# Top 20 Wire Fu Movies on Netflix

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**Created:** [November 7, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-wire-fu-movies-on-netflix/273522 "2004-11-07T20:22:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-wire-fu-movies-on-netflix/273522/1 "2004-11-07T20:22:45Z")

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Please recommend to me what you think are the top twenty Wire Fu movies for rent on Netflix. My son and I are going to hold a \*\*Hong Kong Wire Fu Movie \*\* **Festival** when he comes home from college for a week at Thanksgiving.

Movies on the list so far:

Master of the Flying Guillotine  
Dreadful Melody  
Iron Monkey  
Tsui Hark’s Vampire Killers  
The Legend of the Swordsman  
The Bride With White Hair

What must-see Shaolin movies am I missing? What would you add?

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**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-wire-fu-movies-on-netflix/273522/2 "2004-11-07T21:37:44Z")

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Go for anything directed or choreographed by Yuen Woo-Ping, including **Twin Warriors** (Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh) and **Magnificent Butcher** (Sammo Hung).

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**Author:** ![CheapBastid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@CheapBastid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheapBastid)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-20-wire-fu-movies-on-netflix/273522/3 "2004-11-08T02:54:23Z")

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> [@CBCD](#):
>
> Please recommend to me what you think are the top twenty Wire Fu movies for rent on Netflix. My son and I are going to hold a \*\*Hong Kong Wire Fu Movie \*\* **Festival** when he comes home from college for a week at Thanksgiving.
> 
> Movies on the list so far:
> 
> Master of the Flying Guillotine  
> Dreadful Melody  
> Iron Monkey  
> Tsui Hark’s Vampire Killers  
> The Legend of the Swordsman  
> The Bride With White Hair
> 
> What must-see Shaolin movies am I missing? What would you add?

Wire Fu is such a big category, I’ll list some of my favorites:

**Fong Sai Yuk** and **Fong Sai Yuk II** - Enjoyable fun fare with Jet Li  
**Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon** - yes it was very fantasy oriented but wowsers  
**Legend of Drunken Master** (Drunken Master II) - Not really a ‘Wire Fu’ film’ but some very sublte wirework is in there, and considered one of the best if not the best Martial Arts movies.  
**Hero** - Another one of the fantasy wirework but a beautiful film  
**Shaolin Soccer** - goofy fun  
**Versus** - a goofy low budget Japanese Zombie John Woo shoot-em-up  
**Dragon Inn** - great cast, well shot  
**Dreadnaught** - Yuen Biao shines here and great Dragon Dancing too.  
**Tai Chi Master** - Anoter good entry by Jet Li  
**Prodigal Son** - My favorite Martial Arts movie  
(depending on how comfortable you are with your son) **A Chinese Torture Chamber Story** - Overall a horrible Cat III film which made it into my collection with the greatest Wire Fu sex scene in cinematic history