Posts Tagged ‘martial-arts’

Dynamite Warrior (2006)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy
Countries: Thailand
Actors: Dan Chupong | Leo Putt | Panna Rittikrai | Samart Payakarun | Kanyapak Suworakood | Somdet Kaew-ler | Ampon Rattanawong | Wichai Prommajan | Jaran Ngamdee
Directors: Chalerm Wongpim
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The story is set in 1890s Siam. Jone Bang Fai (the Fireball Bandit) is a young Muay Thai warrior and rocketry expert who steals back water buffalo taken from poor Isan farmers by unscrupulous cattle raiders. He is also searching for a man with a tattoo who killed his parents.

Meanwhile, a local nobleman, Lord Waeng, wants to create a market for the steam tractors he’s selling. So he hires a hulking convict, “The Thief”, to kill all the cattle traders and round up all the water buffalo for slaughter, depriving farmers of the draft animals they need to cultivate rice. Lord Waeng’s men are eventually pitted against Nai Hoi Sing, a cattle trader with supernatural martial arts powers and a tattoo on his chest. The tattoo gets Jone Bang Fai’s attention, and while the Thief is trying to steal Sing’s cattle herd, Jone Bang Fai tries to attack Sing, but is repelled.

Lord Waeng then enlists Jone Bang Fai in a scheme to defeat Sing. To do so, they also need the help of the Black Wizard, who was once cursed by Sing so that he cannot withstand sunlight. The Black Wizard says the only way to defeat Sing and reverse his spells is to use the menstrual blood of a virgin – the Black Wizard’s daughter, E’Sao.

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Spencer Tracy | Robert Ryan | Anne Francis | Dean Jagger | Walter Brennan | John Ericson | Ernest Borgnine | Lee Marvin | Russell Collins | Walter Sande | Harry Harvey | Francis McDonald
Directors: John Sturges
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John J. Macreedy doesn’t know it, but when he steps off the train at the jerkwater town of Black Rock, he will soon find himself the object of fear, hatred, and even a murder plot! The altruistic Macreedy came to Black Rock to hand over a posthumous military award to a local man whose son had died gallantly in the Second World War. What Macreedy couldn’t know when he stepped off of that train was that the town had a shameful secret, one that must be kept at all costs.

Rush Hour 3 (2007)

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackie Chan | Chris Tucker | Vinnie Jones | Hiroyuki Sanada | Noémie Lenoir | Max von Sydow | Yvan Attal | Sun Ming Ming | Simon Rhee | Tzi Ma | Roman Polanski | Jean-Michel Richaud | Julie Depardieu | Youki Kudoh | Roselyn Sanchez
Directors: Brett Ratner
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After an attempted assassination on Ambassador Han, Lee and Carter head to Paris to protect a French woman with knowledge of the Triads’ secret leaders.

The Crow (1994)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Brandon Lee | Rochelle Davis | Ernie Hudson | Michael Wincott | Ling Bai | Sofia Shinas | Anna Levine | David Patrick Kelly | Angel David | Laurence Mason | Michael Massee | Tony Todd | Jon Polito | Bill Raymond | Marco Rodríguez
Directors: Alex Proyas
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A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante’s invincibility.

Glory (1989)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Broderick | Denzel Washington | Cary Elwes | Morgan Freeman | Jihmi Kennedy | Andre Braugher | John Finn | Donovan Leitch | JD Cullum | Alan North | Bob Gunton | Cliff De Young | Christian Baskous | RonReaco Lee | Jay O. Sanders
Directors: Edward Zwick
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Based on the letters of Colonel Robert G. Shaw. Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of his own fellow officers.

The Octagon (1980)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Action
Countries: USA
Actors: Chuck Norris | Karen Carlson | Lee Van Cleef | Art Hindle | Carol Bagdasarian | Tadashi Yamashita | Kim Lankford | Larry D. Mann | Kurt Grayson | Richard Norton | Yuki Shimoda | Redmond Gleeson | Alan Chappuis | Brian Libby | Ken Gibbel
Directors: Eric Karson
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Scott’s life is plagued by two kinds of flashbacks. First are the childhood memories of the rigorous training he and a friend endured under a martial arts master. The second is of a mission Scott went on that ended with him watching his friend get murdered. Scott later becomes drawn closer to a vicious crime ring known as The Octagon. As he gets closer to the truth, Scott learns that these may be the men that murdered his friend so long ago.

Blade Runner (Final cut) (2007)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Rutger Hauer | Sean Young | Edward James Olmos | M. Emmet Walsh | Daryl Hannah | William Sanderson | Brion James | Joe Turkel | Joanna Cassidy | James Hong | Morgan Paull | Kevin Thompson | John Edward Allen | Hy Pyke
Directors: Ridley Scott
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Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 “skin jobs”, a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.

Sudden Death (1995)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Powers Boothe | Raymond J. Barry | Whittni Wright | Ross Malinger | Dorian Harewood | Kate McNeil | Michael Gaston | Audra Lindley | Brian Delate | Steve Aronson | Michael R. Aubele | Karen Elise Baldwin | Jennifer D. Bowser | Pat Brisson
Directors: Peter Hyams
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The Vice-President is being held at gunpoint. The Pittsburgh Civic Arena is wired with enough explosives to blow up the whole city. And if $1 billion isn’t delivered soon, thousands will die… …Darren McCord is in the arena. An arson investigator, he’s seen what explosives can do to people. And he won’t let it happen again. Because this time, one wrong move and his daughter dies, too…

Kung fu (2004)

Monday, January 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Fantasy
Countries: China | Hong Kong
Actors: Stephen Chow | Xiaogang Feng | Wah Yuen | Dong Zhi Hua | Kwok Kuen Chan | Chi Chung Lam | Qiu Yuen | Kai Man Tin | Kang Xi Jia | Stephen Fung | Sheng Yi Huang | Suet Lam | Cheung-Yan Yuen | Chi Ling Chiu | Yu Xing
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Set in Canton, China in the 1940s, the story revolves around a hapless wannabe gangster who aspires to become a member of the notorious “Axe Gang.” Other characters include an obnoxious landlady and her apparently frail husband who exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)

Monday, January 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: Hong Kong | USA
Actors: Paige Turco | Mark Caso | David Warner | Michelan Sisti | Leif Tilden | Kenn Scott | Kevin Clash | Ernie Reyes Jr. | François Chau | Toshirô Obata | Raymond Serra | Mark Ginther | Kurt Bryant | Kevin Nash | Joseph Amodei
Directors: Michael Pressman
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The turtles find out where the Ooze, the substance which made them mutate, came from. Unfortunately Shredder learns about it too, and uses it to enhance himself. So the turtles have to prove again who’s the better ninja fighter.

Born to Defend (1986)

Monday, January 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | War
Countries: China | Hong Kong
Actors: Dean Harrington | Kurt Roland Petersson | Paulo Tocha | Erkang Zhao | Jia Song
Directors: Jet Li
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Jet, a young soldier at the end of the second world war must overcome some abusive Americans who are bullying him as well as the Chinese people.

Bloodsport (1988)

Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Genres: Action | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Donald Gibb | Leah Ayres | Norman Burton | Forest Whitaker | Roy Chiao | Philip Chan | Pierre Rafini | Bolo Yeung | Ken Siu | Kimo Lai Kwok Ki | Bernard Mariano | Bill Yuen Ping Kuen | Lily Leung | Joshua Schroder
Directors: Newt Arnold
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As a child, a miscreant Frank Dux was taken in and trained by a champion martial artist, who went so far as to adopt Frank into his family after the premature death of his own son. Now, decades later, Frank is a skilled martial artist himself and a solider in the U.S. Military. Upon the death of his surrogate father and sensai, Frank is informed of a mysterious, no-holds barred, highly illegal martial arts tournament in Hong Kong known only as the “kumeti.” At the bidding of his sensai and against direct orders from his military superiors Frank travels to Hong Kong to participate and uphold his master’s honor. In order to succeed not only will he have to win the tournament; he must also evade capture by two military police sent to arrest him and the prying questions of a nosy reporter eager for a story.

Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Mel Gibson | Danny Glover | Joe Pesci | Rene Russo | Chris Rock | Jet Li | Steve Kahan | Kim Chan | Darlene Love | Traci Wolfe | Eddy Ko | Jack Kehler | Calvin Jung | Damon Hines | Ebonie Smith
Directors: Richard Donner
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Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh, after escaping death from the previous movies are put on a hit list by The Triads. When blood thirsty mercenaries are on their tail they team up again with Leo Getz and Lorna Cole, a newcomer (Chris Rock) to finally put an end to the Triads for good.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Edward Furlong | Robert Patrick | Earl Boen | Joe Morton | S. Epatha Merkerson | Castulo Guerra | Danny Cooksey | Jenette Goldstein | Xander Berkeley | Linda Hamilton | Ken Gibbel | Robert Winley | Peter Schrum
Directors: James Cameron
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Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.

Crying Freeman (1995)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: Canada | France | Japan | USA
Actors: Byron Mann | Mark Dacascos | Julie Condra | Rae Dawn Chong | Masaya Kato | Yoko Shimada
Directors: Christophe Gans
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A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by a beautiful artist. She is captivated by the grace of his kill and later falls in love with him. An intense power struggle for the leadership of the Yakuza Clans ensues as they seek vengeance for the death of their leader. They soon realise the fatal mistake of underestimating the deadly skills of the Crying Freeman.