CANNES, France (AP) — “The Assassin” is a rare thing — a martial-arts movie in competition for prizes at Cannes. It’s hardly typical action fare. The film is by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien, who ...

These martial arts movies not only have great performances, direction, and storylines, but their fight scenes keep getting ...

Many of the press materials surrounding The Assassin, art house master Hou Hsiao-hsien’s new wuxia film, point out that the project was years in the making. This is an understatement. The first ...

Los Angeles-based publisher Immortal Studios continues its mission of building out a martial arts-inspired comic book universe (what the company has appropriately dubbed the “Immortal Storyverse”) ...

What's ancient Chinese for "oh so beautiful but oh so dull"? Martial arts fable The Assassin swoops into UK cinemas on the back of sizeable praise – it was a hit on the festival circuit, with Hou ...

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Although Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s “The Assassin” is technically a wuxia film — martial arts, swordplay, the whoosh of arrows in flight — it is much more a film of stillness, quiet, beauty. Set in the waning ...

Wuxia, which is Chinese for “martial hero,” is a genre of Chinese cinema that deals in martial arts, sorcery and grand, heroic feats. Characters often defy gravity, flying through the air in precisely ...

Listen, I’m not going to mince words: Good luck finding out what the hell is going on in The Assassin. Renowned Chinese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s first movie in seven years, which earned him the ...

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