With the success of the first part, both commercially and in terms of quality, a second part was bound to be produced. What was a surprise though, was the fact...
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After the Best Asian Asian Films of 2018, we felt that we should also compile more specific lists about the best of the year, since there were a lot of great...
A milestone in the wuxia genre, and a must-watch for all fans of the genre, to say the least.
In 1967, Shaw Brothers released The One-Armed Swordsman, starring Jimmy Wang Yu and directed by Chang Chen. It became an instant classic wuxia movie overnight...
The third film in the Detective Dee series and a sequel to “Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon” (2013), “Detective Dee: The Four...
First of all, who is Detective Dee? For those who don't know him already, Dee Renjie was a magistrate in the Tang dynasty, a guarantor of the Tang Code, highly...
Legendary director Tsui Hark (“The Taking of Tiger Mountain”, “Once Upon a Time in China”, “The Banquet”) returns to direct...
If one was to seek the quintessence of the Golden Harvest martial arts film (wuxia if you prefer), one would have to look not much further than “Iron...
Legendary Chinese martial arts choreographer and film director Yuen Woo-ping, who has been associated with films like the Matrix trilogy, the Kill Bill movies...
I recently watched Derek Yee and Tsui Hark's Sword Master, a remake of Death Duel (1977). Even though I have not seen the original, I loved this one. They put...