wuxia Archives

The movie takes a Chinese perspective to combine wuxia tropes with American superhero conventions Anita Mui plays the mild-mannered wife of the city's top cop, who's secretly the city's reigning masked vigilante Michelle Yeoh plays the mysterious henchwoman stealing the city's male babies for a near-immortal imperial eunuch seeking to restore the Monarchy to China,[...]

The Legend of Anle, one of the most anticipated C-Dramas of the year, starts with a refreshing twist - by being a screwball romantic comedy.

Sakra is the latest wuxia movie not only starring but also directed by Donnie Yen, his first directorial project since the 1998 Hong Kong hitman thriller Ballistic Kiss It's a curious hot mess that's both highly ambitious and not ambitious enough, but still loads of fun to watch "Sakra" is a Buddhist term from Sanskrit[...]

Hong Kong director Tsui Hark, one of the world's greatest action directors, will film the wuxia blockbuster Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Great Hero on May 28th 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[...]

The Swordsman of All Swordsmen is, in its breathless way, a quintessential Taiwanese wuxia film It's having its North American premiere at the 10th Old School Kung Fu Fest in New York City It was such a hit in Taiwan in 1968 that it spawned two even wackier sequels to form a trilogy featuring Tien Peng[...]

It's an archetypal model for the wuxia swordswoman story in many ways, and an anomaly in how unusual it still is today It's a breezy, gleefully pulpy potboiler so elegant in its simplicity, yet with so many layers to it. Vengeance of the Phoenix Sisters still, Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute The plot of Vengeance of the[...]

King of Wuxia is a new documentary about the career and life of director King Hu, who singlehandedly redefined the wuxia genre in Cinema when he made the seminal Come Drink with Me for Shaw Brothers in 1966 He transformed a movie genre from studio quickies to a more prestigious and lucrative level, in full[...]

Subway Cinema's annual Old School Kung Fu Fest is back in New York City this April with the biggest retrospective of Taiwanese wuxia (sword-fighting hero) movies ever seen in New York City With 12 movies on the big screen and three more online, they're showcasing everything they could find at the Metrograph Theater in Downtown[...]

The movie is Hong Kong's first major wuxia movie for years since Mainland China has taken over domination of the genre with literally dozens of films and television series a year. Donnie Yen in "Sakra," coming via WellGo USA Donnie Yen co-produced Sakra with notorious Hong Kong schlockmeister Wong Jing as a mainland China-Hong co-production[...]

Bleeding Cool has previously looked at old friends Brian Cunningham, and Hank Kalanz, freed from their DC Comics ties, now working at Immortal Studios to create the first comic book-based shared universe of Wuxia martial arts-fantasy stories, with a series of interconnected comic books inspired by the storytelling of Shiao Yi The publisher has officially launched[...]

"This is our fourth addition to the Immortal Storyverse, and I'm quite pleased how this story has solid threads into our other series, and yet stands alone as an exciting new action-packed thrilling quest for revenge." Bleeding Cool previously reported that former DC Comics editors Brian Cunningham, and former DC SVP and Youngblood co-creator Hank Kanalz,[...]

Blue helped put Rooster Teeth on the map, but RWBY was the company's first successful attempt to create an original series or IP as the business departments like to call it. Here are the first 3 episodes of RWBY: Ice Queendom: RWBY was a mix of influences that Oum and Rooster Teeth's main fanbase like anime and[...]

The Emperor's Sword is an interesting curiosity: a seemingly typical wuxia movie about warriors who return to fight against the forces of a tyrant It's a B movie in the sense that it doesn't feature any famous A-list stars, nor are the co-directors household names Then it takes a darker, more tragic direction at almost[...]

The way the fantasy world and the contemporary world bleed into each other is deliberately meta in ways not seen since Mario Vargas Llosa's classic novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, only with more pulp and wuxia action. Who is This Movie For? The actual meaning of the movie's Chinese title is "Kill the author." Its English[...]

Instead of pulp, he wants to make an arthouse film out of a wuxia movie here Maybe it's a course correction after the commercial misstep of The Great Wall That's right, he also directed that movie, which nobody wanted or liked. Well Go USA Zhang Yimou is one of the premiere arthouse auteurs of Chinese Cinema[...]