Favorite Cheesy and Not-So-Cheesy Ninja/Kung Fu/Martial Arts movies...

Your last two Seagal choices were good ones. Marked for Death was good, but I thought Above the Law and Hard to Kill were his two best movies---before he started putting on weight after Marked for Death (Not good for an action movie star).

 

This was my favorite: The pool cue fight in the bar with Dan Inosanto was awesome!

 

This looks like a candidate for worst film of all time.

 

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The cheesiest has to be The Chinese Professionals aka 'The One-Armed Boxer'. When released on 1973 it became a huge hit mainly because it was so ridiculous unreal, but it was a 'serious movie'. All the colorful villains united to battle the invincible One-Armed boxer (Wang Yu). what not to love here?


Probably the most awesome of the 70's kung fu films of this category has to be the little known gem Story of 36 Killers, it tells the story of a family chased by 36 assassins and their journey toward safety only to encounter these killers on their trek and being decimated one by one. Very emotional film with a tragic albeit heroic ending.

the worst kung fu film I ever watched was a 70's Hong Kong film title Black Belt and just to show audiences how evil the villain was, he strangled all his victims with a 'black belt'. Plot was boring, acting atrocious and the fights incredibly boring. People were asking for money refunds after walking out of the theater!::

and finally a favorite one in the 'cheesy-but-cool' category: The Black Dragon Revenges the Death of Bruce Lee with the legendary Ron Van Clieff and Charles Bonet as the heroes hired by a wealthy Chinese businessman to investigate who murdered Bruce Lee turning out that the same guy who hired them, surprise! is the bad guy...makes sense, right?alm:

 

This film was fucking horrible. I enjoyed the 2 fight scenes but Van Damn
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dies in this one (he's the villian).


A much better film was No Retreat No Surrender.