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Director Peter Chan blows 1.8m yuan to fly "Wu Xia" to Cannes

Hong Kong director Peter Chan revealed that he is shelling out 1.8 million yuan (S$344,444) to charter a plane to transport the first print of his new martial arts film "Wu Xia" from Thailand to France for the 64th Cannes Film Festival.

"To save time on transit and customs, we hired a plane to ensure that the print will reach Cannes on May 13," said Chan in a press statement on Tuesday.

The print is getting
better treatment than even some of the stars attending the prestigious film festival and it isn't even competing in any category!

However, Chan expressed that "Wu Xia", the only Chinese film participating at this year's Cannes Film Festival, is more than just your average martial arts flick.

"Cannes is the starting point to bring the wu xia (martial arts chivalry film genre) to the world.

"This is my first wu xia film and I hope I can, starting with Cannes, bring a completely brand new world of wu xia onto the international stage," said the 48-year-old director.
Wu Xia mayhem

"Wu Xia" may well be the right film to reinvent the wu xia film genre and propel it forward.

The US$20 million (S$24.9 million) film tells the tale of Detective Xu Bai-jiu (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who tries to unravel the mystery of how an unassuming paper maker Liu Jin-xi (Donnie Yen) managed to slay Yan Dong Sheng, a murderer on a killing spree.

His investigations inadvertently put Liu and his wife Ah Yu (Tang Wei) in a collision course with the leader (60s wu xia star Jimmy Wang) of the 72 Demons, a clan of vicious killers.

Unlike other wu xia films that have come before, "Wu Xia" features slower fight scenes that emphasise how each strike serves to incapacitate a human being, via cutaways showing the internal effects of the strike on the human body.

Detective Xu pieces together the results of post mortems and investigations of the scene of the fight to figure out what Liu did as well as uncover clues about who Liu really is. 

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