Writing
Community Rating
6.2
TMDB estimate
Born
March 16, 1973 (age 53)
Born in
Beijing, China
Xu Haofeng was born in Beijing and began to learn Xingyiquan, one of the major “internal” styles of Chinese martial arts, in 1987. After studying fine arts for five years, he went to the Department of Film Directing in Beijing Film Academy and graduated in 1997. Unlike his peers who were eager to make waves in the newly discovered film market, Xu returned home and studied Taoism and the history of martial arts from two eighty-year-old masters for eight years. In 2006, his publication "Shiqu de wulin" (In Search of the Lost Martial Arts World) aroused nationwide attention. He continued to write novels and non-fiction about the ecology of the martial arts sphere in the Republic of China. In 2011, his first film "The Sword Identity" had its world premiere at the 68th Venice Film Festival and this marked the reincarnation of the Chinese martial arts film. One year later, his sophomore film "Judge Archer" premiered at the 7th Rome Film Festival. Xu insists in presenting unusual values in traditional Chinese culture in an age celebrating outrageous slapstick comedies and restless performing monkeys, and he investigates whether people could live in an alternative way, other than following the conventional circle of life.

Decent Things
as Director
TBA

The Weary Poet
as Director, Screenplay
TBA

100 Yards
as Screenplay, Director
2024

枪缨润物
as Self
2021

挟刀揉手
as 自己
2017

The Hidden Sword
as Director, Novel, Editor, Screenplay
2017

Thirteen Talks
2016

Judge Archer
as Director, Writer
2016

The Final Master
as Writer, Director, Editor
2015

Monk Comes Down the Mountain
as Story
2015

The Great Protector
as Writer
2014

The Grandmaster
as Screenplay
2013

The Sword Identity
as Director, Writer
2012

Weed
2006