From Jackie Chan to 'The Matrix,' Jet Li to 'Bourne Ultimatum,' these movies will have you kung fu fighting
Akira Kurosawa's classic, 3 1/2-hour, black-and-white film is a beautifully rendered, Oscar-nominated masterwork that not only broke ground for all the martial arts movies that followed in its path, but Westerns as well. The story of a group of sword-wielding samurai defending a bandit-tormented village was the inspiration for the gun-slinging"The Magnificent Seven.
Michelle Yeoh in the movie that made her well-known in mainstream America, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."There's a sub-genre of Chinese martial arts films called wuxia that is set in ancient times in a land where warriors can soar at will. They are far more poetic and elegant than their smash-and-punch counterparts and Ang Lee's"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," starring Chow Yun-fat and Michelle Yeoh and the winner of four Oscars, is a sumptuous take on the form.
Master Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai tried his hand at a martial arts film and the result is a rapturously beautiful take on the form. Based on the life of the legendary Ip Man , it is better and more artful than any of the films in the separate"Ip Man" franchise even though those are all entertaining.Similarly sumptuous is this epic, Zhang Yimou period piece starring three legends of Chinese cinema: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Maggie Cheung. An absolutely ravishing film.
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