Jet LiFilmography

The Warlords

Actors: Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Xu Jinglei

Synopsis: Love, politics, and loyalty threaten to tear apart three soldiers in this lavish historical epic from Hong Kong. In 1870, the power of the corrupt Qing Dynasty has been threatened by the rise of a revolutionary army, led by religious fanatics, and civil war is tearing the nation apart. Pang Read More

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, John Hannah, Michelle Yeoh

Synopsis: The Fast and the Furious director Rob Cohen continues the tale set into motion by director Stephen Sommers with this globe-trotting adventure that finds explorer Rick O'Connell and son attempting to thwart a resurrected emperor's (Jet Li) plan to enslave the entire human race. It's been 2,000 Read More

The Forbidden Kingdom

Actors: Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Collin Chou, Liu Yifei, Li Bingbing

Synopsis: Legendary martial arts stars Jackie Chan and Jet Li come together onscreen for the first time ever in director Rob Minkoff's time-traveling take on the Monkey King fable that finds an American teen transported back to ancient China after wandering into a pawn shop and discovering the king's Read More

War

Actors: Jet Li, Jason Statham, John Lone, Devon Aoki, Luis Guzman

Synopsis: An FBI agent whose partner and family were killed by a notorious assassin sets out for revenge as the elusive triggerman sparks a sprawling gang war between the triads and the yakuza in the feature debut from prolific music video director Phillip Atwell. FBI sgent Jack Crawford (Jason Statham) is Read More

Fearless

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Jet Li, Betty Sun, Dong Yong, Shidou Nakamura, Collin Chou

Synopsis: Fearless opens in Shanghai, China, circa 1910, when wushu master Huo Yuanjia (martial arts superstar Jet Li) prepares to battle one Japanese opponent, Tanaka (Shidou Nakamura), and three American opponents (Anthony de Longis, Jean-Claude Leuyer, and Brandon Rhea) in a massive tournament. The Read More

Unleashed

Actors: Jet Li, Morgan Freeman, Bob Hoskins, Kerry Condon

Synopsis: Two men cut off from the world in different ways become unlikely friends and protectors in this offbeat action drama. Danny (Jet Li) is a physically powerful but emotionally stunted man; never given any sort of proper education, Danny has learned little in his lifetime but how to fight, and his Read More

Chop-Socky: Cinema Hong Kong

Synopsis: Explore one of the cinema's most enduring traditions as the Independent Film Channel and filmmaker Ian Taylor team up to take viewers on an unforgettable tour of the stars, fighting styles, and inventive weaponry of the Hong Kong film industry. From the early screen adventures of Chinese folk hero Read More

Cradle 2 the Grave

Actors: Jet Li, DMX, Mark Dacascos, Kelly Hu, Anthony Anderson, Tom Arnold

Synopsis: A thief and a lawman join forces to hunt down a common enemy in this action thriller. Tony Fait (DMX) is a master thief who, along with his crew (Gabrielle Union, Anthony Anderson, and Drag-On), pulls off a major score when they steal a cache of highly valuable black diamonds. However, the Read More

Everyone is Kung Fu Fighting

Synopsis: Whether you prefer your kung-fu with a dash of humor or a drop dead serious, this collection of short martial arts films offers a little something from the entire spectrum. Films featured in this release include Crouching Waiter, Hidden Chef, Prison Warz, Cradle of the Blind, and Kung Fu Legends Read More

Hero

Actors: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung, Chen Daoming, Zhang Ziyi

Synopsis: Hero is two-time Academy Award nominee Zhang Yimou's directorial attempt at exploring the concept of a Chinese hero. During the peak of their Warring States period, China was divided into seven kingdoms all fighting for supremacy. Most determined to dominate China was the kingdom of Qin, whose Read More

Modern Warriors

Synopsis: From the maker of Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel, Peter Spirer's documentary Modern Warriors explains the history and practice of martial arts fighting. Featuring martial arts legends Benny "The Jet" Urquidez, Don "The Dragon" Wilson, and Bill "Sugarfoot" Wallace, this program discusses the origin Read More

The Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies

Actors: Bruce Lee, Jet Li, David Carradine, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, John Woo, Ang Lee

Synopsis: The Art of Action is a compilation film, hosted by Samuel L. Jackson, that offers clips from various action films that featured martial arts action sequences. Among the films excepted for this collection are Rush Hour 2 with Jackie Chan, Charlie's Angels, and the multiple-Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Read More

The One

Actors: Jet Li, Carla Gugino, Delroy Lindo, Jason Statham, James Morrison

Synopsis: Former X-Files writer James Wong makes his sophomore feature as a director at the helm of this science fiction thriller that's reminiscent of Timecop (1994). In the near future, a technology called "quantum tunneling" allows human beings to travel between parallel universes. The abuse of this Read More

Kiss of the Dragon

Crew: Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Jet Li, Bridget Fonda, Tchéky Karyo, Laurence Ashley, Burt Kwouk

Synopsis: This action thriller co-written by filmmaker Luc Besson stars Jet Li as Liu Jian, a Chinese intelligence officer in Paris on an assignment that finds him in the midst of an international conspiracy. When Liu's investigation gets too close to uncovering the truth, his life is seriously jeopardized Read More

Invincible

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Billy Zane, Byron Mann

Synopsis: A martial-arts master who had formerly fought alongside the malevolent Shadowmen eschews the dark side in a bid to redeem himself and train a group of misfits to do battle with the ultimate evil in this high-kicking adventure from producers Mel Gibson and Jet Li. Having formerly spent his time Read More

Romeo Must Die

Actors: Aaliyah, Anthony Anderson, Edoardo Ballerini, DMX, Jon Kit Lee

Synopsis: William Shakespeare's streak as the hottest storyteller in Hollywood continues with this modern-dress variation on Romeo and Juliet. In this loose adaptation, Hang Sing (Jet Li) is a former police officer from Hong Kong who comes to the United States following the death of his brother, the leader Read More

Black Mask

Actors: Jet Li

Synopsis: Martial arts star Jet Li donned a black hat and mask to portray a comic book superhero in this pulp action tale that gets the full-blown Hong Kong treatment from choreographer Yuen Wo Ping, who later designed the fight scenes for The Matrix (1999). Li stars as Tsui Chik, leader of Squad 701, an Read More

Top Fighter

Actors: Bruce Lee, Jet Li, Bolo Yeung

Lethal Weapon 4

Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock

Synopsis: Detectives Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) reteamed for their fourth foray together in this buddy-cop action-comedy series based on characters created by Shane Black. With the passage of years, Murtagh's daughter Rianne (Traci Wolfe) is now about to upgrade Murtagh to Read More

The Hitman

Actors: Jet Li, Eric Tsang, Simon Yam, Gigi Leung, Keiji Sato

Synopsis: The narrative of The Hitman unfolds following the assassination of a sleazy Japanese businessman in Hong Kong. Various groups come together at a meeting held by the administrators of the dead man's Revenge Fund, which offers a $100 million reward to find the killer. Fu (Jet Li), a penniless Read More

Once Upon a Time in China and America

Actors: Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Xiong Xin Xin, Chan Kwok-pong, Jeff Wolfe

Synopsis: Martial arts master/doctor Wong Fei-hung (a familiar character in Hong Kong cinema) and his gang find adventure amidst the cowboys and Indians of the American West. The sixth in the enormously popular "Once Upon a Time in China" series of Hong Kong action films that was created by director Tsui Read More

Dr. Wai in the Scripture with No Words

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Ching Siu-tung directed this lavish epic adventure set simultaneously in the present and in 1930s China, with the entire cast playing dual roles. International action star Jet Li plays Chow Si-kit, a bookish novelist whose writing is adversely affected by his problematic Read More

High Risk

Actors: Billy Chow, Bobby Yip, Jet Li, Jacky Cheung, Yau Chingmy

Synopsis: This action parody is a Die Hard clone with an interesting twist. Kit (Jet Li) leaves the police force after the death of his family at the hands of a terrorist named "The Doctor." Kit becomes the bodyguard for Frankie (Jacky Cheung), a movie star who is famous for supposedly doing his own daring Read More

My Father Is a Hero

Actors: Jet Li, Anita Mui, Tsue Miu

Synopsis: Jet Li stars in this kung-fu vehicle directed by Corey Yuen Kwai. Though a committed father and husband, Kung (Li) is a mainland undercover cop assigned to a case so sensitive that he dare not tell what he does to those he loves the most. Ordered to infiltrate the crime syndicate run by the Read More

Fist of Legend

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jet Li

Synopsis: Jet Li stars in this historical Hong Kong action film, as Chen Zhen, a Chinese student in Japan in the 1920s. When his master is killed during the Japanese occupation of China, he returns to avenge his teacher's death. Back in China, he finds himself caught in the escalating racial tensions Read More

The New Legend of Shaolin

Actors: Jet Li, Wong Jing, Chen Sung-Yung, Chuen-Hua Chi

Synopsis: This Hong Kong martial arts film that is chock full of colorful, nonstop action starring superstar Jet Li. Hong Xiguan learned kung fu at a Shaolin temple. He joins rebels to try to usurp the oppressive rulers. Unfortunately, a fellow student squeals upon him and Hong's family is slain, except for Read More

The Bodyguard from Beijing

Actors: Jet Li, Christy Chung, Kent Cheng

Synopsis: Director and martial arts choreographer Corey Yuen Kwai adapts the 1991 American hit The Bodyguard into a kung-fu flick starring Jet Li. After spoiled debutante Michelle Yeung (Christy Chung) witnesses a powerful businessman committing homicide, she realizes that her life is in grave danger. Her Read More

Shaolin Kung Fu

Synopsis: This documentary features martial arts superstar Jet Li as he talks about his early career and training in the special techniques of kung-fu as taught at the Shaolin Temple where he studied. Shaolin Kung Fu also demonstrates some of the more interesting and exotic techniques of the Shaolin Read More

Kung Fu Cult Master

Actors: Jet Li

Synopsis: This film stars two important stars of the Hong Kong kung fu cinema, Jet Li, and Sammo Hung (who also directed the film's action sequences). In addition to a blatant disregard for gravity and other physical laws, this film revolves around a popular genre theme, a battle between warriors from Read More

Fong Sai-Yuk

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jet Li, Josephine Siao Fong-fong, Adam Cheng, Zhao Wenzhuo, Michelle Reis

Synopsis: Starring the fabulous Jet Li, this incredible historical epic with its deft blend of high drama, slapstick, and more subtle forms of comedy coupled with breathtaking martial-arts action represents Hong Kong -- filmmaking at its very best. The story contains many serpentine twists and a complex Read More

Once Upon a Time in China III

Actors: Rosamund Kwan, Jet Li, Lau Shun, Xiong Xin Xin

Synopsis: In this, the third of what has become a long series of films, Doctor Wong Fei-Hung (Jet Li), a master of the martial arts, defender of the poor, upholder of tradition and a Confucian scholar (in addition to being a medical man) is visiting Beijing during a competition designed to determine what Read More

Fong Sai-Yuk 2

Actors: Jet Li

Synopsis: Following closely on the heels of the original Fong Sai Yuk, a martial arts action-comedy featuring the acrobatic skills of martial arts star Jet Li, Fong Sai Yuk 2 offers a similar mixture of adventure, action, and farce. The previous film had concluded with Fong Sai Yuk working with the secret Read More

Last Hero In China

Actors: Jet Li

Synopsis: Wong Fei-hung runs a martial arts academy in Canton, and is the exemplar of all sorts of native Chinese virtues. He is appalled to discover that the rent on his space in Canton was raised significantly while he was away in Hong Kong. In addition, he has to face the escalating enmity of a local Read More

Deadly China Hero

Synopsis: Martial arts screen star Jet Li returns to the role that transformed him into a Hong Kong action icon in this action comedy from Matrix fight choreographer Yuen Woo Ping and veteran filmmaker Wong Jing (Naked Killer, City Hunter). When Wong Fei-hung (Li) inadvertently relocates the Po Chi Lam Read More

Tai Chi Master

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh

Synopsis: Hong Kong star Jet Li portrays the inventor of T'ai Chi in this entertaining if not historically accurate martial-arts movie. Junbao (Li) and Tienbao (Chin Siu-Ho) are a pair of young monks studying kung fu in a Shaolin temple. Junbao is balanced and humble, but Tienbao is competitive and eager to Read More

Swordsman II

Actors: Jet Li, Brigitte Lin, Rosamund Kwan, Fennie Yuen

Synopsis: In this second of three "Swordsman" martial arts thrillers, the swordsman Ling Jet Li is traveling with his sister to a religious retreat when they are informed that the leader of the sect has been captured by a mysterious being who has been transformed into a nearly immortal woman through the Read More

Once Upon a Time in China II

Actors: David Chiang, Yee Kwan Yan, Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Donnie Yen

Synopsis: It is 1895 in Canton, China. The Europeans are still milking the country for every dollar they can and claiming special privileges in it, as well. Meanwhile, the virulently anti-foreign White Lotus Society is mounting attacks on the generally clueless British, with the very obvious but low-key Read More

Once Upon a Time in China

Actors: Jet Li, Yuen Biao, Jacky Cheung, Rosamund Kwan, Kent Cheng

Synopsis: Though generally unknown to Western audiences, Tsui Hark is considered a giant among Asian filmmakers and this exceptional epic, combining hard-hitting martial-arts action with romance, comedy, history, genuine poignance, and sharp insight into the effects of the century-long encroachment of Read More

The Master

Actors: Jet Li

Synopsis: Tsui Hark directs this critically panned kung fu action spectacular starring Jet Li as Jet, a martial arts master who ventures to San Francisco to find his old teacher Uncle Tak. When he gets there, he discovers that Tak's herbal shop has been trashed and the old man is missing. The reason, he Read More

Dragon Fight

Actors: Jet Li

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Billy Tang, best-known for the gruesome sex thrillers Red to Kill and Run and Kill, directed this well-cast, American-lensed martial-arts action film starring internationally renowned fighter Jet Li. Li plays Lee Kwok-lap, a famous acrobat with China's martial arts team who Read More

Born to Defence

Crew: Director

Actors: Jet Li

Synopsis: Produced in Mainland China by Sil-Metropole, this action picture marked the first directorial work by international martial arts icon Jet Li. He also stars in the film as a young kung-fu expert who fights back against the heartless American soldiers routinely bullying the Chinese populace in the Read More

Long Zai Tian Ya [Dragon Fight]

Martial Arts of Shaolin

Actors: Jet Li, Huang Qui-Yan

Synopsis: This is the third in a series of Shaolin Temple films starring China's martial arts champion Jet Li (aka Li Lianjie). Li's good looks, star presence, and stunning gymnastics -- as he twists, turns, and somersaults through a series of well-choreographed battles -- carry this otherwise routine Read More

Kids From Shaolin

Actors: Jet Li

Synopsis: This action film from mainland China is a standard story about two competing groups of martial arts experts living across a river from each other. It is the star Jet Li (aka Jet Lee, Li Lianjie) -- the personality who carried the first Shaolin Temple film to wide-spread popularity in China, Hong Read More

This is Kung Fu

Actors: Jet Li

Synopsis: Zhong Yi directs this survey of many different styles of martial arts. The film showcases China's natural landscape and history while it displays members of various martial arts schools giving the camera an exhibition of their skills. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

The Shaolin Temple

Actors: Jet Li

Synopsis: This is the first Hong Kong kung-fu movie to be shot in mainland China, actually using the location where the Shaolin martial arts were born as the site for filming. A real Shaolin champion plays the lead (Jet Li), and perhaps because of his training in this form of kung-fu, he comes across as Read More