Sentences with phrase «wuxia martial»
Not exact matches
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.»
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This year's Journey Gala is Hou Hsiao - Hsien's breathtakingly elegant and mesmerizing first foray into wuxia (martial arts), THE ASSASSIN, which won him the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
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.
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.
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.»
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.
Acclaimed director Zhang Yimou's influential wuxia is period martial arts on the immense scale of an Akira Kurosawa epic.
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.