Yuen Woo-Ping’s ‘Blades of the Guardians’ Unites Four Martial Arts Legends in a Wuxia Event Decades in the Making

There are directors who shape a genre, and then there are directors who become synonymous with it. At 80 years old, Yuen Woo-ping still belongs firmly in the second category. The Hong Kong action choreographer and filmmaker behind the wire work of ‘The Matrix’ and ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ has spent decades shaping how the...