A Touch of Zen
Xia nu
audiovisual digital
film
film
core
Lifetime Path
planned
Creators
- King Hu, director/writer/editor
- Union Film Company, production company
Canon Rationale
A core wuxia and world-cinema film, included for King Hu, martial-arts film form, landscape and editing, Buddhist and Zen imagery, female warrior narrative, and the movement between genre cinema and art cinema.
Path
Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 87.
Evidence
- institutional list: BFI, 'A Touch of Zen'.
- review essay: The Criterion Collection, 'A Touch of Zen', including David Bordwell essay and 4K restoration notes.
Audit Flags
translation dependency, version dependency, access preservation required
Completion unit: watch the complete feature film in a subtitled edition and document the cut/restoration used. Mark it complete when you can explain its wuxia form, bamboo/landscape action staging, editing style, Buddhist/Zen imagery, and why it matters as both martial-arts cinema and global art cinema.