NINJA (2009)

Bruce Lee is universally recognized as the pioneer who elevated martial arts in film to an art form, and this documentary will reveal why Bruce Lee's flame burns brighter now than the day he died over three decades ago. The greatest martial artists, athletes, actors, directors, and producers in the entertainment business today will share their feelings about the one who started it all. We will interview the people whose lives, careers, and belief systems were forever altered by the legendary "Father of Martial Arts Cinema". Rarely seen archival footage and classic photos will punctuate the personal testimonials. Prepare to be inspired.

FBI agent Tracy Pride is on a mission to capture businessman Jason Slade, who is involved in extortion and murder. Teaming up with her is her sister Joyce, a news reporter; Dragon, Tracy's partner in Hong Kong, and Jake, a bodyguard who worked for Slade. Can they stop Slade before it's too late

A young teenage girl tries to help a small, purple-colored, jive-talking alligator escape from the clutches of a greedy carnival owner as well as as assortment of various characters so he can be reunited with his owner.

David a young Ninja is recruited by his master to steal the formula for a viral weapon. He is pilled against two wily opponents - a KGB operative and Martin who has kidnapped the scientist who destroyed millions of lives through his bacterial experimentation in World War II and has developed the new lethal serum. Martin's intentions are not honest he wants the virus for himself in his bid to dominate the world.

Lady X is a woman who works during the day as a model but turns into a fighter for justice at night with the help of her karate master Chang.

A young girl named Oichi is abandoned by her mother and blinded by a lightning strike. When her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from a traveling ronin. As she develops into a master swordsman, her profession becomes that of a bounty hunter. Many test her sword and many die by her skills. She travels throughout the countryside to seek her mother and her revenge.

明朝の時代。暴政を繰り返す宦官・曹に仕える大臣・干は、政敵である曹の策略に引っ掛かってしまって非業の死を遂げ、その3人の遺児は流刑にされてしまうが、彼らは父親の復讐のために立ち上がろうと決心。遺児たちが荒野にある一軒宿“龍門客棧”に向かう一方、曹の手下たちも遺児たちを葬るための暗殺団を結成する。かくして“龍門客棧”で対峙することになった彼らは、そこで激しい死闘を繰り広げることになる。

A group of women with various criminal skills are thrown into prison during World War 2. They escape and proceed to head off to destroy a chemical lab in a well fortified valley.

ニューヨークで悪事を働く犯罪組織フット団を追っていたテレビレポーターのエイプリル、ある日、強盗に入ったフット団をこらしめる何者かの姿を目撃する。数日後、エイプリルは別の現場でフット団をやっつける何者かに遭遇。撮影に成功するも、そのヒーローたちの正体は人間の言葉を話し、体長180センチもあるカメだった。

13 family members are murdered and then dumped in a well. 30 years later their descendants are cursed...

Taiwanese martial arts movie by Karen Yang Chia-Yun

Eddie (Donnie Yen) is a young man good at both fighting and breakdancing. His cousin Stella (May Lo) has a crush on him, but apparently he loves someone else. Eddie creates trouble when he tries to help out Mini (Yuen Woo-Ping), a hawker whose business is confiscated by the cops. Mini ends up moving in with Stella, Eddie, and his sister (Wong Wan-Si), leading to possible romance as the mismatched couples struggle to get by beneath the same roof. But a powerful fighter named Power (Dick Wei) admires Eddie's skills, and challenges him to a duel. Eddie refuses, so Power kidnaps Stella to get his way. With no choice remaining Eddie, decides to meet Power for a showdown.

Lo Lieh stars as Sima Jun, a killer working for a corrupt lord whose orders are followed without question or hesitation. When the lord suffers from a life-threatening boil on his back, he is told by the Imperial doctor that an herb called "Longevity Rattan" offers the only cure and is grown in a remote village by an herbalist named Tan. Lo is sent on a mission to get the herb and bring it back before it's too late.

Director Ho Meng-hua is one of Shaw Studio's most versatile directors. He's helmed romances, mysteries, award-winning dramas, contemporary action films, historical costume dramas, fantasies, and, finally, popular swordplay movies. The title character in this one is a chivalrous thief who raises the jealous ire of the rival Red Shirt Gang. There's plenty of action in this adventure, which sweeps from the plains to the mountains ... to the sound of slashing swords.

After seeing his father murdered and his mother abducted by a caveman-like martial arts cult, a small boy is taken in by a wizened old kung fu master, who rigorously trains him until he is endowed with almost supernatural fighting skills. This training, however, takes much less time than it would in most martial arts films, in which the kid would attain mastery at about the same time he reaches adulthood. Instead what we get is a sword-wielding 5 year old waging a bloody war of revenge against an assortment of adult-sized demons and people in heartbreakingly threadbare monster costumes.

Although injured, a martial-arts expert teaches an orphan his methods.

Fan Kao-to is a worker who had enough of corruption in Shanghai. He tries to crush the organization alone. An attempt has been made before but ended up with the big Axe Gang, several of their brands in the man. The man's sister arrives in Shanghai at the same time as Fan Kao-to go out on one-man war, and she wants to do her in the fight, also, she takes the war personally.

A couple camping in the woods is attacked by a trio of thugs and the wife is beaten and raped. A few months after the assault, she is hunting down the three (who happen to be diamond smugglers) by posing as a dealer looking to sell some stolen merchandise. Meanwhile, her Interpol agent husband is doing some tracking of his own in the hopes of bringing them to justice. As they make their plans, a group of ninjas is watching from afar, waiting to make their move. (IMDb)

Real-life kung fu master Nathan Ingram stars in this gritty, low-budget martial arts epic as a local karate school owner who clashes with a gang of drug traffickers posing as the owners of a rival dojo. Director Charlie Ahearn (who helmed the landmark hip-hop film Wild Style) used the housing projects next to his New York Lower East Side apartment as his central location in this 1979 classic, shot on a vintage Super 8 camera.

Stones of power are given to some chosen fighters, who are being trained by a master to defeat the master's darker tendencies of destroying humanity. The fighters do not necessarily get along even as the world heads toward peril.

Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American stealthily tracks the killer from Osaka to Bangkok to Rangoon with the help of a wise and crafty sensei. His only clues: a series of victims whose necks bear the distinctive mark of strangulation by barbed wire. Fighting to avenge as well as to survive, Casey must sharpen his razor-like responses and take his battle skills to the next level, even using deep meditation to fake his own death. His target: the sinister drug lord Goro, who is flooding the streets with deadly meth cooked at his remote jungle factory. To prepare for his ultimate confrontation, Casey must finally become an invisible warrior worthy of the name Ninja. But just when his prey is cornered, an unexpected twist shows Casey that his battle is only beginning: he truly can trust no one.

Ninja Assassin follows Raizo, one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge.

Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now good only for cleaning toilets. But when a new prison fight tournament begins - an international affair, matching the best fighters from prisons around the globe, enticing them with the promise of freedom for the winner - Boyka must reclaim his dignity and fight for his position in the tournament.

An army ranger and his dog embark on a road trip along the Pacific Coast Highway to attend a friend's funeral.

ディズニーランドでおなじみの人気アトラクション「ジャングルクルーズ」を実写映画化したアクションアドベンチャー。アマゾンのジャングルの奥深くに「“奇跡の花”を手にした者は永遠の命を手にする」という不老不死の伝説があった。行動力と研究心を兼ね備えた植物博士のリリーは、この秘密の花を求めて危険に満ちたアマゾンへ旅立つ。リリーが旅の相棒に選んだのは、現地を知り尽くしたクルーズツアーの船長フランク。ジャングルに生息する珍しい動物やスリルあふれる先住民の村、滝の裏側など名所の数々を、時にジョークを交えながら観光客相手にガイドしているフランクだったが、彼にもまた、奇跡の花を求める、ある理由があった。「伝説に近づく者は呪われる」と言われる、アマゾン奥地の「クリスタルの涙」を目指してジャングルを進むリリーたち。そこで彼らは恐るべき真実を知り、奇跡の花をめぐる争奪戦に巻き込まれる。フランク役に「ワイルド・スピード」シリーズのドウェイン・ジョンソン、リリー役に「メリー・ポピンズ　リターンズ」「イントゥ・ザ・ウッズ」のエミリー・ブラント。監督は「トレイン・ミッション」「フライト・ゲーム」のジャウム・コレット＝セラ。2021年7月29日から劇場公開され、7月30日からDisney+でも配信（追加料金が必要なプレミアアクセスで公開）。

1970年代。11歳の少年グルーをミニボスとして崇拝し、彼の子分となったケビン、スチュアート、ボブらミニオンたち。グルーのもとで悪事を働いていたが、彼が何者かに連れ去られてしまう。グルー救出に向けて動き出した彼らは、ある事件を機にカンフーの達人マスター・チャウと出会う。マスター・チャウのもとでカンフーの修行に励むが、それが思わぬ事態を引き起こす。

ニューヨークで悪事を働く犯罪組織フット団を追っていたテレビレポーターのエイプリル、ある日、強盗に入ったフット団をこらしめる何者かの姿を目撃する。数日後、エイプリルは別の現場でフット団をやっつける何者かに遭遇。撮影に成功するも、そのヒーローたちの正体は人間の言葉を話し、体長180センチもあるカメだった。

孤児のダスタンは、国王にその勇気を讃えられ下級階級から王子として迎えられた。 ダスタンと兄王子二人はコシュカーン征服への遠征途中、叔父ニザムと長兄タス王子が聖なる都アラムートの裏切りを訴えアラムート攻めが決定した、 次兄のガーシヴ王子率いる軍が正門を攻めている間に、ダスタンは東門を制圧する。本殿制圧中にアラムートから逃走しようとした騎士と戦ったダスタンは、偶然に、水晶の柄の内側に「時間の砂」を詰めた短剣を手にいれる。

９世紀のスカンジナビア地域。小国の若き王子アムレートは、叔父のフィヨルニルによって父オーヴァンディル王を殺され、母であるグートルン王妃を連れ去られてしまう。たった一人逃げ延びた彼は、母の救出とオーヴァンディルへの復讐を心に誓う。数年後、各地で略奪を繰り返す獰猛なヴァイキングの一員となっていたアムレートは、フィヨルニルがアイスランドで農場を営んでいることを知ると、自ら奴隷に変装し、フィヨルニルの農場に潜り込むのだったが…。

クリント・イーストウッドが監督・主演を務めた衝撃のヒューマン・ドラマ。厳しいボクシングの世界を題材に、そこに生きる名もなき男女の悲愴な人生模様を綴る。アカデミー賞で作品賞をはじめ主演女優、助演男優、監督賞の計４部門を受賞。 ロサンジェルスのダウンタウンにある小さなボクシング・ジムを営む老トレーナー、フランキー。その指導力に疑いのない彼だったが、選手を大切に育てるあまり、成功を急ぐ優秀なボクサーは彼のもとを去ってしまう。そんなある日、31歳になる女性マギーがジムの門を叩き、フランキーに弟子入りを志願する。13歳の時からウェイトレスで生計を立てるなど不遇の人生を送ってきた彼女は、唯一誇れるボクシングの才能に最後の望みを託したのだった。ところが、そんなマギーの必死な思いにも、頑固なフランキーは、“女性ボクサーは取らない”のひと言ですげなく追い返してしまう。それでも諦めずジムに通い、ひとり黙々と練習を続けるマギー。フランキーの唯一の親友スクラップはそんなマギーの素質と根性を見抜き、目をかける。やがてマギーの執念が勝ち、フランキーはついにトレーナーを引き受けるのだが…。

ロサンジェルスで保険の調査員をしていたレナード。ある日、何者かが家に侵入し、妻がレイプされたうえ殺害されてしまう。その光景を目撃してしまったレナードはショックで前向性健忘となってしまう。彼は記憶を消さないためポラロイドにメモを書き、体にタトゥーを刻みながら犯人の手掛かりを追っていく……。 前向性健忘（発症以前の記憶はあるものの、それ以降は数分前の出来事さえ忘れてしまう症状）という記憶障害に見舞われた男が、最愛の妻を殺した犯人を追う異色サスペンス。