 )
The fate of the entire hotel industry is at stake. A group of evil black ninjas have threatened to insinuate themselves into the industry, take over, and transform the operation into something unspeakable.
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Movie: Heart of Dragon ( 1985 )
Story of a cop who forsakes his dreams of sailing around the world so that he can care for his mentally disabled brother. Innocently caught up in a gangland fight, the brother is kidnapped to force the cop to turn over a police informant.
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Movie: Hapkido ( 1972 )
Korea, 1934. During the Japanese occupation, there is open warfare between rival martial arts schools. There is a fight in the marketplace, and three Chinese students can't stand the unfair way of students that side up with the invasors, when they gang assault one of the fighting men. Between the three, they send the aggressors away. Retaliation is heavy: their school is destroyed, and they are banished. They return to China, and start their own school, and set out on good-will visits to the other martial arts schools, only to find that everybody in their neighbourhood is already dominated by the Japanese. They have many kung fu fights to win, before they eventually manage to establish peace.
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Movie: Shootfighter: Fight to the Death ( 1993 )
Nick and Ruben are hoodwinked into a "shootfighter" (no-holds-barred, to the death) martial arts match by the evil Mr. Lee, who has a grudge against world shootfighter champ(and teacher of Nick and Ruben) Shingo.
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Movie: The Master ( 1980 )
Although injured, a martial-arts expert teaches an orphan his methods.
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Movie: The Hand of Death ( 1976 )
A survivor of an attack on a rebel group opposing the Manchu invasion of China creates the Goose Fist fighting technique and tries for revenge on a traitor.
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Movie: Full Contact ( 1992 )
Two disreputable friends get tied in with a group of criminals who turn out to be excessively violent and deceptive.
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Movie: A Touch of Zen ( 1971 )
A lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in her endeavors by an unambitious painter and skilled Buddhist monks.