Best Martial Arts movies of 1970s

Actors : Siu-Tung Ching, Feng Kuan, Chiu-Sing Hau, Hui Huang Lin,
Directors : Mar Lo,

A small-time crook goes in search of the other half of a wooden keepsake which will lead him to the legendary kung fu technique of the Gibbon Clan Fist.

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 : 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 : Sheng Chiang, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Feng Lu, Li Wang,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

When director Chang Chen found new talent and blood with "The Five Venoms" actors, most of which were trained in the highly acrobatic Chinese opera and well versed with exotic martial arts ...

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 : Tsui Ling Yu, Jason Pai Piao, Kuan Tai Chen, Feng Ku,
Directors : Chih-Hung Kuei,

Director Kuei Chih Hung was famous for his modern day crime thrillers, his horror flicks, and even his comedies. But if the only kung-fu film he ever made was this one, he'd still be spoken...

Actors : Ping Lu, Yu Wang, Ching Ching Chang, Fei Lung,
Directors : Lung Chien,

When the Japanese massacre the people of his fishing village, the Chinese hero of this Kung Fu epic (Jimmy Wang Yu) heads to Japan seeking vengeance.

Actors : Lingfeng Shangguan, Carter Wong, Peng Tien, Nan Chiang,
Directors : Joseph Kuo,

During the Manchurian invasion of China, the son of the Ming Dynasty General takes refuge in the Shaolin Temple to learn martial arts, so that he may seek revenge for his dead father. But ...

Actors : Chia-Hui Liu, Yi Ling Chen, Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

When the ruling dynasty in China sends soldiers to destroy the Shaolin Temple, students use their martial arts to defend the school.

Actors : Ping Ou Wei, Lieh Lo, Bruce Li, Yuan Chuan,
Directors : Bruce Li,

An undercover cop has been assigned to bust up a narcotics ring but comes up against the mob's hired martial arts assassin. Both men are the best in their field and in a battle to the death, only one will survive...

Actors : Ka-Yan Leung, Feng Cheng, Yi Lung Huang, Fu-Chien Chang,
Directors : Wing-Cho Yip,

Ah Chi (Ka-Yan Leung) is obsessed with the martial arts and, more often than not, his kung-fu clowning gets him into trouble. One day he gets into a fight defending the locals from a ...

Actors : Müjdat Gezen, Zeki Alpan, Oktar Durukan, Vural Durukan,
Directors : Hulki Saner,

A Turkish mechanic apprentice is hired by two scholars to replace Chinese kung fu champion Wang Chu, his alike.

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 : Jun Chong, Deborah Dutch, 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, Norman Chu, Lieh Lo, Lily Li,
Directors : Ho Meng-Hua,

International favorite, David Chiang, stars as the great Chih Shim, the monk who saved the Southern Shaolin Temple. Joining him is Lo Lieh, the Shaws' first international star who returns ...

Actors : Feng Ku, Yue Wong, Angie Chiu, Lung Ti,
Directors : Chung Sun,

The Kung-Fu Instructor was director Sun Cheng's homage to Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo where Ti Lung plays a righteous weapon instructor. It's the first time a Shaw Brother's director uses a ...

Actors : Phillip Ko, Wei Tung, Cecilia Wong, 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 : Jun Fujimaki, Shin'ichi Chiba, Eiji Gô, Masashi Ishibashi,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

This movie is based on the true life story of a Korean fighter named Choi Bae-dal (who later changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama), the founder of Kyokushin Karate in Japan.

Actors : Timothy Brown, Aldo Ray, Alan Tang, James Hong,
Directors : Al Adamson,

Young black man teams up with a Chinese kung-fu expert to fight a drug ring.