Sentences with phrase «wuxia epic»
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.
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Shot entirely in sequence over a scant twenty - three days ---- during a hiatus in the middle of Wong's wuxia epic, years in the making, Ashes of Time ---- the director wanted to fill this gap by making a quickie movie to restore his creative flow.
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.
Would he offer the aerobatic action of his wuxia epics Hero and House of Flying Daggers?
Not exact matches
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Sony, Blu - ray, 4K UHD)-- Ang Lee transformed his love of «wuxia pian» (China's epic adventures of martial arts, chivalry, and melodrama of the past age) into a worldwide smash by creating, in his own words, «Sense and Sensibility with martial arts.»
Acclaimed director Zhang Yimou's influential wuxia is period martial arts on the immense scale of an Akira Kurosawa epic.