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Audiences are said to be getting tired of them, but there are still plenty coming because every current TV show was shot anywhere from a year or two years ago, so how does yet another adaptation of Jin Yong's classic novel Legend of the Condor Heroes stand out? Poster art: WeTV, Tencent Eastern Heretic and Western Venom[...]

The novels of Jin Yong helped define the entire wuxia genre as we know it Chinese TV endlessly makes them right now in watered-down derivatives, but with the 100th anniversary of his birth, Tencent has produced an ambitious new adaptation of Legend of the Condor Heroes under the banner The Legend of Heroes and four[...]

Legends of the Condor Heroes, the epic martial arts novel by Jin Yong (pen name of the late Hong Kong author, scholar, and newspaperman Louis Cha), is possibly the most frequently adapted wuxia novel of all time, having spawned a trilogy of Shaw Brothers movies called The Brave Archer directed in the 1970s by legendary[...]

While we in the West are waiting for Tsui Hark's blockbuster adaptation of Jin Yong's wuxia classic Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants, another adaptation was released in China and Hong Kong days before the big event opened, namely Invincible Swordsman; it is, unfortunately, an utterly pointless and toothless remake of Swordsman 2, a hit[...]

If you don't know Chinese, you might not know that right now, the biggest movie in the world is Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants. This blockbuster adaptation of Jin Yong's classic wuxia epic novel, The Legend of the Condor Heroes, is one of the defining works of the wuxia genre. It stars Xiao Zhan as hero Guo[...]

"Sakra" is a Buddhist term from Sanskrit that means "powerful," which is an apt title for the movie and its hero. "Sakra" still, Courtesy of WellGoUSA Sakra is the latest adaptation of Jin Yong, aka Louis Cha's epic wuxia novel Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils This popular series has been adapted numerous times into movies and television[...]

The big-budget epic adapts wuxia author Jin Yong's (pen name of Louis Cha) epic novel as the first of a planned trilogy to star current Chinese superstars Xiao Zhang, Zhao Ye, and Feng Shao Feng Various social media accounts seemed to confirm this. "Legends of the Condor Heroes Book One: A Hero Born" cover art, St[...]

Sakra is adapted from a section of the Jin Yong (pen name of Louis Cha) novel Demi-God and Semi-Devils, one of the most popular wuxia novels of the 20th Century, which helped define the wuxia genre Of Jin Yong's works, only Legend of the Condor Heroes has been translated into English so far Yen was[...]