Best Martial Arts movies of 1970s

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 : 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, 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 : Chiu-Sing Hau, Yuan-Chun Wu, Siu-Hung Leung, Austin Wai,
Directors : Mar Lo,

Three young martial arts students and their teacher are beaten up badly by a wandering man who proclaims himself ''a corrector of bad kung-fu.'' Determined to avenge their teacher and ...

Actors : Jennifer Willems, Jon Bluming, Adèle Bloemendaal, Rijk de Gooyer,
Directors : Frans Weisz,

Rick, who runs a pinball arcade, lets a room to Penny, a young teacher and karate fan. Penny gets to know Lilly, a singer who has just been hired with her friend Ed to act in a film. But ...

Actors : Ka-Yan Leung, Siu Tin Yuen, 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 : Phil Hoover, Sondra Currie, Tony Young, Elizabeth Stuart,
Directors : Lee Frost,

A lady cop infiltrates an all-female criminal gang.

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 : Ching-Ping Wang, Sheng Fu, Ming Li Chen, Kuan-Chun Chi,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Impetuous young martial arts master Kuan takes a job at a textile factory where another disciple of the revered Shaolin discipline warns him about the rival Manchu clan, who run another nearby mill.

Actors : Tao-Liang Tan, Fei Meng, Tien Lung Yu, Hui-Shan Yang,
Directors : Wu Ma,

Snake-Crane Secret is a tale of deceit, lying and mistrust. A family tries to uphold their honor, while keeping their Sacred Kung-Fu book from getting into the wrong hands.

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 : Harve Presnell, Doris Roberts, Curt Dawson, Jack Somack,
Directors : Joel M. Reed,

The cast of a horror film go out for dinner with their director one night and they all exchange horror stories.

Actors : Carter Wong, Kuei Chang, Chi-Min Chin, Bruce Li,

Bruce Li plays a young kung fu expert (and waiter) who is trying to live peacefully in San Francisco with his marital arts-challenged friend. But they run afoul of some American thugs, and the fight is on...right!

Actors : George Memmoli, Geoffrey Binney, Jim Kelly, Irene Tsu,
Directors : Oscar Williams,

Martial-arts expert tries to rescue an ambassador's daughter who was kidnapped in Thailand.

Actors : Yi-Min Li, Tien Niu, Danny Lee, Sheng Fu,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

A young man must complete a series of martial art tests and overcome assassins along the way.

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 : Lloyd Bochner, Ron Slinker, Joie Chitwood, Richard Jaeckel,
Directors : Ricou Browning,

Heads roll as two cops, Chuck and Andy, go against Mr. D'Angelo, the biggest drug dealer in Florida, and his ruthless enforcer Fred, who has no legs but does have two mean double barrel shotguns built into his wheelchair.

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 : 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 : 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.