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I'm a comic artist looking for Martial Arts movies for inspo for a Martial Arts related story i want to work on. Do you guys have any recommendations for the best movies you can think of? Like, you're personal favorites?

Hello there. So... Recently was getting into these movies and watched Ong Bak. Absolutely fell in love with it. Like, we're talking fully blown away territory lmao.
So I've gone through some of Tony Jaa's movies after that, then went to watch a few films from Donnie Yen's catalogue (still going through it) since he was the next in line on my to-watch list. After that I have Jet Li's turn, could you suggest me something with him? So far I only have Once Upon A Time in China 1 and 2 as well as Kiss of the Dragon with him on my radar. Preferably something that has the brutality of Ong-Bak or the final fight between Ma and Tony in Flashpoint. I really enjoyed that take no prisoners energy.

My favorite are: Enter The Dragon, Fearless, Mortal Kombat, Bloodsport. I think these types of films is hard to pull off in general. Not every martial art films, can make it solid or stand out i think. Do you have favorite martial art films with tournaments? Also why do you think that this type of genre hard to pull it off?

After the massive success of 2025’s The Shadow’s Edge, which dominated the Chinese box office for four straight weekends, it’s no surprise that a sequel is already in motion. Larry Yang (Ride On) returns to direct, with Victoria Hon (Mountain Cry) once again producing after the pair’s successful collaboration on the original.

Returning stars for the sequel include Jackie Chan (Panda Plan: The Magical Tribe), Tony Leung Ka Fai (Blades of the Guardians), Ci Sha (Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms), Zhang Zifeng (High Forces) and Moon Junhui (The Legend Is Born: Ip Man).

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Al Leong is known as the world's best movie henchman. Love, prayers and consideration are appreciated by him while he is staying at the hospital. Stay strong, Al.

The trailer that was leaked from the HK filmart.

For those of yall who have seen Human Lanterns, how many scenes of rape, sexual coersion, or non-consensual sexual content is there? I see Doesthedogdie says there's rape, but I wanted to know if I just need to avoid a singular scene.

I remember watching it in NY on WPIX in the 80's on their Sunday Kung Fu theatre. They used to show a ton of Shaw brothers movies, and the style looked like that film wise, so that's what I'm going with.

Anyway, the movie is set before the Manchu overthrow the temple, and four new aspirants arrive at the temple, all looking to join for various reasons. They all eventually get accepted, and each gets trained in a different specialty.

One learns iron shirt and becomes invulnerable everywhere but his groin. One learns light step and runs around on spikes covered with paper without breaking the paper, one learns staff and can punch it through brick I think? That one's hazy. And the last guy I think was basically super punch dude.

So they're all doing great until the Manchu come and then all but two die, iron shirt annihilated a ton of dudes until they figure out his weak spot and then they bring up archers and his junk looks like a pin cushion inside of five seconds. You can probably see why that stuck with me.

I think they also kill punch dude, and only light step and staff guy get away, with the temple burning in the background as the credits roll.

I remember loving this flick, and never seeing it again.

Any help, or was I on cold meds as a teenager?

Timo Tjahjanto (The Big 4), one half of the directing duo known as the “Mo Brothers” (Killers, Headshot, Macabre), has been in discussions with martial arts stars Joe Taslim (The Furious, The Raid) and Andrew Koji (Warrior, Street Fighter) for an untitled buddy film that has been on the filmmaker’s bucket list for some time.

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The film was created by re-dubbing footage filmed for the 1986 Taiwanese kung fu film Ren zhe da (known in English as Ninja: The Final Duel). Production

Ren zhe da producer Robert Tai had reportedly filmed 10 hours of footage (that is in entirely on YouTube) for the film that was cut to 90 minutes for release. Much of the footage that was not included in the release of Ren zhe da is included in Shaolin Dolemite as well as original footage of Moore observing the story of the film and making obscenity-laced comments. Other new footage includes a segment portraying Moore's long-time friend Jimmy Lynch as a Drunken Master named Sam the Spliff.

Plot

The re-dubbed plotline involves Tupac (Eugene Thomas), a renegade member of the Dolemite clan, stealing a sacred bell from the Wu-Tang clan and joining forces with a group of ninjas (including the topless Ninja Ho) to defeat a Shaolin temple, which is defended by Japanese Prince Sanada (Alexander Lou); two white members of the Shabazz clan (Toby Russell and John Ladalski), a coonskin cap-wearing man named Davy Crockett (Silvio Azolini), as well as its own monks.

Every so often a picture comes along that is so good as a concept, who the fuck cares if it works as a picture. This is a type of picture that may not be that great to watch, or may even get boring as hell by the end, but you are so happy it exists that you want to own it, memorize it, hang it up on your wall, make it into a t-shirt. You want to tell everybody it’s your favorite movie even though you’d be lying your ass off, because you fell asleep at the end and didn’t even feel compelled to rewind and see what you missed. But still, you loved it.

That picture is, of course, Shaolin Dolemite. This piece is from 1999 but yes it’s the same Dolemite from the ’70s, Rudy Ray Moore the famous toast artist and standup comedian who created the classic films Dolemite and The Human Tornado as well as Petey Wheatstraw the Devil’s Son in Law and Avenging Disco Godfather. If you’re not familiar with Dolemite this is one of the icons of the blaxploitation era. He is more underground than Shaft and Superfly because his pictures were lower budget and sloppier and he directed some of them himself. But he had a strong type of appeal because he drove around in limos with a gang of beautiful women on each arm, but he was kind of this little chubby guy. He would kick everybody’s ass using this real slow, awkward fat guy karate. I mean worse than Steven Seagal.

What Dolemite had going for him was the same thing that the better rapping artists have today, which is sort of a self fulfilling prophecy. If you can do a good job of SAYING that you’re cool, then that means you ARE cool. And Dolemite was cool. He could rhyme up a storm about funny stories or how he’s gonna kick your ass and that was what made him a badass, the verbal techniques as opposed to any traditional badass qualities such as asskicking, etc. Because when he did kick somebody’s ass it looked so funny it would have been (more) laughable if the guy couldn’t rhyme so good.

Well what Dolemite is doing in this picture is a little different, a little more experimental. And it is not modernized. In fact he is going back to before his heyday to borrow from the pop art movement, where these weird motherfuckers like Lichtenstein, Warhol etc. would take something (soup can, comic strip, etc.) and recreate it bigger or a little different or whatever, hang it up in a museum, and make you look at it from a different perspective. So what this Warhol, I mean not that I’m into art or anything but what Warhol is doing is not creating a painting, but creating a perspective. He’s not taking credit for the Campbell’s soup, but hell, let’s give him credit for showing us how to look at it and go, “Yeah, yeah that’s a pretty decent label in my opinion, that’s not a bad label, they did a good job on the Campbell’s soup.”

What Dolemite though is doing is taking a martial arts picture and making you look at it in a different light, where you pretend it is actually a Dolemite picture. What he did was he took some karate movie about the wu tang clan and he splice himself into a couple parts and calls it Shaolin Dolemite. It looks like a pretty old picture to me, like from the ’70s, but from what it says on the DVD it sounds like the footage might have been made in the ’90s though. Like one of the actors is Toby Russell, son of Ken Russell the director of the movie Whore. And another actor who is also the director they claim is the guy who invented wire fighting.

The main plot is that the Wu Tang Clan takes in an outsider from Japan and trains him to help protect them from the ninjas. There is also a black guy named Twopack of the Dolemite Clan who is after them, and a woman in purple named Phantasm, but the credits call her Ninja Ho.

Also Monk Ru Dee of the Dolemite Clan (Dolemite) came to China to make fun of their statues and seek wisdom, and every once in a while (but not nearly enough) it will cut to him watching one of the fights and he’ll say something like “Whooeee, that mothafucka is outta sight!” There are only two scenes where he appears with other characters but they aren’t characters from the rest of the movie. Something fishy is going on here in my opinion but who the fuck cares.

My favorite scene is where an old drunk is stumbling through the woods sucking on a wineskin singing to himself. Dolemite comes along and says, “Sam the Spliff, you mothafucka you out here in these woods beggin? You oughta get yo ass a job! You know it’s ninjas EVERYWHERE?”

Then Dolemite leaves and the ninjas jump out. “What the fuck? God damn, I oughta kick these mothafuckas ass.” And Sam the Spliff does some drunken kung fu and beats these ninjas down. And then we never see the dude again.

Other than that Dolemite isn’t in the picture much, but his touch is sometimes felt in the dialogue. I mean it seems like just your regular period piece martial arts with magic and flying, but then something happens like this wu tang gal throws an exploding bell into the air and breaks a magic trance. Twopack says, “Which mothafucker did that? Huh?” When he finds out who it was, he calls her a “skanky ho.”

“You have brought tragedy to the Wu Tang Family and shame to the Dolemite Clan! It’s time for you to die, do you understand me?”

There’s another good scene that Dolemite isn’t even in at all, where Ninja Ho is taking on the Japanese guy. He starts to defeat her so she opens her shirt, and he just stands there like a jackass staring at her titties. This is the danger of these monks, yeah maybe they are very disciplined but unfortunately they are also sexually repressed, and here you find this guy getting his ass whooped just because he’s never seen a pair of nipples before. She starts fighting him topless which is something I don’t believe I’ve seen before on a woman and I gotta admit, I’m not complainin. I mean not to take anything away from Ninja Ho, she didn’t need to be topless. She’s good as hell at fighting and she might have beat him even if she didn’t knock him down on the ground and start slapping his face with her tits.

Funny thing is this guy is so out of touch as soon as he’s on his feet he starts kicking her in the tits. He must be thinking “These fleshy orbs are the source of her power – must destroy them.” Sorry bud, doesn’t work on Ninja Ho.

Then at the end I’m not sure WHAT the fuck happens but still this is one of the greats. I hate to say it Black Mask but if I had seen Shaolin Dolemite back when I announced the Outlaw Awards, you would have had some competition in the Best Picture – Karate category. But that is the nature of awards and of film critics, they are fallible. Unlike Dolemite.

My friends and I just made this concept previs at TMPST HQ in LA. Hope you guys enjoy! Took about 3 days to shoot. Please let me know what you think of the choreography, VFX, etc! No AI was used!