1984 • Hong Kong • Directed by Chia-Liang Liu

After one of its lead actors (cherub-faced action icon Alexander Fu Sheng) unexpectedly died midway through production, master director Lau Kar-leung (The 36th Chamber of Shaolin) retooled his latest martial arts epic, The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter, as ...

He's back! One of the most infamous B-movie maestros to have ever sat in a director's chair, Nico Mastorakis returns to Arrow Video with a collection of sci-fi shenanigans and screwball comedies that will take you out of this world!

First up, Nico then shows a more thoughtful side in The Time Tr...

1981 • Hong Kong • Directed by Sammo Hung

In 1978, actor/director Sammo Hung gave Hong Kong audiences the Wing Chun crash course of Warriors Two, while his next directorial effort, 1979’s Knockabout, gave Yuen Biao the chance to shine as its lead star. But it would be in 1981 that he would combi...

1976 • Hong Kong • Directed by Lo Wei

Almost five years after breaking all Hong Kong box office records with the instant classic Fist of Fury, his last collaboration with the late Bruce Lee, director Lo Wei got to work on a sequel. It would be the first major leading role for Lo’s latest discove...

Picking up where Volume One left off, this sophomore collection of Hong Kong cinema classics draws together many of the best films from the final years of the Shaw Brothers studio, proving that while the end was nigh, these merchants of martial arts mayhem weren’t going to go out without a fight!...

1981 • Taiwan • Directed by Wei-Lan Wang

A supernatural tale of demonic possession and martial arts mayhem.

When director Huang Feng (The Shaolin Plot) jumped ship from Shaw Brothers to their upstart rivals Golden Harvest, he swiftly launched the career of a Taiwanese ingenue barely out of Beijing opera school named Angela Mao, who despite her fresh-faced femininity became one of Hong Kong’s toughest a...

1966 • Hong Kong • Directed by King Hu

Years before Shaw Brothers’ kung fu films made them the biggest film studio in Hong Kong, local audiences flocked to their wuxia pian films: mythic tales of swordfighting (and often gravity-defying) heroes fighting for honor. In his final film for the studi...

1984 • Taiwan • Directed by Shih Hao Ko

Five disciples, each a grand master in a particular style of kung fu, are banded together by a wise old drunken monk. He leads the band of fighters on a mission to catch a group of evil martial arts experts and white-haired wizards from China.

1987 • United States • Directed by Richard Park and Y.K. Kim

Motorcycle ninjas tighten their grip on Florida’s narcotics trade, viciously annihilating anyone who dares move in on their turf. Martial arts rock band Dragon Sound have had enough, and embark on a roundhouse wreck-wave of crime-crush...

36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978) 
Lau Kar-leung started as Chang Cheh’s action choreographer but he eventually went his own way and became one of the greatest action directors of all time. A walking library of martial arts styles, Lau celebrated the soul of kung fu in movie after movie, especially ...

Martial Arts of Shaolin (1986) 
The last movie Shaw Bros Studios ever shot, this one pairs their ace director, Lau Kar-leung, with a new sensation from Mainland China, Jet Li, and the results are epic. A masterpiece of mutually assured martial arts destruction.

Boxer From Shantung (1972) 
Martial arts movies are divided into “Before Chang Cheh” and “After Chang Cheh.” The first director to put angry young men, stripped to the waist and covered in gore onscreen, his heroes died fighting the power. He celebrated heroic nihilism, masculine anger, and slipp...

1972 • Hong Kong • Directed by Jimmy Wang Yu

When former Shaw Brothers executive Raymond Chow founded rival studio Golden Harvest in 1970, he quickly teamed up with “Jimmy” Wang Yu – Hong Kong’s first kung fu superstar and formerly Shaw’s biggest box office draw. Bringing over his peerless talen...

1986 • Hong Kong • Directed by Sammo Hung

All aboard for the all-star action-packed adventure of a lifetime as martial arts maestro Sammo Hung (Heart of Dragon) brings East and West crashing spectacularly together in Millionaires’ Express!

Sammo himself plays Ching Fong-tin, a former outlaw wit...

All aboard for the all-star action-packed adventure of a lifetime as martial arts maestro Sammo Hung (Heart of Dragon) brings East and West crashing spectacularly together in Millionaires’ Express!

Sammo himself plays Ching Fong-tin, a former outlaw with a wild scheme to make amends with the cit...

1979 • Hong Kong • Directed by Sammo Hung

Having established himself as Hong Kong’s premier action choreographer throughout the 1970s, Sammo Hung ended the decade by directing a non-stop assault of kung fu classics for Golden Harvest, starting with the brutal Iron-Fisted Monk. But it would be h...