Nearly six decades of history have produced a long list of enjoyable franchises for the martial arts genre. Some, like Kickboxer and Once Upon a Time in China , sport more than five entries or were intended to be a trilogy but ended up lasting longer, as was the case with Ip Man . Others, however, ended their stories far earlier, cutting it short at three movies.

Ending at three helps avoid the risk of the franchise going stale. That makes sense, considering that many of the greatest movie franchises ever made are trilogies . That same principle also applies to the world of martial arts, which has witnessed the birth of several great film trilogies, across a variety of subgenres.

Over the years, a long list of films, from American-made martial arts cult classics to old-school

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