There is an exquisite scene not far into the film where the various students are eavesdropping on Li Qin and her maidens as they appear in a field with the maidens twirling and dancing on the end of what look like long trains of purple silk that trail down from the sky as Li Qin gracefully descends from above.Ĭhing creates amazing sequence like two of the women fighting in the forest, dancing and flying through the air in a series of graceful movements, twirls of silk and flights along on top of their swords. This is a world where the moon fills most of the sky, where fields and misty lakes come in an airbrushed hyper-real beauty that make you gasp. The enhanced budgets and access to CGI give Ching Siu-Tung the ability to create a fantasy world that his films back in the 80s and 90s never did. Bi Yao (Meng Meiqi) and Zhang Xiaofan (Xiao Zhan) Tian Linger (Tang Yixin) As soon as we reach the school/monastery, this becomes a slapstick scene watching pieces of food bouncing from one person’s mouth to the next in a slow-motion juggle. Ching’s visuals are breath-taking from the opening moments where the credits play out against a montage of scenes with the Dazhu Peak students flying through the clouds and conducting romantic moves in mid-air. Despite this now being another whole era, he adapts to the modern Chinese-made Wu Xia film like he had never left and brings the consummate skill and expertise he did to the classic films back in the 1980s/90s heyday. Jade Dynasty was Ching Siu-Tung’s first film as director in eight years since The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011).
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(A full list of Ching Siu-Tung’s films as director is at the bottom of the page). In the 2000s, Ching seemed to step away from the director’s chair and preferred to spend his time as an action choreographer with Zhang Yimou on Hero, House of Flying Daggers and Curse of the Golden Flower (2006), even Uwe Boll on In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007). (For a more detailed listing, see Wu Xia Cinema).Ĭhing Siu-Tung was a director during the heyday of the 1980s Wu Xia film where he made classics such as A Chinese Ghost Story and its sequels, Swordsman II (1992) and The Heroic Trio (1993). This saw a body of new imitators such as The Banquet/Legend of the Black Scorpion (2006), Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010) and sequels, Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2011), The Monkey King (2014) and sequels, Zhongkui: Snow Crystal and the Dark Crystal (2015), League of Gods (2016), Sword Master (2016) and others, which reimagined the older films on epic budgets that made a virtue of lush cinematography, costuming and set dressings, while reworking the flying wirework with CGI. Traditional Wu Xia died away at the end of the 1990s with the handover of Hong Kong back to China only to undergo a lush, dynamic revival a few years later with Chinese-backed works like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Zhang Yimou’s Hero (2002) and House of Flying Daggers (2004). Wu Xia was a genre created in Hong Kong in the 1960s and popularised during the 1980s with wildly fantastical films such as Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983), Mr Vampire (1985) and A Chinese Ghost Story (1987). Now however he must deal with the forces of the Demon Cult. Zhang is placed into the tournament as a replacement fighter for Dazhu Peak and surprises everybody when he ends up becoming a champion thanks to the stick. The girl Bi Yao comes and connives Zhang in an effort to try and take the stick from him. This now emerges and takes the form of a stick that is energised by his blood and acts to defend him. While Zhang was abandoned as a child, a master placed a secret bead inside his head. The schools are about to hold the tournament they do every sixty years where the pupils compete. Zhang tries to practice kung fu like the others at the school but is treated as a dogsbody. Zhang Xiaofan is an orphan that have been adopted as a child by the Dazhu Peak school after his whole village was slaughtered by the Demon Cult.
There are seven mountain peaks each containing a different kung fu school.
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