Sentences with phrase «wuxia cinema»
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.
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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.
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.
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