If you grew up hanging around the martial arts section of your local mom-and-pop video store, you know the absolute frustration of trying to explain Jackie Chan to your friends back in the day. You’d pop in a bootleg, multi-generation VHS copy of Police Story or Project A that you bought at a comic convention, point at the screen while Jackie dropped three stories through a series of fabric awnings, and scream, “Look! He actually did that! No wires! No stunt double! He almost died!”

And your friends, raised on a steady diet of Arnold and Sly blowing up miniature sets, just didn’t get it.

We all knew Jackie was the biggest star in the world everywhere else, but the West just wasn’t catching on. Hollywood tried to force him into the standard American action mold with The Big Brawl and The Protector, but they didn’t understand that you don’t restrict Jackie Chan. You just turn on the camera, get out of the way, and pray his insurance policy is paid up.

Then came the mid-90s. The planets aligned, New Line Cinema got wise and Jackie finally cracked the West by doing exactly what he always did: breaking every single bone in his body for our entertainment.

Now, Arrow Video has assembled the ultimate tribute to the exact moment Jackie became a household name across the globe.

• Drunken Master II (1994): Let’s be real—this is one of the greatest martial arts films ever committed to celluloid. Teaming up with Shaw Brothers legend Lau Kar-leung, Jackie slips back into the role of Wong Fei-hung. The final factory fight against Ken Lo is seven minutes of blistering, physics-defying, jaw-dropping madness. Whether you call it Drunken Master II or The Legend of Drunken Master, this is a certified masterpiece.
• Rumble In the Brox (1995): The big one. The breakthrough. Jackie comes to “New York” (which looks suspiciously like Vancouver, complete with mountains in the background) to fight a bunch of cartoonish street punks who look like they stepped out of a Sega Genesis beat-’em-up game. Between the hovercraft chase, the woodchipper, and Jackie jumping onto a fire escape with a broken ankle, this is pure 90s joy.
• Thunderbolt (1995): This one features high-speed sports car racing, kidnapping and Gordon Chan directing some absolutely frenetic garage fights. It’s an odd duck in his filmography, but it hits like a freight train.
• Police Story 4: First Strike (1996): Jackie takes the Police Story franchise international and turns into James Bond. He fights guys in the freezing snow, deals with a stolen nuclear warhead and delivers the single greatest use of a yellow folding ladder in cinematic history.
• Mr. Nice Guy (1997): Directed by the legendary Sammo Hung! Jackie plays a TV chef in Melbourne, Australia, who gets caught between rival mobs. Come for the cooking show antics, stay for the giant construction vehicle completely demolishing a mansion. It’s loud, it’s silly and the choreography is incredibly great.
• Who Am I? (1998): Jackie gets amnesia in South Africa, asks the sky “Who am I?!”, hangs out with some local tribes and then slides down the slanted glass side of the Willemswerf building in Rotterdam without a safety net. The rooftop fight at the end is a masterclass in rhythm and timing.

Arrow is treating this era with the Criterion-level prestige it deserves. We are talking a massive 10-Disc 4K UHD Limited Edition set. You aren’t just getting the butchered, re-scored, heavily edited American theatrical cuts (though those are here for nostalgia’s sake!). You are getting the original uncut Hong Kong cuts, international versions and alternate dubs, all lovingly restored from the original negatives in glorious Dolby Vision.

All in gorgeous new packaging by Tom Ralston, plus a 160-page perfect bound book featuring archival interviews and heavy-hitting film writing from the likes of Craig D. Reid and Thorsten Boose. You also get lobby cards and a reversible poster.

If you love audio commentaries, Frank Djeng and F.J. DeSanto are here to school you on the history of these productions. There are brand-new multi-part retrospective featurettes (Breakout! Parts 1-6) that dive deep into how this crossover happened, plus incredible new interviews with stunt team legends like Mars and Kathy Hubble.

Before Rush Hour turned him into a buddy-cop Hollywood icon, this was the golden run where Jackie Chan proved to the Western world that nobody—and I mean nobody—does it better.This box set belongs on your shelf right next to your Golden Harvest bootlegs. You can get this set now from MVD.