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Encounters of the Spooky Kind (1980)

Director: Sammo Hung
Starring: Sammo Hung, Chung Fat, Chan Lung

Action legend Sammo Hung re-invented action-comedy by combining it with supernatural horror in this inventive and incredible showcase of his martial a... Read more

Shaolin Wooden Men (1980)

6.6/10
Director: Chen Chi-hwa
Starring: Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan witnesses his father's death by the skilled hands of a martial arts master with an unknown killing technique, After being chump of a Shaol... Read more

The Young Master (1980)

7.3/10
Director: Jackie Chan
Starring: Jackie Chan, Wei Pei, Yuen Biao, Li Li-Li, Sheck Kin

One of Jackie Chan's first films as director/star that rocketed him to world-wide recognition. This colourful period-comedy follows Jackie as he seeks... Read more

Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1979)

7.2/10
Director: John Woo

A son sets out to avenge his father and gets two sword fighters to help him in John Woo's take on the heroic fantasy movie genre. With plenty of outst... Read more

Heroes of the East (1979)

Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Starring: Chia Hui Gordon Liu, Yuka Mizuno

A Chinese man (Gordon Liu) marries a Japanese woman through an arranged marriage and manages to insult all of her Japanese martial arts family by issu... Read more

Magnificent Butcher (1979)

7.5/10
Director: Sammo Hung, Yuen Woo Ping
Starring: Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, Hoi San Lee, Wei Pei, Tak-Hing Kwan

An action-packed martial arts spoof with Sammo Hung as a plump kung fu student of legendary master, Wong Fei Hung. Two rival schools end up in an all... Read more

Knockabout (1979)

7.4/10
Director: Sammo Hung
Starring: Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, Ka-Yan Leung , Hoi San Lee

Two con-men brothers, Yipao (Yuen Biao) and Taipao (Ka-Yan Leung) manage to lose all their cash and get into trouble with a casino owner. When their p... Read more

The Odd Couple (1979)

7.7/10
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Starring: Sammo Hung, Ka-Yan Leung , Liu Chia-Liang, Chan Lung, Chung Fat, Ching-Ying Lam

Every ten years the King of the Sword (Sammo Hung) and the King of the Spear (director Liu Chia-liang) meet for a duel that inevitably ends in a draw.... Read more

The Shaolin Temple (1979)

5.9/10
Director: Xinyan Zhang
Starring: Jet Li, Yue Hai, Yue Chen Wei

This was the first Hong Kong- Kung Fu action film to be shot in mainland China, and also Jet Li's first major film, 18 year-old Jet Li brings his incr... Read more

Battle Creek Brawl ( aka The Big Brawl ) (1979)

5.8/10
Director: Robert Clouse
Starring: Jackie Chan, Jose Ferrer, Kristine DeBell, Mako

Jackie Chan battles the world's meanest brawlers (including H B Haggerty, wrestler/footballer) in the fight of the century in this, his first American... Read more