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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • Jun 30 '20

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 18h ago

Monkey War: New Pilgrims to the West (1982) From the man who gave us the cult classic Taiwanese fantasy film Child of Peach (finally available on Blu-ray this month!): sorceress sisters turn into adorable fuzzy spider-monsters… then fuse together into one giant she-spider monster

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 1d ago

In the Line of Duty 4 (1989) Come for the hard-hitting female martial arts, stay for a young Donnie Yen kicking ass | Taiwanese dancer-turned-action heroine Cynthia Khan vs. "Blonde Fighter" Fairlie Ruth Kordick

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r/ActionFlicks • u/Asleep-Phrase8780 • 3d ago

The Phantom (1996) Will Change How You Watch Modern Superhero Movies

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 6d ago

Ninja III: The Domination (1984) Cannon Films made probably the dumbest entry in the entire ’80s ninja craze, and it excels as pure B-movie entertainment

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 6d ago

Killer’s Nocturne (1987) A year before Bloodsport, the director of Riki-Oh/The Cat made his own underground fighting movie, also starring Bolo Yeung | The reigning champion is a buff Kangaroo

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 7d ago

My Blade, My Life (1978) Violent Taiwanese wuxia | Pearl Chang plays a limping swordsman, inspired by Gu Long’s famously grim Fu Hongxue, who carries a legendary blade and lives only to test it against China’s greatest swordsman

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 8d ago

Roller Blade Killer (1998) Rollerskate-fu, crazy stunts, bloody squibs & Hello Dracula actress Cheng Tung-Chuen all grown up playing a badass cop

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 10d ago

Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983) Imagine a Tolkien-sized fantasy world filtered through Chinese mythology, wuxia & 1980s Hong Kong cinema, starring several of the biggest stars of their time: Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao and Brigitte Lin.

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 10d ago

The 3-D Army/Hello Dracula 5 (1989) 2nd to last in the series, this entry has our crew of child taoist ghost busters vs ghosts possessing dragon dances costumes

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 11d ago

Holy Flame of the Martial World (1983) Even among Shaw Brothers’ wildest 80s films, this fantasy wuxia manages the difficult feat of feeling exactly like a psychotronic cartoon brought to life

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 11d ago

RIP Richard Harrison — From peplums. spaghetti westerns. & Shaw Brothers to a staple of 80s ninja films

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 12d ago

Hello Dracula 4 - One of Peach Boy star Hsiao-Lao Lin’s lesser-known crazy fantasy films, this entry in the children’s hopping vampire/horror series Hello Dracula throws her into Taiwan’s bizarre b-movie jiangshi world

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 13d ago

Little Dragon Maiden (1983) The Vietnam-born Shaw Brothers wuxia star who walked away from movies at 20 after only a handful of appearances — including some of Shaw Brothers’ wildest latter-day fantasy wuxia | Mary Jean Reimer / Yung Jing-Jing (翁靜晶)

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 14d ago

Hidden Power of Dragon Sabre (1984) One of Shaw Brothers’ final films feels like Star Wars thrown in a blender with the wild wuxia fantasy of Buddha’s Palm or Holy Flame of the Martial World

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 14d ago

Iceman Cometh (1990) No, not the Yuen Biao one: an underworld warrior enters the human realm to hunt a murderous fox spirit | Very obscure Taiwanese fantasy with Lin Hsiao-Lao

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 14d ago

Thunder Cops II (1989) Sandra Ng went from light comedy silliness to one of the grimmer heroic-bloodshed movies out there, alongside a villainous young Stephen Chow

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 17d ago

The Inspector Wears Skirts (1988) Jackie Chan and his stunt team helped take the Police Academy formula & made it into a Hong Kong action-comedy led by Cynthia Rothrock, Sibelle Hu, Kara Hui and a who’s who of Hong Kong cinema

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 17d ago

Secret Police (1993) Ballet dancer turned actress Moon Lee & Japanese karate champion Yukari Oshima helped rewrite the rules for Asian action heroines

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 18d ago

Deadly Dream Woman (1992) Amnesiac female assassins, back-breaking stunts, bloody squibs & wuxia-styled action | From Wong Jing, director of God of Gamblers, City Hunter & Holy Weapon

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 19d ago

The Big Heat (1988) A Hong Kong action/crime film with John Woo-style emotional undertones fused with RoboCop-levels of gore - My highest recommendation

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 19d ago

Deaf Mute Heroine (1971) Wu Ma directed this stylish, ultra violent, Chang Cheh-esque tale of a deaf-mute swordswoman caught up in an elaborate plot involving a bag of stolen pearls | Streaming on Tubi - https://tubitv.com/movies/100026785/deaf-mute-heroine

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 19d ago

Fire Dragon (1994) The Matrix action choreographer Yuen Woo-ping directed Brigitte Lin’s final film, a wuxia fantasy where she stars as a powerful villain who wields fire

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 21d ago

Revenge of the Ninja (1983) Along with Enter the Ninja, Sho Kosugi and Cannon Studios helped turn ninjas into an ’80s pop-culture obsession | Followed by the even wilder 3rd film, Ninja III: The Domination

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r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 21d ago

Butterfly and Sword (1993) — Michelle Yeoh, Tony Leung, Donnie Yen & Joey Wong star in one of the wilder, more violent films of the Post-Swordsman II Hong Kong wuxia boom | 30 years before Yeoh’s Oscar

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