Top 14 Wuxia Films Of The Recent Past
13. Butterfly & Sword
A hilariously raucous ride through martial arts mysticism - and also featuring a proverbial love triangle using epic Chinese mythology and lore - Butterfly and Sword was a film that began to inspire graceful use of martial arts choreography with near superhuman levels of acrobatics and flight. While this was not completely a novel Idea, if you comparatively look at other films (in this category), and compare fight and stunt choreography, you'd immediately see the difference.
Take Zu, Warriors from the Magic Mountain as the example of one era's version of mystical fight choreography, and Butterfly and Sword was essentially the next generation move toward gracefully (and intentionally) giving the audience a better understanding of wandering hero mysticism.