Don't forget The Karate Kid! Always look eye! This is my wheelhouse, and I'd also add that next to fantasy, this genre follows the hero's journey closer than most ...

Depending how loose you're willing to define a "movie story type" Personally, I would've gone with ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA for Jet Li and featured THE 36th CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (considered one of the best) A number of martial arts films are notable for the careers they launched - new star + new style = box office success: ROCKY - Sylvester Stallone (boxing is a martial art) BLOODSPORT - Jean Claude Van Dame ABOVE THE LAW - Steven Seagal Also: ONG BAK Others have innovative work with martial arts: EQUILIBRIUM - develops a martial art of gunfighting Also: THE MATRIX (cinematography more than wire-fu) Some cross martial arts with another movie story type: KILL BILL - is basically a Western with martial arts instead of handguns GAME OF DEATH - Bruce Lee's final film was to take place in a eight-floor pagoda (Contained Thriller) Also: ENTER THE DRAGON I just wrote a martial arts feature... where people said they didn't like the practicing and thought there was too much fighting. Any thoughts on the note behind the note? I don't want to take out what I think is part of the soul of the film, but it's not good to get that kind of response (though others said they really enjoyed it). Also, when writing a martial arts film, it's important to know how much detail is too much. There's a great book called FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY: THE ART OF NONVERBAL DIALOGUE which was a great resource for me regarding learning how to write good fight scenes

@ Samuel, that Fight Choreography book looks fabulous, thank you. So many movies of note, hard to pick just a few to add to list. Legend. All kinds of awesome. Must be seen. Favorite movie mom. Drunkenmaster. A delight. Possibly Jackie Chan at his pinnacle. Iron Monkey. Classic legend at its core. Speaking of Shakespeare, The Banquet, Legend of Black Scorpion in U.S., loosely based on Hamlet, so well done, trailer here. Maybe too cross genre to be considered fully martial arts. Another successful crossover, Romeo Must Die (love story/action/martial arts).. I am so grateful to Bruce Lee for bringing martial arts to Hollywood. His passing, so sad, he still had work to do. Even more tragic, the passing of his son, Brandon Lee, formidable talent, might well have turned out bigger and with even farther influence than his dad. And I'm grateful to Jackie Chan for bringing environmentally creative improvisational fun to fights. Book with good background on martial arts films, bit dated, but still interesting, available used for a penny plus shipping, Honk Kong Babylon (1998), here. Good site for tracking martial arts movies: http://www.kungfucinema.com/ And Twitch covers that area pretty well too: http://twitchfilm.com/

I make martial arts films, and a feature I am producing is stepping into post production as we speak. here's a short scene I shot earlier this summer, testing out some ideas: http://enterthehero.tumblr.com/post/5724662101/hand-over-fist-a-hong-kong-style-fight-scene

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