Wuershan's film debut came with
Soap Opera (2004). For this movie, he won the
FIPRESCI Award at the
Pusan International Film Festival in 2004. It received mixed reviews from critics. The film was also screened at the
Pusan Film Festival. It was presented by
Doug Liman at the festival. It was released theatrically on 17 March 2011 in Southeast Asia, North America, Australia and New Zealand simultaneously. Described as an avant-garde martial arts comedy,
Painted Skin: The Resurrection Wuershan's third feature film,
Painted Skin: The Resurrection, was released on June 28, 2012. The film, which has an 83% approval rating on aggregate site
Rotten Tomatoes, and is described as a "deliciously nutty love story," With a total box office gross of $115.07 million, the film became the highest grossing domestic film in China beating the previous record holder
Let the Bullets Fly.
Mojin: The Lost Legend His fourth feature film was
Mojin: The Lost Legend, an
action adventure fantasy thriller film based on the novel
Ghost Blows Out the Light. It was released on December 18, 2015. The film won several awards, including Best Visual Effects at the
Beijing College Student Film Festival and the
Golden Horse Awards, and Wuershan was named
Best Director at the
33rd Hundred Flowers Awards. The movie however received mixed reviews from western critics. The film was a huge box-office success, grossing over US$278 million from a budget of 37.
Creation of the Gods In 2019, he began on the production on the
Creation of the Gods trilogy. Sometimes dubbed as "China's
Lord of the Rings", it is the "most ambitious and expensive production in Chinese history." The production has a crew of over two thousands employees. The novel combines elements of history, folklore, mythology, legends and fantasy, with a story set in the era of the decline of the
Shang dynasty (1600–1046 BC) and the rise of the
Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BC). It tells about the downfall of
King Zhou, the Shang Dynasty's last ruler. He becomes a tyrant after having been "bewitched by a
fox spirit posing as his concubine." An epic battle "rages to defeat him, involving gods, demons and other supernatural beings."
Barrie M. Osborne, producer of
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, was involved in the production. The first film of the trilogy,
Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms, was released in 2023, and a sequel,
Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force, was released in 2025. == Filmography ==