Best Martial Arts movies of 1980s

Actors : Biao Yuen, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Rosamund Kwan, Olivia Cheng,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Multi-genre flick (western, martial arts, comedy, adventure, etc.) with an all-star cast about a man who returns to his home town, buys everything in sight, and tries to improve its ...

Actors : Qingfu Pan, Hangcheng Dong, Mark Salzman, Xihong Jiang,
Directors : Shirley Sun,

Mark Salzman always was interested in Kung-Fu and the Chinese culture, claims to have seen every Kung-Fu movie. 1982, with a degree in Chinese literature, he visits a province university in...

Actors : Doug Wright, Cynthia Rothrock, Keith Cooke, Richard Norton,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

China O'Brien; big city police woman; martial arts trainer, is forced to hand in her badge and head home to her father and the small town where she grew up. The peaceful town she knew is ...

Actors : Joe Mari Avellana, Rob Kaman, Billy Blanks, Don Wilson,
Directors : Terence H. Winkless,

Don Wilson plays retired kickboxer Jake Raye, who travels to Manila, where his brother is favored to win a kickboxing competition. His brother is killed, and Jake realizes he must enter the...

Actors : Hope Holiday, Cameron Mitchell, Geoffrey Binney, Jillian Kesner,
Directors : Edward D. Murphy,

A group of martial arts students are en route to an island that supposedly is home to the ghosts of martial artists who have lost their honor. A Hitler lookalike and his gang are running a ...

Actors : Richard Harrison, Jang Lee Hwang, Jonathan Wattis, Maria Francesca,
Directors : Godfrey Ho,

Three martial-arts students search for the Golden Ninja Warrior, a statue reputed to have magic powers.

Actors : Lung Wei Wang, Kara Hui, Chia-Hui Liu, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Lieh Lo,

The monk Hung Wen-Ting fights against the evil priest White Lotus.

Actors : Kara Hui, Hou Hsiao, Chia Yung Liu, Chia-Liang Liu,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A band of killers from an ailing kung fu and magic society are sent on a manhunt for a former member of the society, whose bad mouthing threatens it's existence.

Actors : Hiroyuki Sanada, Michelle Yeoh, Ying Bai, Michael Wong,
Directors : David Chung,

Michelle Yip of the Hong Kong police is a mild-mannered Kung Fu expert; Michael Wong from air security is happy-go-lucky, stuck on himself, constantly talking, and smitten by her; Yamamoto ...

Actors : Jet Li, Stephen Chow, Nina Li Chi, Dick Wei,
Directors : Hin Sing 'Billy' Tang,

Two martial artist friends from China are performing a show in the States. Trouble starts when one of them decides to defect and stay in America.

Actors : Krzysztof Kolberger, Hanna Bieniuszewicz, Bo F. Munthe, Curt Broberg,
Directors : Mats Helge Olsson,

Swedish scientist named Karl Markov is taken hostage by the KGB. After his daughter Nadia is also kidnapped and brought deep into the heart of Russia, a group of highly trained ninjas, led ...

Actors : Joseph Campanella, Loren Avedon, Wanda Acuna, Keith Vitali,
Directors : Lucas Lowe,

Two feuding brothers (one a policeman, the other a martial arts expert) of different political views, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a retired agent, killed by the mafia.

Actors : Idy Chan, Adam Cheng, Chia-Hui Liu, Li Ching,
Directors : Chia-Hui Liu,

Two friends from rival schools are turned against one another by a jealous chief who wants to eliminate those whose fighting styles may rival his own.

Actors : Richard Harrison, David Bowles, Morna Lee, Warren Chan,
Directors : Godfrey Ho,

Two brothers, Warren and David, try to defeat the evil forger who is making their lives a misery.

Actors : Yi Chang, Ka-Yan Leung, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Fanny Wang,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Chung Yao, a martial arts expert, has long been on the run from his stepbrother, who he caught trying to rape his wife on their wedding night. His brother has never given up the chase ...

Actors : Will Egan, Michael David, Gerald Okamura, Kelly Randall,
Directors : Nico Mastorakis,

"Police Academy" styled film offers its laughs at the expense of students of the obvious school for ninjas.

Actors : Olivier Gruner, Theresa Saldana, Frank Aragon, Peter Kwong,
Directors : Eric Karson,

Tenant helps landlord fight off local street gang.

Actors : Leon Isaac Kennedy, Steve Antin, Anthony Geary, Ric Mancini,
Directors : Jamaa Fanaka,

A man is framed for murder and sent to prison. He is beaten and tortured, then forced to fight the prison's worst killer, a martial-arts fighting midget called Thud.

Actors : Meg Lam, Simon Yam, Anzu Lawson, Yasuaki Kurata,
Directors : Shuji Goto,

Years after retiring from the world of free fighting martial arts, a man returns to the deadly world of fighting after his best student is killed in the tournament.

Actors : Joe Mari Avellana, Robert Marius, Rina Reyes, Don Wilson,
Directors : Andy Blumenthal,

Kickboxing champion Jake Raye thought his fighting days were over, until a call from an old friend draws him to the Far East and into the hands of a madman. This time Jake's fighting for ...