6 Best Martial Arts Movies You Must Watch In Your Lifetime
Best Martial Arts Movies -If you enjoy martial arts films, there is some excellent news for you. From legendary masters like Bruce Lee to contemporary comedic and combat luminaries such as Jackie Chan, this thing is certain: martial arts movies have a stellar cast. They are also significantly more diversified than yells and flying punches, covering every genre and demanding a plethora of tactics including wires and camera rigs, as well as months and years of rehearsal.
When we see a fantastic martial arts film, we are not simply observing the first shot; we’re watching anything as orchestrated as a stage production, a ballet, or a carnival, in which everything needs to go perfectly and where even the smallest mistake may be really painful.
In a nutshell, we like a good martial arts film because we can see the passion, devotion, and work that gets into each take. So have some patience because we are going to highlight 25+ of the best martial arts movies that you can stream right now.
Without further ado, let’s dive into them.
Best Martial Arts Movies of All Time!
Come Drink with Me (1966)
Come Drink with Me, one of the oldest Shaw Brothers movies, defined the appearance and feel of the kung fu blade battle genre. When the boy of a Chinese noble is abducted and held hostage for the price, the army’s girl Golden Swallow (Cheng Pei-Pei) rushes to save him, ultimately joining up with Drunken Cat, another powerful fighter (Yueh Hua). For years, a remake helmed by supporter Quentin Tarantino has indeed been mooted, and while it looks that will never happen, the film’s effect on Kill Bill is powerful enough to qualify as being one.
Five Deadly Venoms (1978)
Cheng Cheh’s Five Deadly Venoms, a real cult masterpiece, introduced the ‘Venom Mob,’ the cast of performers who would appear in many following Shaw Brothers Company projects. A passing teacher, suspicious that his lessons are being misused, sent his final surviving disciple to examine five of his past classmates, each talented in a unique mammal method. (Snake, Scorpion, Centipede, and so forth.) It’s an enticing idea that enables each combat sequence to have its own separate character. Many kung-fu movie fanbases begin here.
Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (1984)
How much harm can one guy inflict with a bamboo stick? Plenty if he’s Gordon Liu. In this incredible story, created by Hong Kong’s renowned Shaw Brothers company, a warrior turned abbot is immediately drawn into the revenge play when the very jerkoff who abandoned his dad on the battleground abducted his sister. The project was nearly halted when actor Alexander Fu Sheng was killed in an automobile accident midway through filming. Rather, filmmaker Lau Kar-Leung bestowed upon him a gem.
The Karate Kid (1984)
The Karate Kid spawned four films, a Saturday morning cartoon, a remake starring Jackie Chan and Jada Smith, and the YouTube drama Cobra Kai, which is already in its third season. All three primary Daniel-san and Sir Miyagi films are available on Netflix (the fourth was a sequel, The Next Karate Kid, with a teenage Hilary Swank as Miyagi’s young student). Nothing surpasses the classic ‘Wax on, wax off’ as Daniel-san, the trailblazing martial arts geek who defeats his opponents and wins the lady, Ali who is much out of his level. The Daniel-san flicks are all enjoyable and maintain a consistent plotline, but still, nothing tops the first.
Once Upon a Time in China (1991)
If a film’s title includes the words “once upon a time,” you know it’s going to be incredible, and filmmaker Tsui Hark’s masterwork isn’t any different. Jet Li portrays Wong Fei-hung, a Cantonese national hero from the nineteenth century who raises a force to protect his region from invading Westerners. It’s possibly the finest martial arts film of the 1990s, with stunning graphics. Li would appear in two blockbusters until having his British debut in Lethal Weapon 4 at the close of the decade.
