Great Karate Movies That Got little Fanfare

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Every scene in Dragon Tiger Gate blew me away---with the exception of the final scene. It was cool, but so many great scenes, made it hard to exceed the expectations- especially the restaurant scene- the camera angles from the top was off the charts!

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This is the scene where the camera angles from the top- were unique. not sure what became of the stars of this movie well except Donnie Yen!!

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The Raid - Non-stop & breathtaking action.

Bonkers must see film.

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Billy Jack

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The Raid - Non-stop & breathtaking action.

Bonkers must see film.

WTF!!!! Are they taking hits for real?


Never even looked at it. I thought it was some Harrison Ford gone karate flick, now I know!! I said Dayum, just these three minutes got my face, back and body aching. They taking for real slams.

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Ong bak with Tony jaa is pretty good, it looked like he was going to be a pretty big star back then, he never did make it that big in the west though...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ong-...d%20Tony%20Jaa.

His film where the village elephants are stolen is pretty fun too..... Thai problems I guess :S

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Ong bak with Tony jaa is pretty good, it looked like he was going to be a pretty big star back then, he never did make it that big in the west though...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ong-...d%20Tony%20Jaa.

His film where the village elephants are stolen is pretty fun too..... Thai problems I guess :S

He did a great job in Triple X, even though Yen had the bigger part. I saw an interview where he was pretty excited about his first cross over film. But yeah since then he hasn't got that lead that Yen or Jet Li got.

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i saw triple threat about this time lat year. it had tony, iko, scott & michael for fans of these guys. also some other kung fu regulars & some mma guys
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Not Karate but a movie called Chocolate starring JeeJa Yanin. It has some very good fight scenes.

I thought JeeJa Yanin was going to blow up after that movie, but outside of the fight scenes in Raging Phoenix her talents haven't really been utilized to their full potential. Much like Tony Jaa.

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Not Karate but a movie called Chocolate starring JeeJa Yanin. It has some very good fight scenes.

I thought JeeJa Yanin was going to blow up after that movie, but outside of the fight scenes in Raging Phoenix her talents haven't really been utilized to their full potential. Much like Tony Jaa.

I will give it another view. I saw just a few scenes and thought it was some good action.
Good pick, thx!

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Well, this wasn't a great fight movie, but no place else to put a Dolemite fight scene at!! Eddie Murphy did his impersonation of Rudy Ray Moore. His fight style? Well....

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Eddie Murphy's version of Dolomite's 1st fight scene

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I grew up on a steady diet of Shaw Brothers Karate Flicks!

Gordon Liu was one of my top- loved his fight against the Japanese Crab style by Yasuaki Kurata who usually got the bad guy roles, but he always lost with dignity- or usually a tie. he's the old guy that fights to a draw against Jet Li in Fist of Legend.
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My top Gordon Liu fight scene is in Instructors of Death- they fight in a corridor that gets smaller, so they have to adopt- and always name their style & compliment each other when using it!

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Jet Li vs Yasuaki Kurata old dog teaching the young dog!



Classic lines:

Yasuaki Kurata "Men don't have to tell women everything they do"
Yasuaki Kurata "WAIT!!! Old man must first warm up";

This was the 1st time I ever saw Jet Li.