In the world of action cinema, and especially in the niche martial arts movie subgenre, fans will quickly identify their favorite on-screen talents. The A-listers stand tall in the minds of most fans.

Stars of the genre typically have common techniques, methods, and manners of combat that are consistent across their movies.

Back with another best list, but this time we added five selections. These are 25 of the best martial arts movies you should watch if you haven’t already. As always, this list is in no ...

Yanin “Jeeja” Vismistananda stars as Zen, the autistic daughter of a Yakuza crime lord and his Thai lover, who learned martial arts from watching and mimicking Bruce Lee and Tony Jaa movies.

Pete Volk (he/they) is Polygon’s Curation Editor, with a particular love for action and martial arts movies. After representing Malaysia at the 1983 Miss World pageant, Yeoh first caught the ...

Maron brought martial arts and cult movies to theater ... Chow’s Golden Harvest and the Shaw brothers. Born in Queens, N.Y., Maron started as an office boy at MGM and rose to become roadshow ...

The mid-1980s were a strange time for martial arts movies, both in the U.S. and abroad. The broadly termed “kung fu” genre had run amok with wild abandon in Hong Kong cinema in the 1960s and ...

The greatest love triangles include a martial arts epic in which two men become rivals for a woman’s heart and a Nicholas Sparks-inspired melodrama. John Hughes created an unrequited love ...

In the self-absorbed action movie “The Martial Artist,” the director Shaz Khan stars as rising Pakistani American mixed martial arts fighter ... show must go on. The Movies We’ve Loved ...

Actress Cheng Pei-pei, best known for her martial arts roles in films such as “Come Drink with Me” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” has died. She was 78. “It is with a heavy heart ...