Martial Arts Mayhem
If you like highly-trained kung-fu masters with hands that should be registered as lethal weapons beating the heck out of each other in the coolest and most incredibly choreographed ways then you are going to love Martial Arts Mayhem.
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Disciples of the 36th Chamber (Cantonese version)
1985 • Hong Kong • Directed by Lau Kar-leung
Gordon Liu reprises his famous Monk San Te role as he tries to support and protect Shaolin her Fang Shih-yu who purposely attacks corrupt Ching officials.
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Mad Monkey Kung Fu (Cantonese version)
1979 • Hong Kong • Directed by Lau Kar-leung
A disgraced former Kung Fu expert makes a living as a merchant with the help of a hot headed friend. When the men are harassed by gangsters, the merchant decided to teach his friend monkey boxing so they can defend their business.
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Five Superfighters (Cantonese version)
1979 • Hong Kong • Directed by John Law Ma
Three young martial arts students and their teacher are beaten up badly by a wandering man who proclaims himself "a corrector of bad kung-fu."Determined to avenge their teacher and regain their honor, the three students all go their seperate ways to fin...
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Invincible Shaolin (Mandarin version)
1978 • Hong Kong • Directed by Chang Cheh
Three North Shaolin teachers are called on by the Manchus to teach their soldiers and are urged to challenge the current South Shaolin teachers. They defeat the South Shaolin teachers and, that night, the head general kills the South Shaolin teachers and...
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The Kid with the Golden Arm (Mandarin version)
1979 • Hong Kong • Directed by Chang Cheh
Jin bei tong opens with a group of escort guards preparing to move a shipment of gold from the local government to an area stricken by famine... one of the very few Venom films where all six Venom actors are present within a single film.
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Magnificent Ruffians (Mandarin version)
1979 • Hong Kong • Directed by Chang Cheh
Venom regulars Philip Kwok, Chiang Sheng, and Sun Chien star as a gang of unemployed martial artists who spend their days stuffing their faces at local restaurants and letting the staff beat them up instead of paying the bill. Their fortunes appear to im...
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Ten Tigers of Kwangtung (Mandarin version)
1979 • Hong Kong • Directed by Chang Cheh
Ming partisan Chu who is on the run from Manchu forces. Local merchant and kung fu enthusiast Li Chen-chau gives the fugitive shelter in his pawnshop and quietly recruits some of his fellow martial master associates to help protect the lad. When Li's pro...
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My Young Auntie (Cantonese version)
1981 • Hong Kong • Directed by Lau Kar-leung
Cheng, a beautiful martial arts ace, battles to keep her inheritance from the ruthless Yun Wei, but her efforts are sabotaged by Yu Tao, her wayward and irrepressible great-nephew. Following a frenzy of spectacular comic mishaps, the hapless duo are s...
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Mercenaries from Hong Kong (Cantonese version)
1982 • Hong Kong • Directed by Wong Jing
Ti Lung plays a Vietnam vet who's now an 'honourable' mercenary-for-hire taking on an assignment tracking down an assassin who's fled to Cambodia after murdering an industrialist from Hong Kong. He recruits a team for the task which consists of who's who ...
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The Boxer's Omen (Cantonese version)
1983 • Hong Kong • Directed by Kuei Chih-Hung
After suffering an injury in the ring, embattled boxer Zhen Wei enlists the aid of his brother, Zhen Xiong, to avenge him and find the key to an omen which may release their family from an ancient curse. Black wizards, Taoist monks, rampaging monster...
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Martial Arts of Shaolin (Mandarin version)
1986 • Hong Kong • Directed by Lau Kar-leung
In ancient China, Zhi Ming trains at the legendary Northern Shaolin temple to avenge the death of his father at the hands of a nefarious magistrate.
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The Bare Footed Kid (Cantonese version)
1993 • Hong Kong • Directed by Johnnie To
A poor barefoot young man from the country arrives in the city to start work with the friend of his dead father.
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Come Drink With Me
1966 • Hong Kong • Directed by King Hu
Years before Shaw Brothers’ kung fu films made them the biggest film studio in Hong Kong, local audiences flocked to their wuxia pian films: mythic tales of swordfighting (and often gravity-defying) heroes fighting for honor. In his final film for the studi...
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The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter
1984 • Hong Kong • Directed by Chia-Liang Liu
After one of its lead actors (cherub-faced action icon Alexander Fu Sheng) unexpectedly died midway through production, master director Lau Kar-leung (The 36th Chamber of Shaolin) retooled his latest martial arts epic, The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter, as ...