Subgenre Sampler
Martial Arts: 374 Films to Buy & Rent
All Men are Brothers (Sui woo juen) (1972)
- Dir. Chang Cheh
Feat. David Chiang, Ti Lung, Danny Lee
- Slathered with great fight scenes, this Shaw Brothers sequel to THE WATER MARGIN ups the ante considerably, with the band of Outlaw warriors…
Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
- Dir. Shunya Ito
Feat. Meiko Kaji, Fumio Watanabe, Kayuko Shiraishi
- A classic of Japanese 70s exploitation cinema, this charts the grim road to freedom for a gaggle of women escaped–convicts with a feverish…
Fist of Fury (1972)
- Dir. Lo Wei
Feat. Bruce Lee
- Lots of slow–motion violence and laughs as Bruce Lee avenges a rival Kung–Fu school for the murder of his teacher in 1900's Shanghai.
Hanzo The Razor Trilogy (The Razor: Sword of Justice; Razor 2: The Snare; Razor 3: Who's Got the Gold?) (1972-1974)
- Dir. Kenji Misumi
Feat. Shintaro Katsu
- Mind–boggling samurai film series combines a 1970s taste for heroic bloodshed with a strongly Japanese sexploitation angle.
Featuring the…
Hapkido (Lady Kung Fu) (1972)
- Dir. Feng Huang
Feat. Angela Mao, Carter Wong
- Old–school chop socky flick centring round rival martial arts schools features none of that tiresome rapid fire editing, but plenty of rapid…
King Boxer (Five Fingers of Death) (1972)
- Dir. Chang-hwa Jeong
Feat. Lo Lieh
- The Kung Fu film that began the craze in America...
Kung Fu (TV Series) (1972-1975)
- Feat. David Carradine, Jodie Foster, Jose Feliciano…
- The memorable TV series starring David 'Grasshopper' Carradine as a Shaolin monk wandering the wild west, armed only with his martial–arts…
Lone Wolf & Cub - Complete Boxset (1972-1981)
- Dir. Kenji Misumi
Feat. Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Fumio Watanabe…
- Boxset of all six 'Lone Wolf & Club' installments plus the re–cut/re–dubbed feature film, SHOGUN ASSASSIN.
Lone Wolf & Cub 1: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
- Dir. Kenji Misumi
Feat. Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Fumio Watanabe…
- The LONE WOLF AND CUB series chronicles the adventures of disgraced Shogun assassin Ogami Itto and his infant son Daigoro, who sell their services to…
Lone Wolf & Cub 2: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
- Dir. Kenji Misumi
Feat. Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Kayo Matsuo
- The continuing adventures of disgraced Shogun assassin Ogami Itto and his infant son Daigoro.
In this second episode, Ogami battles a group of…