Tag: wuershan

Releasing in North American theaters this weekend is Mojin: The Lost Legend, the latest film from Wuershan, director of Painted Skin: The Resurrection. While the Painted Skin sequel was a bit overwrought and tragic for its own good, it looked pretty great on...

Even though I like my share of stylish Eastern martial arts period pieces from time to time, it's not exactly the most dashing or innovative genre one can imagine. Sure the cinematography improves and the fight choreography gets 1-upped all...

The lives of three outcasts sort of converge in an effort to explain their seemingly unrelated pasts and the connection they all have with a mysteriously powerful weapon.   The Butcher, The Chef and the Swordsman (BCS for the purposes...

THE BUTCHER, THE CHEF AND THE SWORDSMAN should be a film to make me very happy. I spend a lot of my column inches here at ScreenAnarchy complaining about the current state of Chinese Cinema, its overwhelming predilection towards...

When a fat, vulgar and none-too-bright butcher glimpses the woman of his dreams, the lovely Mei who conjures visions of peach blossoms and naughty sex, there is nothing that is going to stop him from making her his own,...

Kung fu comedy is coming back to Toronto and now is the time to put aside any thought of any previous trailers you may have seen for Wuershan's The Butcher, The Chef And The Swordsman. Those lo-res, Chinese mainland videos...