Greatest Independent Kung-Fu Flicks of All Time
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- DirectorSee-Yuen NgStarsJohn LiuJeong-lee HwangTino WongA corrupt official frames a man for murder. The man studies a martial arts style that makes his body as strong as iron, so he can counter the official's own incredible fighting skills.
- DirectorJoseph KuoStarsYi-Min LiJack LongKuan-Wu LungAn aging martial arts expert is gifted a plaque from the Emperor declaring him the Kung Fu World Champion. Unsure of whether or not be is deserving of this title, he embarks on a journey to defeat the 7 Grandmasters.
- DirectorJoseph KuoStarsCarter WongLieh LoKuan-Wu LungTwo warlord chiefs, a ton-fa wielder who can destroy an opponents weapon and a Tai Chi expert that is impervious to weapons, send a pair of killers to track down and kill an old master swordsman who has given up fighting. When the killers assassination attempt is foiled by a group of kung fu students from a nearby school, the chiefs themselves come to the school to deal with the master swordsman and anyone else who gets in their way. When the schools head master dies defending the swordsman and his daughter, the schools 3 most senior students vow to avenge the deaths and begins a quest to annihilate the warlord chiefs. One by one, they end up facing a man so skilled in tai chi kung fu that it seems as if he were 'Born Invincible'.
- DirectorJeong-lee HwangYun-Kyo ParkStarsJeong-lee HwangMei Sheng FanEddy KoA country bumpkin arrives to help his brother's rice business. Things get out of hand while a rival company becomes corrupt. The bumpkin, an ace martial artist, fights off the rivals with the aid of some Buddhist guidence...
- DirectorChun-Ku LuStarsJeong-lee HwangYuen-Man MengHoi MangTwo young martial artists seek the training of an old master to try and combat a local warlord.
- DirectorShih-Hao KoYi-Min LiStarsChung-Kuei ChangYi ChangKuo-Chung ChingAn old Kung fu master and Assassin adopts a new disciple and teaches him the mantis kung fu in the hope his new protege will continue his killing for him.
- DirectorChiu LeeStarsKa-Yan LeungHua-Chung TingKuo-Chung ChingA ruthless warlord from the north of China has come south to take control of the province of Canton. However, Canton's hero "Iron Bridge Sam" a local coolie has other Ide.
- DirectorSammo Kam-Bo HungStarsKa-Yan LeungSammo Kam-Bo HungYi ChangChung Yao, a martial arts expert, has long been on the run from his stepbrother, who he caught trying to rape his wife on their wedding night. His brother has never given up the chase however, and Chung Yao lives in constant fear that the vengeful stepbrother will murder him and his wife.
- DirectorJoseph KuoStarsJeong-lee HwangKar-Yung LauChih Yung LinAfter a duel between two Dragon Claw martial art masters ends in a death, the orphaned son learns a special style from a strange beggar so he can avenge his family.
- DirectorTing-Mei SungStarsJimmy Wang YuFeng HsuYi ChangSilver Spear is hired by a noblewoman to do away with three top-class Kung Fu masters, but news of these killings reaches the ears of a white haired man known as a master. Vexed, he deploys his own killers to deal with Silver Spear.
- DirectorChia-Yung LiuStarsYue WongChia-Hui LiuYing LiHe's lost his memory, but not his skill: After a fierce battle with a local tong, Hoi is thrown over an embankment and left for dead. He survives the ordeal but has lost all of his memory.
- DirectorYao-Hua Hsi-MenStarsKa-Yan LeungJason Piao PaiJeong-lee HwangTwo martial artists (Leung Kar-yan and Jason Pai Piao) team up to take down an evil mystical kung fu sect, headed by Korean super-kicker Hwang Jeong-lee.
- DirectorChia-Hui LiuStarsChia-Hui LiuAdam ChengLi ChingTwo friends from rival schools are turned against one another by a jealous chief who wants to eliminate those whose fighting styles may rival his own.
- DirectorTso Nam LeeStarsAlexander Rei LoShan CharngHui-Yun LiSkilled fighter Sung Li Ting is looking for a Kung Fu master who can beat him in battle and teach him new techniques. Shaolin monk Shao Si Yer introduces Sung Li to the Shaolin teachings, but Sung Li is not allowed to enter the school until the return of a Lama monk who stole a secret scroll containing every known fighting style from the monastery 12 years earlier.
- DirectorWing-Cho YipStarsKa-Yan LeungYi-Lung HuangFeng ChengAh 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 violent thug who turns out to be an enforcer for tong boss Hsia (Eddie Ko) of the notorious Jade Brotherhood. In retaliation, Hsia forces Chi's martial arts master to expel him. Masterless and working for a fish vendor, Chi meets a crafty kid (Yat Lung Wong), whose uncle Chow Tung (Simon Yuen) is a master of the Insane Mantis style. Though the crotchety old man refuses to teach Chi his technique, Chi picks up what he can in secret. Master Chow soon relents after Chi is badly beaten in yet another battle with Hsia's goons. Insane Mantis instruction now begins in earnest with great acrobatic acuity. Eventually, however, Hsia and his lackeys ambush and kill both the fish vendor and the old master which, in turn, completes Ah Chi's descent into total insanity. Emulating praying mantis behavior, Ah Chi unleashes an outright cannibalistic rage directed against the Jade Brotherhood's big boss himself!
- DirectorJoseph KuoStarsJack LongYi-Min LiKuan-Wu LungSupposedly dead, embittered former official, The Ghost Face Killer has returned and seeking revenge on those martial arts masters than once opposed him - his name is infamous and his Five Elements fighting style is deadly. Meanwhile, young Ah Pao joins a martial arts school in order to become a great fighter in order to take revenge on the man who killed his father. He gets very good quickly but timing is everything and his arrival at the school in relation to the return of the Ghost Face Killer sees him suspected of being connected and thus put out of the school. He falls under the tutelage of an elderly chess master in the town while all the time the focus of his vengeance kills his way closer and closer.
- DirectorJoseph KuoStarsFei MengJeanie ChangJack LongWu Shao Tung is raised to be the leader of the Wu Tang clan, who previously have been defeated by the evil Yen Chan tin and his clan. He is taught roughly and is shown how to defeat the Unbeaten 18, a cave of treacherous traps.
- DirectorJeong-yong KimTomas TangStarsUn BiCheol JangHong-Kwon JeongA man (Mike Wong) helps Gen. Ching's daughter recover stolen treasure on the Chang River.
- DirectorGodfrey HoStarsJohn LiuYen-Tsan TangPhillip KoJohn Liu, the legendary Northern Kick expert and master of the strike rock fist is sent to investigate an antiques smuggling gang working out of Canton. Meanwhile another descendant of the stike rock fist also seeks John to face him in a death duel.
- DirectorEric TsangStarsDavid ChiangNorman ChuLily LiTwo top class kung fu fighters challenge all the top kung fu masters in the land, one motivated by revenge, the other by greed. The two fighters team up to face their ultimate challenge in the form of Master Pao, played by Philip Ko.
- DirectorChung TingChung-Kuang WangStarsTien-Chi ChengKai ChiaCheng-Lan ChinA ruthless white haired general intends to take over a small town with the help of his "Five Hands Gang"