[via Wildgrounds]

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Subtitles and Machine Guns!

[via Hitman-Reloaded @ Film Smash]

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[via Wildgrounds]

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First official poster for Zhang Yimou’s The Flowers of War (aka Nanjing Heroes, 13 Flowers of Nanjing) starring Christian Bale as an American witnessing the Japanese invasion of Nanking. If you’ve seen City of Life and Death, you know the historical background of the film.

[via First Showing & Recent Movie Posters]

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US Trailer for Jackie Chan and Li Zhang’s 1911 (aka Xinhai Revolution) opening October 7th in the US. Well Go USA will later release the drama starring Jackie Chan, his son Jaycee Chan, Bingbing Li and Winston Chao on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.

At the beginning of the 20th century, China is in a state of crisis. The country is split into warring factions, the citizens are starving, and recent political reforms have made matters worse, not better. The ruling Qing Dynasty, led by a seven-year-old emperor and his ruthless mother, Empress Dowager Longyu (Joan Chen), is completely out of touch after 250 years of unquestioned power. With ordinary citizens beginning to revolt openly, the Qing Dynasty has created a powerful, modern army (the “New Army”) to quash any rebellion. But weapons are expensive, and desperate for cash, the Qing leaders are trading anything they can get their hands on with foreign countries… and selling China

[via ComingSoon.net & iTunes]

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I couldn’t find an official synopsis, but just take a look at the first trailer and the sweet old-school poster for director Ching-Po Wong’s (Revenge: A Love Story) LET’S GO!. According to Wong, the film starring Juno Mak, Patricia Ha, Stephy Tang and Wang Yu will be based on the vintage Japanese anime Space Emperor God Sigma (宇宙大帝ゴッドシグマ) and will be released late 2011.

[via Film Smash]

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First teaser and several clips for Xu Haofenh’s directorial debut The Sword Identity showing a martial arts film without quick cuts, hectic mass battle scenes or extensive use of wires.
Xu Haofeng is also the author and screenwriter of Wong Kar-Wais Ip Man biopic The Grandmasters.

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Synopsis:

In a martial arts event during the Ming Dynasty, a young swordsman must use not only his exquisite swordplay technique, but also his wits, when competing against the masters of four different philosophies of combat…

[via Wildgrounds & Film Press Plus]

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[via Twitch]

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Synopsis:

White Snake (Eva Huang), in the incarnation of a beautiful lady, falls in love with a young herbalist Xu Xian (Raymond Lam). With the help of Green Snake (Charlene Choi), she ventured into the human world and got married to Xu Xian. In a twist of event, Fa Hai (Jet Li), a sorcerer from Jin Shan Temple, crosses path with White Snake. A fiery battle is about to begin…

[via FilmSmash]

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Sina.com has released a first trailer for Wong Kar-Wai’s The Grandmaster starring Tony Leung as Ip Man and Zhang Ziyi. The trailer is somewhat less colorful that Wong Kar-Wai’s former works, but let’s wait and see if his biopic about Bruce Lee’s master can beat Wilson Yips’s two films starring Donnie Yen.

[Update] Updated the trailer with a HD version!
[via wildgrounds & @TheGoldenRock]

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