New Old Wuxia Movies

Rating: Null/10 (29 November 2000)

I grew up in Taiwan and now live in the US for almost 20 years. I loved the wuxia movies in childhood which were much different than the Jackie Chan's comic Kung-Fu movies. The old style wuxia typically had a plot more interesting than the Jackie style and lots of times based on the wuxia novels. It's in a way like the western style science fictions with people doing unbelieveable things such as tumbling against gravity, or with special power. As long as it's within the context of the plot, there's nothing wrong with it in my opinion.
There are so many classic wuxia movies by the diseased director King Wu that someone should put them all in a huge DVD collection for a broader audience here in the U.S. In a way director Ang Lee did not create the wuxia style movie, he just introduced to the U.S. audience what have been deemed an art some long time ago already in a far away place.
I am excited that what this movie would revive the interest in wuxia and with modern technology in movie making, I wouldn't mind seeing more bamboo tree top fights as long as it's beautifully choreographed.