In the very first stage of production of his new film, “Wu Xia”, director Peter Chan Ho-sun has claimed that he aims to rejuvenate the martial arts genre with the project, create something unique to the choreography by injecting medical and scientific elements into it. In some ways, the final result has showed that Chan has succeeded in fusing together the elements that appeal to international audiences with some of the best martial arts sensibilities. In his first directorial outing since the 2007 costume epic “The Warlords” and first collaboration with martial arts moneymaker Donnie Yen, Chan also plays into the current mini-wave of period Asian detective movies (Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Detective K: Secret of Virtuous Widow) while presenting a practically proverbial Kung Fu movie plot in a fresh way.