While martial arts movies fell out of vogue after their peak in the ‘70s and ‘80s, one hit Netflix show managed to bring them back thanks to its six-season success. Martial arts movies have a long, complicated history. The peak of the genre’s mainstream US popularity came, surprisingly enough, shortly after the death of its biggest star, Bruce Lee. While Lee’s own movies were hugely successful, the Shaw Brothers managed to leverage his legend to make later martial arts movies a mainstream commodity throughout the late ‘70s and into the ‘80s.