Wuxia Reviews

Superlative - everyone should see this

Great, a must-see if you like the genre

Good, a decent example of the genre

Watchable, but only for serious genre fans

Unwatchable

Half stars could have gone either way depending on mood.

Movie Name / Release Year	Summary	Date	Reviewer
Legend Of The Bat (1978)	Entertaining fantasy	2003-05-10	Simon
Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (1972)	All the makings of a cult classic	2003-04-27	Simon
Twelve Gold Medallions (1970)	Superlative	2003-04-13	Simon
The Jade Bow (1966)	Not a bad effort	2003-04-05	Simon
Temple Of The Red Lotus (1965)	Highly recommended	2003-04-05	Simon
The Valiant Ones (1975)	More innovative action scenes from the master	2003-03-07	Simon
The Enigmatic Case (1980)	Lost Gem	2003-03-07	Simon
Dragon From Russia (1990)	medium-level classic	2003-03-01	Simon
To Kill With Intrigue (1977)	Blah	2003-02-23	Simon
Clans Of Intrigue (1977)	Wonderfully convoluted wu xia murder mystery	2003-02-16	Simon
Come Drink With Me (1966)	The one that started it all	2003-01-11	Simon
Killer Clans (1976)	Difficult to follow but enjoyable	2003-01-07	Simon
A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)	Seminal work of sublime beauty	2002-12-01	Simon
Ashes Of Time (1994)	A work of art	2002-04-14	Simon
Black Panther Warriors (1993)	Buy it... it's a work of genius!	2002-04-06	Simon
Holy Weapon (1993)	wilfully convoluted	2002-03-03	Simon
Legend Of The Mountain (1979)	Better than most other movies	2002-02-03	Simon
Legend Of Zu (2001)	Sensory spectacle	2001-11-17	Simon
All Men Are Brothers: Blood Of The Leopard (1993)	A fun 90's wu xia romp	2001-10-16	Simon
Kung Fu Vs. Acrobatic (1990)	Mostly Harmless	2001-08-02	Simon
The Assassin (1993)	Cheap but interesting	2001-06-27	Simon
The Sword (1980)	Classic new-wave	2001-06-02	Simon
Green Snake (1993)	One of Tsui Hark's most ambitious films	2001-05-27	Simon
What Price Survival (1994)	Visually beautiful, rather impenetrable	2001-05-27	Simon
Dragon Inn 1992 (1992)	One of the early 90's best films	2001-05-27	Simon
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)	Very well rounded	2001-05-27	Simon
Butterfly And Sword (1993)	Some of the best early 90's wire-fu choreography	2000-10-16	Simon
Handsome Siblings (1992)	One of the lesser new wave wu xia films	2000-10-16	Simon