Wuxia

A modern version of this genre is called Wuxia and features the same mythical Chinese martial art fantasy, but ads the wire harness for special effects.

Audioholics Reviews and News from Audioholics 2010

Long before the Wuxia films like CTHD, Big Trouble helped introduce Chinese fantasy tropes to American cinema.

Friday YouTube: Trailer for Big Trouble in Little China 2009

This film is like a Wuxia Harry Potter, you're acting as if that's a genre.

Badass Japanese Movie Trailer for The Last Airbender | /Film 2010

"Seeing a Wuxia film in New York is almost impossible at this point," said Brian Belovarac of Janus Films , the New York-based foreign and classic film distributor, alluding to the Chinese martial-arts genre films that remain an Asian Film Festival specialty.

Martial Art-House Steve Dollar 2011

If you look at the second book I'm doing for Angry Robot, for instance - I had a lot of fun with it because I took American Noir, and I took Wuxia, the Chinese martial arts genre, and I sort of mixed them up.

Interview: Lavie Tidhar Talks About 'World SF' 2009

Wuxia novels are huge in the Chinese-speaking world.

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Wuxia has a long history and is pretty culturally significant due to its sheer popularity across all age groups (in Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love, the main couple were working on a wuxia series together - chivalric martial arts serials set in ancient China).

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Jane Austen period piece, Civil War Drama, Wuxia epic, Marvel Superhero and now a gay love story.

From Page to Screen Sharon Bakar 2006

Wuxia, the Chinese genre novels and, more recently, Korean comics, that inspire films like Hero and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, are almost the exact opposite of the Incredibles paradigm: anyone can be a super. it just takes dedication and training for years and years.

Stay in your place, you stupid normals: The politics of The Incredibles 2005

In less than eight months the water level would rise almost six hundred feet, submerging much of the area surrounding the Yangtze's three dramatic gorges: Qutang, Wuxia, and Xiling.

A River Rising 2003