Your favorite MA film star

[XiXung]

Whose your favorite martial arts film star? Mines Jet Li.

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[bluebar]

Jackie Chan & Sammo Hung

[Ky-Fi]

Kurt Thomas in "Gymkata", who demonstrated the practical combat applications of the uneven parallel bars and the pommel horse.

[b1nyc]

Gordon Liu and Alexander Fu Sheng

[Tigerstyle]

Sonny Chiba

and Sho Kosugi

[Subitai]

The 5 Deadly venoms

· Kuo Chiu = Lizard
· Chiang Sheng = The younger Lizard
· Lu Feng = Centipede
· Lo Mang = Toad
· Sun Chien = Scorpion
· Wei Pei = Snake

Chan Koon Tai

Gordon Liu

Jackie Chan of coarse

[Brad]

1.Jet Li
2.Jackie Chan
3.Donnie Yen
4.Sammo Hung
5.Michelle Yoeh

[mantisgirl]

DONNIE YEN ALL THE WAY!!!! Even though i like jackie cause he's real.....i like jet too but could do without all the wires

[@xemili]

Well, you just gotta respect Sammo Hung.
With the amount of weight that guy carries around, he can sure MOVE!

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[molum_jr]

1940's - 1950's: Shek Kin (Mr. Han) In his younger days, he could move! A Law Horn stylist who learnt from Grandmaster Sun, Yu-Feng, he is the most prolific northern sil lum martial artist. You gotta rent some of his old blk & white movies; they are classics.

1960's: I cannot remember much of the sixties, except for Ed Parker on the Lucy Show... and Bruce Tegner books [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]
Fresca soft drink tasted much better then.

1970's: Bruce Lee and Angela Mao(period)

1980's: Jackie Chan in redubbed Japanese versions (music is more in sync). Fu Sheng and et al in the Nam Sil Lum Shaw films. The Lau Bros. for all the Hung Gar movies...

1990's: Jet Lee in the later movies - the dark ones like the "Black Mask." Michelle Yeoh who can kick Jackie's butt...can kick mine also.

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[DragonzRage]

C'mon now people! Bruce Lee has been and always will be the best!!

[wisdom mind]

The "Chessmaster", Ghostface Killa, Gordon Liu, cast of Invincible Armor

[chung2]

*period martial arts movies:

Gordon Liu, 5 venoms, Jet Li (in the shaolin Temple movies, without wires)

*Non traditional kung fu movies:
Bruce Lee (of course), Jackie Chan

[Hiroshi Tanaka]

The "evil" man in FONG SAE YUK. The one who gets blown up by the tnt. Can't remember his name....

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[Constipated Wombat]

Hmmmm... I never really enjoyed Bruce Lee movies. I mean, he can move well and all, but the films themselves as films were just atrocious. Anyone else notice how Chuck used to be all furry and now he's smooth?

For my money, Stephen Chiao is the man. Hong Kong's martial arts comedian and star of such greats as Hail the Judge, King of Beggars, Forbidden City Cop, and the greatest flick of all time, God of Cookery.

After Stephen, I'll take Jet Li, though again I tend to prefer him in the funnier ones like Fong Sai Yuk, Last Hero in China, Tai Chi Master, and Kung Fu Cult Master. He's really well suited to comedy but is often cast too seriously.

After Jet, give me the early team ups with Jackie, Sammo, and Biao. Those were just a lot of fun.

At the bottom of my list would be pretty much every american martial arts film ever made with the possible exceptions of Only the Strong and the Matrix (which is really a Hong Kong film anyway)


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