Baguazhang - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • Jet Li's character in The One uses bagua zhang, while the antagonist version of the character uses xingyi quan.
  • Airbending in Avatar: The Last Airbender and Avatar: The Legend of Korra is modeled on bagua zhang.
  • Bagua zhang features briefly in the manga History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi.
  • The Hyūga clan from Naruto use the Gentle Fist style which is based on bagua. For example, the technique called Eight Trigrams: Sixty Four Palm Strike is derived from bagua zhang terminology.
  • Ling Xiaoyu from the Tekken video game series uses bagua zhang.
  • Ashrah from Mortal Kombat: Deception and Kitana from Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance use bagua zhang.
  • Joscelin Verreuil from Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series uses a fighting style similar to bagua zhang, which is the fighting style of the Cassiline Brotherhood.
  • In Ip Man 2, one of the styles used during the tabletop fight is bagua zhang.
  • In the 2010 live-action film Tekken, Jin Kazama says that he is impressed by fellow competitor Christie Monteiro due to her foot placement while practicing bagua zhang.
  • In the 2006 movie Jadesoturi (Jade Warrior), in the Pin Yu vs Sintai fight, they used bagua zhang as a sort of courting.
  • In the 2000 movie Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon, the police inspector Tsai was duelling with Jade Fox using a pair of deer horn knives, a very typical weapon of the Bagua Zhang system.

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