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HIDDEN BLADE Review: Cheng Er’s Brooding Period Espionage Mishmash Settles All Deadly Scores

Well Go USA’s press pack for director Cheng Er’s latest film, Hidden Blade, partly states that he’s best known for keeping his audiences guessing. That he does, this time with a story set in the early 1940s with events chronicled before, and afterward, amid the Communist party’s campaign as it’s set against the backdrop of the invasion of imperial Japanese forces. The film weaves in its elements and characters from all angles, flashing forward in its efforts to set things in motion for the audience to begin following our main characters and learn more about them.

Li Weiran’s THE YIN YANG MASTER Acquired By Netflix

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Trailer: Li Weiran’s THE YIN YANG MASTER Mitigates Conflict Between Two Worlds

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Between two films that bare the same title, director Li Weiran’s incarnation of The Yin Yang Master takes its cues from the popular mobile game.

THE WEARY POET: Take Another Look At Xu Haofeng’s New Wuxia Film

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Last month saw the emergence of new stills for yet another in what hopefully won’t be as elusive in feature films as was the quietly released The Hidden Sword. Enter The Weary Poet from director Xu Haofeng and with a cast that lists Zhou Xun and actor Chen Kun in their first film together in six years.

Xu Haofeng Is In Production With A New Sword Epic, And I Am Beside Myself!

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I’ve tried my darndest to keep up with director Xu Haofeng in the last several years ever since I caught the fever with The Final Master. I’ve seen most of his films at least once, save for The Hidden Blade which, last I checked, came out last year, and frankly, you could knock me over with a feather if you told me that film was released. I hadn’t a single clue about it following the film’s teaser as there was no official trailer at least I knew of.