After 24 days in theaters, Chinese wuxia (martial hero) film Blades of the Guardians: Wind Rises in the Desert has surpassed 1.3 billion yuan ($179 million) at the Chinese mainland box office, ...
Free, 10-film series aims to showcase the best of high-flying, high-drama wuxia cinema for upstate N.Y. movie fans. Shu Qi as Nie Yinniang in director Hsiao-Hsien Hou's "The Assassin," released in ...
When most people think of Chinese films, they immediately think of wuxia cinema. They envision high-flying feats of acrobatic combat and tales of mystical martial arts powers. John Woo’s Reign of ...
Blind Meng, played by Mo Tse, is a blind bounty hunter with a mysterious past who hunts wanted criminals during the twilight years of the Tang Dynasty, where corruption and lawlessness spread across ...
Cheng Pei Pei, the pioneering “Queen of Martial Arts” who starred in dozens of wuxia films in Hong Kong before reaching a global audience with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, has died at the age of 78 ...