In the 1980s, new martial arts stars and the "baby boomer" directors, coming from film academies or TV, brought realism, fight choreography, and filming designs to new levels. With these, the decades of development of Hong Kong martial arts films have come to fruition.
傳承到八十年代，加上一直潛伏影圈紅褲子的七小福輩長大成龍，和電影學院或電視台出身的嬰兒潮導演合流，無論在實感或鏡頭設計上皆更上層樓，可謂人才濟濟，各領風騷，盛極一時，香港武打電影數十年修行終成正果。