Sentences with phrase «wuxia films»

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.

Though all wuxia films serve fantasy, the best ones make you feel as if this fantasy could be reality, and The Hidden Sword never quite reaches beyond artifice for artifice's sake.

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.

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.

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.

Wong Kar - wai said that 3D was the most suitable method to bring about a wuxia film like The Grandmaster.

As a wuxia film (a particular type of fantastical drama / action film involving Chinese martial artists and set in deep history), its loveliest resonances are found its finely executed martial arts sequences, costuming and period setting, as well as the still charisma of Shu Qi's performance.

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

His wuxia film is exquisite; each scene is meticulously framed and beautifully shot.

Not exact matches

Based on the wuxia genre of films and stories, this kung fu fighting is fast and features lots of mid-air dashing and juggling of hapless combatants.

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.

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.

This film didn't impress me quite as much as Call of Heroes did unfortunately, but it's still a solid entry to the wuxia genre.

To say that the films of Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao Hsien are an acquired taste is something of an understatement, but the director of A City of Sadness, Millennium Mambo and Café Lumière achieved something of a mainstream breakthrough this year with his immaculate wuxia drama The Assassin.

Nevertheless, despite its wuxia trappings, the movie may have more in common with Wong's other films than with those of its genre.

Partly because it marks the return of the great Taiwanese helmer Hou Hsiao - Hsien for the first time in seven years, and partly because it sees him working on a bigger scope and scale than ever before: the film's a big - budget (relatively speaking) wuxia picture.

Nicholas» love for telling stories is inspired by his love for film noir, westerns, superhero movies, classic films, and wuxia.