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Latest martial arts news, features and opinion, covering movie icons Bruce Lee, Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen, as well as the debate surrounding the practicality of traditional martial arts as a combat style in China in the wake of the rise of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).

Forms covered include boxing, wing chun, karate, taekwondo, Muay Thai, kick-boxing, kung fu, judo, wrestling and Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

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Without Hong Kong’s thriving entertainment industry and open culture, the genius and creativity of the literary giant and his martial arts epics would have no chance to shine.

  • The recipient of the 2024 Hong Kong Film Awards’ Lifetime Achievement Award has been involved in more than 200 films over the course of a stellar career

Hong Kong actor and director Wu Ma had a prolific career in front of and behind the camera. His best film, The Dead and the Deadly, showed the formula for success.

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The first two Ip Man movies, directed by Wilson Yip, use old-school kung fu, nationalism and fabrications to make the eponymous martial artist, and the actor who plays him, Donnie Yen, household names.

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Victor Marx got the world’s attention recently when he asked people to pray for Justin and Hailey Bieber – so who is he, and what qualifies him to discuss the couple?

Three hidden gems of Hong Kong action cinema, To’s judo film Throw Down, Lau’s kung fu comedy and Lam’s relationship drama within a crime story should be on the radar of any serious fan of the action genre.

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Bloodsport is not a great movie but it always entertains. The Hong Kong-set action drama is best known for propelling Belgian martial artist Jean-Claude Van Damme into the Hollywood big league.

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Jet Li reinvented himself in the 1990s from a period kung fu movie star to a modern action hero. We look at three of his gun fu films fusing firearms and fighting, before he left Hong Kong for the US.

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A new study suggests that tai chi may help lower blood pressure in people at risk of developing hypertension more effectively than conventional aerobic exercise. Experts describe its benefits.

Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh is set to prove her acting range yet again in new Netflix series The Brothers Sun, a black comedy that centres on a Taiwanese crime family

Martial arts superstar Jackie Chan looked to broaden his range as an actor in Hong Kong-produced movies in the 1990s, making hits such as Rumble in the Bronx and forgettable films such as Mr Nice Guy.

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In the 1970s, Michael Hui was the box-office champion, Jackie Chan achieved stardom, and kung fu and sex sold movies. What else happened in Hong Kong cinema during that decade?

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Hong Kong martial arts star Chen Kuan-tai took pride in having been a kung fu professional. Ti Lung was handy with a sword in wuxia films and, like Chen, a regular in Chang Cheh’s films for Shaw Brothers.

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For Hong Kong chef and Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner Nathan Green, BJJ isn’t just about keeping fit. Ahead of a fight, he talks about how engaging in the martial art helps him by offering support and structure.

Ah Kam, a 1996 film by Ann Hui starring Michelle Yeoh and Sammo Hung, combined realistic drama, melodrama and triad action. Seen as experimental, it was overshadowed by an injury Yeoh sustained on set.

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Actor, producer, martial artist – Sammo Hung has loomed large in Hong Kong’s film industry since the 1960s. We bet you don’t know about some aspects of his long movie career.

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His fighting skills helped get him roles in Deadpool 2, Mortal Kombat and now its sequel – now the martial arts star is ready to direct his first movie – a biopic of his dad

ONE Championship boss says both men ‘looked very slow’ at Fight Night 14 in Singapore, and ‘can’t compete with the best in the world any more’.

Jimmy Wang Yu directed 1973 action epic Beach of the War Gods. One of his most underrated movies and an underperformer at the box office, it is based on Akira Kurosawa’s classic Seven Samurai.

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Hong Kong film directors such as John Woo, Benny Chan and Wong Kar-wai have revealed down the years how they make an action move, from developing storylines to working with martial arts choreographers.

Logan Paul and Dillon Danis have been creating quite a stir on the internet following the announcement of their upcoming October fight – but why is Paul’s fiancée Nina Agdal involved?