Recommend Martial Arts Movies

lol amazed both by the fact you thought they'd include a The Gods Must Be Crazy crossover and your generous assesment of it as "extremely patronizing"; just a total garbage franchise, omnipresent for a few years in my childhood.

I thought that was the 4th and 5th film in the series. I watched like 20mins of The Gods Must Be Crazy before I turned it off. That might be the earliest I've abandoned a film that I sought out (on streaming admittedly). I had never heard of it until I read an hk horror film guide.

I confused TGMBC with the George Burns "Oh, God" movies and was very confused for five minutes

i gotta say i really loved watching this essay... anybody have any recommendations along these lines?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-tQUzZTVCw

Inspector Wears Skirts was kind of okay but the poetry line "why do my hairy legs always walk towards you?" was inspired. Kara Wai looks glorious with that hair.

I didn't even finish Beach Of The War Gods but was amused how the trailer boasts about having an all-male cast. I thought the novelty value of male action heroes would have worn off by the early 70s.

Beach Of The War Gods rules. Hilariously ends with our intrepid heroes doing a war crime.

Can any of the heads or here help me out?
Years ago (mid 90s?) I saw a kung fu flick (a hisorical setting) where the hero had a secret technique, but every time he used it, he got more feminine... it was mostly played for laughs, and by the end of the film his part was played by a woman...
Can't remember the name... any ideas?

at first i thought it was Clan of the White Lotus, but Gordon Liu's character was never played by a female at the end

...that's not it, but that's a good one..

ppl on a different forum suggest Swordsman II?

....don't think that's it either... I think I would've remembered if it had Jet Li in it... looks like a good one though...

is it this one?

http://tarstarkas.net/2014/06/fight-for-survival-review/

"In this film, Polly’s character Shih Pu Chuan sets out to recover 10 books stolen from the Shaolin Temple, each volume teaching one kung fu technique, and each technique has been mastered by the respective theif of that volume. But, if you only learn one of the kung fu skills, your body soon begins to modify itself based on that kung fu skill. Thus, the guy who learns to extend his arms has permanent long arms. The guy who stretched his legs looks like he’s walking around on stilts. The woman who stole the Positive Kung Fu book turns into a man, and the guy who stole the Negative Kung Fu book turns into a woman."

Not it, but that sounds worth a watch...

Let's keep them coming folks, we're mapping out a subgenre here!

...yeah, I had no idea there'd be this many (or any) near misses...

can't believe that wasn't it tbh i thought i'd nailed it, yes this is obv a genre

....anyone seen this "Fist of the Condor" flick from Chile?

Korean Film Council just dropped this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg6_yPMn9Js

ah well. it's Returned a Single-legged Man: 2, Korean martial arts cinema from the 70's.

So Close would have been a lot better if it wasn't striving to be so modern, it's a very post-Matrix film and (songs aside) the soundtrack is completely generic action movie stuff. Still kind of liked it, I had never seen Karen Mok in anything before, she is in an action trio with Shu Qi and Zhao Wei.

I don't tend to enjoy what little I sample of chinese pop stars but has anyone here heard much Karen Mok? She seems to be insanely popular, one of her concerts set a world record that I don't understand.