Best Martial Arts movies of 1970s

Actors : Hiroyuki Sanada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Eiji Gô, Yutaka Nakajima,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer in this hard-hitting Toei karate action film.

Actors : Kuan Tai Chen, Yue Wong, Chia-Hui Liu, Lily Li,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

Teenager Wong Fei-hung is sent to train in the art of hung gar kung fu from his father's teacher, Luk Ah-choy. With training complete, Wong must fight an assassin and regain the honor of his school.

Actors : Yasuhiro Shikamura, Feng Tien, Lieh Lo, Bruce Li,

After Chen Zhen's execution in Shanghai, the Japanese feared that his death would unite all Chinese kung fu schools against them. Fearing this, the Japanese gave orders to the head of the ...

Actors : David Chiang, Jeanette Yu Wei, Ping Wang, Lung Ti,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

A Kung Fu artist sacrifices everything to avenge his father's execution.

Actors : James Tien, Hark-On Fung, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Sing Chen,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

The Iron-Fisted Monk marks the directorial debut of Sammo Hung (Painted Faces, TVÂ's Martial Law), who used the opportunity to push the envelop in kung fu action films.

Actors : Pomson Shi, Yao Lin Chen, Chiu-Sing Hau, John Cheung,
Directors : Sum Cheung,

A snake style expert travels the lands, imposing his mastery on others, until he runs into a monkey expert living on the edge of a small town, who defeats him soundly. The snake expert ...

Actors : Siu Tin Yuen, Yi-Min Li, Jack Long, Kuan-Wu Lung,
Directors : Joseph Kuo,

Supposedly dead, embittered former official, The Ghost Face Killer has returned and seeking revenge on those martial arts masters than once opposed him - his name is infamous and his Five ...

Actors : Chuck Boyd, Sylvia Chang, Don Wong, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Wei Lo,

A Chinese-American cop, skilled in martial arts, battles the most powerful criminal gang in San Francisco that is responsible for the death of his partner.

Actors : Lung Wei Wang, Tak Yuen, Kuan Tai Chen, Hsueh-Erh Wen,
Directors : Chin-Ku Lu,

Although injured, a martial-arts expert teaches an orphan his methods.

Actors : Richard Harrison, Jang Lee Hwang, Bruce Le, Nadiuska,

Two CIA agents - a kung fu master (Bruce Le) and a suave womanizer (Richard Harrison) - track the stolen formula for a super-sterility drug from Spain to Hong Kong, battling Neo-Nazi terrorists and a Vietnamese spy ring for its possession.

Actors : Deborah Dutch, Jun Chong, Anthony Bronson, Su-cheon Bae,
Directors : Doo-yong Lee,

A lightning bolt strikes the grave of Bruce Lee. However, that is as much as Bruce Lee has to do with it. Then a kung fu instructor starts a quest to avenge a friend's death, and on the way...

Actors : David Chiang, Pawana Chanajit, Lung Ti, Li Ching,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Two men, one a businessman skilled in Kung Fu, the other a kickboxer discover they are brothers, and together, both in and out of the ring, they must face a crime syndicate. One of the ...

Actors : David Chiang, Lung Ti, Miao Ching, Li Ching,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

This 1971 top ten hit - a post-Chinese Revolution action adventure of rebels battling warlords -- is another great example of its famed director, stars, and kung-fu choreographer's talen and charisma.

Actors : Gloria Hendry, Sherry Jackson, Michael Heit, Robert Viharo,
Directors : Don Edmonds,

A bounty hunter in Los Angeles sets out to track down and stop a masked serial killer who murders women by using kung-fu moves.

Actors : Phil Hoover, Sondra Currie, Tony Young, Elizabeth Stuart,
Directors : Lee Frost,

A lady cop infiltrates an all-female criminal gang.

Actors : Yen Tsan Tang, Chi Chin Ma, Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

The famous story of the Shaolin Temple's betrayal by the White-Browed Hermit, and the subsequent revenge by Shaolin firebrand Fang Shih-yu, is the stuff of legend. It has been filmed many ...

Actors : Pei-Pei Cheng, Hsieh Wang, Szu Shih, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Meng Hua Ho,

A young Kung Fu student (Shih Szu) seeks a reclusive teacher so that she may learn to defeat the evil Black Demon. She doesn't realize that the servant woman she befriends (Cheng Pei-Pei) ...

Actors : Ann Sothern, Chris Petersen, Pat Petersen, Charles Lane,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

Karate experts attempt to rescue a girl who was kidnapped by a mother and her two psycho sons.

Actors : Yun Ling, Hua Yueh, Tony Liu, Li Ching,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

Following such hits as Killer Clans and Clans Of Intrigue, the winning team of director Chu Yuan and novelist Ku Lung reunite with revered martial art choreographers Tang Chia and Huang ...