Produced by Beimo Films and Persistence of Vision Films and released by Well Go USA Entertainment, the martial arts focused movie was released within the USA on May 7th, 2021 after debuting last year at the Fantasia festival  Beginning its life as a Kickstarter campaign, it eventually went on to urge funded and now able to hit Netflix within the US.

The movie follows three former Kung Fu prodigies who were expected to possess big careers within the space eventually aroused to be grumpy and out-of-shape middle-aged men. They reunite after their former master passes to avenge his death The Paper Kings is directed by first-time director Quoc Bao Tran who also wrote the movie.

It carries a 98% on RottenTomatoes meaning it carries the rare Certified Fresh rating on the review aggregator.

Among the cast for the movie includes Ron Yuan, Matthew Page, Jae Suh Park, Alain Uy, Yoshi Sudarso and Mykel Shannon Jenkins The draw for several here are going to be the inclusion of Yuji Okumoto within the cast who rose to fame because of The Karate Kid Part II within the mid-1980s and more recently reprising his role within the Netflix Original series Cobra Kai as Chozen.

https://youtu.be/1zM3IpjY3CI

Yuji Okumoto was one among the most fixtures in season 3 of Cobra Kai where he returned to show Daniel just a couple of more lessons. Season 4 of Cobra Kai is due out later in 2021 although it’s unclear whether Chozen will return.

Dominic Griffin of Looper cites Cobra Kai in his review of the movie saying it’s a must-watch for fans of the show but not let that put you off if you’re not. It also seems to hit many of an equivalent themes as Cobra Kai though with the LA Times review saying “it has enough humor and action to form it worth a couple of rounds”.

Will you be finding out The Paper Tigers when it lands on Netflix in early August 2021 within the US? allow us to know within the comments down below.