Category Archives: Martial Arts Titles

New & upcoming Blu-ray/DVD releases of martial arts films from around the world. You’ll find everything here from Steven Seagal’s latest straight-to-DVD flick to Donnie Yen’s latest Hong Kong blockbuster. Please click on the Amazon.com affiliate links to support this site.

Samurai Avenger: The Blind Wolf | Blu-ray (Synapse Films)

RELEASE DATE: May 12, 2015 Synapse Films presents the Blu-ray for 2009’s Samurai Avenger: The Blind Wolf, directed by Kurando Mitsutake (Gun Woman). After losing his eyesight, his wife, and his daughter at the hands of a psychopath, a man is transformed into a killing machine hellbent on revenge! Eight years after the massacre of his family, the “Blind Wolf” has returned as a highly trained swordsman ready for revenge. … Continue reading

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Revenge of the Ninja | Blu-ray (Kino Lorber)

RELEASE DATE: May 26, 2015 Kino Lorber presents the Blu-ray for 1983’s Revenge the Ninja, the second in a series of unrelated Ninja films produced by Cannon Films (other titles in the trilogy are 1981’s Enter the Ninja and 1984’s Ninja III: The Domination). The Blu-ray will feature an audio commentary by director Sam Firstenberg (American Ninja). Revenge of the Ninja stars Sho Kosugi (9 Deaths of the Ninja), Keith Vitali … Continue reading

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Enter the Ninja | Blu-ray (Kino Lorber)

RELEASE DATE: May 26, 2015 Kino Lorber presents the Blu-ray for 1981’s Enter the Ninja, directed by Menahem Golan (The Delta Force). Enter the Ninja is the first in a series of unrelated Ninja films produced by Cannon Films (read our review for Electric Boogaloo, a documentary about the Golan-Globus film empire). The film was followed by 1983’s Revenge of the Ninja and 1984’s Ninja III: The Domination). Enter the … Continue reading

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River of Death | Blu-ray (Kino Lorber)

RELEASE DATE: May 26, 2015 Kino Lorber presents the Blu-ray for 1989’s River of Death, directed by Steve Carver (Lone Wolf McQuade) and starring Michael Dudikoff, Robert Vaughn, Donald Pleasence and L.Q. Jones. It’s American Ninja meets Indiana Jones! In the nightmarish days of the Third Reich, a Nazi scientist escapes to the impenetrable jungles of the Amazon. Years later, a mysterious incurable disease breaks out among the natives and … Continue reading

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Firewalker | Blu-ray & DVD (Olive Films)

RELEASE DATE: April 21, 2015 Olive Films presents the Blu-ray & DVD for 1986’s Firewalker, directed by J. Lee Thompson (Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects, Death Wish 4: The Crackdown). After a long career of failures, archaeological adventurers Max and Leo (Chuck Norris and Louis Gossett Jr.) are ready to call it quits until a blonde with an ancient treasure map hires them to guide her into Central America to find Aztec … Continue reading

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Lust of the Dead 4 | DVD (Tokyo Shock)

RELEASE DATE: March 1, 2016 Tokyo Shock presents the DVD for Lust of the Dead 4 (aka Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead 4), directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu (Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl). Sexy babes vs. lustful zombies hungry for human flesh… what else is there to say? Lust of the Dead 4 stars Yui Aikawa (Lust of the Dead 1-3), Asami (Prison Girl), Megu Fujiura (Tokyo Train Girls: Private Lessons), Aya … Continue reading

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The Muthers | DVD (Vinegar Syndrome)

RELEASE DATE: March 10, 2015 Vinegar Syndrome presents the DVD for 1976’s The Muthers, directed by the master of Filipino sleaze, Cirio H. Santiago (Future Hunters). Climb aboard with The Muthers – The meanest, toughest and most action packed pirate crew in the pacific. Join Jayne Kennedy (Ms .45), Rosanne Katon (She Devils in Chains), Jeannie Bell (TNT Jackson) and their crew on a daring rescue mission to save one of their own … Continue reading

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Gun Woman | Blu-ray & DVD (Shout! Factory)

RELEASE DATE: May 26, 2015 Shout! Factory presents the Blu-ray & DVD for Kurando Mitsutake’s Gun Woman, starring former AV model Asami (Prison Girl) Gun Woman brings Asami to a new level of action film achievement. Starring as a mute girl who is transformed from a sex worker into a hard-as-steel assassin, Asami spends much of the film nude and covered in blood in her quest for revenge on behalf of … Continue reading

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Wild Card | Blu-ray & DVD (Lionsgate)

RELEASE DATE: March 31, 2015 Lionsgate presents the Blu-ray & DVD for Wild Card, directed by Simon West (The Expendables 2) and starring Jason Statham. The film is a remake of the 1986 Burt Reynolds movie Heat (No relation to the 1995 Michael Mann movie). When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play… and it’s all … Continue reading

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The Divine Move | Blu-ray & DVD (CJ Entertainment)

RELEASE DATE: March 17, 2015 CJ Entertainment presents the Blu-ray & DVD for The Divine Move. Filmmaker Jo Bum-Gu goes against the grain of his last movie Quick, by giving us a more gritty, less humorous, non-cgi approach. No blockbuster explosions or vehicle stunts here… just some dirty hand-to-hand combat. Read our review. The Divine Move stars Jung Woo-Sung (The Good, The Bad, The Weird), Lee Beom-Soo (Death Bell), Ahn … Continue reading

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No Tears for the Dead | Blu-ray & DVD (CJ Entertainment)

RELEASE DATE: February 17, 2015 CJ Entertainment presents the Blu-ray & DVD for No Tears for the Dead (read our review) directed by Lee Jeong-beom (Man from Nowhere). A hit man (Jang Dong-Gun from The Warrior’s Way) traumatized from accidentally killing a young girl during a job is given the mission to eliminate her mother, and begins the ultimate fight to save her life. The film also stars Kim Min-hee (Helpless), … Continue reading

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Metal Hurlant Chronicles | Blu-ray & DVD (Shout! Factory)

RELEASE DATE: April 14, 2015 Shout Factory presents the Blu-ray & DVD for Metal Hurlant Chronicles: The Complete Series. Metal Hurlant Chronicles features fan favorite and martial artist Scott Adkins (Assassination Games), Michael Jai White (Falcon Rising, Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown), Darren Shahlavi (Ip Man 2) and Matt Mullins (Blood and Bone). The show is based off a popular comic book anthology of science fiction and fantasy by … Continue reading

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The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom | Blu-ray & DVD (Well Go USA)

RELEASE DATE: March 10, 2015 Well Go USA presents the Blu-ray & DVD for Jacob Cheung’s The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom. This wuxia-fantasy revolves around a pair of lovers – a devilish outlaw (Fan Bingbing) and the righteous Taoist leader Huang Xiaoming), and their love that could change the fate of the nation. The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom also stars Vincent Zhao (True Legend), Wang Xuebing, … Continue reading

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Behind Enemy Lines | Blu-ray (Olive Films)

RELEASE DATE: March 31, 2015 Olive Films presents the Blu-ray for 1997’s Behind Enemy Lines, starring Thomas Ian Griffith (The Karate Kid Part III, Hollow Point). It’s Excessive Force meets Rambo: First Blood Part II! An ex-marine (Griffith) and his well trained crew, return to Vietnam, after he discovers a former colleague isn’t dead but being held by a sadistic Communist general. Behind Enemy Lines also stars Chris Mulkey, Mark Carlton and Spanky … Continue reading

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Blind Woman’s Curse | Blu-ray (Arrow Video)

RELEASE DATE: April 21, 2015 Arrow Video presents the Blu-ray for 1970’s Blind Woman’s Curse (aka Black Cat’s Revenge), directed by cult director Teruo Ishii (Shogun’s Joys of Torture). Akemi (Meiko Kaji from Lady Snowblood) is a tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang, Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing … Continue reading

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