The film also abandoned traditional wire-assisted choreography, which meant that no one flew or jumped incredibly high as in previous Kung Fu films. It has no special effects, either. Rather, 800 professional martial artists were hired and used in the film. The action choreography in the film is also very simple, direct and powerful, which is different from the exciting, complicated and eye-popping choreographies in other traditional martial arts films. For all the above reasons, it received the Best Action Choreography Award at the 52nd Taipei Golden Horse Awards in November.

Xu, a legend in China's martial arts world, has various identities as a film director, screen writer, martial arts novelist, film critic and martial arts scholar as well as practitioner and tutor at the Beijing Film Academy. He is best known for writing the screenplay of Wong Kar-wai's "The Grandmaster," which earned him the Best Screenplay Award at the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards. His novel "Monk Comes Down the Mountain" was adapted and directed by director Chen Kaige this year and made box office success. In 2011, Xu helmed and penned the screenplay for his directorial debut "The Sword Identity" and in 2012 Xu wrote and directed "Judge Archer." The new film, "The Master" will cement his status as a master and trailblazer of new style martial arts films in the modern Chinese movie industry.

"The Master," based on an award-winning novel by Xu Haofeng, stars Liao Fan, Da Song Jia, Jiang Wenli, Huang Jue, Jin Shijie. The Film tells a story about how a Wing Chun master wants to open a martial arts school in Tianjin and trains a talented apprentice, but gets involved in a series of political wrestles and conspiracies. The film will hit Chinese theaters on Dec. 11, 2015.

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