After Bruce Lee’s death in 1973, the world wanted more — and Hong Kong studios answered with one of the strangest subgenres ever created: Bruceploitation.   Dozens of actors stepped into the tracksuit. Some crashed and burned. Some swung for the fences. A few actually delivered something worth remembering. Here are the Bruce Lee copycat movies that stand above the chaos — not because they replace him (nobody can), but because they represent a wild moment in martial-arts cinema history.

How a humble start, a master’s in psychology, and a passion for coaching shaped one of MMA’s rising grapplers. As the managing editor of...

Before ninjas were everywhere—from cartoons and video games to Halloween costumes—there was Sho Kosugi, the man who helped introduce the mysterious, masked martial artist to Western audiences and turned ninja films into a full-blown pop culture phenomenon. In the 1980s, if there was a ninja on screen, chances are it was Kosugi—silent, swift, and deadly. Born in Tokyo in 1948, Sho Kosugi began martial arts training at age 5, eventually earning black belts in karate and kendo, and studying judo...