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Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (2011) TV Show

7.4 216 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 80

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: Now living in his permanent home at the Jade Palace with the rest of the Furious Five, Po the Panda trains, battles, learns, teaches, stumbles, gabs and "geeks out" as the newest hero in the Valley of Peace.

Plot: martial arts, kung fu, restaurant, panda, fighting, kung fu master, 3d animation

Place: china

Cast

Liu Yuxuan

Zhu Jun

Wen Yixiao

Feng Junhua

Full-Time Magister (2016) TV Show

7.4 51 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: China

Seasons: 8

Episodes: 85

Audience: TV-14

Story: After waking up, Mo Fan suddenly finds himself in a world where schools teach magic and monsters eat humans. However, his own situation hasn’t really changed that much. Labelled the loser of his school, he wants to afford a better life for his physical disabled sister, who is in a wheelchair, and his father. To make it possible, he took on the goal to become the best magician and to show everyone that one’s status in society is not important to achieve this.

Plot: based on novel or book, magic, school, magic school

Place: china

Cast

Jack Black

Dustin Hoffman

Angelina Jolie

Ian McShane

Kung Fu Panda (2008)

7.3 12.8K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Chosen by prophecy but doubted by all, Po is an unlikely choice for the mystical title of the Dragon Warrior—a clumsy panda thrust into the world of kung fu as a deadly enemy threatens the Valley of Peace. Under reluctant guidance by Master Shifu and the Furious Five, Po must embrace who he is to unlock the power that no scroll can teach.

Style: whimsical

Plot: martial arts, kung fu, strong woman, tiger, bravery, restaurant, villain, chosen one, ...

Place: china

Red Cliff II (2009)

7.3 500 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: China, Hong Kong

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: R

Story: The battle of Red Cliff continues and the alliance between Xu and East Wu is fracturing. With Cao Cao's massive forces on their doorstep, will the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu survive?

Plot: tea, sequel, chinese painting

Time: 3rd century

Place: china

Cast

Takeshi Kaneshiro

Andy Lau

Zhang Ziyi

Song Dandan

House of Flying Daggers (2004)

7.3 1.8K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: China, Hong Kong

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.

Plot: rebellion, martial arts, government, swordplay, tang dynasty, dagger, wuxia, bold, ...

Time: 9th century

Place: china

Cast

Edward Norton

Naomi Watts

Liev Schreiber

Toby Jones

The Painted Veil (2006)

7.3 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.

Plot: infidelity, based on novel or book, shanghai, china, nun, cholera, foreign aid, doctor, ...

Time: 1920s

Place: china

Cast

Steve McQueen

Richard Attenborough

Richard Crenna

Candice Bergen

The Sand Pebbles (1966)

7.2 283 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United States of America, Taiwan

Duration: 196 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.

Plot: missionary, u.s. navy, chinese, battle, gunboat

Place: china

Cast

Han Sanming

Zhao Tao

Wang Hongwei

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Zhubin Li

Still Life (2006)

7.2 174 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: China

Duration: 108 min.

Story: A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.

Plot: worker, loss of loved one, demolition, barrage, resettlement

Place: china

Cast

Jet Li

Rosamund Kwan Chi-Lam

Max Mok Siu-Chung

Donnie Yen

Once Upon a Time in China II (1992)

7.2 290 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: Wong Fei-Hung faces the White Lotus Society, a fanatical cult seeking to drive the Europeans out of China through violence, even attacking Chinese who follow Western ways. Wong must also defend revolutionary Dr. Sun Yat Sen from the military.

Plot: martial arts, kung fu, congress, colonisation, martial arts master, sect, kung fu master

Place: china

Cast

Song Kang-ho

Gong Yoo

Han Ji-min

Shingo Tsurumi

The Age of Shadows (2016)

7.2 376 votes

Genre: Action, History, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.

Plot: shanghai, china, independence movement, korean resistance, japanese occupation of korea, korea

Time: 1920s

Place: japan

Cast

Jing Lusi

Martin Compston

Nicholas Rowe

Trevor White

Red Eye (2024) TV Show

7.1 119 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: London police officer DC Hana Li is escorting Dr Matthew Nolan back to Beijing where he has been accused of a crime. However, on board flight 357, she finds herself embroiled in an escalating conspiracy and a growing number of murders.

Style: tense

Plot: london, england, airplane, flight, murder, conspiracy, beijing, china, ...

Cast

Jet Li

Yuen Biao

Jacky Cheung Hok-Yau

Rosamund Kwan Chi-Lam

Once Upon a Time in China (1991)

7.1 490 votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: R

Story: In late 19th-century Canton, legendary hero Wong Fei-Hung battles foreign forces' (English, French and American) plundering of China. When Aunt Yee returns from America totally westernised, Wong assumes the role of protector. This proves difficult when his martial arts school and local militia become involved in fierce battles with foreign and local governments. As violence escalates, even Aunt Yee has to question her new western ideals, but is it possible to fight guns with Kung Fu?

Plot: martial arts, kung fu, hero, colonisation, qing dynasty

Time: 19th century

Place: china

Cast

Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Takeshi Kaneshiro

Zhang Fengyi

Chang Chen

Red Cliff (2008)

7.1 894 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: China, Hong Kong

Duration: 145 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu formed an unlikely alliance.

Plot: martial arts, flaming arrow, strategy, carrier pigeon, wall of fire, white dove, casualty of war, chinese painting, ...

Time: 3rd century

Place: china

Cast

Jack Black

Awkwafina

Viola Davis

Dustin Hoffman

Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)

7.0 3.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Po is gearing up to become the spiritual leader of his Valley of Peace, but also needs someone to take his place as Dragon Warrior. As such, he will train a new kung fu practitioner for the spot and will encounter a villain called the Chameleon who conjures villains from the past.

Plot: martial arts, kung fu, villain, sequel, panda, anthropomorphism, chameleon, female villain, ...

Place: china

Cast

Zhang Hanyu

Eddie Peng Yu-Yan

Joyce Feng

Wu Xudong

Operation Mekong (2016)

7.0 277 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime

Country: Hong Kong, China

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: The Chinese government launches a daring operation to arrest a violent drug cartel following the discovery of thirteen Chinese crew members' bodies on two ships sailing through the Mekong River.

Plot: boat, river, illegal drugs, incident, mekong

Place: china

Cast

Stephen Chow

Gong Li

Ray Lui

Charles Heung

God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai (1991)

7.0 88 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 116 min.

Story: While battling a psychic gambler, Sing hurtles back in time to 1937 Shanghai. Now he must come to grips with his family history and get back to 1991.

Plot: martial arts, shanghai, china, gambling, magic, twin sister, time travel, slapstick comedy, ...

Cast

Jackie Chan

Ben Wang

Joshua Jackson

Sadie Stanley

Karate Kid: Legends (2025)

7.0 1.2K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After a family tragedy, kung fu prodigy Li Fong is uprooted from his home in Beijing and forced to move to New York City with his mother. When a new friend needs his help, Li enters a karate competition – but his skills alone aren't enough. Li's kung fu teacher Mr. Han enlists original Karate Kid Daniel LaRusso for help, and Li learns a new way to fight, merging their two styles into one for the ultimate martial arts showdown.

Plot: new york city, martial arts, kung fu, mentor, ex-boyfriend, karate, sequel, beijing, ...

Cast

Marlene Dietrich

Clive Brook

Anna May Wong

Warner Oland

Shanghai Express (1932)

7.0 240 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 82 min.

Story: A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.

Plot: prostitute, rape, shanghai, china, rebel, ex-lover, insurgence, chinese civil war, ...

Place: china

Cast

Jack Black

Bryan Cranston

Dustin Hoffman

Angelina Jolie

Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)

6.9 6.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: China, United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: PG

Story: While Po and his father are visiting a secret panda village, an evil spirit threatens all of China, forcing Po to form a ragtag army to fight back.

Plot: martial arts, kung fu, fighter, village, villain, sequel, panda, anthropomorphism, ...

Place: china