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Despite my somewhat sappy summary, this film is emotionally intense and beautiful to behold. Meanwhile, a highly skilled and trained swordmaster named Yu ( Michelle Yeoh), devoted to justice and honor, realizes she has let her life pass her by without experiencing her own true love story. A young and aristocratic woman named Jen ( Ziyi Zhang) works to overthrow the oppression of society by denying her arranged marriage, choosing a life of crime on the run in the throes of true love with another.

The first movie on our list that liberally utilizes the “Wire-Fu” film aesthetic, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a timeless feature from Ang Lee that redefines the sub-genre. You’re the one that has to walk through it.” Fun fact: Keanu Reeves trained in jiu-jitsu, wushu, boxing, and krav maga for this role, later becoming skilled in judo and karate as well. Not only that, but the way that Morpheus ( Laurence Fishburne) describes the Matrix as he and Neo train in a digitally rendered martial arts Daochang (Chinese word for Dojo), is eerily similar to the logic of many Kung Fu movie martial arts masters. Beyond being one of the best sci-fi movies ever, The Matrix actually employs many styles of Kung Fu film in its action sequences. When a disillusioned computer hacker named Thomas Anderson - alias Neo - has the veil torn from over his eyes, he discovers that the world we are currently living in is nothing but a simulation programmed by a world-ending A.I. No, I’m appreciating this film for what philosophies and styles it incorporates into the plot itself. I’m not simply including this title because at one point Neo ( Keanu Reeves) uploads martial arts training to his brain and spits out the ever-referenced one-liner: “I know Kung Fu.” That would be shallow. Hmm, not exactly the film you’d expect to see on this list, but there’s a reason why I previously mentioned the definition of Kung Fu: it’s everywhere. So without further ado, I give you my top 10 Kung Fu movies of all time (available to watch online). Kung Fu films are illustrious, beautiful, hilarious, magical, and mysterious all at once, which is why we are here today to praise their glory.Ĭounting down from 10th best, it should be noted that, due to the lack of online availability for some of the more obscure films, they had to be omitted. One of the most renowned is Quentin Tarantino, who directly cites classic Kung Fu films as his inspiration for filmmaking, sometimes through the characters in the films. You can see it in many films to this day, inspiring cinematographers, sound and video editors, directors, and choreographers to employ the classic styles they see fit. This is why the martial arts movies we will talk about today are all considered Kung Fu films, and also why you won’t see any movies with Karate here like Karate Kid.ĭating all the way back to the 1920s, Kung Fu fighting movies have been an elemental aspect of modern filmmaking. Over a very long period of time, Kung Fu (or Gongfu) has come to generally define one who devotes oneself to a lifestyle of martial arts, or more specifically a Chinese martial art. There are those who interpret it as Kung – hard/ or skillful work, and Fu – time spent. Kung Fu is indeed a style of martial arts, but it transcends simply one definition and extends as well to a lifestyle that one chooses.

The term Kung Fu, however, has been widely misunderstood since its debut on the silver screen. But what is Kung Fu? When people hear the words “Kung Fu Movie,” they probably expect that it is a movie featuring one of many branches of Kung Fu as its premise.

Kung Fu is an ancient Chinese martial art that has branched into many sub-groups since its birth in the 2nd century.