Movies Favorite Martial Arts Film of the 80s?

[Chesten_Hesten]

Above the Law was pretty fucking dope for its time, and had Pam Grier and young Sharon Stone.

 

[ChickenBrother]

lol, yeah, and what about the Yoga guy? Any chances someone at Capcom HQ remembered him while designing characters for Street Fighter II???

Anyhow, what I like the most of this masterpiece is that is incredibly atmospheric and that is mainly due to the awesome sound editing and the electronic-kraut rock soundtrack (Which was shamelessly stolen from german bands such as Tangerine Dream, Neu! or Kraftwerk, btw), truly one of a kind!
Credits theme and Master of the Flying Guillotine theme deserve special mention

For sure. They had proto-Dhalsim, proto-Chun Li, proto-Raiden from Mortal Kombat, the Thai Boxer guy is Sagat from SF2 or Hwa Jai from Fatal Fury. Those were straight rip offs but the other characters had influence as well.

I never really thought about it, but yeah the soundtrack was unique and pretty awesome as well.

 

[Ebay]

Police Story for the fight choreography and stunts