King Hu rose to prominence in the 1960s and»70s as a superb director of wuxia films («A Touch of Zen»), a popular Chinese action genre of swords, sorcery and chivalrous heroes. (onvideo.org)
I'm going with Jia Zhangke, who seamlessly blended his long - take, not quite realist visual style into wuxia genre traditions while retaining, amplifying even, the sense of social and political outrage. (theendofcinema.net)
Since his first feature, Wo kou de zong ji (Sword Identity, 2011), Xu Haofeng has strived to produce a different kind of wuxia pian (martial arts film), a genre that, from 1949 until the early 2000s, couldn't be made in the PRC. (sensesofcinema.com)