Xu Haofeng

Xu Haofeng

Xu Haofeng, born in Beijing in 1973, is a director, screenwriter and martial arts novelist in mainland China. He graduated from the director department of Beijing Film Academy.

In 2004, he played a monk in the drama journey. In 2006, he wrote the documentary literature novel the lost Wulin. In 2008, he created the martial arts novel Guoshu hall. In 2011, he directed his first film, traces of Japanese pirates, which opened his career as a director. With this film, he was shortlisted for the best new director award of the 48th Taiwan Golden Horse Film Awards. In 2013, he won the best screenwriter award of the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards for his action film "master of the generation". In 2015, with the martial arts film "master" written and directed by himself, he was shortlisted for the best adapted screenplay award of the 52nd Golden Horse Award. In 2017, the martial arts film hiding on the back of a knife won the best artistic contribution award at the 41st Montreal International Film Festival.

In October 2020, Xu Haofeng published a new book white swimsuit.

Acting experience

In 2004, he played a monk in the drama journey. In 2006, he wrote a documentary literary novel "the lost Wulin", which narrates the story of Wulin to the readers through more than 70 years of martial arts practice. In the same year, he acted in the drama "grass Mustard" directed by Wang Liren.

In 2007, he created the martial arts novel "Taoist down the mountain". In 2008, he created the martial arts novel "Guoshu hall", which tells the story of a frustrated bureaucrat's son who practiced peerless martial arts in a non martial arts era. In 2010, he created the martial arts novel Da RI Tan City, which was set during the Anti Japanese war in the 1930s and 1940s.

In 2011, he directed his first film, traces of Japanese pirates, which opened his career as a director. With this film, he was shortlisted for the best new director award of the 48th Golden Horse Award for Taiwan film. In May, he wrote the Oral History Documentary literary novel Dacheng ruoque.

In 2012, he created a film review collection knife and stars. In 2013, he created the collection of martial arts short stories "hiding in the back of the sword"; in the same year, he published the martial arts novel "samurai society"; in addition, he also served as the screenwriter and martial arts consultant of the action film "master of the generation". With this film, he was shortlisted for the best screenwriter award of the 8th Asian Film Awards and won the best screenwriter award of the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards.

In 2014, he created the martial arts novel "wurenqinyin", which tells the story of three generations of Xingyiquan: Shang Yunxiang, Han Boyan and Han Yu in their respective times, highlighting the fate of the martial arts in the past century. In the same year, he was the screenwriter of the inspirational drama "dart gate", directed by Han Xiaojun.

In 2015, he wrote and directed master, a martial arts film co starred by Liao Fan and Song Jia, which tells the story of the martial arts turmoil caused by Chen Shi, the southern school master, who went north to open a martial arts school. He was shortlisted for the best adapted screenplay award of the 52nd golden Horse Award for Taiwan film. In the same year, he was the screenwriter of Taoist down the mountain, which was directed by Chen Kaige. In addition, he also wrote the novel sit down The writing of this novel stems from Xu Haofeng's perception of the film "master".

In 2016, he wrote and directed the martial arts film "arrow man Liu White Ape" co starred by Song Yang and Zhao Zheng, which is adapted from Xu Haofeng's short story. It tells the story of Liu White Ape, who has the name of "White Ape series" assassin, falling into a love hate revenge and assassination plot in the Republic of China. With this film, he was shortlisted for the best adapted screenplay award of the 49th Golden Horse Award in Taiwan In the same year, he directed the martial arts film Tianya Mingyue Dao adapted from the novel of the same name by Gu Long.

In 2017, he directed the martial arts film "hiding on the back of the knife" co starred by Xu Qing, Chunxia and Zhang Aoyue; in March, he wrote the novel collection "virgin gebulei"; in April, "hiding on the back of the knife" won the best artistic contribution award of the 41st Montreal International Film Festival.

Main works

Publishing works

Director's work

Screenwriter's works

Editing works

Movement guidance

Take part in the film

Award winning record

Character evaluation

Xu Haofeng is not as enigmatic as the martial arts master he created. He is frank, objective and wise, and has insight into the position of individual life in the background. The martial arts world he built is different from any martial arts world. There is no flying over the eaves and walls, no going to heaven and earth, only a duel between wisdom and skill. It is a real martial arts world saying goodbye to stunts, special effects, dance and hanging Weiya.

From the track of the Japanese pirates to the archer willow White Ape, and then to master, Xu Haofeng's techniques are becoming more and more mature, and he is indeed slowly transitioning from art film to commercial film. In master, it is not only the unique image style, but more importantly, Xu Haofeng constructs his own world view of martial arts, which embodies Xu Haofeng's own Chinese classical philosophy and martial arts cultivation. In Xu Haofeng's martial arts, the practitioners are human beings, not "chivalrous men". They really have selfish desires. Wulin is not beyond the world, but is submerged in the background of the times.

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