Hong Kong Synopsis
“A laugh-out-loud funny spoof!”
A movie within a movie, created to spoof the martial arts genre. Writer/director Steve Oedekerk uses contemporary characters and splices them into a 1970s kung-fu film, weaving the new and old together. As the main character, The Chosen One, Oedekerk sets off to avenge the deaths of his parents at the hands of kung-fu legend Master Pain. Along the way he encounters some strange characters.
Audience Engagement
571 audience reviews — more than 94% of Hong Kong films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 92th percentile among Hong Kong films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From O Entertainment
Comedy + Action in Hong Kong
150 Hong Kong titles in our catalog blend the Comedy and Action genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Kung Pow: Enter the Fist itself).
The 2001–2003 Hong Kong Window
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist holds position #22 of 43 Hong Kong films in the 2001–2003 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s Hong Kong Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Hong Kong, 146 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Kung Pow: Enter the Fist premiered alongside 12 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 12 other Hong Kong films in 2002.
The 529th Hong Kong title from Hong Kong we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).
Our Hong Kong catalog contains 836 titles in total (828 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- spoof · 5
- murder hunt · 3
- invulnerability · 1
- evil · 8
- martial arts · 369
- super power · 61
- loss of loved one · 32
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #406 of 836 Hong Kong films indexed here (51st percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among Hong Kong Comedy productions specifically: #127 of 266 (top 48%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Hong Kong |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Hong Kong, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Production Companies | O Entertainment, 20th Century Fox |
| Runtime | 1h 21m |
| Release Date | January 25, 2002 |
| IMDb | tt0240468 |