Once the darling of the art-film world, Jiang Wen set the local box office ablaze with this rip-roaring action spectacular. With a star-studded cast headlined by Chow Yun Fat, Let the Bullets Fly takes to the boondocks of 1920s China for a gleefully madcap, elaborately political genre mash-up.

One of the screenwriters on Wong Kar Wai’s kung fu epic The Grandmaster, director Xu Haofeng knows a thing or two about the art of the fight. With dynamic choreography and a breathtaking, weapons-heavy climax, The Final Master is a period action film with a killer eye for clarity in combat.