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Five Fingers of Death (1972) IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB
天下第一拳
director: Jeong Chang-hwa actor: Lo Lieh / Wang Ping …
other title: Cinque dita di violenza / Zhao, der Unbesiegbare …
A young boxer joins a martial arts school to increase his skill so he can enter a martial arts competition. He leaves the school when he hears that a local gangster is terrorizing the town. He comes to the aid of a young singer and brings on the wrath of the local gang. He eventually enters the martial arts competition after learning iron palm technique and takes out all competition.
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The Screaming Tiger (1973) TMDB IMDb WikiData
唐人票客
director: Chien Lung actor: Jimmy Wang Yu / Liu Ping …
other title: Wang Yu - Stärker als tausend Kamikaze / Mano de hacha (El hacha del dragón) …
Rare was the film in 1973 that incorporated the star's name in the title. One of the few such films was Screaming Ninja, aka Wang Yu, King of Boxing. The story is set in China in the early 1900x. Essentially playing an extension of himself, action-star Wang-Yu spends much of the time defending himself against evil martial-arts masters. He also tries to make sense of a tragic incident in his past.
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The Chinese Boxer (1970) TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb
龍虎鬪
director: Jimmy Wang Yu actor: Jimmy Wang Yu / Lo Lieh …
other title: La morte nella mano / Wang Yu - Sein Schlag war tödlich …
Lei Ming, a noble young martial arts student who doesn't know the meaning of giving up. He faces a treacherous, blood-thirsty Japanese karate expert, which leads to many memorable battles as well as several unforgettable training sequences.
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The Boxer's Omen (1983) WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
魔
director: Kuei Chih-Hung actor: Phillip Ko Fai / Elvis Tsui Kam-Kong …
other title: Mo
After his brother was crippled in the ring by a cheating Thai boxer, Chan Hung goes to Thailand to avenge his brother, and finds the key to an omen which may release their family from an ancient curse. He is then caught up in a spiraling web of fate, Buddhist curses, and black magic.
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Security (2017) Skybridge NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
Security
director: Alain Desrochers actor: Antonio Banderas / Ben Kingsley …
other title: Assalto ao Shopping
An ex-special services veteran, down on his luck and desperate for work, takes a job as a security guard at a run-down mall in a rough area of town. On his first night on the job, he opens the door to a distraught and desperate young girl who has fled the hijacking of a Police motorcade that was transporting her to testify as a witness in a trial. Hot on her heels is the psychopathic hijacker and his team of henchmen, who will stop at nothing to extract and eliminate the witness.
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Night and Fog in Japan (1960) NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
日本の夜と霧
7.6 (5 ratings) director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Miyuki Kuwano / Fumio Watanabe …
other title: Notte e nebbia in Giappone / Nacht und Nebel über Japan …
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.
Nov. 22, 2025 to watch "A film about the failure of left-wing anti-imperialists. '16 years later, nothing much had changed,' to quote a more recent one on the same theme... Highly theatrical and innovative." 4/5
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Japan 1960s Drama
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Trouble in Mind (1985) IMDb TMDB WikiData
Trouble in Mind
director: Alan Rudolph actor: Kris Kristofferson / Keith Carradine …
other title: Stati di alterazione progressiva / Vidas em Conflito …
The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the hypnotic Rain City.
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014) IMDb WikiData TMDB Skybridge
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
director: Mark Hartley actor: Molly Ringwald / Dolph Lundgren …
other title: The Electric Boogaloo / Electric Boogaloo …
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
Nov. 16, 2025 to watch Produced by the same folks who made the excellent 'Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks' (2019) seen in #KungFuSat

Maybe future viewing for #MondayActionMovie ? ;)
2010s Documentary CannonFilms
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Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban Skybridge TMDB
Reflet dans un diamant mort
6.6 (10 ratings) director: Bruno Forzani / Hélène Cattet actor: Fabio Testi / Yannick Renier …
other title: Reflection In A Dead Diamond / Reflet dans un diamant mort
When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d'Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.
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Kontroll (2003) TMDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
Kontroll
director: Nimród Antal actor: Sándor Csányi / Zoltán Mucsi …
A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, and the fellow ticket inspectors on his team who work aboard the subterranean Budapest Metro. A tale about racing along the tracks, and about a mysterious serial killer. And a tale about love.