Throwback Thursday

During the college years, my sister and I went to a lot of martial arts movies. We saw the Japanese samurai films like Samurai Trilogy by Inagaki and most of the ones by Kurosawa like Rashomon and Yojimbo. Also the films/tv episodes about Zatoichi, the blind swordsman. We saw kung fu movies too, the Bruce Lee ones probably being the most accessible at that time.

And we also went to most of the earlier Chuck Norris movies. In the present, Chuck is mostly known as a politically conservative talk show host (I think?) but back then he was known of as a really good karate practitioner .... In 1969, he won Karate's triple crown for the most tournament wins of the year, and the Fighter of the Year award by Black Belt magazine.

Here's a clip from a movie in which Bruce Lee and Chuck appeared together in a fight scene in the Colosseum (Chuck is the bad guy ;) - ...