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More than four years after it opened in Asia, Daniel Lee's 14 Blades is finally coming to America, marking the return of Donnie Yen as a martial arts hero. Right off hand, I have no idea why it took so...

Wong Kar Wai's martial arts bio-pic of Ip Man, The Grandmaster, took home seven awards including Best Film at the 8th Asian Film Awards, hosted in Macau last night. Wong was named Best Director, while Zhang Ziyi collected the Best...

For her directorial debut, mainland actress Zhao Wei employs a vivacious cast of mostly unknown youngsters for a spirited adaptation of Xin Yiwu's best-selling novel. The resulting film has proved a box office sensation in China, despite major dramatic missteps...

Popular Chinese actress Vicki Zhao Wei (Painted Skin 1 & 2, Red Cliff 1 & 2, Shaolin Soccer) is enjoying great success with her directorial debut, So Young. The film surpassed Stephen Chow's Journey to the West in advanced sales,...

Remember the HK martial arts films from the early 90s? Well, they're back. The first time I picked up some really obvious signs was when watching Tracing Shadows, but with 14 Blades I think the verdict is definitive. The year...

[Stefan's review of 14 Blades originally ran back in January and with the film now screening at Action Fest I've finally had a chance to see it myself and I've got to say I agree wholeheartedly. Overplotted and pretty clumsy...

There is not much in the way of new footage but it is nearly a full minute longer than that previous trailer and that has to count for something. It plays out more like a music video than anything. Still....

Not much in the way of new footage, but at least Kate Tsui has managed to escape from being labeled as the "villain with the menacing cleavage," with some action of her own - and since we're there, Tsui plays...

(And another film with no ScreenAnarchy review. Allow me to put that right.) The Longest Night in Shanghai could have been a disaster. It's a formula rom-com at heart, yet another riff on Pygmalion where a glossy pan-Asian cast is...

Ohh... pretty. Sina just released five new posters for Daniel Lee's upcoming Ming dynasty actioner 錦衣衛 (14 Blades), featuring the top five characters - Donnie Yen, Zhao Wei, Wu Chun of Taiwanese boy band Fahrenheit, Qi Yuwu and Kate Tsui....

If the first teaser we posted a few days ago was more or less about setting the mood, and announcing with big badass fanfare that Donnie Yen is back, the longer trailer which was released today is filled with money...

[I know, I know, three updates in two days? But at last this is a good one, courtesy of the fine folks over at Mtime.谢谢!]Although the only piece of video related to Daniel Lee's upcoming actioner 錦衣衛 (14 Blades) is that...