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Kung Fu Soccer (film)
Kung Fu Soccer (功夫女足) is Stephen Chow's 2026 Mandarin comedy about the Emei women's football team using kung fu in the Supreme Invincible Cup; released 11 July 2026 in China, grossing about $349 million.
Kung Fu Yoga (功夫瑜伽)
Kung Fu Yoga (功夫瑜伽) is a 2017 China–India action-comedy film directed by Stanley Tong, starring Jackie Chan as an archaeology professor hunting a lost Indian treasure.
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (KFTLC), 1993–1997 syndicated Canadian-American action-crime drama, sequel to Kung Fu, starring David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine and Chris Potter as son Peter; 88 episodes, filmed in Toronto, cancelled with PTEN, rerun on TNT.
Kung Fury
Kung Fury is a 2015 Swedish 30-minute action-comedy short by David Sandberg, Kickstarter-funded at $630,019, released free on YouTube after a Cannes premiere, about a time-traveling cop hunting Hitler; its feature sequel remains unreleased.
Kung Fury 2
Kung Fury 2, or Kung Fury: The Movie, is David Sandberg's unreleased 2019 feature sequel to the 2015 short Kung Fury, starring Fassbender, Schwarzenegger, and Hasselhoff, stranded since 2020 by the Creasun financing lawsuit.
Kung Lao
Kung Lao is a Mortal Kombat fighting game character, a Shaolin monk and descendant of the champion Great Kung Lao who fights with a razor-rimmed hat, debuting in Mortal Kombat II (1993).
Kung Pao chicken (宫保鸡丁)
Kung Pao chicken (宫保鸡丁, gongbao jiding) is a Sichuan stir-fry of diced chicken, dried chilies, Sichuan peppercorn, and peanuts, named for Ding Baozhen's Gongbao title, with distinct Sichuan, Guizhou, Shandong, and Beijing versions.
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (2002) is a Steve Oedekerk parody comedy built from the 1976 Hong Kong film Tiger & Crane Fists (Savage Killers), with Oedekerk digitally inserted and re-dubbing nearly all voices; panned by critics (13% RT) but a cult favorite.
Kung-Fu Master (video game)
Kung-Fu Master (Spartan X, スパルタンＸ) is a 1984 Irem side-scrolling beat 'em up arcade game, distributed by Data East, in which Thomas fights up five temple floors to rescue Sylvia; the first of its genre, ported widely and adapted by Nintendo as Kung Fu.
Kung, Ching
Ching Kung is an emeritus Vilas Professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who used Paramecium and E. coli to discover mechanosensitive ion channels, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.
Kung's conjecture
Kung's conjecture is a theorem in extremal matroid theory stating that simple matroids over a finite field grow linearly, proved by Geelen and Whittle in 2003.
Kunga
The kunga was a hybrid equid bred in third-millennium BC Mesopotamia from a female donkey and a male Syrian wild ass, the earliest known human-made animal hybrid.
Kungrad dynasty
The Kungrad dynasty, also written Qongrat or Qungrat (Uzbek: qo'ng'irot), was an Uzbek dynasty that ruled the Khanate of Khiva in Central Asia from the late 18th century until 1920.
Kungs
Kungs (Valentin Brunel, born 1996, Toulon) is a French deep house and French touch DJ and producer; his 2016 Cookin' on 3 Burners remix "This Girl" hit number 1 in France, and his albums are Layers, Club Azur, and Out Loud.
Kungsgården
Kungsgården (kungsgård, royal demesne) is the Swedish term for a crown-administered farm and the name of several sites, notably Gamla Uppsala's excavated royal estate, Bjärtrå skans, Ven, Flyinge, and Kronoberg.
Kungsleden
Kungsleden, the King's Trail, is Sweden's roughly 450 km long-distance hiking route from Abisko to Hemavan, created by STF in the early 1900s, passing four national parks, Laponia, and Kebnekaise.
Kunhali Marakkar I
Kunhali Marakkar I (കുഞ്ഞാലി മരക്കാർ ഒന്നാമൻ), also written Kunjali Marakkar I, was the first of four hereditary admirals of Calicut resisting the Portuguese in the early 1500s.
Kunhali Marakkar IV
Kunhali Marakkar IV (കുഞ്ഞാലി മരക്കാർ), born Muhammad Ali Marakkar, was the fourth hereditary naval admiral of the Zamorins of Calicut, executed by the Portuguese at Goa in 1600.
Kunhild Corona
Kunhild Corona, a 200 km corona on Venus at 19.3N 80.1E, IAU-named 1994 for a German fertility maiden; interpreted as an extinct hotspot shield volcano with a broad central depression.
Künhü'l-Ahbâr
Künhü'l-Ahbâr (كنه الأخبار, "Essence of Histories") is a general world history in Ottoman Turkish by Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî (1541–1600), covering creation to the 1596 Eğri campaign in four sections.
Kuni no miyatsuko
Kuni no miyatsuko (国造) were provincial governors under Japan's Yamato court, powerful local chieftains appointed from roughly the sixth century until the Taika Reform of the mid-seventh century replaced them with district governors.
Kuni-ezu and kokudaka reporting order
The kuni-ezu and kokudaka reporting order required each province's daimyo to submit a province map (kuni-ezu) and village register (gōchō), repeated from 1604 through 1835, with kokudaka rice yields underpinning taxation.
Kuni-kyō
Kuni-kyō (恭仁京), also called Kuni Palace, was the capital of Japan in the Nara period. Emperor Shōmu moved the court there in 740; it was abandoned for Naniwa in 744.
Kunihiko Fukushima
Kunihiko Fukushima (福島邦彦), born 1936, is a Japanese computer scientist who invented the neocognitron, a hierarchical neural network announced in 1979, recognized as the origin of deep convolutional neural networks.
Kunihiko Ikuhara (幾原 邦彦)
Kunihiko Ikuhara (幾原 邦彦, Ikuni), born 1964, Japanese anime director; Sailor Moon series director at Toei, then Revolutionary Girl Utena, Mawaru Penguindrum, Yurikuma Arashi, and Sarazanmai.
Kunihiko Kodaira
Kunihiko Kodaira (小平 邦彦, 1915–1997) was a Japanese mathematician who worked on complex manifolds and algebraic varieties, and in 1954 became the first Japanese recipient of the Fields Medal.
Kunihiko Suzuki
Kunihiko Suzuki was a Japanese-born American neurochemist and neurologist, Professor Emeritus at UNC, who identified the enzyme defect behind Krabbe disease, proposed the psychosine hypothesis, and died in 2025.
Kunihiro Hattori
Kunihiro Hattori (服部邦洋) is a Japanese antibody engineer who conceived and led creation of emicizumab, the first bispecific antibody therapeutic for hemophilia A, earning the 2026 Lasker–DeBakey award.
Kunihiro Matsumoto
Kunihiro Matsumoto (松本 邦弘) is a Japanese molecular geneticist, professor at Nagoya University from 1990 to 2017, known for yeast signal transduction and C. elegans nerve-cell regeneration research.
Kunika (कुनिका सदानंद लाल)
Kunika (Kunickaa Sadanand Lall), born 1964 in Mumbai, is a Hindi film and TV actress known for vamp roles, Swabhimaan (1995), films like Khiladi and Page 3, pop albums, and Bigg Boss 19 (2025).