While the 1970s finally brought the popularity of martial arts to Western audiences, thanks in large part to the late Bruce Lee, it was in the 1980s that the genre would truly explode in mainstream popularity. Sure, the early part of the decade was still a ...

Directed by Michael Schultz, The Last Dragon follows martial arts student Leroy Green (whose nickname is Bruce Leeroy because Bruce Lee is his idol). As he approaches the final level of his training, “The Last Dragon”, he’s supposed to be able to ...

The mid-1980s were a strange time for martial arts movies, both in the U.S. and abroad. The broadly termed “kung fu” genre had run amok with wild abandon in Hong Kong cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, evolving from beautifully showy, ornate wuxia stories ...

Martial arts movies aren't for everyone because they're frequently hardcore action movies, sometimes feature intense gore in their action sequences, and can feel like thrill-seeking rides without much substance at times. However, the genre has more to ...

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And when it comes to those underappreciated martial arts movies, there are some specific ones that are regularly overlooked, ranging everything from martial arts classics to cult favorites to films you might not immediately think of when thinking about the ...