'Wu Xia'
The full trailer has been released for 'Wu Xia', a new reinterpretation of the classic Hong Kong martial arts flick 'One-Armed Swordsman'. Directed by Peter Chan, the film stars Donnie Yen as a retired killer who is is being hunted down by a dedicated detective, played by Takeshi Kaneshiro.
Synopsis
A village in Yunnan province, southern China, 1917. Liu Jinxi (Donnie Yen) lives a quiet life with his wife Yu (Tang Wei) and their two young sons Xiaotian and Fangzheng. Liu runs a paper mill, and the village has prospered since he arrived. One day two fugitives arrive demanding money and, after a long fight with Liu, both end up dead. The bigger one is identified as Yan Dongsheng, an especially powerful fighter.
Liu becomes a local hero but detective Xu Baijiu (Takeshi Kaneshiro), an expert in physiology and pressure points, is puzzled how a seemingly ordinary man like Liu was able to defeat two hardened fugitives - and by using specialised martial-arts techniques. He discovers Liu arrived in the village five years earlier, when Yu was already pregnant with her first son by her first husband, and was adopted into the Liu clan. Liu's original name was rumoured to be Gong, and his father a butcher in Jingzhou. Liu finally tells Xu that he was actually a convicted killer and spent 10 years in Jingzhou prison. But Xu, who's noticed that Liu is surrounded by a powerful qi force-field, is still suspicious, and when an associate (Jiang Wu) reports back from his investigations in Jingzhou, he realises Liu is actually Tang Long, second-in-command of the murderous 72 Demons gang and the favourite son of its Tangut leader (Jimmy Wang) and his wife (Kara Hui).
'Wu Xia' opens across Hong Kong on the 28th July, 2011.