01 Ip Man's life told through Wong Kar-wai's stylized, meditative lens.
10 Best Wuxia and Kung Fu Movies
By Vlad Zakh · October 27, 2025
Wuxia turned swordplay into something closer to dance, wire-assisted and deliberately theatrical, while kung fu cinema kept its feet on the ground and its fights grounded in real technique. Both traditions run through this list, sometimes in the same director’s filmography.
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02 A slapstick comedy that still delivers some of the most inventive fight choreography of the 2000s.
03 A three-hour wuxia landmark that shifts from ghost story to full-blown bamboo-forest battle.
04 Bruce Lee's final completed film and the one that introduced martial arts to Western audiences at scale.
05 Bruce Lee avenging his murdered master against a rival Japanese dojo.
06 An assassination story told from four contradicting perspectives, gorgeously staged.
07 A blind dancer and two undercover agents caught in a love triangle staged as pure spectacle.
08 A student's brutal, methodical training arc became the template for the whole training-montage genre.
09 Jet Li as folk hero Wong Fei-hung, defending Chinese tradition against colonial pressure.
10 Wire-fu duels across rooftops and bamboo forests that made wuxia a global genre overnight.
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