Sentences with phrase «tackles wuxia»

The details: Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao - hsien tackles wuxia — the classic Chinese genre of martial arts and chivalry — in his first feature in eight years.

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When mainland directors started to tackle the genre, though, it was more in the direction of sumptuous historical fantasies designed for international audiences (such as Zhang Yimou's Ying xiong [Hero, 2002]-RRB- than in the redefinition of the essence of wuxia.
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