Sentences with phrase «wuxia pictures»
Dragon Inn: produced by Tsui and directed by Raymond Lee, this remake of King Hu's 1967 Dragon Gate Inn stands as one of the most iconic of the Nineties wave of wuxia pictures.
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A generic oddity in his oeuvre, Ashes of Time was the director's only attempt to date at a wuxia picture.
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.
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The wuxia killings elevate A Touch of Sin into the territory of great revenge pictures, even as its ideology proves less than discernible.