Xu Haofeng
Nacimiento : , Beijing - China
Historia
Xu Haofeng was born in Beijing and began to learn Xingyiquan, one of the major “internal” styles of Chinese martial arts, in 1987. After studying fine arts for five years, he went to the Department of Film Directing in Beijing Film Academy and graduated in 1997. Unlike his peers who were eager to make waves in the newly discovered film market, Xu returned home and studied Taoism and the history of martial arts from two eighty-year-old masters for eight years. In 2006, his publication "Shiqu de wulin" (In Search of the Lost Martial Arts World) aroused nationwide attention. He continued to write novels and non-fiction about the ecology of the martial arts sphere in the Republic of China. In 2011, his first film "The Sword Identity" had its world premiere at the 68th Venice Film Festival and this marked the reincarnation of the Chinese martial arts film. One year later, his sophomore film "Judge Archer" premiered at the 7th Rome Film Festival. Xu insists in presenting unusual values in traditional Chinese culture in an age celebrating outrageous slapstick comedies and restless performing monkeys, and he investigates whether people could live in an alternative way, other than following the conventional circle of life.
Screenplay
Set in 1920s Tianjin, northern China, and centres on the rivalry between the son of a martial arts master and his most talented apprentice. When the old master dies, the two face off to take over his prominent martial arts academy. But rather than obey the rule of settling disputes behind closed doors, they take their fight to the street.
Director
Set in 1920s Tianjin, northern China, and centres on the rivalry between the son of a martial arts master and his most talented apprentice. When the old master dies, the two face off to take over his prominent martial arts academy. But rather than obey the rule of settling disputes behind closed doors, they take their fight to the street.
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Editor
The widow of a famed general teams up with an impostor posing as her late husband and schemes to steal the secrets of an elderly master swordsman. Their plans are complicated by the master's grandson, who is himself torn between his filial duty and the affections of his adopted sister.
Novel
The widow of a famed general teams up with an impostor posing as her late husband and schemes to steal the secrets of an elderly master swordsman. Their plans are complicated by the master's grandson, who is himself torn between his filial duty and the affections of his adopted sister.
Screenplay
The widow of a famed general teams up with an impostor posing as her late husband and schemes to steal the secrets of an elderly master swordsman. Their plans are complicated by the master's grandson, who is himself torn between his filial duty and the affections of his adopted sister.
Director
The widow of a famed general teams up with an impostor posing as her late husband and schemes to steal the secrets of an elderly master swordsman. Their plans are complicated by the master's grandson, who is himself torn between his filial duty and the affections of his adopted sister.
Writer
La lanza significa el poder político, la flecha ambición personal. ¿Qué pasa cuando los dos chocan?
Director
La lanza significa el poder político, la flecha ambición personal. ¿Qué pasa cuando los dos chocan?
Editor
Un luchador de Wing Chun tiene como objetivo cumplir el último deseo de su maestro, la apertura de una escuela de artes marciales en Tianjin, epicentro de la lucha china en ese momento. Para lograr su misión, el luchador deberá derrotar a ocho escuelas de artes marciales, lo que le llevará a convertirse en un peón del poder. De esta manera, deberá elegir entre lo correcto y el cumplimiento de los deseos de su amo.
Director
Un luchador de Wing Chun tiene como objetivo cumplir el último deseo de su maestro, la apertura de una escuela de artes marciales en Tianjin, epicentro de la lucha china en ese momento. Para lograr su misión, el luchador deberá derrotar a ocho escuelas de artes marciales, lo que le llevará a convertirse en un peón del poder. De esta manera, deberá elegir entre lo correcto y el cumplimiento de los deseos de su amo.
Writer
Un luchador de Wing Chun tiene como objetivo cumplir el último deseo de su maestro, la apertura de una escuela de artes marciales en Tianjin, epicentro de la lucha china en ese momento. Para lograr su misión, el luchador deberá derrotar a ocho escuelas de artes marciales, lo que le llevará a convertirse en un peón del poder. De esta manera, deberá elegir entre lo correcto y el cumplimiento de los deseos de su amo.
Story
Cuando un joven monje se ve obligado a abandonar su monasterio empobrecido usa sus extraordinarias habilidades en las artes marciales para sobrevivir en el mundo exterior. En busca de un mentor, se cruza con un maestro de Kung Fu que está en posesión del Libro de los Secretos y le revela el arte perdido de la letal técnica del puño del mono. Pero el libro es codiciado por un siniestro padre y su hijo lo que hará que el monje se encuentre inmerso en una batalla mortal para proteger tanto el libro como a su maestro.
Screenplay
Un relato sobre las artes marciales y el alma de la civilización china. Dos maestros de kung fu, Ip Man (Tony Leung), el hombre que entrenó al mítico Bruce Lee, y la bella Gong Er (Zhang Ziyi) se reúnen en la ciudad natal de Ip Man en vísperas de la invasión japonesa de 1936. El padre de Gong Er, un gran maestro de renombre, también viaja a esa ciudad para la ceremonia de su jubilación, que tendrá lugar en el legendario burdel El pabellón de oro. Historia de traición, honor y amor que se desarrolla en la tumultuosa época que siguió a la caída de la última dinastía china, un tiempo de caos y guerra, pero también una época de oro de las artes marciales en China.
Writer
During the Ming Dynasty one man will request a competition when his weapon is rejected. After a series of fights he is determined to prove his sword is invincible.
Director
During the Ming Dynasty one man will request a competition when his weapon is rejected. After a series of fights he is determined to prove his sword is invincible.
"Mayi, the protagonist in this strikingly stylised debut ... works as a removals man for a company belonging to a relative. In his spare time, he drinks and plays cards with his colleagues. At a certain point he sees an opportunity to find his way into the immediate vicinity of the beautiful Hudie and his obsession won't stop when it becomes clear that she receives a lot of male visitors. His desires and ambitions put him on the path of minor white lies, with dramatic consequences." - IFFR
Screenplay
Another wuxia tale from Xu Haofeng, this one set against the backdrop of a rebellion during the Yuan Dynasty.
Director
Another wuxia tale from Xu Haofeng, this one set against the backdrop of a rebellion during the Yuan Dynasty.
