Best Action movies of 1972

Actors : Charlene Jones, Sid Haig, Pat Woodell, John Ashley,
Directors : Eddie Romero,

A foreign correspondent is kidnapped and used for human prey.

Actors : Kunie Tanaka, Mayumi Nagisa, Yôko Mihara, Bunta Sugawara,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he's released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has swept him aside for being too violent.

Actors : Slim Pickens, Anne Archer, James Coburn, Lois Nettleton,
Directors : Steve Ihnat,

An over-the-hill rodeo champion is so self-centered that he ignores his wife, son, and best friend.

Actors : Fujio Suga, Meiko Kaji, Shin'ichi Chiba, Shingo Yamashiro,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

Nami(played by Meiko Kaji) returns to Tokyo to find the man who killed her father 13 years ago. On the way she saves a young woman named Hanae who's father had sold her for prostitution. ...

Actors : D'Urville Martin, Ed Cambridge, Billy Dee Williams, Celia Milius,
Directors : Oscar Williams,

Black revolutionaries take action in the white suburbs.

Actors : Akiko Koyama, Tsunehiko Watase, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

Nami is an ex-convict who becomes a hostess to support a sick woman who bailed her out. In doing so, she gets involved in a local gangster's scheme to take over the bar she works for.

Actors : Dixie Peabody, Clyde Ventura, Joanne Moore Jordan, Terry Mace,
Directors : Barbara Peeters,

Tautly directed biker film, told from the woman's point of view. The heroine sets out on the road to avenge her brother's murder, toting a shotgun and meaning business.

Actors : Kayo Matsuo, Atsuo Nakamura, Sanae Kitabayashi, Yoshio Harada,
Directors : Kazuo Ikehiro,

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they marry...

Actors : Rika Aoki, Kazuko Nagamoto, Masami Souda, Michi Nono,
Directors : Kô Nakahira,

First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.

Actors : Hung Pai, Fei Meng, Lin Lin Li, Yasuaki Kurata,
Directors : Yang Ming Tsai,

A gifted but proud young martial arts student injures and kills an opponent. In retaliation , his father is killed. The young student vows revenge and begins to prepare for his epic face-off.

Actors : Ching Tien, Kuan Tai Chen, Mu Chu, Li Ching,

Chen Kuan-tai exuded incredible power on screen, which his directors used to great advantage in this fight-filled follow-up to the smash hit The Boxer From Shantung -- which culminates in ...

Actors : Vonetta McGee, Calvin Lockhart, Rosalind Cash, Paul Stevens,
Directors : Hugh A. Robertson,

A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It ...

Actors : Pawana Chanajit, Pi-bo Au, Lau Chan, Ying Bai,
Directors : Tin Chi Ng,

The evil Japanese are challenging kung fu masters to death duels and they are winning until one school learns to adapt and overcome by combining styles. Some drunken boxing helps along the way.

Actors : Gisela Hahn, Raf Baldassarre, Brad Harris, Daniele Vargas,
Directors : Bitto Albertini,

ZAMBO is king of the jungle! Deep in the jungles of central Africa, a lone figure moves swiftly through the trees. Often heard, sometimes seen, but never forgotten, the legend of ZAMBO is ...

Actors : Prem Chopra, Shatrughan Sinha, Amitabh Bachchan, Laxmi Chhaya,
Directors : Mukul Dutt,

Bombay-based bachelor Jai Shankar Rai lets his superiors, as well as his boss, Ranjeet Choudhary, use his flat at night so that they can have their flings with women. He meets and fall in ...

Actors : Ryôhei Uchida, Yûjirô Ishihara, Mikio Narita, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

The second live-action film about the adventures of three ronin: Jubei, Sunlight, and Moonlight, who dedicate their lives to hunt down "shadows", the ninja spies of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Actors : Sofia Moran, Virginia Aristorenas, Max Alvarado, Paquito Diaz,
Directors : Cesar Gallardo,

FOR ADULT'S ONLY.

Actors : Sung-il Shin, Do-hie Jin, No-shik Park, Yeon-jeong Woo,
Directors : No-shik Park,

Communist agent Dong-shin and South Korean agent Dong-geun don't realize they are brothers when they set out to kill each other in the name of revenge.

Actors : Terry Moore, Gay Perkins, Cyril Poitier, George Montgomery,
Directors : Robert W. Stringer,

A top auto racer goes to work as a driver for a drug-smuggling ring.

Actors : Yung-Kyoon Sin, John Ireland, Victor Buono, Anita Ekberg,
Directors : David Lowell Rich,

Three adventurers--at times competing with each other, at other times allied with each other--search South Korea for a magical sword that is supposed to imbue its owner with wealth and power.