Gordon Chan continues to cement his position as one of China’s top blockbuster directors, following up his hits “Painted Skin” and “Mural” with big budget martial arts fantasy “The Four”. Co-directed by Janet Chun (“The Jade and the Pearl”) and with action choreography by Ku Huan Chiu (“14 Blades”), the film is loosely based upon a series of hugely popular wuxia novels written by Wen Ruian in the 1970s. Boasting lavish production values and special effects, the film’s impressive cast is a mixture of top Mainland and Hong Kong talent, including Anthony Wong (“Motorway”), Crystal Liu (“A Chinese Ghost Story”), Ronald Cheng (“Vulgaria”), and Chan’s “Mural” stars Deng Chao and Collin Chou. The film revolves around the Divine Constabulary, a mysterious organisation in service to the Emperor in the imperial capital, who clash heads with law enforcement bureau Department Six over a counterfeit currency case that threatens to cause chaos across the empire.
- 9/19/2012
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
Prolific director Gordon Chan - he of Painted Skin and Fist Of Legend fame - is not one to sit around doing nothing. And so with his martial arts fantasy Mural freshly released he is already hard at work with co-director Chun Siu Chun on upcoming martial arts / horror hybrid The Four.An undercover agent is assigned by his corrupt chief to infiltrate a rival department and sabotage their investigation of counterfeit currency. What he discovers is the counterfeiter's real plan. To overthrow the capital. Not by flooding it with funny money, but with an army of undead. Chan is pretty much the definition of a journeyman director, a guy who has survived forever without ever quite being considered a true a-list director. His...
- 11/14/2011
- Screen Anarchy
A project that started life as a proposed sequel to his 2008 supernatural drama Painted Skin, Gordon Chan's Mural has since taken on a life of its own and proved to be a substantial holiday season hit with Mainland Chinese audiences. The story follows a young scholar (Deng Chao) and a roguish bandit (Collin Chou) who, while seeking shelter in a remote temple, are sucked through a beautifully painted mural into a heavenly realm populated almost entirely by young, beautiful women.I for one was skeptical of a film that appeared to be light on plot and heavy on special effects, but Mural actually proved to be pretty entertaining, delivering on its promise of spectacle, romance and fantasy adventure. The casting of Collin Chou and Andy...
- 11/2/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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