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Early in the '90's of the 21st Century, westerners began to set an eye on Hong Kong action films as an alternative culture to recurring hollywood films at that time. Filmmakers started hounding video shops in their respective Chinatowns to look for martial art films which at that time is very limited to the western market. Critics and film scholars also began to study martial art films as field of knowledge, and incorporated key figures of this genre as a part of their canon in the area of world cinema, and this is where Hollywood Martial Art Films began.

From here, martial art films became known in the Western world and stars such as Jet Li, Chow Yun Fat and Jackie Chan started to make movies in Hollywood. Furthermore, directors like Quintin Tarantino (who is known for his gore, violence and memorable dialogues) started borrowing martial art concepts and incorporating them to his films such as Kill Bill. While in other films, known martial artists were hired to choreograph Hollywood fight sequences. Yuen Woo-Ping, renowned for his fight choreography in the Matrix Trilogy, is considerd one of the greatest choreographers and martial artist up to this day.

Examples of Hollywood Martial Art Films

• Matrix Trliogy
• One Upon a Time in Mexico
• Kill Bill
• Rush Hour
• Shanghai Noon