Best Action Comedy movies of 1979

Actors : Ann Sothern, Chris Petersen, Pat Petersen, Charles Lane,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

Karate experts attempt to rescue a girl who was kidnapped by a mother and her two psycho sons.

Actors : Meg Lam, Siu Tin Yuen, Lau Chan, Bruce Li,
Directors : Bong Luk,

A well-to-do villager decides learning kung fu is the best way to protect himself and his family from the local gangsters. But the mentor he visits is a conman who is only after his money.

Actors : Meng Lo, Jason Pai Piao, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Feng Lu,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Two friends who long to be heroes join the fight against a Ching warlord and his students. They get help from a Kung Fu student and a rebel. They also save Hung Si Quan's life.

Actors : Raymond Lui, Ling Chia, Hua Chung Ting, Chi Ping Chang,
Directors : Raymond Lui,

A beautiful young girl secretly learns the deadly art of the Crane Technique against the wishes of her father.

Actors : Dean Shek, Jen-Ping Su, Hua Tsung, Kuang Yang,
Directors : Jen-Ping Su,

This non-stop Kung-Fu action/comedy film is about a young man whose father forbids him from continuing his martial arts training. Leaving home, he soon falls under the guidance of a Kung-Fu...

Actors : Jang Lee Hwang, Lau Chan, Chi-Chang Ho, Kar-Yung Lau,
Directors : Hsiang Fang,

Yuen Chu & Yuen Qiu, star as two sisters whose family is slayed by the merciless 'Ghost Leg Killer' (Hwang Jang Lee). They change their names and go into hiding to perfect their kung fu ...

Actors : Siu Tin Yuen, Yi-Min Li, Tien Hsiang Lung, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Ti Tang,

A wealthy man sends his young son away to learn Kung Fu from the drunken master. When he returns he gets involved in a fight between a local thug, who employs various fighters to do away ...

Actors : Kwok Choi Hon, Jason Pai Piao, Ming-Tsai Wu, Hoi Sang Lee,

Young pork butcher Lam Sai Wing and his fishmonger friend run afoul of some local thugs. A local doctor and martial artist Wong Fei Hung, trains them to fight and they take on the thugs' boss.

Actors : Angela Luce, Gianni Garko, Marco Girondino, Nunzio Gallo,
Directors : Alfonso Brescia,

Gennarino is a Neapolitan orphan boy. He lives with Angela his adoptive mother, a former famous singer now fallen in the dust. She has a serious illness, and they together try to get the ...

Actors : Vijaya Bhanu, Aparna, Manju Bhargavi, Agha,
Directors : Rama Rao Tatineni,

Amar lives a poor lifestyle along with his widowed mom in a village, and has a sweetheart in Savitri. He is a trouble-maker and makes life difficult for the Panchayat Chair, Kalicharan, who...

Actors : David Chiang, Phillip Ko, Norman Chu, Lily Li,
Directors : Eric Tsang,

The mysterious fighter Kam Ching Hung turns up at several martial arts schools and challenges leaders to duels, apparently with no discernible motive.

Actors : Yuet Sang Chin, Michelle Yim, Alan Chung San Chui, Dupar Singh,
Directors : Chuan Chen,

Tiger partakes in a Kung Fu contest, he wins the contest and the grand prize: the right to marry the daughter of the town's most wealthy figure. In order for Tiger to marry Ting, Tiger must...

Actors : Hua Yueh, Nancy Yen, Lieh Lo, Feng Shih,
Directors : Jen-Chieh Chang,

After several years, a legendary swordsman returns to save the villagers from a highly trained army of swordsmen and their leader.

Actors : Kara Hui, Kar-Yung Lau, Ha Huang, Jui-yi Liu,
Directors : Chi Lo,

When young Tieh Chiao San is sent by his dying father to live with a former kung fu colleague in the town, he accidentally gets into trouble when messing with a gang running a snake-oil ...

Actors : Tony Lorea, Stanley Livingston, James Keach, Alvy Moore,
Directors : Anthony Cardoza,

CB runaways attempt to rob an armored car.

Actors : Man-Biu Bak, Mary Hon, Biao Yuen, Ga-Ming Chan,

A hostile Kung Fu gym takeover is orchestrated by the Gold Haired Lion (Kwan Hoi San). After the gym's Sifu and family dies, the student named Mo and his wise guy sidekick, further their kung fu studies to take revenge for their master.

Actors : Ti Ai, Dai Ling, Yen Ho, Hsi Tang,
Directors : Chi Lu,

Three females from a private detective agency are hired to find out what happened to a man who went missing while scuba diving.

Actors : Nick Tate, Gary Hope, Gareth Hunt, Fiona Curzon,
Directors : Lindsay Shonteff,

A British secret agent sent to America to rescue a nobleman comes up against an evil genius who is replacing people in important positions with clones who will do his bidding.

Actors : Dean Shek, Yi-Min Li, Ping Ou Wei, Kun Li,
Directors : Lung Huang,

Dead Eye and his gang are terrorizing a small Chinese region. Chan Ling and his group of misfit friends take it upon themselves to stop evildoers by learning the Super Kung Fu style. ...

Actors : Chia Yung Liu, Chia-Hui Liu, Lieh Lo, Hoi Sang Lee,
Directors : Chia Yung Liu,

Gordon Liu stars in this Kung Fu comedy as an undercover Shaolin Monk. While searching for a fugitive who has wronged the order, the Master (Liu) uncovers a scheme to steal the priceless ...