unwatchedBamboo House of Dolls
1973 · 110m
Shaw Brothers takes on the WIP film. As strange a combination as it sounds.
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▶ watchobscureHuman Lanterns
1982 · Hong Kong · 99m
A Shaw wuxia that turns into a slasher, with lanterns made of human skin.
▶ watchobscureTNT Jackson
1974 · USA · 72m
Cirio Santiago's Manila blaxploitation at full tilt, remembered for one fight staged in the dark.
▶ watchobscureThey Call Her... Cleopatra Wong
1978 · SG · 93m
The girls-with-guns spy picture Tarantino keeps name-checking, and rightly.
▶ watchobscureCrippled Avengers
1978 · Hong Kong · 106m
Four men maimed by a tyrant learn to fight through their disabilities. Chang Cheh at his most inventive.
▶ watchobscureFive Element Ninjas
1982 · Hong Kong · 108m
Chang Cheh spills more guts here than in any Shaw film before it, and grins the whole way.
▶ watchcultDirty Ho
1979 · Hong Kong · 103m
A prince and a thief, master and pupil in disguise. Lau Kar-leung's wittiest choreography.
▶ watchcultExecutioners from Shaolin
1977 · Hong Kong · 100m
Lau Kar-leung's revenge epic. A survivor spends years learning the one style that can beat the villain.
▶ watchcultHeroes of the East
1978 · Hong Kong · 101m
Chinese kung fu versus Japanese martial arts, as a marriage. Lau Kar-leung's most good-natured film.
▶ watchcultThe Chinese Boxer
1970 · 90m
Jimmy Wang Yu invents the empty-hand kung fu film. No swords.
▶ watchcultThe 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
1984 · Hong Kong · 98m
Lau Kar-leung's brutal last great Shaw film. A massacred family, and pole fighting as grief.
▶ watchcultThe Street Fighter
1974 · Japan · 90m
Sonny Chiba tearing people apart. First film rated X in America for violence alone.
▶ watchcultBlack Belt Jones
1974 · USA · 87m
Jim Kelly karate-chops the mob to save a Watts dojo. Blaxploitation meets kung fu, joyfully.
▶ watchcultFive Deadly Venoms
1978 · Hong Kong · 101m
Chang Cheh's oddest. Five styles, five masks, one whodunit.
▶ watchcultFive Fingers of Death
1972 · 106m
The one that broke kung fu in America, months before Bruce Lee did.
▶ watchcultMaster of the Flying Guillotine
1976 · 93m
A blind monk, a bladed hat on a chain, and a tournament. Perfect.
▶ watchcultRiki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
1991 · Hong Kong · 93m
A live-action gore manga where nobody has heard of restraint or arterial pressure.
▶ watchcultThe Man from Hong Kong
1974 · Australia · 106m
Jimmy Wang Yu wrecks Sydney, with hang-gliding and a man actually on fire. Peak crossover.
▶ watchcultThe One-Armed Swordsman
1967 · Hong Kong · 111m
The film that made Shaw Brothers switch to male leads and stay there.
▶ watchknownA Touch of Zen
1971 · TW/Hong Kong · 180m
Three hours, a bamboo forest, and a Cannes prize. Barely exploitation.
▶ watchknownCome Drink with Me
1966 · Hong Kong · 91m
King Hu, Cheng Pei-pei, and the template for every wuxia since.
▶ watchknownThe 36th Chamber of Shaolin
1978 · Hong Kong · 116m
The best training film ever made. Lau Kar-leung at the peak.
▶ watchcanonDrunken Master
1978 · Hong Kong · 111m
Jackie Chan finds the formula: comedy, pain, and visible competence.
▶ watchcanonGame of Death
1978 · Hong Kong/USA · 101m
The film Bruce Lee left unfinished, completed with a double, a cardboard cut-out, and his real funeral.
▶ watchcanonFist of Fury
1972 · Hong Kong · 108m
Bruce Lee kicks a 'No Dogs and Chinese' sign to splinters. The crowd never recovered.
▶ watchcanonThe Big Boss
1971 · TH · 99m
Lee's first lead. Briefly on the DPP video nasty list, absurdly.
▶ watchcanonEnter the Dragon
1973 · USA · 102m
Lee died six days before release. The mirror room still works.