Los Angeles-based publisher Immortal Studios continues its mission of building out a martial arts-inspired comic book universe (what the company has appropriately dubbed the “Immortal Storyverse”) ...

Thailand’s My Dearest Assassin (now streaming on Netflix) squishes together two titan genres of Southeast Asian cinema: romance and martial arts. Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul, Thanapo Leeratanakachorn and ...

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CANNES, France (AP) — “The Assassin” is a rare thing — a martial-arts movie in competition for prizes at Cannes. It’s hardly typical action fare. The film is by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien, who ...

What's ancient Chinese for "oh so beautiful but oh so dull"? Martial arts fable The Assassin swoops into UK cinemas on the back of sizeable praise – it was a hit on the festival circuit, with Hou ...

Netflix has ordered its first martial arts drama “Wu Assassins” starring martial arts expert Iso Uwais. The series, which Netflix described “an action-packed crime drama set In San Francisco’s ...

If there is such a thing as casual gravitas, then Hou Hsiao-hsien embodies it. Arriving in the lobby of the Park Hyatt in Busan, South Korea, where his martial-arts epic, “The Assassin,” is making one ...

Wuxia, which is Chinese for “martial hero,” is a genre of Chinese cinema that deals in martial arts, sorcery and grand, heroic feats. Characters often defy gravity, flying through the air in precisely ...

UFC light heavyweight contender Jiri Prochazka is one of the most compelling rising stars in the sport. Not only does Prochazka, 28, from Czechia, say he wants to raise the consciousness of the entire ...