2026.04.30.ZZA Handcrafted Wuxia Action Special

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[Movement]

[ZZA Production Special]

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This drama we have is a handcrafted wuxia action drama with real fighting and action scenes

[Chief Director Liu HongYuan]

The difficulty of action scenes are very high

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We want to incorporate some routines,

[Co-director Qin PengFei]

styles of fighting, and weapons from Chinese martial arts into this film

And give every character some different movement design

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Zhan Zhao's personality is rather calm and composed

[Calm and Composed]

His sword wouldn't get drawn easily in ordinary combat

unless forced to a certain point

at which point he would then pull it out to fight

We also added a traditional martial art

It's the two-hand-swords

because Yu ChengHui Laoshi practiced two-hand-swords 

When he fight empty handed

The fighting style we designed for him

was a style of Southern Chinese martial arts called Hung Kuen

It is a relatively stable and grounded style of fighting/boxing

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His movements were very fluid and natural

like flowing clouds and water

[Lead Actor Yang Yang]

And it is also very aesthetically pleasing

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What's most captivating about LingLong

is her incredibly strong vitality

[Vitality]

Bai YuTang

A wandering swordsman who refused to be defined

[Wandering Swordsman]

Based on their personalities

we design their own action styles

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[Lead Actress Zhang RuoNan]

When I saw my action scenes were clean and crisp

I felt very excited

I think that made me more and more motivated

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[Lead Actor Fang YiLun]

The action scenes for Bai YuTang are

a culmination of the best of various styles

That is, to use whatever you have

A bow isn't necessarily for shooting arrows

It could be used as a club to hit people with or put on someone's head to flick them

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Whether he was fighting out of guilt

or fighting out of revenge

The action design would be complete different

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Filming action scenes this time

made me realize how difficult real martial arts action scenes are

There were fights in the rain

fights on a boat

and fights in very small, enclosed spaces

from heaven to earth

Fighting styles I'd never seen before

I got to see them all in this drama

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Actually, what moved me more was that

several times after he was injured, he insisted on continuing filming

and refused to stop

You can tell he is truly an actor who puts the work/drama first

Director: Is it okay, Yang Yang?

YY: I have some energy now, let's do it again.

Everybody tried their best to protect the actors' safety

Creating within this kind of environment

doing the actions

we all felt very safe and secure

FYL: Let's do it again!

Come on, let's do it again!

Can we do it again?

Everyone is like a cog/gear in a train

If each of us does our part of the cog well

then we can create something truly wonderful

YY: You'd really enjoy that moment

and be very happy in front of the camera

and want to express yourself even more

[ZZA]

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Can't wait to see this drama!!!