Best Martial Arts movies of 1960s

Actors : Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked.

Actors : Haji, Lori Williams, Tura Satana, Ray Barlow,
Directors : Russ Meyer,

Three go-go dancers holding a young girl hostage come across a crippled old man living with his two sons in the desert. After learning he's hiding a sum of cash around, the women start scheming on him.

Actors : Michael Ansara, Fran Jeffries, Elvis Presley, Mary Ann Mobley,
Directors : Gene Nelson,

American singer Johnny Tyrone is enlisted by sinister forces to assassinate an Arab king whose daughter he has fallen in love with.

Actors : Yûnosuke Itô, Shiho Fujimura, Raizô Ichikawa, Katsuhiko Kobayashi,
Directors : Satsuo Yamamoto,

Ishikawa Goemon (Ichikawa Raizo), a talented young ninja, becomes ensnared in a twisted scheme to assassinate Oda Nobunaga, an evil warlord bent on ruling feudal Japan with an iron fist. ...

Actors : Pei-Pei Cheng, Hsin Yen Chao, Lieh Lo, Yu Wang,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

The indomitable martial arts team of director Chang Cheh and stunt choreographer Liu Chia-liang continues the compelling saga of Golden Swallow from King Hu's Come Drink with Me in this ...

Actors : Hsiung Chao, Lieh Lo, Ping Wang, Yu Wang,
Directors : Yu Wang,

The golden age of kung-fu film's first superstar Jimmy Wang Yu (even before Bruce Lee) wrote, directed and starred in his classic favorite of a noble young martial arts student who won't ...

Actors : Bik-Ying Cheng, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Siu-Hung Ho, Jackie Chan,
Directors : To Lung,

A child learns martial arts to become a kung fu warrior.

Actors : Aldo Ray, Kam Tong, Jack Palance, Fernando Lamas,
Directors : Michael D. Moore,

Chinese villagers hire a mercenary and his team of karate experts to help rid them of a gangster and his henchman who are threatening their island.

Actors : Hizuru Takachiho, Minoru Ôki, Chiyoko Honma, Ryûtarô Ôtomo,
Directors : Eiichi Kudô,

This is a classic early Japanese Ninja movie. The Iga ninjas are a dying breed as Toyotomis rule allows Japan to experience some peace... See full synopsis »

Actors : Mikiko Tsubouchi, Sô Yamamura, Shiho Fujimura, Raizô Ichikawa,
Directors : Satsuo Yamamoto,

Confident that he has destroyed the Iga Ninja, the evil Oda Nobunaga continues his quest to conquer Japan. Meanwhile, Ishikawa Goemon (Ichikawa Raizo) has settled down with his wife and ...

Actors : Hsin Yen Chao, Yi Chang, Kau Lam, Ping Chin,
Directors : Feng Yueh,

Wei Fu is a seemingly unremarkable woodcutter but when his family is wiped out by psychotic marauders, Wei undertakes extensive martial arts training at the hands of an expert swordsman and sets out to exact revenge on the evildoers.

Actors : Mayumi Ogawa, Hôsei Komatsu, Naoko Kubo, Shintarô Katsu,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

The first of two films in the Ryuzen series, a rogue martial arts practicing, fornicating, alcohol drinking, gambling priest who competes against the local yakuza thug by opening his own ...

Actors : Saburô Date, Shiho Fujimura, Raizô Ichikawa, Yukiko Fuji,
Directors : Kazuo Ikehiro,

In part five of the 8-part Shinobi No Mono Ninja film series the heroic ninja Kirigakure Saizo (Raizo Ichikawa... See full synopsis »

Actors : Ji-su Kim, Seong-ho Choi, Choon-un Chang, Kyeong-ok Choi,
Directors : Kyeong-ok Choi,

Seol Hie loses her parents and eyes to the murderous brutality of General Woo Shin-tak. She trains herself in swordsmanship and martial arts for the next two decades before setting out to even the score with Woo.

Actors : Katsu Harada, Rosanna Ortiz, Roberto Gonzalez, Rolando Gonzales,
Directors : Solano Gaudite,

'NINJA' means a fantastic master of secret fighting arts.

Actors : Ingrid Yin-Yin Hu, Manling Chen, Pin Chang, Yuen Kao,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

Two martial-arts students are assigned to deliver a map to a treasure that will enable the Song army to defeat the Yuan army in China.

Actors : Bessie Barredo, Johnny Stuart, Bernard Bonnin, Max Alvarado,
Directors : George Rowe,

SEE real KARATE at its best pitted against BRUTE FORCE.

Actors : Kôtarô Satomi, Ryûtarô Ôtomo, Jûshirô Konoe, Yuriko Mishima,
Directors : Yasuto Hasegawa,

In a time where highly skilled ninja organizations carry out secret missions, Iga Jigoza's group of seventeen ninja must find a way to infiltrate the enemy's stronghold and steal the pact from Negoro ninja Saiga Magokuro. A classic.

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Hideo Murata, Naoki Sugiura, Takashi Kanda,
Directors : Kiyoshi Saeki,

Apparently a ninkyô yakuza pair of films where jujitsu is the form of fighting, Also probably Chiba's first martial arts pictures.

Actors : Hyang Lee, Hie Mun, Dong-il Shin,
Directors : Dal-ho Ahn,

The child Su-jeong is the only survivor after her family is butchered by pirates. She is raised by an elderly servant who passes on to her the secrets of Tao and the martial arts. After ...