Martial Arts/Kung Fu Film

A sub-genre of the action film, martial arts films contain numerous martial arts fights between characters, usually as the films' primary appeal and entertainment value, and often as a method of storytelling and character expression and development. Martial arts are frequently featured in training scenes and other sequences in addition to fights. Martial arts films commonly include other types of action, such as stuntwork, chases, and/or gunfights. Kung Fu films are a significant movie genre in themselves. Like westerns for Americans, they have become an identity of Chinese cinema. As the most prestigious movie type in Chinese film history, Kung Fu movies were among the first Chinese films produced and the wuxia period films are the original form of Chinese Kung Fu films. In Chinese-speaking world, martial arts films are commonly divided into two subcategories - the wuxia period films, and the more modern Kung fu films (best epitomized in the films of Bruce Lee).

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