Sentences with phrase «kong wuxia»
King Hu's 1965 Hong Kong wuxia pian («martial chivalry» genre) classic stars Cheng Pei - Pei as the avenging Golden Swallow, on a mission to save her kidnapped brother, and Yueh Hua as an amiable beggar with a chorus of scruffy orphans, who plays guardian angel to the warrior woman, his drunken front hiding his true identity.
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The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.
With apologies to Minority Report, the year's most visually breathtaking action movie was China's Hero, a ravishing post-Crouching Tiger wuxia epic with an oddly pro-empire message and a stunning cast of Hong Kong legends, including Jet Li, who took a break from making dumb American B - movies for long enough to anchor something great.
When the bamboo curtain lifted, some Hong Kong filmmakers were allowed to shoot wuxia pian on the mainland, and somewhat muted the spectacular aspect of the fighting to allow for a true discovery of the landscapes (Ann Hui's Shu jian en chou lu [The Romance of Book and Sword, 1987]-RRB- or to express existential concerns (Wong Kar - wai's Dung che sai duk [Ashes of Time, 1994]-RRB-.
Hong Kong filmmaker King Hu is known as the man who elevated wuxia films to a new level and inspired countless others to follow in his footsteps.
As the legend of Wong Kar - wai goes, the movie that broke the Hong Kong director internationally, 1994's Chungking Express, was an improvisational lark, a way to blow off steam after the grueling desert shoot of his delirious wuxia epic Ashes of Time.