Top 10 favorite "The Best of the Rest" kungfu film

[pressureworld]

We have many new members on this board who aren't quite as hardcore and knowledgable as many of us after Jackie Sammo, Secret Rivals, Hot Cool Vicious, Invincible Armour then what? I would like to ask everyone to name their top 10 or even top 5 indi kungfu films that may of fell under the radar. Lets stay away from the really popular ones. Many of you have hundreds of kungfu films in other words, whats good besides the obvious for the newbies please no Shaws

[jmungus]

tough one. do we assume lesser experienced kf fans already know about the back catalogue of genre legends like sammo, HJL or the yuen clan ?
have they heard of "broken oath", "snuff bottle connection" or "buddhist fist", "eagles claw"... yet, or does it need something more obscure ?

this list can never be complete or perfectly accurate, but here goes anyways.

master and the kid
leg fighters
shaolin king boxer
two great cavaliers
heroes of the wild
imperial sword
deadly challenger
the heroes
death duel of kung fu
demon strike
ninja hunter
rebellious reign
exciting dragon
mask of death
shaolin kf mystagogue
faster blade poisonous darts
fist from shaolin (for a fun new wave experience)
hells wind staff
shaolin red master
death games (to throw in some wicked modern ma)
7 steps of kf
wu tang magic kick
stranger from shaolin
deadend of besiegers (old skool made in the new wave era)

i would consider these kinda flix quite good - ace quality standard material for the slightly 'advanced' kung fu-natics, so maybe thats a nice way to start if one is past the jackie/sammo/YWP/SB classics stage, knows the essential indie gems like "invincible armour", "the loot", "7 grandmasters", "duel to the death" or "secret rivals" et al and wants to delve deeper into the indie fu extravaganza now.

[stormybman]

I have a fav 5 I'd like to recommend to the newbbies...
How about:

1. Big Boss of Shanghai

2. 18 Bronzemen

3. 7 Grandmasters

4. Mystery of Chessboxing

5. Bruce D-Day at Macao (AKA Little Superman)

"Will you tell me what Teacher died of..?"

[TheManInWhite]

Outside of what's been given, here is a few more to chew on:

Blooded Treasury Fight
Buddha Assassinator
Crystal Fist
Daggers Eight
Green Jade Statuette
Hitman in the Hand of Buddha
Incredible Kung Fu Mission
Iron Monkey (1977)
The Loot
Long Step Mantis
Of Cooks and Kung Fu
Shaoiln vs. Lama
Snake in the Monkey's Shadow
Super Power
Ten Tigers of Shaolin
Woman Avenger

[VonHumboldtFleischer]

Just about all those films you fellows listed are awesome... I thought 'nonpopular' meant films generally disliked within the fandom community, but which we happen to like personally. Like, say, STONER or FANTASY MISSION FORCE (both of which I enjoy enormously).

[killer meteor]

The Jackie Chan/Lo Wei films
Exit The Dragon, Enter The Tiger
Bruce And Shaolin Kung Fu
Game Of Death
Imperial Sword
Double Double Crosser
Master With Cracked Fingers
The Magnificent
Revenge Of The Drunken Master
The Traitorous

[thundered mantis]

Master Killers aka Master Avengers
Shaolin vs Ninja (Robert Tai´s)
Two Toothless Tigers
Two Wondrous Tigers
Instant Kung Fu Man
Kung Fu On Seven Steps
Killer Wears White
Warriors of Sung Dynasty
Cutthroat Struggle (Mainland)
Fierce Boxer
The Gold Connection
Of Cooks and Kung Fu
Fist from Shaolin
Shaolin Disciple (Liu Chia Yung)
Dynamite Trio
Mysteryous Footworks of Kung Fu
Blind Fist of Bruce
My Life´s On The Line

I think there´s more room for this in the modern kung fu forum. Lots of modern gems unnoticed out there!

[ironfistedmonk2003]

Hows about

Jade Fox
Shaolin Heroes (Doris Lung)
Beggars Have No Equal
Bloody Mission
Gold Hunters
Mission Kiss & Kill
My Lifes on the Line
Strife For Mastery

[shadow kick]

My kinda list you've made there mr. iron.
These are some dynamite flicks.

Bloody mission........swordplay to rival any shaws.

Beggars of no equal...........hand to hand combat that only chen hsing knows how to dish out.Doris lung is pretty good in this one too.

all top tier stuff !

[morgoth]

Legend of a Fighter (also known as Secret Master). That is my favorite movie.

[Yakuza954]

The Himalayan
Exciting Dragon
4 Invincibles
Two Cavaliers (Jimmy Wang Yu)
Fighting Ace
Brutal Boxer
Shaolin Incredible Ten
Shaolin Incredible Guys
Ninja Supremo
Kill the Shogun

[pressureworld]

Just about all those films you fellows listed are awesome... I thought 'nonpopular' meant films generally disliked within the fandom community,

nonpopular is a poor choice of words I ment great films outside of the really popular ones the list so far are great

[killer meteor]

Bruce Lee Fights Back From The Grave

[Kwok Choi]

Yes my friend "unpopular" threw us a bit but from your first post I gathered that it could be about good films that people might not be aware of.This depends because most of the films mentioned in the posts above could be very popular to some.Anyway the thing is that 100s could be listed according to your last post as one would have to comb all the genres and eras for proper justice to be done to your thread but since you asked for ten,here goes off head:

Manda Vs Kung Fu aka Devil Woman
Tiger Tiger Tiger
The Fearless Duo
Challenge Of The Tiger
The Magnificent 3
Mission Kiss And Kill
The Killer Wears White
Smart Cavalier
The Best Of Shaolin Kung Fu
The Secret Of Chinese Kung Fu

[Chen Zhen]

5 greatest unpopular kf movies of all time..think about it..

The Loot...
The Loot..
The Loot
The Loot
The Challenger

[schleg64]

My 10 favorite little gems are...

Born Invincible
Green Dragon Inn
Invincible Super Chan
Hit Man in the Hand of Buddha
Shaolin vs Lama
Born to Defence
Dragon Princess
Yellow River Fighter
Hell's Windstaff
Shaolin Traitorous

[monwobobbo]

a few

SHAOLIN KUNG FU MYSTAGOGUE

EDGE OF FURY (bruce li)

KUNG FU EMPEROR (ti lung)

FATAL FLYING GUILLOTINES

INHERITOR OF KUNG FU (ti lung)

THE HEROES (ti lung)

SECRET OF TAI CHI

ENTER THE INVINCIBLE HERO (dragon lee, cassanova wong)

RETURN OF THE DEADLY BLADE (not the shaw film)

SILVER SPEAR (wang yu)

[iron flag]

Some favorites of mine (classics imo) that dont get enough mention are Imperial Sword, Strife for Mastery,The Heroes, and Hitman in the Hand of Buddha.
All great flicks!!

[morgoth]

I haven't seen Silver Spear and The HEroes, but Secret of Tai Chi kicks the sh!t out of all the other movies on that list. The only part I liked in Inheritor of Kung Fu is where John Ladaski shows up carrying that huge cross.

[shukocarl]

Wits to Wits
Fist of the Double K
Village on Fire
Bandits from Shantung
Soul Brothers of Kung fu
He Walks Like a Tiger
Lady Whirlwind
Deaf & Mute Heroine
Tiger & Crane Fists
Point the Finger of Death

[Markgway]

Of the ones mentioned thus far... I'd recommend these.

the heroes
rebellious reign
hells wind staff
stranger from shaolin
deadend of besiegers (old skool made in the new wave era)
18 Bronzemen
7 Grandmasters
Green Jade Statuette
Iron Monkey (1977)
Shaoiln vs. Lama
The Challenger

And strongly suggest avoiding....

Of Cooks and Kung Fu
Master With Cracked Fingers
The Gold Connection

Because they're crap... ;)

[morgoth]

Chang Shan hater!

[W Hong]

Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin(Jackie Chan)
Operation Scorpio
Kick Boxer(Yuen Biao)
Enter the Eagles(Shannon Lee)
Legend of the Wolf
Circus Kids
The Deaf and Mute Heroine

POSSIBLE SPOILERS

BTW, do you think that "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" had a slight connection or salute to "The Deaf and Mute Heroine"? I'm asking because of those scenes where Uma uses her sword's reflection to look at the enemies who were behind her. Those scenes look similar to what Helen Ma did in "TDaMH". Also, did any of you ever get the chance to see the Chinese language version of "TDaMH"? I remember seeing it at SF's 4 Star Theatre, which seems to show TDaMH again every now and then.

[Chen Zhen]

i forgot about the heroes...thats a magnificent film

[VonHumboldtFleischer]

Also, did any of you ever get the chance to see the Chinese language version of "TDaMH"? I remember seeing it at SF's 4 Star Theatre, which seems to show TDaMH again every now and then.

I thought everyone had ONLY seen the Mandarin version. Is there an English dub around? I know there's a German dub.

Pretty much all of the movies mentioned so far are just terrific. I'd just like to chip in with QUEEN BOXER for now.

...oh, and GREEN DRAGON INN.

[morgoth]

Tiger Over Wall and Goose Boxer are a couple sleepers. 10 Magnificent Killers and World of Drunken Master are also good.

[Barsader]

Unless i missed these..a few i did not see:

Killer from above
The massive
Snake deadly act
Fistful of talons
South shaolin master

All good films IMO

[pressureworld]

bump because i like this thread

[Northern B]

Yeah some good 1s listed, here are some more worth checking (some already mentioned..)

Heroes of the wild

Fighting Ace

Dance Of Death

Snake Crane Secret

Ring Of Death

Crazy Horse Intelligent Monkey

2 Fists Above the law

Woman Avenger

Method Man

[morgoth]

Nice list Northern B.

I didn't see Secret of Shaolin Kung Fu on this thread so I have to add it.


I also have to add-

Bone Crushing Kid
Shaolin vs Ninja

[justkungfuman]

Hero Tattoo and Nine Dragons-sentimental value
Bloody Tattoo-The Loot
Raiders of Wu Tang
Snake In Eagle's Shadow
Warriors Two
The Victim
Shaolin vs Lama
Super Power
Hell's Windstaff
Green Jade Statuette

Have many more favorites, these rank in the top for sure....

[morgoth]

I have to add Sleeping fist to this thread. Awesome movie. I thought it was better than Thundering Mantis in every way, except the end of course.

[quixote64]

Ninja:The Final Duel

[Drunken Monk]

Ninja:The Final Duel

Is there a release of this in circulation?

[quixote64]

i have the version by crash cinema, but i bought it a long time ago so i'm not sure if its still in print or not

[Morgoth]

If you liked the Crash version of Final duel make sure to check out the Shaolin Dolemite BCI version. Some really good cheese there, and a bunch of extra scenes. My favorite part of the movie is where Lo Rei is fighting the naked woman and she is rubbing her boobs in Lo rei's face. Robert Tai was a class act:p

[Drunken Monk]

If you liked the Crash version of Final duel make sure to check out the Shaolin Dolemite BCI version. Some really good cheese there, and a bunch of extra scenes. My favorite part of the movie is where Lo Rei is fighting the naked woman and she is rubbing her boobs in Lo rei's face. Robert Tai was a class act:p


Is that the same movie or is it re-edited?

[Morgoth]

Shaolin Dolemite is all new footage. Totally different from the Crash Cinema version. There is like 9 or 10 hours of Ninja the final Duel footage that robert Tai shot. There are members of the board who have the whole thing.

[Drunken Monk]

I'd heard it was long but have always wanted to see "Ninja: Final Duel," the Crash version. I've seen it on sale here but I bet they'll tell me it's out of stock...

http://www.kungfumovies.net/15275.html

[HAZ]

Dance Of The Drunkmantis

[quixote64]

Shaolin Dolemite is all new footage. Totally different from the Crash Cinema version. There is like 9 or 10 hours of Ninja the final Duel footage that robert Tai shot. There are members of the board who have the whole thing.

where can i get the whole thing?

[Morgoth]

I would make a post in the buy/sell/trade section. i don't think there is a full version with subs though.

[Iron_Jinon]

Crazy Horse Intelligent Monkey

I saw this 15+ years ago and recall it was pretty good one.But I have trouble finding this...is it even released on dvd????