A lesser-known film from the early 1970s - Blood of the Dragon - has earned significant praise from Quentin Tarantino. Released in 1971, Blood of the Dragon is an old-school martial arts movie that starred Jimmy Wang Yu , one of the genre's leading actors during that era.

Blood of the Dragon fits into a category of martial arts films where there's gratuitous violence. Of course, violence is at the heart of the martial arts genre, but for a great many of the heroes in this particular medium, simply defeating an opponent isn't enough. Some would rather kill those that oppose them, allowing for some bloody and truly grisly action sequences.

Multiple martial arts movies - including Quentin Tarantino's own foray into the genre via Kill Bill and Kill Bill Vol. 2 - are often charac

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