Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Blast is a Tamil-language martial arts thriller about a family whose ordinary life is upended when a corporate syndicate with diabolical plans sets its sights on them — turning the people best equipped to protect the powerless into the most dangerous obstacle standing in the syndicate's way. If that premise pulls you in, you're drawn to stories about trained individuals defending people they love against organised institutional power, where family bonds are both the motive and the weapon.
Blast is a 2026 Indian Tamil-language martial arts thriller film directed by Subash K. Raj in his debut and produced by AGS Entertainment. The film stars Arjun, Abhirami and Preity Mukhundhan, with John Kokken, Vivek Prasanna, Arjun Chidambaram, Dileepan and Pawan in supporting roles. It follows a family whose peaceful life is threatened by a corporate syndicate with diabolical plans.
From the Wikipedia article Blast_(2026_film), available under CC BY-SA.
Series
Black Bullet
Humans exiled by a viral parasite apocalypse fight for survival in a world overrun by monstrous Gastrea.
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Bullet Bullet
In a collapsed future, junkyard retrieval workers accept a dangerous job and find themselves hunted.
Series
The Thunder
A father and son — two generations of police — risk their lives together in the war against drugs.
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Shaka Laka Boom Boom
A boy's magical pencil brings drawings to life, forcing him to battle evil forces who want to misuse it.
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Ring Ni Kakero
Siblings inherit their late father's boxing ambition; a sister trains her brother toward his destined rival.
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Swagger
A basketball prodigy navigates relentless pressure to overcome the odds and discover his own swagger.
Game
Hammerin' Hero
A young carpenter rushes to his village's aid with his hammer against a Yakuza-run building company.
Game
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Children trained to wield powerful magic fight vampires and deviants at the cost of most of their lifespan.
Game
Karate Survivor
A martial arts master in a roguelite survivor game uses improvised weapons and combos against relentless enemies.
Game
Fracture
An action-shooter game centred on direct confrontation and force.
Game
Pacific Rim
Giant robots fight monstrous kaiju in arena battles drawn from the Pacific Rim licence.
Game
Super Bomberman 5
Shirobon and allies break criminal Bombers out of a warped time-space prison to stop Emperor Terrorin.
Book
Blast
Volunteers risk their lives to rescue six people trapped in rubble after a university chemistry-lab explosion.
Book
Back blast
A former CIA elite agent returns to Washington to uncover why the agency that trained him turned against him.
Book
Strike
Tucker Pierce and friends fight for survival against the better-equipped SYLO as a decisive battle nears.
Film
Blast
Terrorists seize a swimming complex; a trapped janitor becomes an unlikely defender against organised violence.
Film
Explosion
A blast technician survives a suspicious explosion and must use his specialist skills to clear his name.
Film
Furious Attack
A former soldier infiltrates enemy territory to rescue his daughter from scam gangs and organ traffickers.
Film
Power Kids
Martial-arts-trained kids defend a hospital taken over by terrorists to save one of their own.
Film
Hard Hit
A bank manager must keep driving with a bomb under his seat until he pays an anonymous captor's ransom.
Film
Explosive City
A woman trained as a professional killer since childhood is pursued by two cops after a high-profile assassination.
For more family-driven martial arts action, Power Kids and Furious Attack hit similar notes — trained individuals protecting people they love against organised criminal forces. Hard Hit is a tighter thriller if you want the corporate-menace tension without the martial arts.
Karate Survivor is the closest match — a roguelite survivor game built around a martial arts master fighting off relentless enemies with improvised weapons, sharing the same action-movie DNA as Blast.
It fuses a family unit with a martial arts thriller premise, so the stakes feel personal rather than generic. A corporate syndicate threatening an ordinary family — people already equipped to fight back — creates a tension that keeps the action grounded in something real.