The martial arts sub-genre has been a staple since the 1920s, when films like Orochi and The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple took the world by storm. Since then, the action offshoot has grown muscle ...

Many film historians speculate that cinema's first martial arts movie was Zhang Shichuan's The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple. Released in 16 parts between 1928 and 1931, The Burning of the Red Lotus ...

As early as the 1920s, Chinese films became distinct and popular and most were made in trendy wide-open Shanghai, China's Hollywood and magnet of creativity. After the first Opium War ended in 1842, ...