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.

100 Greatest Martial Arts Classics Collection | DVD (Mill Creek)

RELEASE DATE: June 10, 2014 Mill Creek Entertainments presents the 26-disc DVD set for the 100 Greatest Martial Arts Classics Collection. Over 140 Hours of Kung-Fu Combat! Knock yourself out with 100 high flyin’ and punch packin’ Kung Fu films! This thrilling collection of jaw-droppin flicks brings together a colossal assortment of martial arts madness. From the ultimate Shaolin masters to the legends of Kung-Fu, theses cult classics are hard to find … Continue reading

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Rush Hour 2 | Blu-ray (Warner)

RELEASE DATE: TBA For the first time, Warner presents the Blu-ray for Brett Ratner’s Rush Hour 2. Detectives Carter (Chris Tucker) and Lee (Jackie Chan) team up to fight some more bad guys. This time around, the action takes place in Hong Kong where the two become embroiled in a counterfeit money scam. Rush Hour 2 is also notable for the appearance of Zhang Ziyi (The Grandmaster) and John Lone (Year of … Continue reading

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Can Dialectics Break Bricks? | DVD (Occupie Filmwerx)

RELEASE DATE: June 17, 2014 Occupie Filmwerx presents the DVD for 1973’s Can Dialectics Break Bricks? Comrades, there is no better example of revolution on film than this hilarious spoof of politics, class warfare and consumption that still holds up in today’s advanced capitalistic world. Taking an obscure kung fu film (1972’s Crush starring Chen Hung-Lieh) and redubbing the entire movie, a group of situationists have created the perfect dada film, … Continue reading

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Prophecy of Eve | DVD (Shami Media)

RELEASE DATE: July 22, 2014 Shami Media presents the DVD for Ron Santiano’s Prophecy of Eve (aka Eve: Beauty and the Blade), a low budget, supernatural martial arts movie. Eve’s (Ia Villatuya) life is forever altered when her parents vanish without a trace after being attacked by supernatural agents. When she runs into the members of the same organization to which her parents bore allegiance, several unanswered questions from Eve’s childhood reemerge. … Continue reading

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Brawl | aka Fighting Fish | DVD (Lionsgate)

RELEASE DATE: June 10, 2014 Lionsgate presents the DVD for Brawl (aka Fighting Fish). Mike moves to Thailand to start a new life when he is robbed and left with nothing… until he meets Yo, a skilled Thai boxer, and his beautiful (and handicapped) wife. The new friends soon enter an underground fight club called “Fighting Fish” in order to make the money they need to survive. Starring Jawed El Berni … Continue reading

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Angela Mao Ying 5-Film Collection | DVD (Shout! Factory)

RELEASE DATE: June 17, 2014 Shout! Factory presents the DVD set for The Angela Mao Ying 5-Film Collection. This 6 film, 3 disc set includes 1973’s When Taekwondo Strikes, 1974’s The Tournament, 1974’s Stoner, 1976’s The Himalayan, 1976’s A Queen’s Ransom and 1977’s Broken Oath. Other actors who star alongside Mao are 007’s George Lazenby, Bolo Yueng (Enter the Dragon), Sammo Hung (Ip Man 2), Yuen Biao (Dragons Forever) and … Continue reading

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Bushido Man: Seven Deadly Battles | DVD & Blu-ray (Shout! Factory)

RELEASE DATE: June 10, 2014 Shout! Factory presents the Blu-ray & DVD for Takanori Tsujimoto’s Bushido Man: Seven Deadly Battles. Upon returning from a pilgrimage across Japan, the warrior Toramaru arrives with tales of seven epic battles against Japan’s most legendary fighters. As Toramaru’s philosophy dictates that he “know the enemy by eating his food,” each masterfully-choreographed fight is preceded by a helping of his prey’s favorite dish. Starring Mitsuki Koga … Continue reading

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Raze | DVD (MPI Home Video)

RELEASE DATE: May 20, 2014 MPI Home Video presents the DVD for Josh C. Waller’s Raze, a horror/action film, that focuses on a bunch of women who are forced to fight each other using their bare hands. The film stars Zoe Bell (Death Proof, Kill Bill), Rachel Nichols (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra), Sherilyn Fenn (Fist of the Warrior) Rosario Dawson (Death Proof) and Tracie Thoms (Death Proof). Watch the trailer. Raze is … Continue reading

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Death Grip | DVD (Osiris Entertainment)

RELEASE DATE: March 11, 2014 Osiris Entertainment presents the DVD for Death Grip. This 2012 martial arts picture stars Johnny Yong Bosch, a former star of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, as well as Contour director Eric Jacobus and Stunt People members Nathan Hoskins, Rebecca Ahn, Ray Carbonel, Chelsea Steffensen, Alvin Hsing, Shaun Finney, and Lucas Okuma. Watch the trailer.

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Apokalips X | Blu-ray & DVD (Action Slate)

RELEASE DATE: April 22, 2014 Action Slate presents the Blu-ray & DVD for Mamat Khalid’s Apokalips X. This anticipated Malaysian-made martial arts film – about rival gangs who fight for pride and ego in a world destroyed by chemical warfare – stars Farid Kamil, Peter Davis, Jehan Miskin, Adam AF2, Iqram Dinzly, Pekin Ibrahim, Pyan Habib and Ayez Shaukat Fonseka. Watch the trailer.

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Martial Arts Movie Marathon | DVD (Shout! Factory)

RELEASE DATE: May 20, 2014 Shout! Factory presents the DVD for the Martial Arts Movie Marathon, which contains four classic Golden Harvest movies on two discs. This set includes 1974’s The Skyhawk with Kwan Tak Hing, Sammo Hung, Carter Wong and Nora Miao; 1974’s The Manchu Boxer with Anthony Lau Wing, Sammo Hung and Wilson Tong; 1975’s The Dragon Tamers (aka Belles of Taekwondo) with Carter Wong, James Tien and … Continue reading

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Girls, Gangsters & Zombies | DVD (Switchblade Pictures)

RELEASE DATE: March 25, 2014 Switchblade Pictures presents the DVD for Masahiro Assou’s Girls, Gangsters & Zombies (not to be confused with the similarly titled Gangsters, Guns & Zombies). It would have been the perfect crime except for those darn meddling zombies! We’ll, with that said, the title says it all in this Japanese splatter fest. Starring AV superstar Laura Aoyama, Ichiro Nishikoshi, Yu Minami, Ryuhei Kawana and Ken-ichi Takada.

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Force Five: Remastered | DVD (101 Distribution ADA)

RELEASE DATE: February 11, 2014 101 Distribution ADA presents the remastered DVD for 1981’s Force Five, directed by Robert Clouse (Enter the Dragon). A martial-art expert (Joe Lewis) leads his team of fellow martial artists to rescue a senator’s daughter from an island ruled by the evil leader of a religious cult! Starring Benny “The Jet” Urquidez, Sonny Barnes, Grand Master Bong Soo Han and Richard Norton. Watch the trailer.

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Welcome to the Jungle | Blu-ray & DVD (Universal)

RELEASE DATE: March 25, 2014 Universal presents the Blu-ray & DVD Welcome to the Jungle, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. A group of office workers find themselves stranded on a desert island when a corporate retreat, led by unhinged former Marine (Jean-Claude Van Damme), goes horribly wrong. Now Chris (Adam Brody) and his co-workers must battle nature – and each other – to survive! Also starring Rob Huebel, Kristen Schaal, Dennis … Continue reading

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Puncture Wounds | aka A Certain Justice | DVD (Lionsgate)

RELEASE DATE: March 11, 2014 Lionsgate presents the DVD for Puncture Wounds (aka A Certain Justice). After returning home from a traumatic tour of duty in Iraq, John (Cung Le) finds himself rescuing a local call girl from a group of violent Aryan Brotherhood pimps. Having killed several of them in the process, John and his family are now the prime targets of Hollis, the ruthless criminal leader of the … Continue reading

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