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- One-armed Swordsman (1967) Director: Chang Cheh. It’s difficult to underestimate the influence Chang Cheh’s classic would have on the Chinese martial arts film.
- Dragon Inn (1967) Director: King Hu. If you’re familiar with the work of the great Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang, you’ll have caught snatches of King Hu’s wuxia masterpiece illuminating the fumbled passes of a picture palace’s dying days in Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003).
- A Touch of Zen (1971) Director: King Hu. Not only one of the great wuxias but one of the great Chinese films, King Hu’s magisterial, three-hour-plus epic A Touch of Zen was the first of its kind to take a prize at Cannes.
- Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1979) Director: John Woo. Guns weren’t always John Woo’s weapon of choice. Before he became the dove-bothering godfather of the new wave of Hong Kong action cinema in the 80s and 90s with the likes of A Better Tomorrow (1986) and The Killer (1989), Woo earned his stripes on the roster of Golden Harvest as one of the studio’s go-to guys, directing over a dozen features for the studio in its heyday.
- Hero (2002) Zhang Yimou’s “Hero” starring Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung, Chen Daoming, Zhang Ziyi and Donnie Yen is perhaps the zenith of all the previous films in this list.
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) In terms of worldwide recognition and success, this was the big one. Based on the fourth novel of the same name in the wuxia book series “Crane Iron Pentalogy”, by Chinese novelist Wang Dulu, Ang Lee wanted a martial arts version of “Sense and Sensibility”.
- Come Drink with Me (1966) Cheng Pei-Pei plays a highly-skilled fighter investigating the capture of her brother. The first half plays out in what would become one of the genre’s most iconic locations; an inn, as she encounters an assortment of increasingly powerful villains, building to an impeccably choreographed finale.
- Reign of Assassins (2010) Directing legend John Woo produced and co-directed this stylish tale of an assassin who is trying to escape her former life. Starring Michelle Yeoh, Jung Woo-sung, Wang Xueqi, Barbie Shu, Shawn Yue and Kelly Lin, the action is exquisitely choreographed by Stephen Tung Wei and features a plot that blends romance, thrills and humour in with quite a few twists!
- Judgment of an Assassin (1977) After the Golden Axe clan sees 21 of its members murdered by an unknown masked assailant, a traveling swordsman is apprehended and brought to trial as a suspect, held captive in a casket lined with huge nails until his court date.
- Last Hurrah For Chivalry (1979) If the sentence, “A martial arts movie directed by John Woo” causes you to start salivating, your anticipation will be pretty well rewarded on a viewing of Last Hurrah For Chivalry, a film starring Damian Lau and Wei Pai that Woo also wrote and produced.
- Duel to the Death (1983) The contrast between Chinese and Japanese martial arts, and the moral codes that they embody, is a common trope brought up in many wuxia and kung fu films.
- The Bride With White Hair (1993) Those with a taste for the grandly operatic and romantic in their swordsman films will find much to enjoy in Ronny Yu’s The Bride With White Hair, a movie that paints with very broad strokes a portrait of forbidden love, betrayal, and regret.
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi. 199 votes. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is an epic martial arts film that takes viewers on a journey through ancient China.
- Hero. Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung. 259 votes. In this visually arresting martial arts epic set in ancient China, an unnamed fighter (Jet Li) is being honored for defeating three of the king's most dangerous enemies.
- House of Flying Daggers. Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Zhang Ziyi. 212 votes. In the visually stunning martial-arts epic House of Flying Daggers, set in 9th century China, a secret rebel organization, known as the House of Flying Daggers, wages war against the corrupt government.
- A Touch of Zen. Feng Hsu, Chun Shih, Pai Ying. 54 votes. Ku Shen Chai (Chun Shih), an unmotivated artist in his early 30s, still lives with his mother, but he is shaken from his comfortable rut by the arrival of beautiful and mysterious Yang Hui-ching (Feng Hsu), a princess on the run from Gen.
Oct 24, 2022 · The martial arts action hero is producing, directing and starring the film, which is an adaptation of the classic wuxia novel 'Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils.
3 days ago · Based on the wuxia novel, The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants, Cat Vs. Rat is an exciting film that blends comedy and martial arts. The film gets its name from the given nicknames of its main characters — Zin Ciu, a.k.a. "Royal Cat" (Adam Cheng), and Baak Juktong, a.k.a. "Brocade-Coated Rat" (Fu Sheng).
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Apr 7, 2022 · Wang starred in nearly 90 films most of which were Wuxia films, the genre of chivalrous martial arts masters. He also wrote and directed about a dozen movies, several of which he starred in as...
