One of the world’s most beloved forms of action movies are wuxia films. Originating in East Asia, where Chinese is spoken, these movies originally began as a form of novels to be read. The evolution of films and technology, however, proliferated the possibilities of the genre in terms of on-screen storytelling. Wuxias typically pack in several different genres alongside the action, with the main characters going on a journey, physically and spiritually, and historical and fantasy elements bleeding into the narratives. While xianxia typically appears in Chinese fantasy dramas, the sweeping epic that is wuxia is mainly for the big screen. The biggest directors in the region, from Zhang Yimou to Wong Kar-wai, typically have tried to make a wuxia movie at least once.