Cross-media picks for Kevin Chu fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
These picks share a preoccupation with discipline, lineage, and the weight of tradition — whether that's a monk defending Shaolin against dynasty-era soldiers, a young woman bringing kung fu back to a crime-ridden hometown, or a warrior navigating post-imperial China. The mood is earnest rather than ironic: conflict has moral stakes, skill is hard-won, and community matters. From Shaolin to Life and Death in Shanghai, there's a consistent interest in what survives when power tries to crush a way of life.
Film
Kung Fu Kid
Shaolin disciples clash with Manchu forces in a story where martial arts mastery carries real political and spiritual weight.
Film
The Buddhist Fist
Two orphans raised by monks diverge — one stays devout, one faces the world — loyalty and inherited skill put to the test.
Film
Happy Partner
Stolen missile guidance systems and shady crime bosses collide in a scrappy, comic Hong Kong action romp.
Film
The Shaolin Plot
A ruthless master collects forbidden martial arts manuals; a Wu Tang student is sent to stop him before the knowledge tips the balance.
Film
Shaolin
An arrogant warlord's humiliation at Shaolin's gates sets him on a long journey toward humility and redemption amid civil war.
Film
Shaolin Drunken Fight
A fugitive finds sanctuary at Shaolin, where a Drunk Monk's unorthodox style offers both shelter and a path to justice.
Film
Super Power
Three sons of a dying fighter pursue a vendetta against the champions who humbled their father — honour passed down as obligation.
Film
Shaolin Martial Arts
Two Shaolin survivors must master multiple kung fu styles to resist their oppressors and protect what remains.
Series
The Kung Fu Master
Historic martial arts legend Hung Hei-gun fights alongside Fong Sai-yuk in a last stand to defend Shaolin from Qing-dynasty armies.
Series
Legendary Fok
Two rival martial arts families fight over legitimacy and legacy in an early-Republic China steeped in rivalries and secret traditions.
Series
Kung Fu
A young Chinese-American woman returns from a monastery with hard-earned skills and uses them to fight crime corrupting her hometown.
Series
Fist of the Blue Sky
1930s Shanghai is a battleground of foreign powers and criminal factions, and only one gravity-defying fighter can tip the scales.
Series
Real Kung Fu
A Wing Chun heir goes undercover to clear his name, navigating a murder mystery with skill, secrecy, and inherited technique.
Series
Shaolin Wuzang
Three teenagers at the Shaolin Temple discover they are reincarnated monks, shouldering a destiny rooted in ancient sacrifice.
Series
Fighting Beauty Wulong
A young woman trained in a secret family martial art sets out to uncover a buried truth, guided by her devoted grandfather.
Series
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
A warrior monk in modern California rebuilds Shaolin after destruction, eventually reuniting with a son he thought was dead.
Game
Xiaolin Shodown
A kung fu monk and three apprentices travel the globe protecting sacred relics from those who would misuse them.
Game
Bujingai: The Forsaken City
Hong Kong cinema's wire-fu fantasy comes to life as a spell-casting warrior battles through a post-apocalyptic Asian city.
Game
Double Dragon
Twin brothers trained in a single fighting style take on a criminal underworld together in this foundational martial-arts beat-'em-up.
Game
9 Monkeys of Shaolin
A fisherman's village is massacred; one survivor turns to Shaolin training and a staff to deliver justice across ancient China.
Game
中国式家长 / Chinese Parents
A life sim rooted in Chinese culture and family expectation, tracing one kid's journey through the pressures of adulthood.
Game
Kara no Shoujo
A private detective in 1950s Tokyo investigates a string of bizarre murders, where obsession with truth puts everything at risk.
Game
The Bouncer
Three bouncers battle through neon-lit streets to rescue a kidnapped girl in a game modelled on Hong Kong action cinema.
Game
Kessen 2
Liu Bei wages war across ancient China to rescue a captive woman, blending elemental battlefield magic with grand dynastic drama.
Book
Iron cast
Two friends with forbidden abilities con Boston's elite in a Prohibition-era story about outsiders surviving on wit and guile.
Book
Chinese Handcuffs
A teenager becomes entangled in a friend's devastating secret, driving him to act with fierce protectiveness against adult cruelty.
Book
Life and death in Shanghai
A Shanghai widow survives Mao's Cultural Revolution through stubborn dignity, documenting how ideology destroys lives with clinical precision.
Book
Child's Play
Teen hitmen are quietly eliminating witness-protection informants, and a detective must untangle why adolescents are pulling the triggers.
Book
Tai-Pan (Asian Saga
A larger-than-life Englishman builds a Hong Kong trading empire in 19th-century China, where ambition collides with an alien world.
Book
Not Your Backup
A teenage girl leads a fractured Resistance against a corrupt Heroes League, carrying responsibilities no ordinary senior would face.
Book
Brothers
An epic black comedy tracks two brothers across decades of modern China as upheaval reshapes every life around them.
Book
The piano teacher
A passionate wartime love affair in occupied Hong Kong unravels through betrayal, set against the chaos of 1940s colonial collapse.
Start with martial arts cinema rooted in Chinese history and tradition — Shaolin and The Buddhist Fist both center principled fighters navigating loyalty and conflict, while Kung Fu (2021) updates that lineage for a modern setting.
Yes — Life and Death in Shanghai captures the moral weight and historical sweep that runs through this list's Chinese settings, and Tai-Pan immerses you in the collision of Chinese and Western worlds at the dawn of the colonial era.
9 Monkeys of Shaolin channels classic kung fu cinema into a side-scrolling action game, and Bujingai: The Forsaken City draws directly from Hong Kong wire-fu aesthetics for gravity-defying combat.