HK director Chan has big hopes for debut martial arts film1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHong Kong director Peter Chan has high hopes for his first foray into martial arts cinema: he wants it to be a milestone in the venerable genre.
Beautifully filmed in Yunnan, southwest China, “Wu Xia” – screened out of competition at Cannes – boasts an all-star cast led by Donnie Yen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Wei Tang and kung fu movie legend Jimmy Wang.
It takes its title from the Mandarin term for the martial arts genre, which has undergone “a huge evolution from one form to another” and which is forever reinventing itself, Chan said on Saturday.
“What we are trying to do with this film – as much as we can, to the best of our ability – is to hopefully be in that cycle of evolution and be one step ahead of our contemporaries in trying to do something that we think we could be proud of and that could extend this genre for another 30 or 40 years.”
