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I am compiling martial arts movie scenes for a specific segment of my upcoming movie devoted to celebrating the genre in all its Wa-POW! glory. A montage within a montage, essentially. Focusing on kung-fu and karate to adhere to the East-Asia locale, theme this season. Emphasis on modern, urban, comedic fights/locales as well. I’ll be keeping the tone light, but don’t worry too much about that in making your recs. I’ll figure it out. Bloody is okay. Planning on bumping this up from PG to PG-13 anyway.
Here’s what I have so far, and what I think I still need. Not knowing too much about martial arts, feel free to enlighten me beyond.
What I have so far:
- Enter The Dragon (Bruce Lee)
- A Police Story (Jackie Chan)
- Drunken Master 2 (Jackie Chan)
- Rush Hour (Jackie Chan)
- IP Man (Donnie Yen)
- Karate Kid
What I think I still need:
- Karate! (I Don’t know any karate movies or artists beyond Karate Kid)
- Steven Seagal
- Jean-Claude Van Damme
- Jet-Li
- Mortal Kombat / Street Fighter
- More humor! (Campy)
Add any of your favorites for inclusion in this special section of the upcoming movie: A Crouching Tiger (Out August 14). Speak now or forever hold your, feet😉
E.F.
Hi EF, I used to watch martial arts movies way back in the 80’s and 90’s. Here in the UK a well known TV presenter (and Asian cinema fan) Johnathon Ross, hosted a series of late night showings of Wuxia comedy horror martial arts films. They were collectively known as the Chinese Ghost Stories series and there were six movies shown namely:
Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain
Mr. Vampire
Rouge
Encounters of the Spooky Kind
Spiritual Love
Esprit d’amour
Mr Vampire was produced by Sammo Hung, and all of the movies had crazy set pieces of Crouching Tiger airbender style fighting. These might be worth looking into
I am looking into these and will include in the montage. Good to know about this series and these movies! (Update) Zu Warriors is fantastic!🗻👏🏻
Jackie Chan’s character in “Spiritual Love” as a Shaolin student reminds me of Poe from Kung Fu Panda – always getting into trouble and aggravating the masters.
Hi there, I’ll be honest I haven’t seen the films since the early 90’s so don’t remember all the details. I just recall them being great at the time. They were shown on the UK’s Channel 4 which is a commercial independent company that took chances by showing avant garde, classics and thought provoking shows/films. Glad my recommendation seemed useful though!
Hi again, just a couple more suggestions. First up is “Black Eagle” starring Sho Kosugi (a real life martial artist who was responsible for “Ninjamania” in the early to mid 80’s and is a former World Karate champion). This movie also stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as the henchman named Andrei. Sho Kosugi also starred in a lot of films starting back in 1974 (including The Godfather ptII as an extra!)
The second suggestion is “Above the Law”….no not Seagal but the 1986 Cynthia Rothrock movie that is also known as “Righting Wrongs”. Rothrock also as a string of film credits.
Could be some clips in these two actors’ films.
steven seagal is crucial to any martial arts montage. the pool hall fight in out for justice is chef’s kiss….or you know, you could splice in the part where he gets sucked out of a plane at 30,000ft in Executive Decision, now THAT’S a fan favorite 😉😁😁😁
“Crucial,” I like that. Gotta Respect The 🥋🤨Seagal 😄 Will def revisit those scenes! Many thanks🙏🏼
I think I’ve already given you my input. Good luck with your montage!
Yes, terrific input. (Bows)🙏🏼👍
I like the Carl Douglas video, by the way.
It’s a fun one, isn’t it!🥋😀
Yep. 👍
The only one that comes to mind that you haven’t already included is Bloodsport. It’s Jean-Claude Van Damme and features notable martial artists like Bolo.
Perfect!👊🏼💥 I can cross Van Damme off the list. (Bows)🙏🏼
Perfect! I can cross that one off the list. (Bows)🙏🏼
https://youtu.be/XUGO1cRie7o
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You have a master list! Bruce Lee is one and all, and Jackie Chan is extraordinary. I have seen only one of the Karate Kid movies, but I remember a TV series named Kungfu. I don’t know if you have watched them; I loved them very much. You are doing great, my friend. 🤙🤟
Kung Fu series was ahead of its time and for years I was not sure if was it a TV movie or a series. But was almost more contemplating than action-oriented.
I meant this one. 👇🤙
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_(1972_TV_series)
Yes I know, I found out that later on the internet. But from my memory, I’m not sure if we had the series in my country because I only remember seeing the pilot (many times).
I watched them in Iran many years ago.😉✌
A must-add. Thank you!🙏🏼
Not sure if you mentioned Hero (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgsddFEe9Oc), which is in the spirit of Crouching Tiger… also House of Flying Daggers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GLVaSYzAvg).
Awesome👏🏻