Best Wuxia Movies

Compiled 2026-10-30. The main table copies the wuxia list marked 2026-07-14, 100 films in all. No. 1 is A Touch of Zen (1970). No. 100 is Shaolin Drunkard (1983). The date printed on the page and the compile date stay separate. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows of this table.

The 100 films

All 100 rows follow the list. Years are copied from the page.

How this ranking was built

Compiled 2026-10-30. The page says as of 2026-07-14. halfoun curated it under Letterboxd Official Lists. The page runs from No. 1 to No. 100, and this table follows that order. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows.

This was read from the live page on 2026-10-30, and all 100 titles are there. The order is narrative wuxia features by average member rating. A film needs at least 200 ratings and a runtime over 40 minutes. The page defines wuxia as martial-arts or swordplay stories set in ancient China or the jianghu, often with fantasy elements. The latest update brought The Brave Archer in at No. 95 and took Return of Bastard Swordsman out of No. 100. Kung fu titles stay on a separate list and are not merged here.

Chinese and Russian titles are Wikidata labels where available. Chinese labels are simplified. A few common release titles were checked against usual mainland names.

13 films keep the English title in the Russian cell: No. 10 Holy Flame of the Martial World, No. 22 Bastard Swordsman, No. 29 Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan, No. 36 The Lady Hermit, No. 50 The Bells of Death, No. 52 Blades of the Guardians, No. 53 Child of Peach, No. 60 Magic of Spell, No. 72 Lady with a Sword, No. 78 Duel for Gold, No. 89 The Final Master, No. 91 Soul of the Sword, No. 99 Dragon Swamp.

Action titles: best action movies. Fantasy: best fantasy movies.

The picture

Rows S through D hold all 100 films, 20 a row. The drag-and-drop pool is the same 100 films.