The Octagon
1980
Starring: Chuck Norris, Alan Belkin, Jean Higgins
Starring: Chuck Norris, Alan Belkin, Jean Higgins
Starring: Bruce Lee, Jon T. Benn, Ricardo Billie, Chuck Norris
Starring: Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh
Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Donnie Yen
Asia’s top action actress Michelle Yeoh plays martial-arts legend Yip Wing Chun (the lone female Shaolin Temple student, who created her own style of kung fu) in this farcical action comedy. In their village, Wing Chun and her Auntie Abacus (King Dan Yuen) make a formidable team. Abacus is a shrewd and sharp-tongued businesswoman while Wing Chun (who developed her martial-arts skills to be less attractive to men) is known as a topnotch fighter.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Siu Tien Yuen
Though it wasn’t Jackie Chan’s first film, Drunken Master is the film that cemented his stardom. Jackie plays the rebellious son of a kung fu master. To teach Jackie the value of discipline, his father apprentices him to another master named So Hi, who has a unique “drunken” fighting style.