martial arts/sword movies OR asian cinema in general

[cheezyridr]

i used to collect them.  i got up to almost 800 titles the first time. the 2nd time i made it back as far as 600 before i gave up due to changing formats and somethings becoming unavailable.  some of my favorites are listed below. any of you who like this stuff please post your favorites

 

crouching tiger hidden dragon :  possibly the greatest movie ever filmed.  i can recite the dialog to the entire movie i know every detail of every scene.  i've watched it dozens of times.

 

a tale of two sisters: i had to watch this movie 3 times before i finally understood everything that happens in it.  hitchcock would have been jealous of this film.

 

when the last sword is drawn: a fictional tale woven from historical events at the end of the boshin war.  an extremely sad film, but also very rich.

 

a moment to remember:  if you can watch this movie without tearing up you have no soul, or possibly, no tear ducts.

 

grave of the fireflies:  saddest cartoon ever made, in the history of earth.

[roadwarrior]

Bruce Lee Story Of The Dragon

 

 

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Ip Man

[NYWayfarer]

My favorite martial arts movie to this day is Five Deadly Venoms. If those styles were real I would want to learn Toad or Snake style.
 

Black Mask and the Heroic Trio get honorable mention.

 

As far as Asian cinema goes my favorite film would be Comrades: Almost a Love Story. I am a big Maggie Cheung fan.

[Russ E]

Not Asian, but lone wolf Mcquade is probably my favorite martial arts movies.

 

for Asian martial arts movies.

Enter the dragon. Bruce Lee

Drunken master. Jackie Chan

[cheezyridr]

22 hours ago, NYWayfarer said:

My favorite martial arts movie to this day is Five Deadly Venoms. If those styles were real I would want to learn Toad or Snake style.
 

Black Mask and the Heroic Trio get honorable mention.

 

As far as Asian cinema goes my favorite film would be Comrades: Almost a Love Story. I am a big Maggie Cheung fan.

hell yeah!   5 deadly venoms is a good one!  and also, heroic trio because i LOVE  michelle yeoh,  anita mui, (r.i.p.) and  the lovely joey wong. 

22 hours ago, Russ E said:

Not Asian, but lone wolf Mcquade is probably my favorite martial arts movies.

 

for Asian martial arts movies.

Enter the dragon. Bruce Lee

Drunken master. Jackie Chan

enter the dragon is good, but i like  chinese connection best because of the cool lotus move he does when he fights the white guy. the one where it looks like bruce has 10 arms.  besides, that story is very loosely based on a true story, and i've  seen that same story from a bunch of different perspectives. 

 

drunken master is great, but i like return of the drunken master best. partly because i loved anita mui so much. her comedic style was perfect for jackie chan.  wong fei hung is kind of the chinese robin hood/superman. he (the character  fei hung) appears in dozens of stories doing all manner of amazing feats. 

 

 

 

you guys being familiar with the genre might really like  seeing 3 other movies 

 

raid, and raid redemption : fantastic fight scenes, raid 1 is pretty much an hour and a half of non-stop action

 

chocolate:  with jee ja yanin.  she was initially billed as the  female tony jaa. (ong bak, the protector)  the cool thing is the movie is all stunts with no nets, no wires.  when you see people fall off of buildings to the street, that's real.  those 2 people  went to the hospital.  they weren't supposed to fall off, but they put the footage in the movie anyhow.

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6 hours ago, cheezyridr said:

ong bak

Oh forgot about this one. +++

[Bass Rutten]

Kung fu hustle was an instant classic.

 

[cheezyridr]

53 minutes ago, Bassjam2000 said:

Kung fu hustle was an instant classic.

 

if you like that, you would probably like shaolin soccer, and possibly kung fu mahjong.  the landlord from hustle is in that one, she basically plays the same part, sorta kinda. 

but for this type of movie,  nothing beats kung pow. 

 

the funniest part of the entire movie is what happened after the movie.  as a cliche' there are several spots in the movie that mention a sequel.  at that time, imdb used to have a busy forum.   alot of people on there talked about this movie, and there were gigantic arguments over whether or not there would actually be one.  i mean, threads that went on for dozens of pages of heated arguments.  one day, steve odekirk himself came in there, and basically said it was in there as a joke, and he never had any intention of doing a sequel.  no one believed it was him, and they sorta told him to eff off. after that a moderator informed everyone it was actually him. 

[schplurg]

Yes for Kung Pow! "Eenie meenie minie moe, I wonder where my glove will go!?" But I generally dislike most of these Asian martial arts movies. If they fly around on wires, I'm out. I just don't care for it.

[cheezyridr]

10 minutes ago, schplurg said:

Yes for Kung Pow! "Eenie meenie minie moe, I wonder where my glove will go!?" But I generally dislike most of these Asian martial arts movies. If they fly around on wires, I'm out. I just don't care for it.

alot of folks i know complain about wire-fu being unrealistic, but then they'll watch marvel movies like superman,  or movies where some mary-sue who weighs 100 lbs beats up multiple 200 lb men, or shoot outs where the hero never has to reload, and makes 200 yard shots with a snub nose  38. not saying that's you (but is it?) 

but that's the difference between wushu, and wuxia

 

all that side, no one mentioned it, so i will:  my absolute favorite fight of all time. it has been copied and parodied more times than any other, as far as i know. roddy piper and keith david, in the documentary "they live"

 

or this one

 

 

[schplurg]

On 9/20/2020 at 7:32 PM, cheezyridr said:

alot of folks i know complain about wire-fu being unrealistic, but then they'll watch marvel movies like superman,  or movies where some mary-sue who weighs 100 lbs beats up multiple 200 lb men, or shoot outs where the hero never has to reload, and makes 200 yard shots with a snub nose  38. not saying that's you (but is it?) 

but that's the difference between wushu, and wuxia

 

all that side, no one mentioned it, so i will:  my absolute favorite fight of all time. it has been copied and parodied more times than any other, as far as i know. roddy piper and keith david, in the documentary "they live"

 

or this one

 

 

I don't care for super hero movies either. It's pretty much all CG and the programmers should get any oscars, not the actors  And I'm a little tired of so many movies devolving into yet another gun fight. Yawn.

 

Yep, They Live. Another movie I have permanently on my hard drive, along with Kung Pow. Love John Carpenter.

 

I just noticed "documentary" haha. I remember watching that movie when I was young and thinking it was sooo cool. Which it is  

[cheezyridr]

18 hours ago, schplurg said:

Love John Carpenter.

 

I just noticed "documentary"

i dig carpenter alot too.  carpenter himself called "they live" a documentary.   these days,  it doesn't seem like he was kidding...

 

but that aside, one of the things he did that i like best, is barely more than 3 minutes long.  if he had ever made this short into a feature length film, i have no doubt it would have been a success the likes of which we have never seen previously

 

https://youtu.be/R1D3Sj_bzVQ

 

i had to display it as a link instead of embedding it as a video, the thumbnail might have been an issue

Edited September 24, 2020 by cheezyridr
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