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, Siu-Hung Ho, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Jackie Chan,
Directors : To Lung,

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

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : John Glyn-Jones, John Bentley, Patrick Allen, Jacqueline Ellis,
Directors : Clive Donner,

When a corpse is found in the Thames, the only clue is that the dead man was killed by a karate or judo expert.

Actors : Joe Hirakawa, Akira Shiga, Frank Blaine, Joel Holt,
Directors : Joel Holt,

An American karate student in Japan searches for the sister of his friend and mentor.

Actors : Yeong-gyun Shin, Jeong-suk Moon, Seok-hie Park,
Directors : Hun Choi,

The king's mistress has an affair with a servant which results in a son, Ju-mang. The king despises the boy and banishes him to be raised in a temple. There, Ju-mang studies martial arts. ...

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

SEE real KARATE at its best pitted against BRUTE FORCE.

Actors : Ryôhei Uchida, Shintarô Kuraoka, Shôichi Hirai, Yôko Matsuyama,
Directors : Kunio Watanabe,

In 1882, teacher Shogoro Yano tries to revitalize the decadent martial art of jujitsu through his disciple Toda.

Actors : Bessie Barredo, Bernard Bonnin, Lyn D'Amour, Alberto Alonzo,
Directors : George Rowe,

See the ultimate karate technique the karate Atemi Uchi Kudaki (karate attack to pulverized)