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- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi. 199 votes. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is an epic martial arts film that takes viewers on a journey through ancient China.
- Hero. Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung. 259 votes. In this visually arresting martial arts epic set in ancient China, an unnamed fighter (Jet Li) is being honored for defeating three of the king's most dangerous enemies.
- House of Flying Daggers. Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Zhang Ziyi. 212 votes. In the visually stunning martial-arts epic House of Flying Daggers, set in 9th century China, a secret rebel organization, known as the House of Flying Daggers, wages war against the corrupt government.
- A Touch of Zen. Feng Hsu, Chun Shih, Pai Ying. 54 votes. Ku Shen Chai (Chun Shih), an unmotivated artist in his early 30s, still lives with his mother, but he is shaken from his comfortable rut by the arrival of beautiful and mysterious Yang Hui-ching (Feng Hsu), a princess on the run from Gen.
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U.S. Only Another real-life MMA champ turned actor, Gina Carano, has entered the spotlight again as Cara Dune in The Mandalorian. Haywire was her first feature film leading role, directed by Steven Soderbergh. It’s unheard of for a reputed director to cast an untested female actress as a lead in an actioner like this. And despite conflicts between ...
Female Strong films have always been a staple in the martial arts genre. Furie was Vietnam’s biggest box office hit as well as the Oscar International Feature entrée and rightly so. It’s a beautiful film–Vietnam offers such texture, lush villages, boat communities, harsh ghettos, big cities, so colorful exacerbated by brilliant lighting schemes–and...
Anne Curtis, a Filipino TV star, astonished her fans with this savage actioner. She plays a member of a DEA squad that gets lured into a drug kingpin’s trap in a labyrinthian shantytown and must fight their way out. After a few minutes of setup, the rest is just fight scenes. The poor folk living in the shantytown attack them in droves, like a zomb...
Mar 2, 2022 · Are you interested in brilliant writing, deep characters and tense drama? Then take a look at five of the most exciting wuxia dramas available right now on Netflix, ranked in no particular order: The Untamed. Episode count: 50 episodes. Episode length: 45 minutes. Tags: Emotional, Exciting, Mystery.
- Ip Man. Year: 2008. Director: Wilson Yip. 2008’s Ip Man was finally the moment when the truly excellent but never fairly regarded Donnie Yen came into his own, playing a loosely biographical version of the legendary grandmaster of Wing Chun and teacher of a number of future martial arts masters, one of whom was Bruce Lee.
- Headshot. Year: 2017. Director: Timo Tjahjanto, Kimo Stamboel. Anyone familiar with the tropes of this kind of flick can pretty easily guess that Ishmael (Iko Uwais) is a veritable killing machine, a man bred to wreck any poor bastard fool enough to tangle with him.
- Kill Zone 2, aka SPL II: A Time for Consequences. Year: 2016. Director: Cheang Pou-soi. The first thing to note about Kill Zone 2 is that Kill Zone 2 isn’t its actual title.
- 13 Assassins. Year: 2011. Director: Takashi Miike. An adaptation of Seven Samurai more in spirit than in tone and plot, Miike’s 13 Assassins is a sprawling blood bath of mythic proportions—so, in other words, nothing new for the Japanese auteur.
Feb 1, 2021 · Shaolin Temple (Hsin-Yen Chang, 1982) Shaolin Temple popularized the myth of the Shaolin school of kung fu, and also gave iconic martial arts actor Jet Li his first movie role.
Mar 20, 2017 · But Netflix isn't the only place you can go to stream martial arts movies. Here are some excellent titles you can find through other services without paying a dime.
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Jun 25, 2022 · In essence, films that fall in the wuxia category chronicle the experiences of martial artists in ancient China. Wuxia movies are known for their dynamic and fluid action sequences, enthralling cinematography, and protagonists driven by personal tragedies.