Subgenre Sampler
Martial Arts: 372 Films to Buy & Rent
- Fighting Beat (2007)
- Dir. Piti Jaturaphat
- Agile martial arts action flick based in a Thai street fighting bar renowned for its local competitors, who find themselves in a deadly fight for…
- Invisible Target (Naam yi boon sik) (2007)
- Dir. Benny Chan
Feat. Nicholas Tse, Jaycee Chan, Shawn Yue…
- Unyielding martial arts thriller rumbles with a group of detectives commissioned to take out a local Hong Kong mercenary gang. The expected ass…
- Kung Fu Dunk (Gong fu guan lan) (2007)
- Dir. Yen-ping Chu
Feat. Charlene Choi, Jay Chou, Eric Tsang…
- Inane sporting comedy about a skilled martial artist recruited to play basketball at the local university in return for help in finding his birth…
- Muay Thai Chaiya Boxers (Chaiya) (2007)
- Dir. Kongkiat Khomsiri
Feat. Akara Amarttayakul, Sonthaya Chitmanee, Don Ferguson…
- Rough–and–tumble ONG–BAK impersonator centred on three country boys, trained in the unique ‘Chaiya’ Muay Thai discipline, who…
- Rogue Assassin (War) (2007)
- Dir. Philip G Atwell
Feat. Jet Li, Jason Statham
- Mildly entertaining actioner pits Statham as an FBI detective hell–bent on revenge after Li kills his partner; titular character Li, meanwhile,…
- Siyama: Village of Warriors (2007)
- Dir. Preecha Songsakul
- Three teenagers travel back to the 18th century in their Toyota to lend a helping hand to villagers engaged in an epic battle with a callous Burmese…
- Sword Of Alexander (Taitei no ken) (2007)
- Dir. Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Feat. Hiroshi Abe, Riki Takeuchi
- Camp sword and sorcery pastiche mines the Japanese tradition for bizarre humour, genre–mincing, and spectacular overacting, with…
- TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) (2007)
- Dir. Kevin Munroe
Feat. Sarah Michelle Geller, Laurence Fishburne, Chris Evans…
- Well–intentioned remake sees the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles looking resplendent on the screen in this comeback that is all action and…
- City of Violence, The (2006)
- Dir. Ryoo Seung-Wan
Feat. Doo-hong Jung, Kil-Kang Ahn
- A dazzling, action–fantastic revenger by way of Korea, this draws its considerable bloodletting from the aftermath of a funeral, where two…
- Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, Jay Chou
- Another sumptuous Tang Dynasty epic in martial arts from the dir. of HERO, cast in the mould of a Shakespearian power struggle between an Emperor, an…