Top 10 Chinese Martial Arts Films

Jackie Chan's breakthrough role established his comic acrobatic genius through the story of Wong Fei-hung learning the unpredictable Drunken Fist style.

King Hu's lyrical wuxia epic set in the early Ming dynasty features some of the most beautifully choreographed combat sequences in the history of cinema.

Ang Lee's globally celebrated wuxia reimagined wire-assisted combat as pure ballet while telling a layered story of female agency and suppressed desire.

Gordon Liu's performance as a student mastering all 35 chambers of Shaolin training made this Shaw Brothers film the definitive kung fu school-of-hard-knocks classic.

Donnie Yen's portrayal of Bruce Lee's Wing Chun master during the Japanese occupation of Foshan is a film of immense dignity, pride, and explosive action.

Zhang Yimou staged martial arts sequences as choreographic paintings, with each chapter of the story shot in a single dominant colour palette.

Chang Cheh's Shaw Brothers classic about five students trained in secret animal styles became the blueprint for the hip-hop generation's embrace of kung fu mythology.

Tsui Hark's revisionist wuxia series with Jet Li as Wong Fei-hung blends patriotic sentiment with acrobatic wire-fu sequences of stunning imagination.

Wong Kar-wai applied his signature slow-motion lyricism to the story of Ip Man, producing a visually ravishing meditation on mastery, loss, and passing tradition.

Jackie Chan's breakthrough role established his comic acrobatic genius through the story of Wong Fei-hung learning the unpredictable Drunken Fist style.

King Hu's lyrical wuxia epic set in the early Ming dynasty features some of the most beautifully choreographed combat sequences in the history of cinema.

Ang Lee's globally celebrated wuxia reimagined wire-assisted combat as pure ballet while telling a layered story of female agency and suppressed desire.

Gordon Liu's performance as a student mastering all 35 chambers of Shaolin training made this Shaw Brothers film the definitive kung fu school-of-hard-knocks classic.

Donnie Yen's portrayal of Bruce Lee's Wing Chun master during the Japanese occupation of Foshan is a film of immense dignity, pride, and explosive action.

Zhang Yimou staged martial arts sequences as choreographic paintings, with each chapter of the story shot in a single dominant colour palette.

Chang Cheh's Shaw Brothers classic about five students trained in secret animal styles became the blueprint for the hip-hop generation's embrace of kung fu mythology.

Tsui Hark's revisionist wuxia series with Jet Li as Wong Fei-hung blends patriotic sentiment with acrobatic wire-fu sequences of stunning imagination.

Wong Kar-wai applied his signature slow-motion lyricism to the story of Ip Man, producing a visually ravishing meditation on mastery, loss, and passing tradition.