HOME TRAILERS 2013 SCHEDULE PODCASTS REVIEWS POSTERS INTERVIEWS SHORT FILMS NEWS FEEDS ABOUT APPS

MOVIE TRAILERS

Watch: First Teaser Trailer for Peter Chan's 'Swordsmen' Film 'Wu Xia'

by Alex Billington
May 11, 2011
Source: Twitch

"Liu Jinxi - What kind of man are you?" There's a film that's premiering at the Cannes Film Fest this month from Chinese director Peter Chan that's called Wu Xia, or just Swordsmen translated to English. The martial arts action-drama stars Takeshi Kaneshiro, Wei Tang and Donnie Yen (who recently appeared in Legend of the Fist as Chen Zhen) as a sinful martial arts expert wants to start a new tranquil life, only to be hunted by a determined detective and his former master. Twitch recently found the first teaser trailer for Wu Xia and it kicks quite a bit of ass, can't wait to see this in Cannes. It does have English subtitles - enjoy!

Watch the first teaser trailer for Peter Chan's new film Wu Xia (aka Swordsmen):

In the late Qing Dynasty, LIU Jin-xi is a papermaker and father of two sons who lives a seemingly normal life with his family in a remote village. However, the arrival of a detective threatens to tear them apart...

Swordsmen, originally Wu Xia in Mandarin, is directed by popular Chinese filmmaker Peter Chan, of films like Comrades: Almost a Love Story, The Love Letter, Perhaps Love and The Warlords from 2007. The script was written by Aubrey Lam. This is premiering at the Cannes Film Festival as a Midnight Screening. It does not have a US distributor yet, but we'll keep an eye out and will let you know once it does. Look good?

Update: The Weinstein Company just bought this film today. They titled it Dragon instead of Swordsmen.

Filed under Foreign Film, To Watch, Trailers

From around the web:

rocKKicker

not really into it, sorry.
- http://www.firstshowing.net Alex Billington
  
  No need to apologize! Can't like every film and every genre of course.
  - rocKKicker
    
    i know, but honestly i wanted to like it. i swear!
    - JL
      
      HAHAHAHAHA! Like fail.
      - http://themeforest.net/user/Twincore/portfolio?ref=Twincore Darmin
        
        Maybe I should see the whole movie, so I can give a definite opinion hahaha ..
anpostteller

I really like the look of this, hope the story is as good as the fight choreography and overall style in this trailer. Though unless it's terribly bad, I'm sure I won't mind... Can't wait to see more!
lego

donnie yen, takeshi kaneshiro, 'nuff said
Brandon

Strange trailer, but with a cast like that I'll check it out.
Lebowski

this looks pretty fun, but that slow-mo boxing scene appears to be a direct lift from sherlock holmes
http://twitter.com/bubbatwo420 Matt Schmieding

Picked up by Weinstein already, love the x-ray vision impacts
Wil

Why is that when the Weinsteins purchase a Martial Arts film, they feel the need to change the title, especially to something as generic as Dragon? Why can' they just leave it? I just hope they don't hack it up like other Martial Arts films they purcahsed in the past.
- Brandon
  
  Because the Weinsteins are Hollywood.
http://twitter.com/DwainIBe DwainIBe

Was that tooth in 3-D?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JEOOYMKTUKVIFHUAYNQ7YOTYLQ Rey

hmm.. well, i guess I'll have to wait and see it before i criticize it, right?
Richie G

That whole x-ray thing is one of my biggest peeves with shows like csi, but for some reason I think its the element that makes me want to see this movie most here. Looks good, I'll have to check it out. Thanks Alex
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9emWB_rrMt0 Crapola

I thought it was going to be another mystical floaty nonsense searching trailer, but it looked super bandana wearing teddy bear on a flaming harley davidson rolling through the streets of Calcutta awesome.
Phil

Where is the diversity in this film? Why is the film all Chinese? The movie "Thor" had a black and an asian in a story about Germanic gods. Where are all the pro-diversity folks. Or does diversity not apply when it's not about European peoples?
- Eien
  
  Unless you are trolling, we always have plenty of stories about European peoples. Sit down.