Martial arts films of the 1970s

360 films: 301 martial arts films, 29 boxing films, 12 jidaigeki (period dramas), 11 kung fu films.

1970

• Bakumatsu (1970) – Daisuke Itō
• Jack Johnson (1970) – Jimmy Jacobs
• Machibuse (1970) – Hiroshi Inagaki
• Onna Gokuakuchō (1970) – Kazuo Ikehiro
• The Chinese Boxer (1970) – Jimmy Wang Yu
• The Darkest Sword (1970) – Chien Lung
• The Great White Hope (1970) – Martin Ritt
• The Heroic Ones (1970) – Chang Cheh
• The Super Fight (1970) – Murray Woroner
• The Wandering Swordsman (1970) – Chang Cheh
• Vengeance (1970) – Chang Cheh
• Yakuza deka (1970) – Yukio Noda
• a.k.a. Cassius Clay (1970) – Jimmy Jacobs

1971

• A Touch of Zen (1971) – King Hu
• Black and White Swordsman (1971) – Min-Hsiung Wu
• Blood of the Dragon (1971) – Kao Pao-shu
• Duel of Fists (1971) – Chang Cheh
• Duel with Devil (1971) – Chien Lung
• Fearless Fighters (1971) – Min-Hsiung Wu
• Forced to Fight (1971) – Sun Yang
• I due assi del guantone (1971) – Mariano Laurenti
• Little Tiger of Canton (1971) – Chu Mu
• My Name Is Rocco Papaleo (1971) – Ettore Scola
• One-Armed Swordswoman (1971) – Sheng-En Chin
• Rider of Revenge (1971) – Hsiung Ting-Wu
• The Big Boss (1971) – Lo Wei
• The Deadly Duo (1971) – Chang Cheh
• The Deaf and Mute Heroine (1971) – Wu Ma
• The Duel (1971) – Chang Cheh
• The Fast Sword (1971) – Huang Feng
• The Hero (1971) – Hung-Chang Wang
• The New One-Armed Swordsman (1971) – Chang Cheh
• Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman (1971) – Kimiyoshi Yasuda

1972

• Action Tae Kwon Do (1972) – Ban-Yee Yeo
• Angry Guest (1972) – Chang Cheh
• Blood of the Leopard (1972) – Chien Lung
• Bloody Duel: Life and Death (1972) – Tin Chi Ng
• Chaochow Guy (1972) – Sheng-En Chin
• Chow Ken (1972) – Ting Shan-hsi
• Crush (1972) – Tu Kuang-Chi
• Delightful Forest (1972) – Chang Cheh
• Fat City (1972) – John Huston
• Fist of Fury (1972) – Lo Wei
• Four Riders (1972) – Chang Cheh
• Furious Slaughter (1972) – Ting Shan-hsi
• Hapkido (1972) – Huang Feng
• Hissatsu Shikakenin (1972) – Kinji Fukasaku
• Iron Punch Contest (1972) – Huang Tang
• King Boxer (1972) – Jeong Chang-hwa
• Kung Fu Master: Bruce Lee Style (1972) – Joseph Velasco
• Kung Fu, the Invisible Fist (1972) – Ng See-yuen
• Lady Whirlwind (1972) – Huang Feng
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972) – Kenji Misumi
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972) – Buichi Saitō
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972) – Kenji Misumi
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972) – Kenji Misumi
• Man of Iron (1972) – Chang Cheh
• One Armed Boxer (1972) – Jimmy Wang Yu
• Queen Boxer (1972) – Feng-Chi Yu
• Ripped Off (1972) – Franco Prosperi
• Royal Fist (1972) – Ting Shan-hsi
• The 14 Amazons (1972) – Cheng Kang
• The Angry Hero (1972) – Chien Lung
• The Bloody Fists (1972) – Ng See-yuen
• The Bold Brothers (1972) – Sung Chia-Wen
• The Boxer from Shantung (1972) – Chang Cheh
• The Cannibals (1972) – Kao Pao-shu
• The Eight Dragon Swords (1972) – Sheng-En Chin
• The Fist That Kills (1972) – Wong Tin-lam
• The Killer (1972) – Chor Yuen
• The King of Boxers (1972) – Kung Min
• The Lion's Heart (1972) – Ting Shan-hsi
• The Sister of the San-Tung Boxer (1972) – Hung-Chang Wang
• The Water Margin (1972) – Chang Cheh
• The Yellow Killer (1972) – Jimmy Shaw
• Tiger (1972) – Chien Lung
• Wang Yu, King of Boxers (1972) – Chien Lung
• Way of the Dragon (1972) – Bruce Lee
• Young People (1972) – Chang Cheh

1973

• A Man Called Tiger (1973) – Lo Wei
• Black Panther (1973) – Cheng Hou
• Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (1973) – Teruo Ishii
• Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973) – René Viénet
• Chinese Hercules (1973) – Tsai Yang Ming
• Deadly Strike (1973) – Lau Kar-leung
• Devil and Angel (1973) – Lo Lieh
• Enter the Dragon (1973) – Robert Clouse
• Fist of Unicorn (1973) – Ti Tang
• Fist to Fist (1973) – Jimmy L. Pascual
• Hissatsu Shiokinin (1973) – Eiichi Kudo
• Hissatsu shikakenin (1973) – Yūsuke Watanabe
• Infernal Street (1973) – Chiang Shen
• Karado: The Kung Fu Flash (1973) – Joseph Velasco
• Karate Kiba (1973) – Ryūichi Takamori
• Kareteci Kiz (1973) – Orhan Aksoy
• Killer in the Dark (1973) – Chan Tung-Man
• Kiso Kaido Isogitabi (1973) – Kazuo Mori
• Knight Errant (1973) – Ting Shan-hsi
• Ku-Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore (1973) – Nando Cicero
• Kung Fu Brothers in the Wild West (1973) – Ban-Yee Yeo
• Kung-Fu King (1973) – Joseph Velasco
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973) – Kenji Misumi
• Pattikaattu Ponnaiya (1973) – B. S. Ranga
• Police Force (1973) – Chang Cheh
• Professional Killers Assassins Quarry (1973) – Yūsuke Watanabe
• Queen of Fist (1973) – Chien Lung
• Shadow of the Dragon (1973) – John Gale
• Smugglers (1973) – Sung Chia-Wen
• Supermen Against the Orient (1973) – Bitto Albertini
• The All-American Boy (1973) – Charles K. Eastman
• The Blood Brothers (1973) – Chang Cheh
• The Brothers (1973) – Chalong Pakdeevijit
• The Champion (1973) – Ching-Yun Chu-Ko
• The Chinese Dragon (1973) – Wu Chia-Chun
• The Deadly Chase (1973) – Stanley Wing Siu
• The Fate of Lee Khan (1973) – King Hu
• The Iron Hero (1973) – Li Kuan-Chang
• The Master of Kung Fu (1973) – Ho Meng Hua
• The Pirate (1973) – Chang Cheh
• The Three Musketeers of the West (1973) – Bruno Corbucci
• The Thunder Kick (1973) – Wing-Cho Yip
• The Tormentor (1973) – Ting-Mei Sung
• The Two Cavaliers (1973) – Yueh Feng
• The Way of the Tiger (1973) – Li Kuan-Chang
• Thriller – A Cruel Picture (1973) – Bo Arne Vibenius
• Thunderfist (1973) – Wing-Cho Yip
• When Taekwondo Strikes (1973) – Huang Feng
• Wu lei hong ding (1973) – Chi Lo

1974

• Black Belt Jones (1974) – Robert Clouse
• Chinese Dragon (1974) – Chang Yi
• Chinese Godfather (1974) – Chien Lei
• Chinese Kung Fu against Godfather (1974) – Tso Nam Lee
• Dynamite Brothers (1974) – Al Adamson
• Executioner (1974) – Teruo Ishii
• Fatal Strike (1974) – Chien Lung
• Fingers That Kill (1974)
• Five Shaolin Masters (1974) – Chang Cheh
• Friends (1974) – Chang Cheh
• Golden Needles (1974) – Robert Clouse
• Hanuman and the Five Riders (1974) – Sompote Sands
• He Has Nothing But Kung Fu (1974) – Lau Kar-wing
• Heroes Two (1974) – Chang Cheh
• Jaws of the Dragon (1974) – James Nam Seok-Hoon
• Kung Fu on the Bosporus (1974) – Victor Lamp
• Land of the Brave (1974) – Stanley Wing Siu
• Little Superman (1974) – Ng See-yuen
• Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974) – Yoshiyuki Kuroda
• Los Golpes bajos (1974) – Mario Sábato
• Muhammad Ali, the Greatest (1974) – William Klein
• Policewomen (1974) – Lee Frost
• Professional Killers Assignment By Night (1974) – Masahisa Sadanaga
• Return of the Street Fighter (1974) – Shigehiro Ozawa
• Shaolin Kung Fu (1974) – Joseph Kuo
• Shatter (1974) – Michael Carreras
• Sister Street Fighter (1974) – Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
• Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread (1974) – Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
• The Brave Lion (1974) – Fei-Chien Wu
• The Bravest One (1974) – Wah Man
• The Dragon Squad (1974) – Jimmy Wang Yu
• The Fists of Vengeance (1974) – Chen Hung-min
• The Furious Monk from Shaolin (1974) – Cheng Hou
• The Green Hornet (1974) – Norman Foster
• The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) – Roy Ward Baker
• The Man from Hong Kong (1974) – Brian Trenchard-Smith
• The Return of the Sister Street Fighter (1974) – Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
• The Savage Five (1974) – Chang Cheh
• The Shrine of Ultimate Bliss (1974) – Huang Feng
• The Street Fighter (1974) – Shigehiro Ozawa
• The Tiger Jump (1974) – Raymond Lui
• The Tongfather (1974) – Tien Peng
• The Young Dragons (1974) – John Woo
• Virgins of the Seven Seas (1974) – Ernst Hofbauer
• Yellow Faced Tiger (1974) – Lo Wei

1975

• 18 Bronzemen (1975) – Joseph Kuo
• Bruce Lee Against Supermen (1975) – Wu Chia-Chun
• Disciples of Shaolin (1975) – Chang Cheh
• Edo no Kaze (1975) – Kazuo Mori
• Goodbye Bruce Lee: His Last Game of Death (1975) – Bing Lin
• Hard Times (1975) – Walter Hill
• Hissatsu Shiokiya Kagyō (1975) – Eiichi Kudo
• Let's Do It Again (1975) – Sidney Poitier
• Mandingo (1975) – Richard Fleischer
• Marco Polo (1975) – Chang Cheh
• Secret Rivals (1975) – Ng See-yuen
• Sister Street Fighter – Fifth Level Fist (1975) – Shigehiro Ozawa
• The Fighting Dragon (1975) – Peng Chien
• The Flying Guillotine (1975) – Ho Meng Hua
• The Monk (1975) – Dean Shek
• The Stranger and the Gunfighter (1975) – Antonio Margheriti
• The Super Inframan (1975) – Hua Shan
• The Valiant Ones (1975) – King Hu
• Tiger Force (1975) – Joseph Velasco
• Tiger and Crane Fist (1975) – Jimmy Wang Yu
• Tigers at the Top (1975) – But Fu

1976

• 7 Man Army (1976) – Chang Cheh
• A Queen's Ransom (1976) – Ting Shan-hsi
• Boxer Rebellion (1976) – Chang Cheh
• Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave (1976) – Doo-yong Lee
• Bruce Lee Superstar (1976) – Bing Lin
• Bruce Lee and I (1976) – John Law
• Bruce Lee's Secret (1976) – Chi Chang
• Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth (1976) – Ng See-yuen
• Challenge of the Masters (1976) – Lau Kar-leung
• Death Machines (1976) – Paul Kyriazi
• Dragon Princess (1976) – Yutaka Kohira
• Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger (1976) – Tso Nam Lee
• Hand of Death (1976) – John Woo
• Hissatsu Karakurinin Keppūhen (1976) – Eiichi Kudo
• Hot Potato (1976) – Oscar Williams
• Karate Warriors (1976) – Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
• Killer Clans (1976) – Chor Yuen
• Killer Meteors (1976) – Jimmy Wang Yu
• Killers on Wheels (1976) – Kuei Chih-hung
• Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976) – Jimmy Wang Yu
• New Fist of Fury (1976) – Lo Wei
• Rocky (1976) – John G. Avildsen
• Rocky (1976) – John G. Avildsen
• Shaolin Temple (1976) – Chang Cheh
• Shaolin Wooden Men (1976) – Chi-Hwa Chen
• The Ming Patriots (1976) – Tsai Yang Ming
• The Return of the 18 Bronzemen (1976) – Joseph Kuo
• Which Is Stronger, Karate or the Tiger? (1976) – Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

1977

• 10 Magnificent Killers (1977) – Yeh Fang
• Along Comes a Tiger (1977) – Wu Ma
• Bare Knuckles (1977) – Don Edmonds
• Black Samurai (1977) – Al Adamson
• Broken Oath (1977) – Jeong Chang-hwa
• Bruce and the Shaolin Bronzemen (1977) – Joseph Velasco
• Chinatown Kid (1977) – Chang Cheh
• Clans of Intrigue (1977) – Chor Yuen
• Cobra (1977) – Joseph Velasco
• Eagle's Claw (1977) – Tso Nam Lee
• Enter the Invincible Hero (1977)
• Executioners from Shaolin (1977) – Lau Kar-leung
• Fist of Fury II (1977) – Jimmy Shaw
• Heroes of Shaolin (1977) – Chi Chang
• Hot, Cool, & Vicious (1977) – Tso Nam Lee
• Iron Monkey (1977) – Chen Kuan-tai
• Kannappanunni (1977) – Kunchacko
• Karate for Life (1977) – Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
• Naval Commandos (1977) – Chang Cheh
• Return of Bruce (1977) – Joseph Velasco
• Secret Rivals 2 (1977) – Ng See-yuen
• Shaolin Kung Fu Mystagogue (1977) – Peng-Yi Chang
• Shaolin Plot (1977) – Huang Feng
• Snuff Bottle Connection (1977) – Richard Tung Chin-Hu
• Soul Brothers of Kung Fu (1977) – Hua Shan
• The Boxer's Adventure (1977) – Tyrone Hsu Tien-Yung
• The Flash Legs (1977) – Wu Ma
• The Greatest (1977) – Tom Gries
• The Invincible Armour (1977) – Ng See-yuen
• The Iron-Fisted Monk (1977) – Sammo Hung
• The Real Bruce Lee (1977) – Jim Markovic
• The Sentimental Swordsman (1977) – Chor Yuen
• Tiger Love (1977) – Kuang Hui
• To Kill with Intrigue (1977) – Lo Wei

1978

• 7 Grandmasters (1978) – Joseph Kuo
• Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (1978) – Hideo Gosha
• Blind Rage (1978) – Efren C. Piñon
• Born Invincible (1978) – Joseph Kuo
• Bruce Li the Invincible (1978) – Chi Lo
• Budo: The Art of Killing (1978) – Masayoshi Nemoto
• Challenge of Death (1978) – Tso Nam Lee
• Circle of Iron (1978) – Richard Moore
• Clan of Amazons (1978) – Chor Yuen
• Death Dimension (1978) – Al Adamson
• Dragon Lee vs. the Five Brothers (1978) – Shi-hyeon Kim
• Drunken Master (1978) – Yuen Woo-ping
• Enter Three Dragons (1978) – Joseph Velasco
• Enter the Fat Dragon (1978) – Sammo Hung
• Enter the Game of Death (1978) – Joseph Velasco
• Every Which Way but Loose (1978) – James Fargo
• Fatal Needles vs. Fatal Fists (1978) – Tso Nam Lee
• Fists of Bruce Lee (1978) – Bruce Li
• Five Deadly Venoms (1978) – Chang Cheh
• Game of Death (1978) – Bruce Lee
• Good Guys Wear Black (1978) – Ted Post
• Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (1978) – Chi-Hwa Chen
• Heroes of the East (1978) – Lau Kar-leung
• Invincible Shaolin (1978) – Chang Cheh
• Kung Fu Master Named Drunk Cat (1978) – Sum Cheung
• Legend of the Bat (1978) – Chor Yuen
• Magnificent Bodyguards (1978) – Lo Wei
• Matilda (1978) – Daniel Mann
• Movie Movie (1978) – Stanley Donen
• My Life's on the Line (1978) – Chung-Kuang Wang
• Mysterious Footworks of Kung Fu (1978)
• Shaolin Handlock (1978) – Ho Meng Hua
• Shaolin Mantis (1978) – Lau Kar-leung
• Shogun's Samurai (1978) – Kinji Fukasaku
• Snake & Crane Arts of Shaolin (1978) – Chi-Hwa Chen
• Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978) – Yuen Woo-ping
• Spiritual Kung Fu (1978) – Lo Wei
• Thayige Thakka Maga (1978) – V. Somashekhar
• The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978) – Lau Kar-leung
• The 72 Desperate Rebels (1978) – Bing Lin
• The Avenging Eagle (1978) – Sun Chung
• The Dragon from Shaolin (1978) – Kim Jeong-Yong
• The Image of Bruce Lee (1978) – Kuen Yeung
• The Master and the Kid (1978) – Lin Fu-Ti
• They Call Her Cleopatra Wong (1978) – Bobby A. Suarez
• Vengeful Beauty (1978) – Ho Meng Hua
• Warriors Two (1978) – Sammo Hung

1979

• 5 Superfighters (1979) – John Law
• A Force of One (1979) – Paul Aaron
• Blind Fist of Bruce (1979) – Bong Luk
• Bruce and the Iron Finger (1979) – Lu-Po Tu
• Cantonen Iron Kung Fu (1979) – Lee Chiu
• Crazy Couple (1979) – Ricky Lau
• Dance of the Drunk Mantis (1979) – Yuen Woo-ping
• Death Duel of Kung Fu (1979) – Chi Chang
• Dirty Ho (1979) – Lau Kar-leung
• Dragon Fist (1979) – Lo Wei
• Drunken Arts and Crippled Fist (1979) – Ti Tang
• Duel of the Seven Tigers (1979) – Kuen Yeung
• Fist of Fury III (1979) – Lu-Po Tu
• Flesh and Blood (1979) – Jud Taylor
• G.I. Samurai (1979) – Kōsei Saitō
• Golden Dragon, Silver Snake (1979) – Si-Hyun Kim
• Goldie and the Boxer (1979) – David Miller
• Hell's Wind Staff (1979) – Lu Chin-ku
• His Name Is Nobody (1979) – Karl Maka
• Iron Fisted Eagle's Claw (1979) – Lu-Po Tu
• Jade Claw (1979) – Hua Shan
• Jaguar Lives! (1979) – Ernest Pintoff
• Jigoku no mushi (1979) – Tatsuo Yamada
• Kid with the Golden Arm (1979) – Chang Cheh
• Knockabout (1979) – Sammo Hung
• Kung Fu Fever (1979) – Shi-hyeon Kim
• Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1979) – John Woo
• Life Gamble (1979) – Chang Cheh
• Mad Monkey Kung Fu (1979) – Lau Kar-leung
• Magnificent Butcher (1979) – Yuen Woo-ping
• Magnificent Ruffians (1979) – Chang Cheh
• Master with Cracked Fingers (1979) – Chu Mu
• Monkey Kung Fu (1979) – John Law
• Odd Couple (1979) – Lau Kar-wing
• Penitentiary (1979) – Jamaa Fanaka
• Raining in the Mountain (1979) – King Hu
• Rocky II (1979) – Sylvester Stallone
• Scorching Sun, Fierce Winds, Wild Fire (1979) – Sheng-Yuan Sun
• Shaolin Rescuers (1979) – Chang Cheh
• Sleeping Fist (1979) – Wing-Cho Yip
• Snake in the Monkey's Shadow (1979) – Sum Cheung
• Story of Drunken Master (1979) – Hai-Feng Wei
• Sun Dragon (1979) – Hua Shan
• Ten Tigers from Kwangtung (1979) – Chang Cheh
• The 36 Deadly Styles (1979) – Joseph Kuo
• The Butterfly Murders (1979) – Tsui Hark
• The Champ (1979) – Franco Zeffirelli
• The Crippled Masters (1979) – Chi Lo
• The Deadly Breaking Sword (1979) – Sun Chung
• The Fearless Hyena (1979) – Jackie Chan
• The Incredible Kung Fu Master (1979) – Joe Cheung Tung-joe
• The Kung Fu Instructor (1979) – Sun Chung
• The Magnificent (1979) – Chan Siu-Pang
• The Main Event (1979) – Howard Zieff
• The Prize Fighter (1979) – Michael Preece
• The Proud Twins (1979) – Chor Yuen
• World of the Drunken Master (1979) – Joseph Kuo

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