Kung Fu Films

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By 1970's and early 1980's, wuxia films gave way to a more graphic, violent and male oriented type of films called commonly as Kung Fu Films. Top stars who emerged from this martial arts genre were trained martial artists like the legendary Bruce Lee. It offered more senseless action, and usually it centered iself from dark themes related to revenge and gaining more power. Former female leads from the wuxia genre was sidetracked at this time, much of them were put into "damsel in distress" roles. The Kung Fu movies of the 1970's heavily influenced the future of Hollywood martial art films.

Examples of Kung Fu films

• Chinese Boxer (1970)
• The Boxer from Shantung (1972)
• Five Deadly Venoms (1978)
• Crippled Avengers (1979)
• The Spiritual Boxer
• Executioners from Shaolin (1977)
• The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)
• Legendary Weapons of China (1982)