Martial Arts movies available on 4K Blu-ray, ranked by transfer quality.
dir. Len Wiseman
S-Tier Lionsgate 4K. The John Wick spinoff. Pre-order went up with the expected steelbook treatment.
Lionsgate · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
S-Tier 88 Films 4K. Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao. The Hong Kong action trio.
88 Films · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan
S-Tier Lionsgate 4K. The Daniels' multiverse film with Michelle Yeoh. The visual effects work well in HDR.
dir. Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
S-Tier Lionsgate 4K. Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's San Francisco anthology.
dir. Chad Stahelski
S-Tier Lionsgate 4K. The one that started it all. Every John Wick film has a strong 4K transfer, and the set is a GRUV sale regular. The Continental club shootout is still one of the best neon-lit action sequences on disc. Individual steelbook versions exist for collectors who want matching artwork across the series.
S-Tier Lionsgate 4K. Chapter 2 is where the Wick world-building really kicks in. New York and Rome in neon-soaked HDR look incredible. The entire John Wick set keeps getting singled out as some of the best-looking discs in people's collections, and every chapter has competing steelbook exclusives from different retailers.
S-Tier Lionsgate 4K. Parabellum is the John Wick film people seem to own three copies of. Walmart's exclusive steelbook had people buying a third version of a movie they already owned twice. The knife fight sequence and the desert photography in HDR look great.
dir. David Worth, Mark DiSalle
S-Tier Lionsgate 4K. Van Damme in Thailand, kicking bamboo trees and passing out from pain. The 4K finally includes the international cut on disc, which was a big deal for fans who'd been stuck with the US theatrical version. The steelbook packaging got specific compliments, and Bloodsport fans immediately started asking about their turn.
dir. Jackie Chan
S-Tier 88 Films 4K. Jackie Chan directed and starred in this 1989 crime comedy. One of the less-discussed entries in his 88 Films run but the transfer is in line with their Hong Kong Cinema Classics standard.
S-Tier 88 Films 4K. Jackie Chan's sequel, with an 88 Films release coming June 2026 available through OrbitDVD.
dir. Doug Liman
This is the original 1989 Swayze film, not the 2024 remake. Vinegar Syndrome's 4K from the original 35mm negative is the definitive version, and the BD-100 disc format means no compression compromises. Arrow also released their own version with different artwork that got criticism for being weaker than VS's cover. The VS edition runs $45 USD, which some people found steep for Road House, but the transfer quality is hard to argue with.
Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Steve Barron
A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in ninjitsu, must learn to work together to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.
dir. Michael Pressman
The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last cannister of the ooze that created the Turtles, which Shredder wants to create an army of new mutants.
dir. Stuart Gillard
The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japan, where they train to perfect the art of becoming one. The turtles also assist a small village in an uprising.
dir. Lo Wei
Cheng is a young Chinese mainlander who moves in with his expatriate cousins to work at an ice factory in Thailand. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fights. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the factory, the resulting mystery and pressures force him to break that vow and take on the villainy of the Big Boss.
Arrow Video · 4K Ultra HD
dir. Harald Zwart
Sony S-Tier 4K. Locked behind an expensive box set with the Karate Kid sequels and nobody is happy about it. Sony will probably release it separately eventually, but knowing Sony it'll be a limited edition steelbook.
Sony Pictures
dir. Renny Harlin
Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private investigator, Samantha must return to her old ways to take down the people who tried to erase her.
88 Films S-Tier 4K. Early Chan before he was Chan, and 88 Films gave it one of their best transfers. If you're working through the HK catalog, put this on the list.
dir. Andrew Davis
Arrow Video S-Tier 4K. The Arrow treatment turned this Seagal flick into a legitimate boutique release, and it looks significantly better than any of his other films have on disc.
dir. Robert Rodriguez
A-Tier 20th Century Studios 4K. The Best Buy steelbook is out of print and the design is one of the more thoughtful efforts in the format. CGI from 2019 still tracks and the HDR pass pulls extra detail out of the neon-lit Iron City streets. People are still waiting for a sequel announcement.
20th Century Studios · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Ang Lee
Sony A-Tier 4K. Ang Lee's wuxia film. The steelbook has been as low as $15 USD on Amazon with a coupon, which is steal pricing for a film this visually rich. Some collectors held off based on mixed forum opinions but found the transfer better than expected once they actually watched it. Pairs well with Hero and House of Flying Daggers if you're building a wuxia shelf.
Sony Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Robert Clouse
A-Tier Warner Bros. 4K. Bruce Lee's most famous film. The steelbook pre-order went up alongside Blade Runner and V for Vendetta.
Warner Bros. · 4K + Blu-ray
A-Tier Arrow Video 4K. Bruce Lee in the Shanghai setting. Arrow's martial arts catalog has been solid.
dir. Gordon Chan
A-Tier 88 Films 4K. Jet Li's martial arts showcase. 88 Films' Hong Kong action catalog keeps growing.
A-Tier Arrow Video 4K. Bruce Lee's unfinished film. Arrow packaged it with context about the production history.
dir. Tony Ching Siu-Tung
In a post-nuclear world, three superpowered women fight an evil genius controlling the government and the water supply.
Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Joseph Zito
A-Tier Vinegar Syndrome 4K. Chuck Norris drives through a house. That is the movie. Vinegar Syndrome loaded it with extras, which is more than this film probably deserves and exactly what VS collectors want.
Vinegar Syndrome · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Quentin Tarantino
A-Tier Lionsgate 4K with the international cut. The steelbook art reveals for Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2 plus Jackie Brown generated massive excitement. Lionsgate Limited also confirmed a Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair 4K release, which is Tarantino's preferred cut.
International Cut: Lionsgate
A-Tier Lionsgate 4K. Kill Bill's second volume. The steelbook art reveal alongside Vol. 1 and Jackie Brown generated huge excitement, though the combined pricing for all three had people doing some uncomfortable math. Tarantino signed off on the restorations personally and vetoed an earlier release timeline.
dir. Tsui Hark
A-Tier MVD Entertainment 4K. Tsui Hark directs Van Damme in a movie about exploding jeans. MVD released this alongside Lionheart for Van Damme fans.
MVD Entertainment · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Destin Daniel Cretton
Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.
dir. Rob Minkoff
Lionsgate A-Tier 4K. Chan and Jet Li in the same frame, which is enough of a reason for martial arts collectors. The wire work and production design benefit from the extra resolution even if the film itself is lightweight.
dir. Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion. Neo discovers his superpowers, including the ability to see the code inside the Matrix. With machine sentinels digging to Zion in 72 hours, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity must find the Keymaker to ultimately reach the Source.
dir. Bruce Lee
After a Chinese restaurant in Rome is threatened by the mafia, who will stop at nothing to acquire the property, the owner recruits a family friend in Hong Kong, kung fu expert Tang Lung, to help them defend their business.
dir. Cheang Pou-Soi
In 1980s Hong Kong, troubled youth Chan Lok-kwun, a mainland refugee, struggles to survive in the Kowloon Walled City by joining underground fights. Betrayed by crime boss Mr. Big while trying to buy a fake ID, he steals drugs from him and seeks refuge in the Walled City, where he encounters Cyclone, a compassionate yet authoritative crime lord.
dir. Godfrey Ho
The film follows Kristi Jones who, along with her gang, take part in Mafia-run street fights to earn money for her sister's college education. Kristi's sister hopes to become a doctor and pay for Kristi's education.
dir. Gavin O'Connor
The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament – a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother.
dir. King Hu
Gu Sheng-zhai, an artist in his early 30s, still lives with his mother, but he is suddenly shaken by the arrival of Yang Hui-zhen, a mysterious princess on the run. Yang brings Gu into her circle of protectors, including a nameless monk whose spiritual guidance transforms him into a valiant fighter.
Golden Sparrow is a fighter-for-hire who has been contracted by the local government to retrieve the governor's kidnapped son. Holding him is a group of rebels who are demanding that their leader be released from prison in return for the captured son. After a brief encounter with the gang at a local restaurant, Golden Sparrow is joined by an inebriated wanderer Drunken Cat who aids her in her mission.
China, year 1457. The Minister of Defense is executed, and his children are sentenced to exile by order of the tyrannical Tsao. Fearful of future revenge from the young people, Tsao sends cruel soldiers to murder them, but a brave group of swordsmen can change the course of the battle at the Dragon Inn.
Dragon and his madcap pal Cowboy spend their days getting into mischief, frustrating the elders, chasing girls, and competing in the village sport. When Dragon overhears a fiendish plot by smugglers to sell China's national treasures overseas, the pair leap into action. Also, Cowboy's wealthy father is kidnapped by the villainous and lethal Big Boss, and the scene is set for a furious martial arts showdown.
dir. Lau Kar-Leung
Arrow Video 4K limited edition. Has the greatest fight scene put to film according to pretty much everyone who watches it. Chan's breakout hits box set from Arrow is the way to get this one, and collectors with kids getting into martial arts films are buying it as an entry point.
Quentin Tarantino's complete cut combining Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 follows The Bride, a former assassin who awakens from a four-year coma after being shot by her mentor and lover, Bill. She embarks on a vengeful quest to eliminate Bill and the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad who betrayed her.
Lionsgate · 4K Ultra HD
dir. Sheldon Lettich
Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her child. To earn the money needed, Gaultier decides to take part in some very dangerous clandestine fights.
dir. Kenji Misumi
Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate.
Well Go USA · 4K Ultra HD
dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
Arrow Video picked up Mortal Kombat and Annihilation for a 4K set coming in June. A film that's been stuck in barebones releases for years is finally getting the Arrow treatment, and people are more curious about the extras than the transfer.
dir. John R. Leonetti
A Chinese chef accidentally gets involved with a news reporter who filmed a drug bust that went awry and is now being chased by gangs who are trying to get the video tape.
Two Hong Kong cops are sent to Tokyo to catch an ex-cop who stole a large amount of money in diamonds. After one is captured by the Ninja-gang protecting the rogue cop, the other one gets his old Orphanage gang, dubbed the "Five Lucky Stars," to help him. They don't like this much, but they do it.
A mysterious woman, known as Madame M, kidnaps forty pre-teen girls and transports them to a remote island to train them as the most deadly assassins. CIA operative Jack Chen follows the case for 6 years with no leads, but when a series of assassinations begin to occur, Jack suspects that Madame M is back in business.
dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
Arrow Video 4K. The most accessible of the Police Story sequels and the one that feels most like a Bond film. Arrow's presentation is clean.
dir. Guy Hamilton
Tough Brooklyn street cop Sam Makin is unwillingly recruited as an assassin for a secret United States organization known as CURE, who fake his death and give him a new identity: Remo Williams. With his appearance surgically altered, Williams is trained to be a human killing machine by his aged, derisive and impassive Korean martial arts master Chiun.
Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Gisaburō Sugii
The 4K transfer was called 'very nice overall' with one caveat about whites running slightly blue. The consensus is that this is the best version we're getting. Bryan Cranston has a voice role and apparently nobody remembers this until someone brings it up.
dir. Jonathan Liebesman
When a kingpin threatens New York City, a group of mutated turtle warriors must emerge from the shadows to protect their home.
Adopted by a renowned swordsmith, a young man discovers that his biological father was killed by a powerful bandit called Lung. Leaving to seek revenge, he runs afoul of vicious desert scum, losing his right arm in the process. After being nursed back to health, he learns to compensate for his loss and returns to confront Lung.
Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray Special Edition
dir. Menahem Golan
A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.
dir. Gabriele Mainetti
The son of an indebted restaurant owner joins a foreign girl in search of her sister. Together, they’ll have to fight side by side against the most ruthless members of the Roman criminal underworld.
dir. Corey Yuen
The secret Red Lotus Flower Society is committed to the overthrow of the evil Manchu Emperor and his minions. One of his Governors is sent on a mission to retrieve a list of members of that secret society. Meanwhile, Canton kung fu practitioner Fong Sai-Yuk falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a rich merchant.
dir. James Glickenhaus
88 Films 4K. The American-produced Chan film where Hollywood hadn't figured out how to use him yet. Interesting as a curiosity, and the 88 Films disc is a solid presentation of a weird film.
88 Films · Limited Edition
Arrow Video 4K. Chan directing himself in one of the loosest, most fun entries in his early filmography. The final fight sequence is ridiculous in the best way.
Arrow Video 4K. The car chase sequences are the selling point and HDR should make them pop. Deep cut in the Chan catalog but the Arrow treatment is reliable.
The third installment in the Lucky Stars series, following Winners and Sinners and My Lucky Stars. The team are released from prison to play detective in order to stop a ruthless gang from ruining their reputations, taking their lives, and that of a key witness in an upcoming trial. They must battle their way through and with the help of Muscles, take down the bad guys.
