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Hapkido (a.k.a. Lady Kung-fu) Kung Fu: King Boxer (a.k.a. Five Fingers of Death) Way of the Dragon: 1973: Enter the Dragon: Little Tiger of Canton: The Awaken Punch: Fist of Unicorn: Karate Kiba: 1974: Yellow Faced Tiger: Fist to Fist: Black Belt Jones: The Street Fighter series The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires: 1975: Goodbye Bruce Lee: His ...
Pages in category "1960s martial arts films" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Bruce Lee and Ip Man. The kung fu genre reached its height in the 1970s, coinciding with Hong Kong's economic boom. [12] It overtook the popularity of the new school (xinpai) wuxia films that prevailed in Hong Kong throughout the 1950s and 1960s. [13]
Monkey Kung Fu. a.k.a. U.S. title: The Stroke of Death; He Who Never Dies; Legend of Feng Hsiu; Murder Plot; The Kung Fu Instructor; Shaolin Daredevils; Abbot of Shaolin; The Proud Twins; Dirty Ho; What Price Honesty; Naughty Scandals; The Ghost and I; 5 Superfighters; Tigress of Shaolin; Magnificent Ruffians; Mad Monkey Kung Fu; Kid with the ...
Chopsocky (or chop-socky [1]) is a colloquial term for martial arts films and kung fu films made primarily by Hong Kong action cinema between the late 1960s and early 1980s. The term was coined by the American motion picture trade magazine Variety following the explosion of films in the genre released in 1973 in the U.S. after the success of Five Fingers of Death.
The studio popularized the kung-fu genre of films, which included Five Fingers of Death and The 36th Chamber of Shaolin made in the 1970s. [20] The 1960s was a period of intense rivalry between Shaw Brothers and Cathay Organisation, but eventually Shaw Brothers
Hong Kong action cinema is the principal source of the Hong Kong film industry's global fame. Action films from Hong Kong have roots in Chinese and Hong Kong cultures including Chinese opera, storytelling and aesthetic traditions, which Hong Kong filmmakers combined with elements from Hollywood and Japanese cinema along with new action choreography and filmmaking techniques, to create a ...
James Wang Yu (28 March 1943 – 5 April 2022) [1] was a Hong Kong-Taiwanese martial artist, actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. Initially a contract player for Shaw Brothers, he rose to fame for his starring role in The One-Armed Swordsman (1967) and its sequels, and was one of the first major stars of martial arts and wuxia cinema.