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The heyday for martial arts movies was from the 1970s to the early-1990s, a period that saw the rise of fighting stars such as Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jet Li, Cynthia Rothrock, Don “The Dragon” Wilson and many more. I was fortunate enough to be right in the middle of all this. A black belt in Isshin-Ryu Karate, I grew up watching Hong Kong martial arts movies like Five Fingers of Death (1972), Fists of Fury (1972), The Chinese Connection (1972) and 36th Chamber of Shaolin(1978). I had developed a bit of a name writing for martial arts magazines and I thought I could easily write movies just as “bad” as those were.
My first movie was No Retreat, No
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