Chinese martial arts films

In the cultural setting of incorporating cultural heritage to draw global appeal, both films not only manifest a mentality of cultural relocation to the lost glory of ancient China, but also enrich cultural presentation of sensations in wuxia movies. Such strategy explains how wuxia films with Chinese elements embarked on the global stage and attracted the Western exoticized gaze.

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Zhang Yimou’s Hero presents an action hero, yet in a slightly different cinematic mode than that of Stephen Chow-directed Shaolin Soccer to blend myth and modernity. In Yimou’s martial arts cinema, Jet Li-starred Nameless hero uses martial arts to combat the king’s adversaries, including Donnie Yen-starred Long Sky, Maggie Cheungstarred Flying Snow and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai-starred Broken Sword in the service to the Qin Dynasty (221 BC – 207 BC).

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