Martial Arts Film

I really enjoyed "Budo: The Art of Killing." I usually watch and review instructional videos, and it was a nice change to watch this documentary on the martial arts of Japan. When the ruse is revealed, Chang must join up with a brandon lee traveling circus troupe and its Wing Chun-employing leader to learn true kung fu. It's a more mature turn from Hung, who co-stars as one of Chang's tutors, and the action choreography is expansive, free-flowing and beautiful.
Certainly one of the weirdest co-studio crossovers to come out of the '70s, Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires is the product of veteran Hong Kong kung fu factory The Shaw Brothers teaming up with Hammer Studios, the makers of classic British '50s and '60s Frankenstein and Dracula films.



When it comes to film books you can find just about any subject within the horror genre covered, same goes for Sci-Fi, and any number of foreign countries are covered but American martial arts films of the 80's and 90's are an under represented area of cinema that The American Marital Arts Film book tries to give it's due.
Although Bloodsport is the movie that announced Jean-Claude Van Damme and his impenetrable accent to the world—as well as serving as the crucible for (seriously) every single plot of every Van Damme movie to come—it's also a defining film of the decade, positioning martial arts as certifiable blockbuster action cinema.

Gleefully kooky, it combines occasional song and dance with extremely exaggerated kung fu parody in telling the tale of a young man who ends up overthrowing a large criminal organization, the Deadly Axe Gang.” This is not a complex film—rather, it's simply intended as popcorn entertainment at its most absurd.
Chan stars as an irresponsible martial arts student whose misbehaviour inspires his father to send him to train under the notoriously sadistic Beggar So, in order to learn the Drunken Fist style of kung fu. Full of slapstick comedy and giddy antics, this remains one of the most significant martial arts movies of the era despite its low budget.

Tracing the genre's history from Chinese silent cinema (some examples of which were featured in Higher Learning's Buried Treasures of Chinese Silent Cinema) to canonical Hong Kong films such as Bruce Lee's The Way of the Dragon (1972) and Jackie Chan's Police Story (1985), Bordwell related the martial-arts film to traditional forms of Chinese theatre and performance art, as well as to foundational tenets of Western film theory.
Martial arts films first gained popularity in the U.S. during the 1970s with movies that featured stars like Bruce Lee and Sonny Chiba However, this action-driven genre can trace its history to the days of silent cinema with classics like The Burning of the Red Lotus Monastary.

Known for his role in producing hits like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny and the documentary Jackie Chan: My Story, locally based Logan has built a notable career in the film industry since he first stepped foot on Hong Kong soil more than two ­decades ago.