| I am a martial artist who has practiced kung fu and | | | | 3 - The Big Brawl: One of the movies that brought |
| other martial arts for over a decade, and I am also a | | | | Jackie Chan to the worlds attention. |
| big fan of watching great movies, so as you can | | | | 4 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A seminal 'modern' |
| imagine kung fu and martial arts movies are something | | | | martial arts movie with lots of mythical imagery and |
| that I really enjoy a lot. So this seemed like a natural | | | | flying around on wires. |
| subject for me to write about, and I have written | | | | 5 - House of Flying Daggers: Similar in style to |
| reviews of individual movies for various websites, but I | | | | crouching tiger, this is a beautifully made movie. |
| thought that now it was time for me to put together | | | | 6 - Iron Monkey: Less well known that my other |
| my ultimate top ten list of the martial arts movies that I | | | | choices, but well worth watching. |
| most recommend for people to watch, so without any | | | | 7 - Zatoichi The Blind Swordsman: great sword fighting |
| further preamble here they are: | | | | action. |
| 1 - Enter The Dragon: Bruce Lee really was the | | | | 8 - The Seven Samurai: I had to include at least one |
| master and made some of the best kung fu films of all | | | | Samurai movie, and this is my personal favourite. |
| time without any doubt. He was at his peak when | | | | 9 - Karate Kid: ok, so the karate kid series of movies |
| making Enter The Dragon, and even now it is still right | | | | were all very corny, but they were the stand out |
| up there with the best of the best. | | | | martial arts films of the 80's |
| 2 - The Octagon: Chuck Norris taking on the evil Ninja | | | | 10 - Kill Bill: Perhaps this one doesn't fit perfectly into the |
| hordes. They don't make action stars like that | | | | genre as you usually think about it, but its still great |
| anymore do they? They all seem to be pretty boys | | | | entertainment with some cool sword fighting action. |
| these days rather than tough guys like Chuck Norris. | | | | |