Action Movies

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 24d ago

Hello Dracula 4 - One of Peach Boy star Hsiao-Lao Lin’s lesser-known crazy fantasy films, this entry in the children’s hopping vampire/horror series Hello Dracula throws her into Taiwan’s bizarre b-movie jiangshi world

3 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 26d ago

Little Dragon Maiden (1983) The Vietnam-born Shaw Brothers wuxia star who walked away from movies at 20 after only a handful of appearances — including some of Shaw Brothers’ wildest latter-day fantasy wuxia | Mary Jean Reimer / Yung Jing-Jing (翁靜晶)

5 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 26d ago

Iceman Cometh (1990) No, not the Yuen Biao one: an underworld warrior enters the human realm to hunt a murderous fox spirit | Very obscure Taiwanese fantasy with Lin Hsiao-Lao

4 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 26d ago

Hidden Power of Dragon Sabre (1984) One of Shaw Brothers’ final films feels like Star Wars thrown in a blender with the wild wuxia fantasy of Buddha’s Palm or Holy Flame of the Martial World

6 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 27d ago

Thunder Cops II (1989) Sandra Ng went from light comedy silliness to one of the grimmer heroic-bloodshed movies out there, alongside a villainous young Stephen Chow

3 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 29d ago

The Inspector Wears Skirts (1988) Jackie Chan and his stunt team helped take the Police Academy formula & made it into a Hong Kong action-comedy led by Cynthia Rothrock, Sibelle Hu, Kara Hui and a who’s who of Hong Kong cinema

4 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • 29d ago

Secret Police (1993) Ballet dancer turned actress Moon Lee & Japanese karate champion Yukari Oshima helped rewrite the rules for Asian action heroines

3 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • Sep 17 '26

Deadly Dream Woman (1992) Amnesiac female assassins, back-breaking stunts, bloody squibs & wuxia-styled action | From Wong Jing, director of God of Gamblers, City Hunter & Holy Weapon

3 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • Sep 16 '26

The Big Heat (1988) A Hong Kong action/crime film with John Woo-style emotional undertones fused with RoboCop-levels of gore - My highest recommendation

4 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • Sep 16 '26

Fire Dragon (1994) The Matrix action choreographer Yuen Woo-ping directed Brigitte Lin’s final film, a wuxia fantasy where she stars as a powerful villain who wields fire

4 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • Sep 16 '26

Deaf Mute Heroine (1971) Wu Ma directed this stylish, ultra violent, Chang Cheh-esque tale of a deaf-mute swordswoman caught up in an elaborate plot involving a bag of stolen pearls | Streaming on Tubi - https://tubitv.com/movies/100026785/deaf-mute-heroine

2 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • Sep 14 '26

Revenge of the Ninja (1983) Along with Enter the Ninja, Sho Kosugi and Cannon Studios helped turn ninjas into an ’80s pop-culture obsession | Followed by the even wilder 3rd film, Ninja III: The Domination

10 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • Sep 14 '26

Butterfly and Sword (1993) — Michelle Yeoh, Tony Leung, Donnie Yen & Joey Wong star in one of the wilder, more violent films of the Post-Swordsman II Hong Kong wuxia boom | 30 years before Yeoh’s Oscar

4 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • Sep 12 '26

Enter the Ninja (1981) Trailer — One of the movies that helped kick off the ’80s ninja obsession: Two cult follow-ups, endless imitators & an entire industry of mail-order ninja junk

3 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • Sep 11 '26

War City 2: Red Heat Conspiracy (1988) Another terrible Phillip Ko/Godfrey ho joint | All the Hong Kong action movie staples: Lots of bloody squibs, back-breaking stunts & Mike Abbott going ragdoll mode from a grenade

3 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • Sep 11 '26

Deadly Target (1994) Godfrey Ho & Phillip Ko Fai directing action junk together is like deep frying a stick of butter - Paper thin, but with some great action scenes with Yukari Oshima & Sharon Yeung

3 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • Sep 10 '26

City Cops (1989) Some of Cynthia Rothrock’s career best fight scenes are in this Hong Kong action flick — Here she faces Japanese bodybuilding champion Michiko Nishiwaki

14 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • Sep 09 '26

Little Flying Dragon (1982) A prototype Peach Boy-style Taiwanese fantasy is light hearted... until the tonal whiplash of the bloody finale, where half the cast dies, including the heroic kung-fu ape

4 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • Sep 09 '26

Monkey War (1982) — From the director classic Child of Peach: giant Sun Wukong pisses on Heaven, lightsabers, lasers, endless optical effects & a race of evil bat people | Full-throttle, mile-a-minute Taiwanese fantasy

3 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • Sep 08 '26

Little Dragon Maiden (1983) — By late 1983, Shaw Brothers fantasy had reached critical mass with films like Buddha’s Palm & Holy Flame of the Martial World: Here, a balding, too-fat-to-fly bird finds legendary treasure & teaches sword mastery in 2 minutes

7 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • Sep 08 '26

Challenge of the Lady Ninja (1983) — One of Taiwan’s most fun female-ninja b-movies has every conceivable ninja trick... including female ninja sex magic | Available on Blu-ray from Error 4444

4 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • Sep 07 '26

Hard to Kill (1992) More Phillip Ko Fai directed Hong Kong action junk, starring Robin Shou (Liu Kang in the original Mortal Kombat) & Japanese karate champ Yukari Oshima

5 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • Sep 07 '26

Fatal Chase (1992) Female assassins, crazy stunts and bloody squibs were all staples of 1980's and 1990's Hong Kong action cinema | Phillip Ko Fai directs and stars alongside Yukari Oshima

3 Upvotes

r/ActionFlicks • u/LiquidNuke • Sep 06 '26

A 1990s Tai Seng trailer promoting Hong Kong’s girls with guns craze abroad — Complete with jabs at Hollywood-bound John Woo | Moon Lee & Cynthia Khan

13 Upvotes