"Warriors of Heaven and Earth" is a fairly rousing example of the genre. Of course, it takes place in the wild west of China in the Tang Dynasty, the characters carry swords instead of six-guns and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese director, screenwriter and producer He Ping, best known internationally for his hybrid ‘Chinese Westerns’, has died aged ...

North of the vast 8th century Tang dynasty Chinese empire, the commercially and culturally priceless silk route is controlled by 36 friendly Buddhist kingdoms. Their are threatened by Turkic nomad ...

He Ping’s 2003 Chinese epic has been called a John Ford film from the East, and in fact some of the Gobi Desert rock formations that bisect his wide-screen frames are startlingly reminiscent of ...

Chinese helmer He Ping (“Warriors of Heaven and Earth”) is wrapping up “Wheat,” a high-profile historical action drama about the women left behind when their men have gone off to war — and the lies ...

Chinese director, screenwriter and producer He Ping, best known internationally for his hybrid Chinese Westerns, has died aged 65. Local press reported that he died of illness in Beijing on January 10 ...

A Chinese emissary is sent to the Gobi desert to execute a renegade soldier. When a caravan transporting a Buddhist monk and a valuable treasure is threatened by thieves, however, the two warriors ...