The Assassin, directed by Taiwanese auteur Hou Hsiao-Hsien, is an extraordinary addition to the Chinese wuxia or swordfighting genre. Set in the dying days of the Tang Dynasty, it tells the story of ...
Cantonese-dialect cinema was descending towards oblivion when its fortunes were temporarily buoyed by the release of the martial arts epic Paragon of Sword & Knife in December 1967 and its "Concluding ...