| Event: | Fencing |
| Games: | 1978 Asian Games |
| Venue: | International School |
| Dates: | 10–18 December |
| Prev: | 1974 |
| Next: | 1986 |
Fencing at the 1978 Asian Games was held in Bangkok, Thailand in December, 1978.
| Individual épée | ||||
| Team épée | Cui Yining Guo Dongsheng He Zhiping Tan Zhihui | Toshiaki Araki Hideyuki Itakura Sei Murata Takahiro Yamaguchi | Kim Heon-su Kim Kuk-hyun Kook Choong-kum Shin Dong-seok | |
| Individual foil | ||||
| Team foil | Cha Yul Kim Doo-kyung Kim Heon-su Kim Kuk-hyun | Qiu Hongjun Wang Fuyun Wu Fujing Xu Jianzhong | Hideyuki Itakura Takao Masuoka Shiro Toshima Kenichi Umezawa | |
| Individual sabre | ||||
| Team sabre | Atsushi Akiho Ryokichi Fukushima Tadashi Kawamura Kiyoshi Otsuka | Chen Jinchu Wang Ruiji Yang Shisheng Zhang Baoren | Cha Yul Cho Jae-bong Kim Doo-kyung Kim Kuk-hyun |
| Individual foil | ||||
| Team foil | Hu Yubao Luan Jujie Su Lianfeng Zhu Qingyuan | Yukari Itakura Machiko Ito Hiroko Kawamura Masako Yoshioka | Rita Piri Hehanusa Wahyu Hertati Silvia Koeswandi Slamet Poerawinata |