Best Action movies of 1979

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoshio Harada, Ayumi Ishida, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan ...

Actors : Meng Lo, Li Wang, Chien Sun, Feng Lu,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Yuan Ying Fei is the descendant of the one known as Golden Sword and himself is a master of the technique as well as being boss of the town. He is so a cruel man and has killed his sparring...

Actors : Long Ten Hsiang, Pai Ah, Jeanie Chang, Hui Lou Chen,
Directors : Joseph Kuo,

A winery owner and drunken boxing master trains two young boys in the art of drunken boxing after he catches them stealing from his winery.

Actors : Maribel Martín, Deep Roy, Christian Anders, Dunja Rajter,

Actors : Siu Tin Yuen, Ka-Yan Leung, Yi Lung Huang, Ling-Lung Ouyang,
Directors : Wing-Cho Yip,

After being beaten by some thugs, police officer Chin Tai Ba (Leung Kar Yan) learns the Sleeping Fist style from martial arts master Chung Yiu (Yuen Siu Tin). After mastering his training, ...

Actors : Perry King, George Kennedy, Tisa Farrow, Don Stroud,
Directors : William Fruet,

The members of a Vietnam veteran's old Army unit start turning up murdered. The police soon begin to suspect that he is in fact the killer. He knows he isn't, and must find the real killer ...

Actors : Percy Hogan, Luc Merenda, Laurence Stark, Donald O'Brien,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

A ruthless hit man, joins a group of mercenaries deep in a South American jungle. His plan is to kidnap and collect the million dollar bounty on one of the other hired soldiers during one ...

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 : Eagle Han, John Liu, Don Wong, Lung Chan,
Directors : Chi Chang,

Ming General Cheng has taken a group of soldiers to Taiwan after their kingdom succumbed to the Ching. The Ching prince sends mercenaries to finish of Cheng, but Cheng's elite guard surprises the Manchurian foes.

Actors : Grant Page, Monique van de Ven, Paul Haynes, Margaret Gerard,
Directors : Brian Trenchard-Smith,

Australian stuntman Grant Page goes to Los Angeles to work on a television series. He uses his spare time to lend his expertise to rock band Sorcery, whose act features duels between the ...

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 : Sheng Lo, Kang Shih, Wah Yuen, Wei Hao Teng,
Directors : Chung Sun,

A fearful and ruthless crime syndicate known as The Qi Sha Clan is terrorizing cities and towns across the Chinese empire. For years, the townspeople have been living in escalating fear ...

Actors : Te-Kang Chi, Shu-Fang Chou, Jackie Chen, Kang Chin,
Directors : Han-Hsiang Yu,

A pair of brothers befriend an old drunk, who turns out to be an expert in an esoteric form of kung fu.

Actors : Reena Roy, Rajesh Khanna, Sunil Dutt, Shatrughan Sinha,
Directors : Rajkumar Kohli,

Sheru (Shatrughan Sinha) and Vicky (Sunil Dutt) are two gangleaders. After a series of complications and mishaps both realize that they will be better off being friends and helping the poor...

Actors : Chia Yung Liu, Chia-Hui Liu, Lieh Lo, Hoi Sang Lee,
Directors : Chia Yung Liu,

Gordon Liu stars in this Kung Fu comedy as an undercover Shaolin Monk. While searching for a fugitive who has wronged the order, the Master (Liu) uncovers a scheme to steal the priceless ...

Actors : Lung Chin, James Tien, Hung Lieh Chen, Yin-Tze Pan,

Sung, is a young man who is ambitious to make his name in a theatrical troupe, but the leader of the troupe is unimpressed with him. Sung responses by studying kung fu and becomes more ...

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 : Carl Scott, Billy Chong, Louis Neglia, Joseph Jennings,
Directors : Shan Hua,

When a Black Panther's whole family is wiped out by a ruthless band of assassins, he's determined to avenge their murder. The gang think he's weak but they didn't reckon with him employing the aid of a martial arts genius.

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 : Kwok Choi Hon, Ming-Tsai Wu, Jason Pai Piao, 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.