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Movies from the #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon

Every Saturday (12.00pm US Eastern time), watch a martial arts movie and join in by posting on Mastodon with the #KungFuSat hashtag.

This collection is a work in progress, working backwards. Currently goes back to start of 2025.

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
director: John R. Leonetti actor: Robin Shou / Talisa Soto
other title: Mortal Kombat - Distruzione totale / Combate Mortal 2: Aniquilação
A group of heroic warriors has only six days to save the planet in "Mortal Kombat Annihilation." To succeed they must survive the most spectacular series of challenges any human, or god, has ever encountered as they battle an evil warlord bent on taking control of Earth.
klu9: 27 December 2025

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The Revenger (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
金劍殘骨令
director: Pao Hsueh-Li actor: Ti Lung / Dorian Tan Tao-Liang
other title: 金劍殘骨令
A kung fu warrior, devoted to helping the oppressed, makes many deadly enemies along the way, including the leader of an army, who plots his demise.
klu9: 20 December 2025
https://mastodon.social/@SesameSquirrel/115738245022547607
A Karate Christmas Miracle (2019) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Karate Christmas Miracle
director: Julie Kimmel actor: Mario Del Vecchio / Julie McCullough
After his father disappeared during a mass shooting on Christmas Day one year earlier, 10-year-old, precocious Jesse Genesis creates a "12 Days of Christmas List" of tasks. If he completes them all, including teaching himself to become a karate black belt, he believes his father will return on Christmas. Jesse's sophisticated, workaholic mother, Abby, believes her husband was lost in the shooting, but has a glimmer of hope through visions that Jesse reports to her. After Abby enlists the aid of an eccentric psychic-turned-law professor, a roller coaster thriller ensues, where the trio unravel a mystery that no one expected - and maybe, just maybe witness the delivery of a miracle that can only happen on Christmas.
klu9: 13 December 2025
Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Showdown in Little Tokyo
director: Mark L. Lester actor: Dolph Lundgren / Brandon Lee
other title: Resa dei conti a Little Tokyo / Fúria no Bairro Japonês
An American with a Japanese upbringing, Chris Kenner is a police officer assigned to the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. Kenner is partnered with Johnny Murata, a Japanese-American who isn't in touch with his roots. Despite their differences, both men excel at martial arts, and utilize their formidable skills when they go up against Yoshida, a vicious yakuza drug dealer with ties to Kenner's past.
klu9: Watched 6 December 2025
Kung Fu Hustle (2004) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban
功夫
8.7 (26 ratings) director: Stephen Chow actor: Stephen Chow / Yuen Qiu
other title: Kung Fusion / Kung Fu Zão
It's the 1940s, and the notorious Axe Gang terrorizes Shanghai. Small-time criminals Sing and Bone hope to join, but they only manage to make lots of very dangerous enemies. Fortunately for them, kung fu masters and hidden strength can be found in unlikely places. Now they just have to take on the entire Axe Gang.
klu9: Watched 29 November 2025
Cinema of Vengeance (1994) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Cinema of Vengeance
director: Toby Russell actor: Cynthia Rothrock / Yuen Biao
other title: Le furie del cinema
A documentary study of martial arts films and their leading protagonists. Included are profiles of such artists as Bruce Lee, Cynthia Rothrock, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme and John Woo favorite Chow Yun-Fat.
klu9: Watched 22 November 2025
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks (2019) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
director: Serge Ou actor: Alan Hofmanis / Alien Ness
other title: Pugni d'acciaio e calci kung fu
The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong over the decades, transformed Western action cinema and inspired the birth of cultural movements such as blaxploitation, hip hop music, parkour and Wakaliwood cinema.
klu9: Watched 15 November 2025
The Heroes (1980) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
少林英雄
director: Pao Hsueh-Li / Wu Ma actor: Ti Lung / Shih Szu
other title: Ti Lung - Die tödliche Kobra / 少林英雄
Former Shaolin man Marshal Kao takes his former classmates prisoner and, instead of executing them, proposes to his Qing commander that he torture them until they're willing to fight on behalf of the Qings. The 'torture' comes to look increasingly like strenuous kung fu training with Kao putting the prisoners through their paces. The Qing governor and his aides become suspicious of Kao's motives, although the beautiful Princess Shao Lung develops her own ideas about him.
klu9: Watched 8 November 2025
Quiet Fire (1991) [Movie] IMDb
Quiet Fire
director: Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs actor: Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs / Robert Z'Dar
other title: L.A. Heat 2 / Arma silenciosa
Loner Jessie Palmer must piece together information from a growing body count, including the murder of his best friend, in order to bring down a corrupt U.S. Senate candidate.
klu9: Watched 1 November 2025
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
director: Roy Ward Baker / Chang Cheh actor: Peter Cushing / David Chiang Da-Wei
other title: La leggenda dei 7 vampiri d'oro / Die 7 goldenen Vampire
Professor Van Helsing had been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are responsible for terror and death amongst the peasants in rural China. He is the only person qualified to deal with the cause of these phenomena, for the undead are controlled by the most diabolical force of all.... Count Dracula. But he is not alone- to aid him comes a mystical brotherhood of seven martial arts warriors.
klu9: Watched 25 October 2025
The Brain-Stealers (1968) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb
諜海花
director: Umetsugu Inoue actor: Lily Ho / Peter Chen Ho
other title: 諜海花
A mad scientist wants to get his hands on a certain growth-accelerating serum developed by Hong Kong scientist Dr. Li Zong-Hua so that he can create an army of supermen and conquer the world.
klu9: Watched 18 October 2025
Ong-Bak (2003) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
องค์บาก
director: Prachya Pinkaew actor: Tony Jaa / Petchtai Wongkamlao
other title: Ong-Bak - Nato per combattere / Ong-Bak - O Guerreiro
When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.
klu9: Scheduled for 11 October 2025
A Force of One (1979) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
A Force of One
director: Paul Aaron actor: Jennifer O'Neill / Chuck Norris
other title: La polvere degli angeli / Karateeksperten
Karate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after narcotics agents are killed by an assailant using the martial arts.
klu9: Watched 4 October 2025
That Fiery Girl (1968) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban
红辣椒
director: Yan Jun actor: Cheng Pei-Pei / Chan Leung
other title: 红辣椒
The bandits of Hulu Valley murder the chief of Mei Clan while searching for a treasure map. In retaliation, the clan’s leading swordsman Feng-chun (Chan Leung) infiltrates the bandit’s fortress hideout in anticipation of a surprise attack by a larger force and unexpectedly finds himself romantically involved with the bandit leader’s feisty daughter (Cheng Pei-Pei).
klu9: Watched 27 September 2025
Dance of Death (1980) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
舞拳
director: Chen Chi-Hwa actor: Angela Mao Ying / Paul Chun Pui
other title: Danse de la mort / 舞拳
An orphan boy seeks revenge upon a villainous kung-fu sect that killed his friends. He chances upon two old kung fu masters who are fighting to determine who's the better fighter; one is a drunk, the other puffs constantly on a pipe. Fei Fei convinces them to teach him kung fu, and then he'll fight using both of their techniques and will discover which is superior. So Fei Fei ends up fighting his way up the ranks of the evil sect with the two old men trailing after him, evaluating the battles and counting how many of their individual moves Fei Fei uses. The final battle with the white-haired master of the sect, using new kung fu moves inspired by dancers in a brothel, is amazingly gymnastic. --Bret Fetzer
klu9: Watched 13 September 2025
Clan of the White Lotus (1980) [Movie] TMDB
洪文定三破白蓮教
director: Lo Lieh actor: Gordon Liu Chia-hui / Lo Lieh
other title: Il clan del Loto Bianco / Le Poing mortel du dragon
Shaolin practitioners and brothers Wu and Hung kill the merciless Pai Mei. However, Pai Mei's even more merciless brother White Lotus takes revenge; killing most of the Shaolin disciples, including Wu and Hung's girlfriend, leaving only Wu's pregnant wife and Hung as the only remaining practitioners of Shaolin left to avenge the deaths. But Hung's kung-fu will not be powerful enough so he must learn feminine kung-fu techniques to help him try and defeat White Lotus.
klu9: Watched 30 August 2025
Chocolate (2008) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban
ช็อคโกแลต
director: Prachya Pinkaew actor: JeeJa Yanin / Hiroshi Abe
other title: Chocolate - La furia / Chocolate - Süß und tödlich
Zen, an autistic teenage girl with powerful martial arts skills, gets money to pay for her sick mother Zin's treatment by seeking out all the people who owe Zin money and making them pay.
klu9: Watched 23 August 2025
Big Trouble in Little China (1986) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Big Trouble in Little China
7.2 (5 ratings) director: John Carpenter actor: Kurt Russell / Kim Cattrall
other title: Grosso guaio a Chinatown / Hvem springer kineserne for?
Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.
klu9: Watched 16 August 2025
Created date: Sept. 28, 2025