Best Martial Arts movies of 1970s

Actors : Pomson Shi, Yao Lin Chen, John Cheung, Chiu-Sing Hau,
Directors : Sum Cheung,

A snake style expert travels the lands, imposing his mastery on others, until he runs into a monkey expert living on the edge of a small town, who defeats him soundly. The snake expert ...

Actors : Yasuhiro Shikamura, Feng Tien, Bruce Li, Lieh Lo,

After Chen Zhen's execution in Shanghai, the Japanese feared that his death would unite all Chinese kung fu schools against them. Fearing this, the Japanese gave orders to the head of the ...

Actors : Siu Tin Yuen, Yi-Min Li, Jack Long, Kuan-Wu Lung,
Directors : Joseph Kuo,

Supposedly dead, embittered former official, The Ghost Face Killer has returned and seeking revenge on those martial arts masters than once opposed him - his name is infamous and his Five ...

Actors : Hiroyuki Sanada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Eiji Gô, Yutaka Nakajima,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer in this hard-hitting Toei karate action film.

Actors : David Chiang, Jeanette Yu Wei, Ping Wang, Lung Ti,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

A Kung Fu artist sacrifices everything to avenge his father's execution.

Actors : James Tien, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Hark-On Fung, Sing Chen,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

The Iron-Fisted Monk marks the directorial debut of Sammo Hung (Painted Faces, TVÂ's Martial Law), who used the opportunity to push the envelop in kung fu action films.

Actors : Ka-Yan Leung, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Chia Yung Liu, Lung Chan,
Directors : Chia Yung Liu,

The titular 'Odd Couple' are Sammo (King of Sabres) and Lau Kar Wing (King of Spears). They compete regularly against each other but every encounter results in a draw! Both decide to ...

Actors : Chuck Boyd, Sylvia Chang, Don Wong, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Wei Lo,

A Chinese-American cop, skilled in martial arts, battles the most powerful criminal gang in San Francisco that is responsible for the death of his partner.

Actors : Chia-Hui Liu, Yi Ling Chen, Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

When the ruling dynasty in China sends soldiers to destroy the Shaolin Temple, students use their martial arts to defend the school.

Actors : Pei-Pei Cheng, Hsieh Wang, Szu Shih, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Meng Hua Ho,

A young Kung Fu student (Shih Szu) seeks a reclusive teacher so that she may learn to defeat the evil Black Demon. She doesn't realize that the servant woman she befriends (Cheng Pei-Pei) ...

Actors : David Chiang, Lieh Lo, Norman Chu, Lily Li,
Directors : Ho Meng-Hua,

International favorite, David Chiang, stars as the great Chih Shim, the monk who saved the Southern Shaolin Temple. Joining him is Lo Lieh, the Shaws' first international star who returns ...

Actors : David Chiang, Lung Ti, Miao Ching, Li Ching,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

This 1971 top ten hit - a post-Chinese Revolution action adventure of rebels battling warlords -- is another great example of its famed director, stars, and kung-fu choreographer's talen and charisma.

Actors : Phillip Ko, Wei Tung, Cecilia Wong, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,
Directors : Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung,

In a small town somewhere in 19th-century China, two brothers, each using their own particular style of martial arts, defeat a bully of a fighter who is terrorizing the town. In the ensuing...

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 : Ping Lu, Yu Wang, Ching Ching Chang, Fei Lung,
Directors : Lung Chien,

When the Japanese massacre the people of his fishing village, the Chinese hero of this Kung Fu epic (Jimmy Wang Yu) heads to Japan seeking vengeance.

Actors : Richard Harrison, Jang Lee Hwang, Bruce Le, Nadiuska,

Two CIA agents - a kung fu master (Bruce Le) and a suave womanizer (Richard Harrison) - track the stolen formula for a super-sterility drug from Spain to Hong Kong, battling Neo-Nazi terrorists and a Vietnamese spy ring for its possession.

Actors : Zeki Alpan, Müjdat Gezen, Oktar Durukan, Vural Durukan,
Directors : Hulki Saner,

A Turkish mechanic apprentice is hired by two scholars to replace Chinese kung fu champion Wang Chu, his alike.

Actors : Jun Chong, Deborah Dutch, Anthony Bronson, Su-cheon Bae,
Directors : Doo-yong Lee,

A lightning bolt strikes the grave of Bruce Lee. However, that is as much as Bruce Lee has to do with it. Then a kung fu instructor starts a quest to avenge a friend's death, and on the way...

Actors : Sheng Chiang, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Li Wang, Feng Lu,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

When director Chang Chen found new talent and blood with "The Five Venoms" actors, most of which were trained in the highly acrobatic Chinese opera and well versed with exotic martial arts ...