There’s no shortage of kidnapped-child revenge thrillers, but “The Furious” at least comes loaded with the fight pedigree that gives the setup some extra charge. The first trailer has arrived for the new action film from Kenji Tanigaki, the veteran choreographer behind films like “SPL,” “Flash Point,” and “Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In,” which is set to hit theaters on May 29.
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The premise is blunt and built for impact. After a criminal network and corrupt police kidnap the daughter of Wang Wei (Xie Miao) offer no help, Wei goes after her himself. His only ally is Navin (Joe Taslim), a relentless journalist whose own wife has mysteriously disappeared. From there, the film turns into a vengeance-driven hunt through the underworld, with the pair taking on kidnappers in what the official synopsis describes as an “explosive martial arts showdown.”
That setup is backed by a cast pulled from across the modern action landscape. Alongside Miao and Taslim, the film also stars Yang Enyou, Brian Le, and Joey Iwanaga. The screenplay is credited to Mak Tin Shu, Lei Zhilong, Shum Kwan Sin, and Frank Hui, with producers Bill Kong, Shan Tam, and Hui on board. The film is also based on a character created by David Morrell, which gives the whole thing an even more explicitly hardboiled genre lineage.
There’s also already some festival heat around it. “The Furious” premiered in TIFF’s Midnight Madness section in September 2025, and Lionsgate later acquired international distribution rights following that debut. That doesn’t guarantee anything, obviously, but Midnight Madness has always been a useful launchpad for movies that want to hit like a crowd assault first and ask questions later. Tanigaki’s film looks built with exactly that kind of audience in mind.
If nothing else, the movie has the right people in place to turn a familiar revenge engine into something meaner, faster, and more physical than the average studio action programmer. “The Furious” hits theaters May 29. Watch the trailer below.
