Best Action Comedy movies of 1979

Actors : Phillip Ko, Cecilia Wong, Wei Tung, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,
Directors : Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung,

In a small town somewhere in 19th-century China, two brothers, each using their own particular style of martial arts, defeat a bully of a fighter who is terrorizing the town. In the ensuing...

Actors : Szu Shih, Feng Ku, Lung Ti, Sheng Fu,
Directors : Chung Sun,

Warrior Tuan Changqing (Ti Lung) meets courtesan Liu Yinxi (Shih Szu) in a small town. Liu pleads Tuan to kill underworld master Guo Tiansheng (Ku Feng), known as the "Killer Doctor", in ...

Actors : Dean Shek, Ching Wong, Kar-Yung Lau, Lily Li,
Directors : Ricky Lau,

Street performer Cho (Lau) is hoping to raise money to study martial arts. Soon, he becomes friends with Yan (Shek) the son of a rich man who was robbed. The duo set off to help catch the ...

Actors : Nick Tate, Gary Hope, Gareth Hunt, Fiona Curzon,
Directors : Lindsay Shonteff,

A British secret agent sent to America to rescue a nobleman comes up against an evil genius who is replacing people in important positions with clones who will do his bidding.

Actors : Siu Tin Yuen, Dean Shek, Pan Pan Yeung, Casanova Wong,
Directors : Hai-Feng Wei,

Beggar So is trying to train brother and sister team Chung and Gam Fa, with mixed results! But an enemy from Beggar So's past, Grasshopper Bill Chan and his brother Cougar start causing ...

Actors : Cecilia Wong, Chia Yung Liu, Yue Wong, Chia-Hui Liu,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

Acclaimed director Liu Chia-liang directs his brothers Gordon Liu Chia-hui and Liu Chia-yung in a wild and crazy ghostly film in this heralded sequel to The Spiritual Boxer.

Actors : Lu-Ling Li, Ji-Lung Chang, Casanova Wong, Hui Lou Chen,
Directors : Jimmy Shaw,

While on a fishing trip, Shao Lung's father is killed by Wu Pa Feng in front of the young man's eyes. Lung takes shelter with his uncle's traveling group of Kung Fu acrobats and begins honing his skills so he can one day have his revenge.

Actors : Dean Shek, Jen-Ping Su, Hua Tsung, Kuang Yang,
Directors : Jen-Ping Su,

This non-stop Kung-Fu action/comedy film is about a young man whose father forbids him from continuing his martial arts training. Leaving home, he soon falls under the guidance of a Kung-Fu...

Actors : Siu Tin Yuen, Yi-Min Li, Tien Hsiang Lung, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Ti Tang,

A wealthy man sends his young son away to learn Kung Fu from the drunken master. When he returns he gets involved in a fight between a local thug, who employs various fighters to do away ...

Actors : Vijaya Bhanu, Aparna, Manju Bhargavi, Agha,
Directors : Rama Rao Tatineni,

Amar lives a poor lifestyle along with his widowed mom in a village, and has a sweetheart in Savitri. He is a trouble-maker and makes life difficult for the Panchayat Chair, Kalicharan, who...

Actors : Kwok Choi Hon, Jason Pai Piao, Ming-Tsai Wu, Hoi Sang Lee,

Young pork butcher Lam Sai Wing and his fishmonger friend run afoul of some local thugs. A local doctor and martial artist Wong Fei Hung, trains them to fight and they take on the thugs' boss.

Actors : David Chiang, Phillip Ko, Norman Chu, Lily Li,
Directors : Eric Tsang,

The mysterious fighter Kam Ching Hung turns up at several martial arts schools and challenges leaders to duels, apparently with no discernible motive.

Actors : Yuet Sang Chin, Michelle Yim, Alan Chung San Chui, Dupar Singh,
Directors : Chuan Chen,

Tiger partakes in a Kung Fu contest, he wins the contest and the grand prize: the right to marry the daughter of the town's most wealthy figure. In order for Tiger to marry Ting, Tiger must...

Actors : Kara Hui, Kar-Yung Lau, Ha Huang, Jui-yi Liu,
Directors : Chi Lo,

When young Tieh Chiao San is sent by his dying father to live with a former kung fu colleague in the town, he accidentally gets into trouble when messing with a gang running a snake-oil ...

Actors : Dean Shek, Yi-Min Li, Ping Ou Wei, Kun Li,
Directors : Lung Huang,

Dead Eye and his gang are terrorizing a small Chinese region. Chan Ling and his group of misfit friends take it upon themselves to stop evildoers by learning the Super Kung Fu style. ...

Actors : Hou Hsiao, Wilson Tong, Cliff Lok, Hoi Sang Lee,
Directors : Wilson Tong,

An expert in a variety of fighting styles, he opens a school. He soon makes an adversary of a gym that is in the same town. He also makes an enemy of a brothel owner, who brings in a lethal fighter to take him out.

Actors : Hua Yueh, Shu-chu Chen, Feng Chao, Cliff Lok,
Directors : Chiu Lee,

Kung fu genius (Cliff Lok) stars as the student of a famous kung fu master whose kung fu gym gets overrun by the Hunchback and his gang, Cliff runs off and seeks refuge with his uncle, who ...

Actors : Siu-Lung Leung, Ho Chiu Kei, Sing Chen, Kuan-Chun Chi,
Directors : Lu Po Tu,

The film begins with the police at the time, through the honest Captain Liu, chasing a killer and rapist girls... See full synopsis »

Actors : Jang Lee Hwang, Pei Ling Chin, John Cheung, Shao-Hung Chan,
Directors : Chi Chang,

After being exploited by a fake kung fu teacher, Ah Tai (John Chang) searches for a real master and ends up meeting a ruthless hit man, Ghost Hands Lo Sum (Hwang Jang Lee). He tricks Ah Tai...

Actors : Aachi Manorama, Kamal Haasan, V.S. Raghavan, Pushpalata,
Directors : G.N. Rangarajan,

Chinnadurai (Major Sundararajan) owns a huge estate that grows and processes tobacco and tea leaves. Due to advancing age, he is concerned about leaving control to his son, Kalyana (Kamal ...