Best Martial Arts movies of 1970s

Actors : Phil Hoover, Sondra Currie, Tony Young, Elizabeth Stuart,
Directors : Lee Frost,

A lady cop infiltrates an all-female criminal gang.

Actors : Richard Harrison, Bruce Le, Jang Lee Hwang, 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 : Yun Ling, Hua Yueh, Tony Liu, Li Ching,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

Following such hits as Killer Clans and Clans Of Intrigue, the winning team of director Chu Yuan and novelist Ku Lung reunite with revered martial art choreographers Tang Chia and Huang ...

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 : Irina Shevchenko, Bruce Le, Yi Tao Chang, Dragon Lee,
Directors : Joseph Kong,

Bruce Lee has just died, but the BSI is swinging into action to salvage the situation. Aided by the brilliant Professor Lucas, cells from the martial arts master's body are removed and ...

Actors : Yen Tsan Tang, Chi Chin Ma, Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

The famous story of the Shaolin Temple's betrayal by the White-Browed Hermit, and the subsequent revenge by Shaolin firebrand Fang Shih-yu, is the stuff of legend. It has been filmed many ...

Actors : Kuan Tai Chen, Yue Wong, Chen Chi Lin, Lung Ti,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A con artist uses Kung Fu to swindle villagers for money by pretending to be possessed by angry gods. However, when the villagers are later threatened by bandits he must use the same skills for good.

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

Two men, one a businessman skilled in Kung Fu, the other a kickboxer discover they are brothers, and together, both in and out of the ring, they must face a crime syndicate. One of the ...

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 : 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 : Yi Chang, Shao Chun Chao, Bruce Li, Kang Chin,
Directors : Tso Nam Lee,

This martial arts movie tries to explain the strange death of the international movie star and kung fu master Bruce Lee. Most of the story centers on a former disciple of Lee who launches a...

Actors : Gloria Hendry, Sherry Jackson, Michael Heit, Robert Viharo,
Directors : Don Edmonds,

A bounty hunter in Los Angeles sets out to track down and stop a masked serial killer who murders women by using kung-fu moves.

Actors : Lung Wei Wang, Tak Yuen, Kuan Tai Chen, Hsueh-Erh Wen,
Directors : Chin-Ku Lu,

Although injured, a martial-arts expert teaches an orphan his methods.

Actors : Siu Tin Yuen, Ka-Yan Leung, Yi Lung Huang, Ling-Lung Ouyang,
Directors : Wing-Cho Yip,

After being beaten by some thugs, police officer Chin Tai Ba (Leung Kar Yan) learns the Sleeping Fist style from martial arts master Chung Yiu (Yuen Siu Tin). After mastering his training, ...

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 : 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 : Phillip Ko, Cecilia Wong, Wei Tung, 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 : Abdolali Homayoon, Ghodratollah Entezami, Parviz Sayyad, Farokhlagha Hushmand,
Directors : Parviz Sayyad,

This spoof of Kung Fu movies begins with Samad, the obtuse troublesome bumpkin boy, busted for the villagers' numerous complaints. Handcuffed to a rough drug smuggler, he is driven to the ...

Actors : Ping Lu, Yu Wang, Fei Lung, Ching Ching Chang,
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.