You may not know Xu Haofeng for now, but he's the scriptwriter responsible for Wong Kar-Wai's upcoming Ip Man biopic THE GRANDMASTERS and that's gotta be something.
Now he has his own movie, in which he made his directorial debut with an artistic wuxia genre called THE SWORD IDENTITY. Check out the teaser trailer below, which is recently debuted in Venice and Toronto Film Festival.
In the meantime, here's the synopsis for the movie:
Once upon a time in the Southern Chinese city of Guancheng, there lived four families, each of them faithful keepers of martial arts. Anyone who wanted to establish a new school, or a new form of kung fu, had to fight his way through the family's gates.
Two swordsmen enter the city to request a competition and start their own school, their strange new weapons are mistaken for Japanese swords and therefore forbidden by purist Chinese masters as a foreign fighting device. They are accused of being Japanese pirates by the masters of the martial arts schools.
Facing arrest, the swordsmen must prove the value of swordsmanship by defeating the masters and a living legend who has returned from exile in the mountains.
Two swordsmen enter the city to request a competition and start their own school, their strange new weapons are mistaken for Japanese swords and therefore forbidden by purist Chinese masters as a foreign fighting device. They are accused of being Japanese pirates by the masters of the martial arts schools.
Facing arrest, the swordsmen must prove the value of swordsmanship by defeating the masters and a living legend who has returned from exile in the mountains.
Additionally, here's three official clips for the movie: