Underated Cheesy 80's Karate movies

No Retreat No Surrender (The Spirit of Bruce Lee) As far as cheese goes this is one of my favorites early Van Dam at his best


Remo Williams ( Great Movie they made a tv show but only made 1 episode still hoping they make another movie. At least I can read the destroyer series


The last dragon. This one has it all bad acting bad story bad music sho Nuff the glow. You just got to love it


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Lol,,,, remo williams... Loved that one.

a reply to: Hoosierdaddy71
Here is the tv show mostly no one saw

a reply to: Goldenwilys

man i loved remo williams when i was a kid...that was so good..of course if i watched now id probably think it was stupid but maybe i should try it.

another one to add is....remember billy jack? I can't believe he didnt take off more. He had that clint eastwood style look in his face...that expressionless look but confidence behind the eyes.

Thanks never seen Billy Jack. Checked out a few clips looks like a good one. If Dirty Harry and walker Texas ranger had a baby billy jack would be him reply to: rockpaperhammock

a reply to: Goldenwilys

NO Retreat NO Surrender was awesome!! Loved how the bruce lee guy looks nothing like bruce lee and the fat bully was great too. Just watched that movie a few months ago on youtube.

American Ninja!!!!!!

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Sakurai Killers

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Moon Lee in Killer Angels. (had a crush on her as a kid for a while- she's cute. Plus she wears a hot leather number in this movie at one part.)

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disappointed in remo. supposed to be start of a series.

'Octagon' wi Chuck Norris. and Lee Van Cleef as 'an anti-terrorist named McCarn'.

about that time I saw 'Project A part 2' starring Jackie Chan in the original Chinese in a little theater in D.C. great stuff.

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Best of the Best - my old Sensei was one of the bad guys in this movie.



Blood Sport

a reply to: Goldenwilys

No Retreat No Surrender was one of our "Retro Items of the Week" in the Office recently. (Previous entries have included Ivor the Engine, Bagpuss and Children of The Stones. For all you UK Members)

"So, it is you, the Son, is it not?"

"But this time it will be different, Russian."

Crazy what you can recall from your Youth but still struggle with what you had for lunch last Wednesdsy.

a reply to: BASSPLYR I don't know if the cheese is extra thick on blood sport and best of the best, but def great movies

a reply to: Goldenwilys

American Ninja for the win then!!!

a reply to: BASSPLYR

excellent calls on best of best and american ninja....best of the best kind of got mainstream and then they made like 3 of em or something

a reply to: rockpaperhammock

I'm biased when it comes to best of the best. Yung Kim being my favorite of the bad guys. That guy is a really, really good martial artist in real life. Hell they all were on the Korean team.

American Ninja had one of the best action/comedy supporting actors for it's time who never got big due to unfortunate circumstances. RIP Steve James. Heard Michael Dudikoff is one of the nicest guys you could meet, and doing just fine, not one of those actors that disappeared into some sad has been life, but doing just fine.

As for Sukura Killers it's pretty cheezy but so watchable.

Maybe not as cheesy but The Master with Jet Li and Jerry Trimble. Mr. Trimble is also one of the nicest guys you could ever, ever meet and seriously talented martial artist.

But it cracks me up every time to see a nice guy play a "Bad Guy." So in that regard, for me the movie is cheesy.

Sho Kosugi's Revenge of the Ninja.

And the story of riki oh. Unfortunately i's from 1991. But so damned cheesy it deserves an honorary mention.

Just outside of the 80's in 1993, an underrated Karate kid style movie which is a so bad it's actually great
is SHOWDOWN (1993) Starring Billy blanks.



The best film from him though is King of the kickboxers.

a reply to: Taggart excellent cheese movie. Best line "not gonna hurt anymore kids lee" the look on billy blanks face is priceless look on the video 1 hr 28 min

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You want a cheesy billy blanks film check out Balance of Powers "Sauna test" scene.

It's a pity we can't do 90's cheesy martial arts too. China O'Brian, Tiger Claws, Street Justice, Only the Strong. Just about any Andy Sidaris film (they are mostly action but chicks doing bad martial arts is always fun to watch) The list could go on for page's.

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It's a pity we can't do 90's cheesy martial arts too.

Pssst... Tell the OP to say Pre '96 or something.

I'm sure we'll all know films others haven't seen and we'll all find something to watch.

As for Billy Blanks, Balance of powers, I haven't seen that so I'll get on it.
I thought I'd saw every watchable movie with him in.