When it comes to the long history of martial arts movies, which encompasses more than six decades, there's no year that was better for the genre than 1978. The genre was still relatively young at that point, having only made the jump from sword-fighting action to actual hand-to-hand combat in 1970 when studio Shaw Brothers released Jimmy Wang Yu's The Chinese Boxer .

Interest in martial arts entertainment exploded shortly thereafter; Bruce Lee had his breakout role in 1971 when he starred in The Big Boss , and kung fu fever expanded beyond Asia and found its way to the West, thanks to Kung Fu and Five Fingers of Death . But what really kicked it into high gear was Enter the Dragon , which is now widely regarded as the greatest martial arts movie ever made.

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