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	Wuxia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The wuxia genre is confined and peculiar to Chinese culture, because it is a unique blend of the martial arts philosophy of xia (俠, "chivalry", "a chivalrous man or woman") developed down the centuries, as well as the country's long history in wushu.
		Wuxia film (or wuxia pian, Mo Hap film, Mo Hap Pin) (Traditional Chinese: 武俠片; Simplified Chinese: 武侠片; pinyin: wǔxiá piān) is a film genre originating in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
		As was the case for the Hollywood films, with maturing taste and growing demands for the 'fame' phenomenon [thirst by the public to know more of the personalities of the actors and the cast], actors, actresses, action director and directors in wuxia films became schools of styles in their own right.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wuxia_film (3023 words)

	Wuxia Pien
		Wuxia films of this era pushed pre-CGI effects and wire-enhanced action choreography to the extreme while experimenting with horror and fantasy elements in films like The Bride with White Hair (1993) and Butterfly Sword (1993).
		With this film's release, the wuxia pien had come full circle for Ang Lee's influences were clear, having drawn from King Hu's A Touch of Zen (1971) among other wuxia films the director recalled as a child.
		The majority of these films are inferior to their Hong Kong counterparts, with such notable exceptions as King Hu's A Touch of Zen (1971) and Joseph Kuo's Sorrowful to a Ghost (1970).
	www.kungfucinema.com /categories/wuxiapien.htm (1731 words)

	Shaw Brothers: Swordplay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the film’s second half, the fights are hurt by the absence of Cheng Pei Pei, and the plot is bogged down by trying to explain a bunch of new characters and their attending backstories.
		For much of the film, Kuei Ku’s involvement in the film is clumsy; but by the end she provides a nice counterpoint to the men’s eternal battles.
		Although their films took an age to make compared to the Cantonese films that were frequently made in a week, the Shaw Brothers strived to make their filmmaking process as svelte as possible—hence the endlessly reused Movie Town lots, the contract actors, writers and directors and the recombinations of popular plot elements.
	shawbros.typepad.com /shaw/swordplay (9069 words)

	Wuxia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Plot devices in wuxia novels are plentiful; however, it must be remembered that wuxia books are basically adventure stories with a strong dose of cultural and historical contexts.
		Tui na is often used (especially in wuxia comedies or parodies) to reverse the effects of the point strikes.
		Wuxia film (or wuxia pian, Mo Hap film, Mo Hap Pin) () is a film genre originating in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/W/Wuxia.htm (1600 words)

	Great Chinese Film Invasion 1/2 \| Asian American Features \| GOLDSEA
		The loopy, cartoonlike action sequences are every bit as entertaining as those in any wuxia film -- with an added exaggeration factor that slyly holds the genre up for laughs even while milking its crowd-pleasing appeal.
		The film has the potential to win millions of new fans for the rubber-faced Stephen Chow who, besides starring in it, produced, co-wrote and co-directed.
		The historical grounding doesn't inhibit the fantastic fight scenes expected of a wuxia film.
	goldsea.com /Features/Chinesefilms/chinesefilms.html (713 words)

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		The director, Zhang Sichuan, adapted the film from the novel The Tale of the Extraordinary Swordsman.
		Many of the wuxia films that were made around the 1920's and 1930's were lost due to the ban.
		Films were adapted mostly from the stories written during the Tang dynasty around ninth century AD.
	www.uh.edu /~hkbigley/2321/dacon/research.htm (1065 words)

	Heroic Grace
		The jiang hu described in wuxia novels and depicted in wuxia movies is a lavishly embroidered and glamorized version of this hardscrabble reality, which was a seething symptom of social chaos, this subculture of bandits, beggars, gamblers, and con artists.
		Cantonese wuxia films of the '50s are almost as straight-laced as American B Westerns, and their Woman Warriors (even when they aren't actually actresses playing male roles or female characters impersonating men) tend to be sexless tomboys who stay demurely bundled up.
		Wuxia stories, for example, tend to be oriented toward the Northern Wudang school, concentrating on feats associated with the marshaling of inner forces, like "weightless leaps" and palm power.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Island/3102/heroic-intro.htm (3672 words)

	Exploring Wuxia Themes and Philosophies - News Article - Wu-Jing.org
		With their pondering of the nature of heroism, their beautifully elegant gestures, their emphasis on form rather than fight, the films seem to be emphasising the xia part of the term, wuxia.
		At the same time, the roving swordsmen of the brothers' films were also a response to the violence sweeping mainland China, then undergoing the Cultural Revolution (1966-76).
		The wuxia novels usually emphasised xia instead of wu, unlike the many movies they inspired, which tended to play up the swordsmanship aspect, rather than the philosophical.
	www.wu-jing.org /News/M03/2003-01-Wuxia-01-Themes.php (1325 words)

	The Cinematic Verses: Hero (DVD) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wuxia pien is a storytelling genre that depicts legendary heroes triumphing over evil using their powerful martial arts skills combined with magic weapons and amazing acrobatic feats.
		Wuxia pien dates, in written form, back to the ninth century and in film form, back to the 1920s.
		In film, wuxia pien-styled stories were and are often told using wires to enable the actors to fly around through the air attacking one another.
	www.thecinematicverses.com /reviews/herodvd.html (718 words)

	An Introduction to the Wuxia Genre
		As a form of protest, wuxia films and literature were banned at various times during the Qing dynasty, and Republican era.
		This film, and its sequels, were the prototype of the wuxia fantasy genre.
		When these films were again produced in the 1950s, they took stylistic elements, and conventions from traditional Chinese opera, which included the promotion of a rigid orthodox moral code.
	www.heroic-cinema.com /eric/xia.html (5032 words)

	Tigers and Dragons book proposal
		It is a root premise of the world’s oldest action genre that the power the warrior unleashes in the pursuit of justice is not something he or she was born with.
		Sequences depicting the training process in excruciating detail are the center of interest in many martial arts films; especially in the unarmed combat pictures that came to define the genre for fans in the West during the “kung fu craze” of the 1970s.
		The soul of the wuxia movie as a genre is closely bound up with the culture of the martial arts schools and the Peking Opera companies that molded its creators and performers and, in a sense, even its characters.
	www.geocities.com /hungry_ghost_2000/proposal.htm (4157 words)

	Fists of History - THE DAILY BRUIN ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Others include the fantasy films of Tsui Hark, the wuxia films to which "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"; is an homage, and wuda films based on stunts, street fighting and gymnastics which Jackie Chan popularized.
		The wuxia films and later the fantasy films were known for their wire-work flying, parodied in films such as "Wayne's World 2." In Hong Kong it's a respected art form which has now been transplanted to "The Matrix" and "Daredevil."
		Chinese films, especially in the wuxia genre, were unfaithful to the gender stereotypes of domestic females and fighting males.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /news/articles.asp?id=23169 (1005 words)

	Everybody is kung fu fighting - MOVIE OPINIONS - MSNBC.com
		Those low-budget films, with their atrocious dubbing and cheap production values, have given way to expensive, subtitled event movies that have taught film distributors that Americans can be lured to foreign-language martial-arts films.
		Wuxia heroes are strong, silent types, with mysterious pasts: a disproportionate number of them are apparently orphans.
		In China, where wuxia films have been made since the 1920s, audiences considered it just another routine martial-arts movie and, in retrospect, it was.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/6612102 (1150 words)

	Tsui Hark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He then studied film in Texas, first at Southern Methodist University and then at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating in 1975.
		His second film, We're Going to Eat You (1980), was an eccentric blend of cannibal horror, fl comedy and kung fu.
		Film Workshop releases became consistent box-office hits in Hong Kong and around Asia, drawing audiences with their visual adventurousness, their broad commercial appeal, and hectic camerawork and pace.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Tsui-Hark.htm (1566 words)

	Shaw Brothers: Fantastical
		The biggest change implemented by Shaws is the film’s abrupt, almost absurd ending that excises most of the story’s final act, but caps the running time at a theater friendly 95 minutes.
		Female flesh, barely seen in the first film, became a staple, although the surprising amount of nudity seen in Princess Iron Fan, the second film in the series, was curbed in the third and fourth films.
		The third film’s lightly-clad spider demonesses are replaced in the fourth film with an entire country of women, which is also besieged by a variety of female troublemakers—all of whom wear see-through pants and brightly colored underwear.
	shawbros.typepad.com /shaw/fantastical (4159 words)

	HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS-Pre Release Discussion - The CHUD.COM Message Boards
		Films like Crouching Tiger, Hero and Once Upon A Time in China all suffered due to the fact you needed to have some knowledge of the chinese honour and caste system.
		The visuals of this film are simply gorgeous and whilst a tad melodramatic the ending worked for me, especially the jealousy of Andy Lau's character.
		I didn't see the film in the best theatre, so it could be a projection issue, but it really struck me. This theatre also had the sound up WAY too high.
	www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?t=72886 (3774 words)

	eye - First action Hero - 08.26.04
		More dates came and went as Miramax pondered which version to put out (this is the 100-minute international version, not the two-hour cut available on import DVDs) and what to call it (the title is now appended with "Quentin Tarantino Presents," the director having urged the studio to finally release it).
		The director admits that making a wuxia film is "much, much harder -- because I always worry about the safety of the actors, I'm uneasy all the time I'm making a wuxia movie." However, one aspect that Hero shares with his 1990 hit, Ju Dou, is a powerful use of colour.
		Likewise, Zhang's lyrical wuxia films confound Western expectations, which may be one reason for the delay.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_08.26.04/film/hero.html (976 words)

	Hero - Shiny Shelf
		It's been argued that wuxia doesn't perform well with western audiences because there is a problem accepting the fantasy elements: clearly this overlooks the popularity of the musical in which characters just as improbably burst into song.
		It is the time of the warring states: Chin (Daoming Chen), leader of one of the seven kingdoms and a man trying to unit the states into a single country, grants audience to Nameless (Jet Li), a warrior who claims to have killed the three most fearsome assassins in the land.
		I'm not sure if the film has the same poignancy for viewers who do not know the history of China but I suspect what is lost in sad horror is made up for in suspense.
	www.shinyshelf.co.uk /article/3/st/918 (701 words)

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		In particular, the type of film represented by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and other films like it is called the Wuxia (Swordplay) film, combining the action and kinetics of the martial arts with the traditions of Chinese opera and classical painting to elevate the swordplay genre to the level of art.
		Although, the totalitarian message of the film is tempered by its historical context, the modern political implications are rather dangerous, especially with the political and international events the United States is involved in.
		Although it is necessary for period films to employ some artistic license for the sake of entertainment, they are grounded to the past by the reality that they are based off of.
	www.mawn.net /moviereviews.htm (1134 words)

	Hero (2002): Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi - PopMatters Film Review
		In all of his films, however, Zhang foregrounds humanity rather than history, though the latter is often the inexorable force weighing upon the former.
		The film's moral is that, sometimes, to achieve peace, you must wage war, an idea that seems lifted from the Bush administration's book of catchphrases.
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
	popmatters.com /film/reviews/h/hero-2004.shtml (1243 words)

	HERO - Zhang Yimou Interview
		Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone’s mind.
		Such as one move of a sword described in a wuxia novel, the strength and the speed, you have plenty of room to imagine, very exciting.
		This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
	www.monkeypeaches.com /hero/interview01.html (1702 words)

	Zhang Ziyi CSC: News: Sept '04
		AFI (American Film Institute) Fest 2004, the longest-running film festival in Los Angeles and one of the most influential film festivals in North America, begins November 4 and runs through November 14, 2004.
		While bustling about from activity to activity at the Toronto Film Festival, Ziyi met with and held an informal and unscheduled meeting with President of the Toronto Film Critics Association Bruce Kirkland, film critic for the Toronto Sun, who presented her with her award.
		Poor editing of the film was a major criticism from critics and viewers both in China and at Cannes.
	csc.ziyi.org /news/sept04.html (2132 words)

	Sifu Linn Runs Down Celestial DVD 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is a retrospective of 12 films starring or in some way connected to Chiba, but never released on video in the United States.
		This is a remake of the Shaw Brothers film “Oath of Death,” which itself is based on an earlier film.
		This is the one film that may not make its date on here as something special is in the works for it.
	www.tombofdvd.com /linnscave2.htm (2248 words)

	Donnie Yen Praises Seven Swords to the Skies - Article - wu-jing.org
		More than a decade ago, it was Tsui Hark who set the trend, and not having done wuxia films for many years, that kind of feeling he had, all the energy that he had been bottling up, was unleashed upon Seven Swords.
		But when filming Seven Swords, I talked to Tsui Hark from the perspective of an apprentice, a junior learning about the art of filmmaking, discussing things that a director would not talk to an actor about.
		Host: In wuxia novels and movies, there are always description of the oneness of the swordmaster and their sword, but often, the actual portrayal is far from such a textual description.
	www.wu-jing.org /News/M04/2005-03-Donnie-Yen-on-The-Seven-Swords.php (1663 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on House of Flying Daggers at Epinions.com
		The film is by no means a turkey or a bomb, but its second half is an increasingly rapid journey down the vortex of sentimentality, mawkishness and downright bad taste.
		The film treads the fine line between art and mass appeal entertainment, pretty much splitting the difference and failing epically at both.
		I would love to speak of the melodrama that subsumes the latter half of the film like an avalanche, but this would entail divulging too much plot, and I respect Zhang Yimou too much to unleash my own verbal daggers on his work.
	www.epinions.com /content_164042083972 (1012 words)

	House of Flying Daggers review
		In a film that is wonderfully deceptive, no one is quite who they seem.
		Much of the film instead is taken up with a triangle of love as Mei is fought over by two men who become bitter rivals for her affections.
		There are many memorable scenes to feast on, from the fantastic cloak dance movements of ‘The Echo Game’ to the thrilling use of the flying daggers in a field ripe for harvest.
	www.fazed.com /movies/house_of_flying_daggers.html (428 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| ENTERTAINMENT > Zhang Yimou’s new film is more than a martial arts epic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Near the end of the Tang Dynasty, police deputies Jin (Kaneshiro) and Leo (Lau) tangle with Mei (Ziyi), a dancer suspected of having ties to a revolutionary faction known as the House of Flying Daggers.
		Best known for his beautiful, sensitive portraits of China, Zhang Yimou explains that he is not an expert action film director, but rather an enthusiastic student of the genre.
		After his first foray into ‘Wuxia’ (martial arts) films with the Academy Award nominated Hero, Yimou found himself hooked on action.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/sept/18/yehey/enter/20040918ent1.html (1076 words)

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