Martial Arts Masterpieces

Director: Robert Clouse Run Time: 102 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Release Year: 1973

Starring: Ahna Capri, Bruce Lee, Jim Kelly, John Saxon, Sek Kin

This Bruce Lee action classic is a stylish and wildly entertaining spy thriller about a martial artist who agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord by going undercover as a contestant in a tournament. With impressive fighting sequences and in irresistibly fun plot, this is the quintessential kung fu movie that helped propel Lee into international fame.

Director: Wilson Yip Run Time: 106 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Release Year: 2008

Starring: Donnie Yen, Gordon Lam, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Lynn Hung, Simon Yam

This high intensity semi biographical film tells the story of the great kung fu master Ip Man — master to Bruce Lee and other martial arts legends. Set in the 1930s and 1940s, it’s an action-centric kung fu epic starring Donnie Yen with impeccable fight choreography by the infamous Sammo Hung. 

Director: Ang Lee Run Time: 120 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Release Year: 2000 Language: Chinese

Starring: Chang Chen, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Pei-Pei Cheng, Zhang Ziyi

Ang Lee’s cinematic masterpiece redefined the modern martial arts genre with its dream-like cinematography and physiologically complex narrative. Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh star as two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword who are led to a gifted teenage girl, who is at a crossroads in her life. 

Director: Quentin Tarantino Run Time: 111 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Rating: R Release Year: 2003

Starring: Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, Lucy Liu, Uma Thurman, Vivica A. Fox

Uma Thurman stars in the first of Quentin Tarantino's two part series about an assassin who is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her roaring rampage of revenge.