Jimmy Wang Yu
Love the really bonkers 70's/80's ones featuring bronze golems, clockwork mechanisms, trap filled pagodas etc...
Here's some recomendations, all avilbl in uk (some vid clips included):
One-Armed Boxer 2(uk name) Classic, great soundtrack too. -aka Master of the Flying Guillotine:
http://www.duallens.com/index.asp?reviewId=100502
NINJA WARS:
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/ninjawars/
Shogun Assasin (another great soundtrack):
http://www.kfccinema.com/reviews/swordplay/shogun/shogun.html
Zu Warriors of the Mystical Mountain 1983 (the only 'wire' movie I really love):
http://dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=5110
Unbeaten 28:
http://www.hkflix.com/xq/asp/filmID.2825/qx/details.htm
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Some Recomendations from this site:
http://www.revengeismydestiny.com/MartialArts.html
18 BRONZEGIRLS OF SHAOLIN (77) Yep, it's true. They're covered from head to toe in bronze paint and go "boing" when you hit 'em! Hilarious training scenes as the bronze babes slam into a giant bell, get crushed by stone columns, and have a huge wrecking ball slammed into them over and over. Plus a final death match in an open field highlighted by synchronized back flips and cheerleader pyramids!
HOUSE OF TRAPS (81) Extremely rare Shaw Brothers action directed by our main man Chang Cheh and featuring a diabolical boobytrap filled pagoda even Macaulay Culkin would admire. Kewl! Subtitled in English. Fair quality.
THE NINE DEMONS (85) aka The Demons. Wild fantasy martial arts flick directed by Chang Cheh and packed with colorful costumes, hyperkinetic fight choreography, and wacky special effects. A Chinese Boxer with the unlikely name of "Joey" slips through a time portal and trades his soul to The Black Prince of Hell for a stylish necklace of skulls that house the Nine Demons: eight bloodthirsty little imps and their cute plasma slurping mom. Lots of cool flying skull scenes, blood draining, and acrobatics in this one!
SHAOLIN INVINCIBLES (77) Holy hair shirts! Check out this hilariously stupid chop socky masterpiece that stars a pair of goofy, kung fu fighting gorillas! See overheated actors in flea-bitten ape costumes punch, kick, jump around, and generally make monkeys of themselves! What a great idea! And wait until you see the big finish when they get swords stuck through the tops of their heads and shoot out fountains of blood like giant fuzzy beer cans! Aiieeeee!
INVINCIBLE SHAOLIN (79) aka The Unbeatable Dragon; North Shaolin vs. South Shaolin. Another ass kicking entry in Chang Cheh's long running "Venoms" series that's got so many breathtaking fights and gruelling training sequences it's better than a year's subscription to Inside Kung Fu! Letterboxed.
THE BATTLE WIZARD (77) aka Das Blut der Toten Python. Insane period fantasy action from the Shaw Bros. starring Danny Lee. Lee plays a young philosophy student who leaves home to see the world and gets more than he bargained for when he crosses paths with two high kicking hussies - one keeps snakes up her sleeves to ward off attackers and the other has a magic bone that shoots arrows! Non-stop action and goofiness!
CRIPPLED MASTERS (82) The first of THREE mindbogglingly tasteless "gotta see it to believe it" movies starring the real-life paraplegic kung fu tag team of Frankie Shom and Jack Conn. One's got no arms, the other's got no legs. Put 'em together and you've got an unstoppable killing machine! So incredibly, ridiculously over-the-top you'll be tearing your eyes out in disbelief! See also Two Crippled Heroes and Fighting Life for more handicapped hilarity.
THE FATAL FLYING GUILLOTINES (76) First film appearance of the dreaded Flying Guillotine, sort of an oriental sombrero with retractable blades inside attached to a long chain. Whip it onto a foe's head, tug on the chain, and presto! Instant spurting neck
*P.S. Does anyone have a copy of House of Traps, please let me know, its impossible to get hold of. Also looking for video nasty era streetgang movies, like 'the Warriors' but nastier. Sheepskin waistcoats, flick knives, subway trains etc.. Any recomendations?
EDIT: There used to be two really knowlegable sellers on Camden market, but they've gone since the recent makeover
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Also there was that place near centrepoint that sold Hiphop Vinyl upstairs and KungFu downstairs, also sadly gone, anyone know where these guys moved to? Also anyone know if you can get the soundtrack of OneArmed Boxer 2?
Hopping Vampires are great too......