Sentences with word «wuxia»

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.

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.

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.

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.

To celebrate the release of The Assassin, a stunning new take on wuxia films by renown director Hou Hsiao - Hsien, we are offering you the chance to win East Asian cinema prize bundles.

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.

It is wuxia as fine art employing Hou's familiar style: Glacial pacing, non-professional actors, long takes, minimal dialogue, and an elliptical story, all bound together with a graceful poetry.

Dragon Inn: produced by Tsui and directed by Raymond Lee, this remake of King Hu's 1967 Dragon Gate Inn stands as one of the most iconic of the Nineties wave of wuxia pictures.

TAIPEI - Next Magazine has told what it says is the inside story of the night actor Wallace Huo confessed his love to actress Ruby Lin, after his supposed A place for Chinese dramas, Korean dramas and more with a soft spot for wuxia and anything historical.

The movie is an obvious parody of sword - and martial - arts wuxia movies, but it also serves as an invitation to young audiences, who may find that Po's antics have sparked an appetite for the more grown - up pleasures of movies like «Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon» or «Curse of the Golden Flower.»

Meanwhile, in mainland China, Zhang Yimou had the gorgeous post-Crouching Tiger wuxia epic House Of Flying Daggers, a movie with some of the straight - up prettiest fight scenes ever put to film.

The violence in «The Assassin» does not behave like the violence in virtually any other wuxia martial arts picture.

This past fall finally came news that production on Hou Hsiao Hsien's long awaited and much delayed wuxia period epic The Assassin was to begin in October with a end date of principle photography set for this spring.

Working as an art and design collective, PHUNK is a team of four artists who equally contribute to their creativity making the distinctive blend of traditional Chinese mythology, craft, philosophy, and folklore, Hong Kong wuxia, Japanese manga and otaku...

The beach and desert scenes of Rogue One use a colour pallet similar to Wong Kar - wai and Zhang Yimou's wuxias Ashes of Time and Hero.

For his new video installation in Tank Shanghai Project Space, Saunders returns to his interest in the lyrical vocabulary of movement and camera in wuxia directors like King Hu, placed into relationship to painting and installed dynamically throughout the exhibition space.

And most notably, there are the incredible wuxia - inspired martial arts scenes, which use wires and the genius of martial arts coordinator Huan - Chiu Ku (who trained with the legendary Yuen Woo - ping and whose credits include the «Kill Bill» films, «Once Upon a Time in China II» and «Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon») to elevate the battles for power in the Badlands to truly epic heights.

Zhang Yimou's exquisite wuxia is all the genre clichés allow: sumptuously shot and sharply choreographed, full of balletic and nigh - on acrobatic action.

Hou Hsiao - hsien's beautiful wuxia, set in ninth century China, won the Taiwanese filmmaker the Best Director prize at Cannes.

It was as if I was simultaneously witnessing two different realities of Drunken Master: the unaltered Cantonese original and the campy English version shown all over the West, spreading the gospel of wuxia cinema and Jackie Chan.

And lo, on Day 8 Hou Hsiao - hsien descended from on high to save the day with his long - gestating wuxia period drama The Assassin, which immediately became almost everybody's favorite Competition film (mine included), even if many professed themselves as much mystified as entranced.

But does these artistic embellishments result in a rewarding wuxia?

Visually dazzling and emotionally distant, Zhang's magnum opus (perhaps only overshadowed by his visceral yet emotionally vacant wuxia wonder Hero from 2002) is one long list of pushes and pulls, a precisely patterned war of attrition that is impossible to leave behind.

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.

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame: Decades after reinvigorating Hong Kong's martial - arts market, Tsui Hark has lost none of his flair for genre spectacle in this elaborate, breathlessly paced wuxia whodunit.

Acclaimed director Zhang Yimou's influential wuxia is period martial arts on the immense scale of an Akira Kurosawa epic.

Haofeng's contemporary wuxia, The Hidden Sword, recalls those of cinema past, King Hu's Touch of Zen in particular, but while its fight scenes and cinematography are similarly dazzling, Haofeng's feature lacks the weight of its predecessors.

If you've seen swordsmen and / or women bouncing through a bamboo forest, you've seen wuxia — yet you've almost certainly never seen it carried off with this degree of delicacy and refinement.

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.

Even while working within the confines of the traditional wuxia genre, «The Assassin» stands apart as wholly transcendental.

Even as the likes of Hu and Che Chang produce wuxia films throughout the 1980s, it was John Woo's balletic violence that gained international popularity, while China's Fifth Generation directors practiced a new degree of dramatic sophistication.

Drawing on King Hu's 1967 wuxia classic Dragon Inn, as well as his own (uncredited) 1992 remake, plus Yojimbo, Kagemusha, and any number of other cinematic touchstones, Tsui Hark's Flying Swords of...

The promise inherent in a chop - socky wuxia opus concerning a quintet of fearless vampire hunters and a cadre of zombies is almost infinite, making the abject failure of the piece something almost awe - inspiring.

The opening of the Chinese market led to some spectacular wuxia arthouse films, stately productions like Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Zhang Yimou's trilogy of Hero, House of Flying Daggers and Curse of the Golden Flower, John Woo's epic Red Cliff and Tsui's own Detective Dee films and a variety of films about Ip Man (five in the last three years, I believe, including Wong Kar - wai's), while new effects technology has lent a glossy sheen to even the lowest budget productions.

He's gone all the way back to his beginning, remaking Death Duel in the style of 21st century digital wuxia.

But as far as I've seen, no one has yet taken up the black mantle of the New Wave wuxia film.

In bookstores, crime stories and romantic fiction rub alongside wuxia, adventure stories of chivalrous martial heroes, and so - called «officialdom» fiction, tales of political intrigue that double as how - to guides for aspiring officials.

This is definitely true in cases where the MMOs draw on quintessentially Eastern concepts, such as wuxia MMOs like Blade and Soul.

In parallel, susan pui san lok's presentation of her artistic practice brought words flashing up rapidly on the screen; a sequence that demonstrated disconnection, subversion, breakage and re-formulation, against a manipulated montage of wuxia footage.

Each sequence focuses on moments depicting a certain gravity - defying lightness or weightlessness emblematic of the genre, while the variously degraded images reflect both the changing stylistics of wuxia along with technological shifts in the medium.