A kinetic mash of brainy Sherlock Holmes style and stunning wire-fu, director Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame looks like another excellent entry in Asian action cinema’s influential tradition.

Previewed above, Tsui’s latest imaginative excursion should fit comfortably alongside his other directorial adventures, like classic shoot’em-up Peking Opera Blues, ambitious sci-fantasy Zu Warriors From the Magic Mountain and his sprawling Once Upon a Time in China, which made Jet Li an international action star.

Tsui’s fingerprints are also all over director John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow film series, which revolutionized action cinema and turned Chow Yun-fat into a global phenomenon. All of those films, and many others, led directly to the crossover successes of Quentin Tarantino, The Wachowskis and plenty more.

Detective Dee stars Andy Lau (House of Flying Daggers) as fabled Tang Dynasty official Di Renjie, who’s reimagined as a wise detective with martial arts skills to spare and out to solve a series of paranormal murders. Choreographed by the legendary Sammo Hung, Tsui’s new steampunk mystery merges 21st-century CGI with ancient intrigue, solidifying Tsui’s place among global cinema’s cultural influentials.

Check out the reel above and let us know in the comments section below which action films imported from Asia keep you routinely punch-drunk.

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame premieres stateside Sept. 2 in New York and Los Angeles.