martial arts films anyone ?

[ultraman]

i would actually love to see quentin tarantino remake the five deadly venoms! :ninja

I keep telling Steve Wang that he should take the initiative on remaking The Five Deadly Venoms.


David

 

[Murdoch]

i would actually love to see quentin tarantino remake the five deadly venoms! :ninja

OK then hypothetically speaking, which actor would you all want to play each character? GM
I would also like to see it streamed over a couple of movies. Say like 1 film per venom, 6th film teacher get poisoned and recruits and trains the final pupil. 7th movie the battle begins...GM

 

[Raza Crew]

Daggers 8

 

[Jamie Ridder]

Watch IP man! all three parts are on netflix. I highly recommend these

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kung fu killer is a fun one too

 

[George]

Although it's not a movie,if you can get your hands on a sample,try find National Geographic's Myth and Logic of Shaolin kung fu on dvd.

 

[11B30B4]

Walrus1703, I am not as much a fan of Kung-fu films as I am of Japanese films; however, I agree with most of the suggestions here. I also suggest the Japanese films:

When I consider Japanese cinema I classify films into three categories:

Epic: (You simply must see these films)
Ran: 1985- Akira Kurosawa (Kurosawa’s masterpiece, very long and amazing shot re-interpretation of King Lear)
Seven Samurai: 1956- Akira Kurosawa (set the bar for Samurai films and kick started the post WWII Japanese film industry)
Yojimbo: 1961- Akira Kurosawa
The Sword of Doom: 1966- Kihachi Okamoto
Throne of Blood: 1957- Akira Kurosawa (Kurosawa’s re-interpretation of Macbeth)
Zatoichi (Shintaro Katsu’s version): 1989- Shintaro Katsu

Very Good:
Yojimbo: 1961- Akira Kurosawa
Rashomon: 1950- Akira Kurosawa
13 Assassins: 2010- Takashi Miike
The Twilight Samurai: 2002- Yoji Yamada
Samurai Assassin: 1965- Kihachi Okamoto
Harakiri: 1964- Masaki Kobayashi
The 47 Ronin: 1941- Kenji Mizoguchi
Kagemusha: 1980- Akira Kurosawa
Rurouni Kenshin: 2012- Keishi Ohtomo (Live action version of Manga and Anime know in the US as Samurai X, there are three films and all of them were fun to watch)
Samurai Fiction: 1998- Hiroyuki Nakano (not completely serious but fun all the same)

Not completely Japanese but strong ties with the Japanese film industry:
Shogun: 1980- Jerry London
The Last Samurai: 2003- Edward Zwick

And lastly, if you want a fantastic Japanese movie that is not martial arts but feels like Band of Brothers and Pearl Harbor rolled into one film, I suggest:

Yamato: 2005- Jun’ya Sato

Well I am sure there are a ton of others here who can add to this list, hope this helps.

 

[Axlotl]

Chocolate with girl main star JeeJa Yanin. So cool.

Chocolate was GREAT!

 

[Monkey67]

AMC does Kung Fu / martial art movie every Friday night now

 

[SofaKing01]

One of the greatest martial arts movies of all times (IMO) is Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon. It still holds up after 40+ years

 

[dascoyne]

Mostly classics listed above. Let's look at modern ones, too.

Flash Point is good

 

[D3adrock]

No love for Master of the Flying Guillotine? And has anyone mentioned Iron Monkey? And if only for costumes, I highly recommend the documentary A Warriors Journey that comes with the special edition Enter the Dragon because it contains all know original footage of Game of Death (Favorite movie name ever) arranged in a way to make a sort of cobbled together version thats still better than the original in my opinion.

 

[0neiros]

I saw as a kid the Bruce Lee movies First run in the theater with my Dad. I love a good "Chop-Soki" movie on a rainy afternoon. One of my all time favorites, blending marital arts with westerns - Red Sun with Charles Bronson and Toshiro Mifune. Fact my Best Friends Father (who lives in Austria) and Toshiro were good friends. and every few years Toshiro wold come to visit, and he and my friends dad would rip across eastern Europe drinking and partying. I would have loved to have been on one of those. Apparently Toshiro could pack the food away in epic proportions.

I thought the recent "The Man with the Iron Fists" was a blast. Russell Crowe just chewed up every scene he was in. Greatest Chop-Soki film title I have ever run across - Duel of the Tough.