This week, fans got to see a brand new trailer featurette to help promote the upcoming September 24, 2013 3D premiere of The Wrath Of Vajra. There aren’t any subtitles available for the featurette, but according to several translational efforts from people on my end, it shows the following with director Law Wing Cheong discussing the three opponents lead actor Xing Yu faces in the film, played by Jiang Baocheng, Nam “Poppin” Hyun-Joon and Steve Yoo Seung-Joon.
Yoo goes on to describe his character saying “My character has very strong beliefs and will do anything for them.” with Law adding “Yoo’s character is very interesting. He wants Iron Curtain and Crazy Ape to beat Vajra but at the same time he’d rather them lose so he can fight Vajra himself.” Yu shares his interpretation of the rivalry discussing how both his and Yoo’s character are, in a way, “princes and geniuses” in their respective arts.
A little later, action director Peng Zhang describes the final fight and how it symbolizes the excellence of both characters in their fighting abilities with their ring taking place on a high platform. Later, Cheong goes on to discuss Yoo‘s fighting style, coined loosely as “Matchless Flowing Chops” (I guess a better translation is required) which is described as very powerful, opposite Yu‘s style used in the film loosely translated as “17 Seconds Absolute Death” which he learned from a Shaolin Monk after escaping the Japanese death cult. Yu goes on to describe the 17 seconds style saying that it expresses speed and shows the upper most limits of martial arts; Ironically, his character also never finished learning the style, which could increase the intensity and danger in the final fight with Yoo‘s character.
The featurette, which was released Monday on MTime can be viewed below the newly released trailer. The film is slated for a wider release, including in North America from Well Go USA, following its multi-territorial acquisition at Cannes over the summer.
SYNOPSIS:
In the 1930s China, a Japanese cult called The Temple of Hades was ordered to cooperate with the Japanese military, taking as many young children from poor families as possible, to train and turn into lethal killing machines in service of the Emperor. Vajra, who was one of the children taken into captivity, was forced to fight for food, accidentally killing his brother in the process. As the years passed and Vajra grew older, he became one of the temple’s most gifted killers. Vajra eventually escapes to China and joins Shaolin, where he receives spiritual enlightenment and vows to protect China from the minions of the powerful cult that made him as strong and deadly as he is.
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