Best Martial Arts movies of 1970s

Actors : Meg Lam, Siu Tin Yuen, Lau Chan, Bruce Li,
Directors : Bong Luk,

A well-to-do villager decides learning kung fu is the best way to protect himself and his family from the local gangsters. But the mentor he visits is a conman who is only after his money.

Actors : Jirô Yabuki, Shin'ichi Chiba, Kenji Imai, Masashi Ishibashi,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

This movie is based on the true life story of a Korean fighter named Choi Bae-dal (who later changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama), the founder of Kyokushin Karate in Japan.

Actors : Ling Chia, Kuan Tai Chen, Sing Chen, Lin Chiao,
Directors : Hsueh Li Pao,

A kung-fu fighting detective investigating the murder of the emperor's wife uncovers a high-ranking conspiracy.

Actors : Jirô Yabuki, Shin'ichi Chiba, Etsuko Shiomi, Yasuaki Kurata,
Directors : Yu Kohira,

Karate master Kazuma gets severely beaten and crippled by nefarious rival Nikaido. Kazuma trains his loyal daughter Yumi in the martial arts so she can exact a harsh revenge on Nikaido and his band of evil thugs.

Actors : Ka-Yan Leung, Feng Cheng, Fu-Chien Chang, Yi Lung Huang,
Directors : Wing-Cho Yip,

Ah Chi (Ka-Yan Leung) is obsessed with the martial arts and, more often than not, his kung-fu clowning gets him into trouble. One day he gets into a fight defending the locals from a ...

Actors : Meng Lo, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Jason Pai Piao, Feng Lu,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Two friends who long to be heroes join the fight against a Ching warlord and his students. They get help from a Kung Fu student and a rebel. They also save Hung Si Quan's life.

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 : Lingfeng Shangguan, Peng Tien, Mei-Yi Chang, Pao-Shan Chang,
Directors : Joseph Kuo,

Despite the national resistance, the Manchurians have taken over China, but the Ching Emperor fears that the Shaolin Temple disciples would overthrow the dynasty. So he disguises himself as...

Actors : Yuen Man Meng, Jang Lee Hwang, Hoi Mang, Yeong-Mun Kwon,
Directors : Chin-Ku Lu,

Two young kung fu experts are terrorized by an evil warlord whose weapon is known as the Hell's Wind Staff. With the aid of an old rival of the warlord, they train in the Dragon Hands and ...

Actors : Lingfeng Shangguan, Carter Wong, Peng Tien, Nan Chiang,
Directors : Joseph Kuo,

During the Manchurian invasion of China, the son of the Ming Dynasty General takes refuge in the Shaolin Temple to learn martial arts, so that he may seek revenge for his dead father. But ...

Actors : Jun Fujimaki, Shin'ichi Chiba, Eiji Gô, Masashi Ishibashi,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

This movie is based on the true life story of a Korean fighter named Choi Bae-dal (who later changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama), the founder of Kyokushin Karate in Japan.

Actors : Feng Ku, Yue Wong, Lung Ti, Angie Chiu,
Directors : Chung Sun,

The Kung-Fu Instructor was director Sun Cheng's homage to Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo where Ti Lung plays a righteous weapon instructor. It's the first time a Shaw Brother's director uses a ...

Actors : Kwok Kuen Chan, Sing Chen, Wai-Man Chan, Bruce Li,
Directors : Chi Lo,

Fantastic fighting sequences mark this kung fu action film.

Actors : Siu-Tung Ching, Feng Kuan, Chiu-Sing Hau, Hui Huang Lin,
Directors : Mar Lo,

A small-time crook goes in search of the other half of a wooden keepsake which will lead him to the legendary kung fu technique of the Gibbon Clan Fist.

Actors : Meng Lo, Sheng Chiang, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Li Wang,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Three refugees become sworn brothers during a war. One (Kuo Chui/Philip Kwok) works in a whore house, one (Chiang Sheng) in a gambling house, and the other (Lo Mang) in a martial arts ...

Actors : Lung Wei Wang, Jenny Tseng, Hsia Hui Wu, Sheng Fu,

International favorite Alexander Fu Sheng cemented his stardom in this, the fourth film in his esteemed director's "Shaolin" series. Fu gives both a great dramatic and kung-fu performance ...

Actors : Ping Ou Wei, Bruce Li, Yuan Chuan, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Bruce Li,

An undercover cop has been assigned to bust up a narcotics ring but comes up against the mob's hired martial arts assassin. Both men are the best in their field and in a battle to the death, only one will survive...

Actors : Irene Ryder, Yuan-Shen Huang, Sing Chen, Yasuaki Kurata,
Directors : See-Yuen Ng,

Japanese occupation of China breeds an ill wind which stirs the wrath of China's greatest kung fu killers.

Actors : Jason Pai Piao, Ron Van Clief, Nancy Veronica, Hok Nin Lau,
Directors : Chin-Ku Lu,

Decent, simple, honest Chinese farmhand and ace martial artist Tai-Lin goes to the Philippines to seek his fortune. He befriends scruffy petty street hoodlum Siao-Mao and gets a job as a ...

Actors : Wah-Lung Szema, Ling Ling Hsia, Lieh Lo, Yi Kuei Chang,
Directors : Ting Mei Sung,

A pair of sisters rescue a martial arts expert from drowning, and in turn he agrees to help train them and their village to fight local thugs.