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famously bankrolled the biggest martial arts movie of all time.
Fusing a Bond-esque globetrotting plot, Jim Kelly’s stick-it-to-the-man attitude, Lalo Schifrin’s funky score and a martial arts tournament that sees some of its finest exponents taking on Lee at his own game, Enter the Dragon is the most fun you will ever have watching bones break.
Carpenter had long wanted to film a martial arts movie and this action-comedy fuses ILM’s customary top-notch effects with fantasy fuelled martial arts mayhem.
This very ’80s feel-good martial arts film plays like Rocky junior as Daniel Larusso (Ralph Macchio), a young boy from the wrong side of town overcomes bullies, led by Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka), wins the girl (Elisabeth Shue) and kicks arse at a tournament beating the cads at the evil Cobra Kai dojo using a “crane kick”.
With his slapstick acrobatic fighting style, comic timing and innovative stunts in films like Drunken Master (1978), Project A (1983) and Police Story (1985), the ever-likeable always smiling Jackie Chan had become one of the most loved martial artists in Hong Kong.
The military man is trying to infiltrate a forbidden underground tournament, sanctioned for centuries by the Black Dragon Society, that sees the world’s best martial artists duking it out.
Belgium clash with a succession of fighters, including Bolo Yeung who played one of Bruce Lee’s formidable opponents in Enter the Dragon.
Boasting an all-star cast including Lucy Liu, Russell Crowe, Jamie Chung, Dave Bautista and the RZA who also directed this lavishly staged ultra-violent martial arts gorefest, The Man With The Iron Fist punches above its weight.
Co-written by rapper RZA and torture porn exponent Eli Roth, the film channels spaghetti westerns by way of the infamous Hong Kong filmmakers the Shaw Brothers and their unique brand of martial arts madness.
If you ever wanted to know how one of Hasbro’s most famous sons got their mask and motorbike, then Snake Eyes is the movie for you.
A rotund panda called Po, perfectly voiced by Jack Black, puts the mirth into martial arts in this bright, vibrant Dreamworks animated comedy
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