Stephen Chow - IMDb. Stephen Chow was the only boy of his family, and has grown up as a Bruce Lee fan and a martial arts addict.

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Kung Fu Hustle Set in the social of China in the 1940s, gangs have enormous impact. They go to anywhere with terror. He stumbles into a slum ruled by eccentric. A sub-genre of the action film, martial arts films contain numerous martial arts fights between characters, usually as the films'. Kung Fu Hustle is a 2004 Hong Kong-Chinese martial arts gangster comedy film, directed, co-produced and co-written by Stephen Chow, who also stars in the lead role. These movies kick some serious butt! We explore 15 of the greatest martial arts movies of all time - some silly, some gory, all awesome!

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Martial Arts Movies Worth Fighting For. Martial arts movies are not for everyone, but they are for more people than you might think. Watch Chain Reaction Online Free 2016. Just because the emphasis of a movie is a series of long fights doesn’t mean there isn’t room for a great plot, script, acting, set and costume design, or all of the above. The reason we are writing this list is two- fold: (1) many people have never seen a martial arts movie and have no idea where to start, and (2) for the folks that have seen and love martial arts movies this list is intended to maybe highlight some that have been forgotten, while not straying too far from the classics. We have excluded samurai films, not because the samurai way of fighting isn’t a martial art, but because samurai films warrant a list of their own. Some of these movies are included for their incredible fight choreography, some for their comedy, some for their outlandishness, and some for their beauty. We cover a wide swath in this list, and would love you all to fill in the gaps in the comments.

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These are 1. 5 Martial Arts Movies Worth Fighting For. The Raid: Redemption. The first movie on our list comes out of Indonesia.

Many Western moviegoers don’t think ‘Indonesia’ when they think of a martial arts film. In fact, many Western moviegoers don’t think of Indonesian films as a thing at all.

We are happy to report that not only is Indonesian film a thing, but that this one is absolutely stellar. The Raid: Redemption is the most visceral and brutal movie on our list. This film focuses on a special police unit having to go up a tenement building infested with criminals in order to reach a crime boss at the top.

The criminals aren’t happy the police are there, responding with deadly force. This causes the police to have to respond in kind, and we watch Officer Rama carve his way up the building. The fighting is all primarily based on silat; a fighting art native to Indonesia and surrounding countries.

Both the criminals and cops also use guns and machetes and knives to get the job done. The film is very fighting- centric, and uses the cramped and dank interior of the tenement building almost as another character. There is a hallway fight scene that has to be seen to be believed; and puts the Daredevil hallway fight to shame. Not a traditional martial arts movie by any means, this is still an incredible film and worth your time if you are able to stomach realistic violence. It also spawned a very good sequel that is arguably better than the original.

Riki- Oh (aka The Story Of Ricky)Riki- Oh stands, in one sense, on the diametric opposite end of the martial arts movie spectrum to The Raid. Riki- Oh is a Hong Kong- made film adapted from a Japanese manga. The titular character surrenders himself to the police after having killed a crime lord (the crime lord had kidnapped Ricky’s girlfriend after she witnessed a heroin deal… and she then leaped to her death in captivity). He then runs afoul of the uber- corrupt warden of his prison and the Gang Of Four, who are semi- magical inmates that control each of the four cell blocks of the prison and are in cahoots with the warden. Riki- Oh is hyper- violent and cartoonishly gory. Martial arts masters are capable of puncturing, or even exploding, flesh and bone with a strike. People can do things in the movie that are completely impossible in real life and, despite the disgusting bloodiness that is resultant, makes this movie a really fun romp. In the early days of The Daily Show, a clip of a guy’s head being splattered in this movie was a go- to for host Craig Kilborn, and appeared in virtually every episode of Kilborn’s run.

Five Element Ninjas (aka Super Ninjas aka Chinese Super Ninjas)Not all fighting movies have to be serious. As with Riki- Oh before it, Five Element Ninjas falls on the more cartoony side of things. The film, released in 1. Hong Kong studio Shaw Brothers (the Warner Brothers- esque Shaw Brothers shield on a movie is a virtual guarantee that there will be at least some redeeming quality to the film) at a time where interest in the traditional kung fu film was waning. Five Element Ninjas takes a standard kung fu film, with standard plot tropes, and just bathes it in a pool of weirdness and early ’8. The resultant film is a glorious and colorful extravaganza. Ninjas, using techniques that mirror the five elements (fire, water, earth, wood, and dressing up in gold), trap and kill the students of a kung fu school.

The lone survivor from the school teams up with some friends and trains in the ways of the ninja in order to seek vengeance. The costuming is ridiculous, the weapons are absurd (think killer stilts), and the action is a little bloodier and cringe- worthy than you would think.

This is a party movie of the highest order, and is sure to have you and your friends talking for a long time. Rumble In The Bronx. This movie was released in the U. S. more than a year after it was originally released, but it was America’s introduction to Jackie Chan. Chan was already a legend of Hong Kong cinema, and had starred in dozens of movies (he recently won an honorary Oscar for all his film work, and has 1. IMDB). To this day, people who are unfamiliar with Jackie Chan (hard to believe anybody would be in this day and age) would be well off using this movie as a starting point.

Chan plays Keung, who is visiting his uncle in New York and helping mind his market. He beats up and chases away some ridiculous gang members (all the gang members in this movie dress like rejects from Grease or In Living Color). This leads him down a rabbit hole that winds up with him taking on a crime syndicate. The plot is absurd, but it allows Chan to pull out all his Jackie Chan stops. The Clown Prince of Kung Fu is famous for his ability to comically improvise during a fight or a chase; using whatever is within arm’s reach to give him an advantage.

Thanks to his expressive acting, we get to see his entire thought process, and get wowed multiple times along the way. Just be sure to stay tuned through the credits, because you’ll see b- roll of him attempting his stunts (he does all his own). Duel To The Death. At its heart, the movie is about two swordsmen, including a samurai. But this is far from a traditional samurai film. The movie’s premise is that there is a traditional contest between a champion from China and one from Japan to prove who has the best swordsmanship. There is more underhanded action afoot surrounding the lead- up to the titular Duel to the Death.

The fighting is pretty tremendous, and this film is of the school of wire work (that’s acrobatics and flight by use of barely visible wires, and a staple of the martial arts movie genre) where true martial artists can perform superhuman feats. Much of the fantastical element comes from the ever- present ninjas in the movie, who manage to do all kinds of amazingly ridiculous things (including forming a squad of ninjas into one giant ninja and burrowing through sand like moles on speed). The action throughout is top notch, but where this movie really shines is the epic final duel, which will make you want to stand up and salute those brave men. Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior. This is the only other title from a Southeast Asian country on this list.

As with Rumble in the Bronx and Jackie Chan this movie put Tony Jaa on the map with American audiences. While Jaa isn’t the household name that Chan is, Jaa has had a very successful film career largely on the back of this phenomenal movie. Jaa’s fighting is primarily based around muay boran, a form of muay Thai that is all flying elbows and knees. While you don’t get the prolonged chess match fights of a Shaw Brothers film in Ong Bak, the combat is much more visceral and brutal feeling, and has a beauty all its own. It’s pretty safe to say that if you get a flying double elbow to the top of your skull your fight is pretty much over. In fact, there is a great little homage to Raiders of the Lost Ark in which Jaa drops a combatant in an underground match with one blow.