The best martial-arts films, series, games & books

Fan-favourite champions join Johnny Cage to stop Shao Kahn's world-ending rule in brutal, no-holds-barred tournament combat.

A father searches for his kidnapped daughter alongside a journalist hunting his missing wife in this gritty crime thriller.

Two wanted fugitives — escort and escorted — navigate treacherous ancient roads toward Chang'an in this blade-driven historical action film.

The last Airbender races across the world to recover an ancient power before extinction claims his entire culture.

A computer hacker joins underground insurgents fighting machine overlords and discovers reality itself is a cage.

A royal envoy and his Native American ally investigate a mysterious beast terrorising 18th-century France.

Po must find a successor as Dragon Warrior while facing a shapeshifting villain threatening the Valley of Peace.

A martial-arts star fakes his own death to hunt the conspirators trying to kill him.

An ordinary village boy joins a minor sect and claws toward mastery through sheer persistence despite mediocre innate talent.

A physically gifted teen swallows a cursed finger, inherits a demon's power, and earns a death sentence from jujutsu sorcerers.

A young racing prodigy kidnapped and remodelled into a cyborg turns his augmented body against the organisation that made him.

In a world where strength is law, a once-gifted boy who lost his powers rebuilds from zero.

A supremely talented man works to revive the declining Tang Sect in a world where martial spirit is everything.

An ordinary country boy cultivates against all odds, refusing to accept the fate assigned to him by birth.

Tang San masters hidden weapons, dies guarding stolen secrets, then wakes in a world where martial souls reshape destiny.

A teen who sees ghosts inherits a Soul Reaper's powers and battles Hollows threatening both the living and the dead.

A martial-arts rhythm game where recovering stolen music means kicking and punching through enemy waves in perfect beat.

A rebel rabbit hunts those who slaughtered his village, uncovering corruption reaching to the republic's leaders.

Miyamoto Musashi's 16th-century battlefield philosophy distilled into a strategy guide equally applicable to swords, business, and life.

Scott faces Ramona's third evil ex while his own heartbreaker returns, raising the emotional and combat stakes simultaneously.

Scott Pilgrim's final showdown with Gideon Graves forces him to reckon with himself as much as with the enemy.

Goku faces a Frieza lookalike with identical powers in a cross-universe tournament that tests the limits of Saiyan strength.

An orphaned English boy trains under a legendary sword master in 17th-century Japan, enduring bullying and danger to prove himself.

Avatar Aang hunts missing children in the Fire Nation while the unstable Azula complicates every move.

A junior-high shaman who talks to spirits battles ghosts alongside a classmate in a more dangerous world than it seems.

An ex-Marine martial-arts instructor hiding dark wounds finds her warrior's exterior tested when a perceptive young psychologist gets close.