Director Teresa Woo delivers the goods in this action-packed ensemble piece pitting a group of fashionable secret agents against a violent drug trafficking network.
Tag: martial arts
Thrilling Bloody Sword (1981)
This action-packed and psychedelic Taiwanese adaptation of the Snow White fairy tale is a weird, wild, and bloody good time.
Justice Ninja Style (1985)
Karate masters and a rogue ninja take on corrupt cops in this shot-on-video action romp made in Missouri.
American Streetfighter (1992)
This is a film about youthful indiscretions, underground kickboxing, and how to have a deadly sword fight in a funeral parlor during a lightly attended memorial service.
Bloodmoon (1997)
A mysterious killer with metal fingers has been killing off martial artists. The investigating detective is stumped.
Knights (1993)
The smoke and sparks fly in Albert Pyun’s post-apocalyptic, quasi-vampire cyborg film made in Moab, Utah.
Ballistic (1995)
Armed with a stacked cast of genre movie veterans, a badass lead performer, and an entire warehouse full of cardboard boxes, BALLISTIC is the stuff that b-movie dreams are made of.
Dark Angels (1998)
Years before the big-budget proselytizing of controversial figures like Mel Gibson or Jim Caviezel hit the screen, an Atlanta-area filmmaker melded moral messaging with the low-budget action ethos of companies like City Lights and PM Entertainment.
Low Blow (1986)
A religious prophet has just recruited the latest naive member into his weird, isolated cult. However, her rich father is dedicated to her safe return. Before long, a martial artist private investigator is in hot pursuit, racking up parking tickets, moving violations, and mangled fenders along the way.
Fighting Spirit (1992)
A film where underground kickboxing, blindness, bar fighting, vomiting at the morgue, and a fuzzy guitar soundtrack collide.
Raw Force (1982)
A group of martial artists from a California karate club board a cruise ship destined for Warrior’s Island, a remote stomping ground for zombie martial artists. Will they make it to their destination or be forced back to port on account of a norovirus outbreak?
Trained to Kill (1989)
If you love weird and wild action cinema of the 1980s, you owe it to yourself to find a copy of this film. It features an incredible cast, a Japanese-influenced sword fight, wild shoot-outs, rocket launcher attacks, dirtbike chases, dirtbike crashes into cardboard, carsplosions, hand-to-hand fights, throat rips, and a single, spiked fingerless glove.
Psycho Kickboxer (1997)
Kickboxing. Drugs. Radio DJs. Vigilante violence. Virginia exteriors. These are the core elements in the cinematic playbook of PSYCHO KICKBOXER.
Treasure of the Ninja (1987)
A martial arts special agent travels halfway across the world to help a team of archaeologists hunt for treasure. Along the way, they’ll fight ninjas, zombie ninjas, a zombie ninja final boss, and a jerk from Florida with a mustache.
L.A. Streetfighters (1985)
An entertaining and low-budget gang-violence-via-martial-arts romp that served as a cinematic launchpad for some of the bigger figures in the American martial arts b-movie scene of the 1980s.
Death Ray Dive 