Respected Chinese Director Takes to Martial Arts
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Top Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou is tackling martial arts subjects these days with such enthusiasm that one critic swears that knives, swords and spears fly through his latest film with the force of "fatal Frisbees."
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BEIJING, July 17 -- Duan Yihe, 61, was known in Jinan city as a serious man, a quietly efficient official at the pinnacle of a long career in local Communist Party politics.
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Zhang Yimou&#39;s &quot;Hero&quot; is beautiful and beguiling, a martial arts extravaganza defining the styles and lives of its fighters within Chinese tradition.
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The Chinese call them &quot;wuxia,&quot; which translates to chivalry in battle, but now refers to movies in which dazzling martial arts are employed to preserve honor, most often in historical or fantastical settings.
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Chinese director Lou Ye said Wednesday he plans to defy a government order banning him from making films for five years, a ruling prompted by his decision to screen a movie at the Cannes Film Festival before it cleared censors in China.
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The director He Ping's panoramic epic is the latest Chinese answer to the American western film genre: martial arts meets Marshal Will Kane.
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Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino, a fan of 1970s kung fu movies, reportedly plans to make an action film shot entirely in Mandarin Chinese.
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Atop a replica ancient  fortress outside Beijing, Hong Kong filmmaker Peter Chan  directs Japanese actor Takeshi Kaneshiro in Mandarin.
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If "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" opened mainstream Americans' eyes to the martial arts epic, director Zhang Yimou may be about to grab their hearts and minds.
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China's national team basketball star Liu Wei, aiming to become Asia's first guard to make it in the NBA, is getting high accolades from the coaches of the Sacramento Kings with whom he is trying out.
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TORONTO -- Zhang Yimou&#39;s masterful film Hero brought Jet Li and Donnie Yen together for the first time in a decade. For martial arts fans, that is history in the making.
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A Chinese actress and director has become one of the world's most widely-read bloggers with her tales of daily life.
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From China, courtey of Quentin Tarantino, comes a colorful martial-arts spectacle starring three very cool actors. By Robert Horton.
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Sony Pictures has set up a joint venture television and film co-production unit in China, taking advantage of a loosening of restrictions on the tightly controlled industry.
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He confirms Chinese are diluting traditional Buddhist culture and the monks' role.
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Kung-fu crazy Quentin Tarantino&#39;s next kicking film will need subtitles - unless you&#39;re a dab hand at Chinese. The bonkers-but-brilliant film director is bigging-up his love of 70s martial arts flicks by filming the whole shebang in Mandarin.
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With the success of &quot;Kill Bill&quot; and the rise of the kung-fu film genre, Quentin Tarantino has planned a full-out martial arts movie as homage to the &quot;chopsocky&quot; kung-fu films of the seventies.