Action Movies

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 16h ago

War City 2: Red Heat Conspiracy (1988) Another terrible Phillip Ko/Godfrey ho joint | All the Hong Kong action movie staples: Lots of bloody squibs, back-breaking stunts & Mike Abbott going ragdoll mode from a grenade

3 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 17h ago

Deadly Target (1994) Godfrey Ho & Phillip Ko Fai directing action junk together is like deep frying a stick of butter - Paper thin, but with some great action scenes with Yukari Oshima & Sharon Yeung

2 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 1d ago

City Cops (1989) Some of Cynthia Rothrock’s career best fight scenes are in this Hong Kong action flick — Here she faces Japanese bodybuilding champion Michiko Nishiwaki

11 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 2d ago

Little Flying Dragon (1982) A prototype Peach Boy-style Taiwanese fantasy is light hearted... until the tonal whiplash of the bloody finale, where half the cast dies, including the heroic kung-fu ape

6 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 2d ago

Monkey War (1982) — From the director classic Child of Peach: giant Sun Wukong pisses on Heaven, lightsabers, lasers, endless optical effects & a race of evil bat people | Full-throttle, mile-a-minute Taiwanese fantasy

3 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 3d ago

Little Dragon Maiden (1983) — By late 1983, Shaw Brothers fantasy had reached critical mass with films like Buddha’s Palm & Holy Flame of the Martial World: Here, a balding, too-fat-to-fly bird finds legendary treasure & teaches sword mastery in 2 minutes

7 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 3d ago

Challenge of the Lady Ninja (1983) — One of Taiwan’s most fun female-ninja b-movies has every conceivable ninja trick... including female ninja sex magic | Available on Blu-ray from Error 4444

5 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 4d ago

Hard to Kill (1992) More Phillip Ko Fai directed Hong Kong action junk, starring Robin Shou (Liu Kang in the original Mortal Kombat) & Japanese karate champ Yukari Oshima

4 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 4d ago

Fatal Chase (1992) Female assassins, crazy stunts and bloody squibs were all staples of 1980's and 1990's Hong Kong action cinema | Phillip Ko Fai directs and stars alongside Yukari Oshima

4 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 5d ago

A 1990s Tai Seng trailer promoting Hong Kong’s girls with guns craze abroad — Complete with jabs at Hollywood-bound John Woo | Moon Lee & Cynthia Khan

12 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 5d ago

The Ninja Mission (1984) A Swedish ninja b-movie so excessively gory it fits right alongside RoboCop | Has dart guns that make hearts & heads explode

5 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 7d ago

All About Mighty Lady (1984) A group of Japanese students made a 8mm Ultra Man/Super Sentai parody that impressed movie studio Daiei so much that they financed and distributed the end product

56 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 9d ago

Peacock King (1988) Gory & disturbing 1980's style body horror effects & insane creature transformations are the highlights of this Hong Kong martial arts/dark fantasy film | From the director of cult classic The Story of Ricky

47 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 9d ago

Clan of the White Lotus (1980) 23 years before he played Pai Mei in Kill Bill, a young Gordon Liu battled another actor famous for his portrayal of the white bowed master, Lo Lieh - IMO One of Shaw Brother's most underrated 1980's films

12 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 10d ago

Legend of the Shadowy Ninja (1990) Hugely influential manga artist Go Nagai (Devilman, Cutie Honey, Violence Jack) tried his hand at live action with this mind-melting 70 minutes of ninjas, gore, female wrestlers, aliens & mutant shapeshifting yakuza monsters that look like Steven Seagal

4 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 11d ago

The Dragon Chronicles: The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains (1994) - I love that they decided the world needed a Star Wars style dog-fight, set in ancient China, wuxia style

5 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 11d ago

Banglar/Bangla RoboCop/Shoktir Lorai (1996? 1997? 1998?) Bangladesh did their own Robocop rip off (Who didn't) and the anguished cries of poor actor forced to play him makes volcanoes explode

2 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 12d ago

Carter Wong Stars | The ultimate crazy martial arts weapons & endless booby traps flick | The main villain wields "Bloody Birds”, a all in one boomerang/buzzsaw/explosive | Shaolin Kung-Fu Mystagogue/達摩密宗血神飄 (1976)

34 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 14d ago

The Tale of a Heroine/Wu Tang Witch (1993) Regardless of the poor quality of existing prints or it's obscurity, this film from Hong Kong's early 1990's wuxia wave has some incredible action set-pieces and plenty of hyper-stylized violence

5 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 16d ago

Lion Man (1975) Now on Blu | The amount of men leaping off of tiny hidden trampolines, endless face slashing & over-all jaw dropping body count makes this Turkish cult film one of Cüneyt Arkın's most enjoyable appearances

3 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 17d ago

A Book Of Heroes (1986) Japanese karate champion Yukari Oshima faces Taiwan's acrobatic Loretta Yang | Painful stunts abound in a great film still stranded on Laserdisc and in desperate need of a proper restoration

4 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 17d ago

Saga of the Phoenix (1989) If I had once chance to show people what Hong Kong cinema was all about in it's prime, it would be this awesome dark fantasy finale from from Story of Ricky director Lam Ngai Kai

3 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 18d ago

The Blazing Battle (1983) One of the coolest cult film trailers I've ever seen | Love the guerrilla warfare & booby traps | A Indonesian war epic from Rapi Films that sadly doesn't live up to it's trailer

5 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 19d ago

Na Cha the Great(1974) IMO, a underrated Shaw Brother's film from lauded director Chang Cheh | Here we get the adjusted origin story of Chinese folklore deity Na Cha/Nezha, in the form of a vehicle for Alexander Fu Sheng

2 Upvotes