Sentences with phrase «wuxia genre»

What follows is a beautifully staged and achingly romantic story of duty, honour and love, which also dissects the wuxia genre and the psychology of the professional killer.

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.

I am perhaps being overly critical, but there is a polish that directors like Zhang Yimou and Ang Lee have given to the wuxia genre.

A finely textured and stylistically sublime essay on the Chinese wuxia genre; a mood piece re-imagined by a sympathetic female warrior.

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.