A young Chinese American woman, Nicky Shen, leaves college and makes a life-changing journey to a Shaolin monastery in China. She returns to her hometown and uses her martial arts skills to fight crime and corruption.
A quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese American woman, Nicky Shen, to leave Harvard University and head on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to find her hometown of San Francisco overrun with crime and corruption, Nicky uses her martial arts skills and Shaolin values to protect her community and bring criminals to justice -- all the while dealing with her estranged family and searching for the assassin who killed her Shaolin mentor and is now targeting her.
A quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese American woman, Nicky Shen (Olivia Liang), to leave Harvard University and head on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to San Francisco, she finds her hometown is overrun with crime and corruption and her own parents Jin (Tzi Ma) and Mei-Li (Kheng Hua Tan) are at the mercy of a powerful Triad. Nicky will rely on her tech-savvy sister Althea (Shannon Dang) and Althea's fiancé Dennis Soong (Tony Chung), pre-med brother Ryan (Jon Prasida), Assistant District Attorney and ex-boyfriend Evan Hartley (Gavin Stenhouse), and new love interest Henry Yan (Eddie Liu) as well as her martial arts skills and Shaolin values to protect her community and bring criminals to justice...all while searching for the ruthless assassin who killed her Shaolin mentor Pei-Ling Zhang (Vanessa Kai) and is now targeting her.
KUNG FU stars Olivia Liang as Nicky Shen, Kheng Hua Tan as Mei-Li Shen, Shannon Dang as Althea Shen, Eddie Liu as Henry Yan, Gavin Stenhouse as Evan Hartley, Vanessa Kai as Pei-Ling Zhang, Tony Chung as Dennis Soong and Tzi Ma as Jin Shen.
Christina M. Kim wrote the pilot episode and serves as executive producer of the series with Robert Berens. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Martin Gero and David Madden also serve as executive producers. Hanelle Culpepper is directing and co-executive producing the pilot episode. KUNG FU is produced by Berlanti Productions and Quinn's House in association with Warner Bros. Television and is inspired by the original series created by Ed Spielman.
