Kung Fu Espresso!!

[Hebrew Hammer]

Hey Guys,
Doesn't look like you're getting a lot of response here but I'm enjoying quite a few of the links. And they are inspirational and entertaining.

[Lucas]

This is a cool thread! I'll contribute when I get a chance from home.

[mickey]

Hi Jimbo,

Thank you for the notice. I'll fix it when I get home.

mickey

[mickey]

35- Robotrix: A very unique cross genre film, sci fi/p@rn/martial arts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbd4sAxy8Ec


36- Close Escape Final Fight Scene (Yukari Oshima, Tai Wai)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fflvR...eature=related


37- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Final Showdown (Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXldafIl5DQ


38- Once upon a Time in the West (Showdown) Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyvzfyqYm_s


39- Burning Ambition (one of the most intense fight scenes ever because it involves a family) Yukari Oshina, Hui Ying Hung...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhXs-...eature=related


40- Leg Fighters Final scene Tan Tao Liang, Peng Kang, Hsia Kuang Li

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHkqIcOHj1k

[Jimbo]

41 - Queen Boxer (w/Chia Ling, a.k.a., Judy Lee)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrftumqoQFo


42 - Legend of a Fighter (Leung Kar-Yan vs. Yasuaki Kurata)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGGOQmoaYwA


43 - Fearless Hyena (Jackie Chan vs. Yen Shi-Kuan & his 3 henchmen {Peng Kang, etc.})

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFTZF...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3An8z...eature=related


44 - The Woman Avenger (Hsia Kuang-Li vs. Peng Kang)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HONZ6IzCT3Y


45 - The Lady is the Boss (Lau Kar-Leung & Gordon Liu vs. Wang Lung-Wei & Sun Chien

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M8OhVOBa7U


46 - Mr. Vampire (Lam Ching-Ying & Chin Siu-Ho vs. Yuen Wah)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8jSa...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_nnVmz-Wtk


47 - Knockabout (Sammo Hung & Yuen Biao vs. Lau Kar-Wing)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3LRA29ptE


Hi, mickey:
I'm wondering if this thread might attract more participation if it was renamed, maybe to something like "Great Movie Fights!" or something like that. This is a fun thread.

[Jimbo]

48 - Zen Kwun Do Strikes in Paris (superkicker John Liu vs. Meng Yuan-Wen, Tino Wong, Dan Schwarz, and Roger Paschy in a collection of scenes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7WxPapoBNo


49 - Rob Roy (Liam Neeson vs. Tim Roth)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27M5KWI_q50


50 - Game of Death 2 (Tong Lung, a.k.a., Kim Tae-Chung vs. Casanova Wong)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlV9pnvN-ms


51 - Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth (Bruce Li a.k.a. Ho Chung-Tao vs. Chiu Chi-Ling)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w7n7QKtQAk

[mickey]

52- Shaolin Plot (Final Fight)- Chen Sing, Casanova Wong, James Tien, Sammo Hung, .... (Side note: Chen Sing was one of the few actors who threw a back thrust kick in choreography. His kicking ability, in my opinion, was greatly underestimated).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgpd5hJQn2c


53-Tiger in a Cage 2- One of the more important films for Donnie Yen Fans. It is this film that introduces Donnie's use of the dramatic with his fight scenes. In doing so he introduces aspects to characters that dialogue alone does not justify. He introduces us to the warrior, the killer, the hero, the heartless, the sentimental and so on. And he achieves this through the silences and through the bearing of the characters: not at all out of line with Peking Opera. But Donnie achieves this famously and it is beautiful.

Donnie Yen vs Michael Woods

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZGZU...eature=related

Donnie Yen vs John Salvatti

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEe52nPeevk

Donnie Yen vs Robin Shou

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IoFA...eature=related

[mickey]

A new name for this thread, Jimbo? I don't know.

The name "Kung Fu Espresso" came from an idea that never took root (much like this thread). In NYC there was once a store on 43rd Street between 8th and 9th avenues called "The 43rd Chamber." They sold kung fu movies almost exclusively. People went out of their way to provide them with stuff from their personal collections so they could sell to other collectors and patrons, as well as keep them in business. It had a good run until people started to get greedy. Well, there was always a group of people that was there almost all of the time, taking up space (it was a very small store). I suggested the idea of having a coffee shop that would show kung fu movies continuously. It would have premieres and retrospectives. This was before Starbucks hit the city. The guys did not have the heart to take the pearl I gave them and run with it. This thread is somewhat representative of what it could have been like had they listened.

mickey

[Jimbo]

Cool, mickey. I was not aware of the meaning this thread's title has for you. That sounds to me like you had a very cool idea.


54 - Drunken Tai Chi (Donnie Yen vs. Wong Tao & Yuen Hsin-Yi)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW6uI...eature=related


Donnie's first movie. Oddly enough, there's seems to be a lot of people who think of Donnie as a "new-school" star, when in reality he's a veteran old-schooler who's been making movies for nearly 30 years (Drunken Tai Chi dates from approximately 1983).

[PalmStriker]

#55 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYdl9...eature=related

[mickey]

Welcome, Palmstriker.

You forgot to number your entry.

Jimbo,

You are most welcome to use my idea. Just break me off a chunk every now and then. Considering the spike in views since I posted that idea, somebody is really thinking about it.

mickey

[mickey]

56- Circle of Iron (David Carradine as Chang Sha)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EU2v..._order&list=UL

57- Kill The Golden Goose (Ed Parker sets up a hit)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEiDQAPBp_0

58- James Lew in 18 Fingers of Death

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A1QfhiMQ0c

59- Jet Li in Lethal Weapon 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adnXzutxWcQ

[mickey]

60- By the Sword (Eric Roberts, F. Murray Abraham) This is a decent movie that slipped under the radar. the story is centered around the sport of fencing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCcFSsnp8OQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKqEx...eature=related

[Jimbo]

A former colleague of mine, Heidi Runyan, was a fencing champion, and she was one of the extras in By The Sword, in the fencing academy scenes. Though I wasn't able to identify her in any of those shots.

61 - Dragons Forever (Jackie, Sammo, Yuen Biao, Billy Chow, Yuen Wah, & the Jackie/Benny "The Jet" rematch)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khWcczhXgKQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYTvp...eature=related


62 - The Odd Couple (Sammo Hung, Lau Kar-Wing, & Leung Kar-Yan)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO0YEVCHRqQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaJfJ...eature=related

63 - My Young Auntie (Epic fights with Lau Kar-Leung, Hsiao Hou, Hui Ying-Hung, Wang Lung-Wei, Kwon Young-Moon, Tang Wei-Cheng, Yuen Tak, etc.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1yJs...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6C-5...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iTgy...eature=related

64 - Shaolin Martial Arts (training & final fight, w/Fu Sheng, Chi Kuan-Chun, Wang Lung-Wei, Leung Kar-Yan, Feng Ke-An and Chiang Tao)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aNNu...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiC2z...eature=related

[Jimbo]

65 - Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin, actually doubled by Bong Soo Han)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRnra0KRnDk


66 - Marlowe (James Garner vs. Bruce Lee...well, not technically a "fight," but worth noting, nonetheless)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxfPxZhhkqc


67 - Yellow-Faced Tiger, a.k.a., Slaughter in San Francisco (Wong Tao vs Chuck Norris...not a great fight, but another curiosity piece; Wong Tao's first movie, and Norris's acting is more expressive here than in most of his own movies, even though the fight itself doesn't 'flow' very well. This movie was one of those 'guilty pleasures,' so awful it's fun to watch).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtbf8_oc9M0