10 Iconic Video Game Moments You Had NO Idea Were Taken From Movies

Inspired by: Oldboy (2003)

Sifu wears its love for kung-fu cinema on its sleeve. From Shaw Brothers throwdowns to modern-day Donnie Yen flicks, the game’s tale of revenge is soaked in decades of martial arts movie history. And honestly? Few games have ever captured the rhythm, weight, and raw choreography of hand-to-hand combat quite like this.

But while Sifu borrows spiritually from the kung-fu greats, there’s one moment where it flat-out lifts a scene wholesale - and it’s not even from a kung-fu movie.

Early in the game, you fight your way down a grimy, narrow corridor, dispatching enemies in a side-scrolling, single-take brawl. It’s tense, grounded, and plays out in one uninterrupted shot. Sound familiar? That’s because it’s ripped directly from Oldboy - Park Chan-wook’s twisted revenge masterpiece from South Korea. The infamous hallway hammer fight became an instant classic in cinema for its gritty realism and tracking-shot brutality.

Sifu swaps out the hammer for fists, but the structure, the framing, the beat-for-beat pacing - it’s Oldboy through and through. And while the game goes full kung-fu fantasy later on, this scene stands out as a secret tribute to one of the most memorable fight sequences ever put on film.