It occurred to me, getting back to the marionette sequence that started this whole thread, that it is, ironically, followed up by a scene in which an Evil Baron is very, very deliberately hoisted into the air with a very, very obvious hook and cable system - which, probably, was attached to a harness identical to the one used by the actor where they did their best to minimize the wires. A rare case where thy didn’t want to hide the hoisting mechanism.
I’m a big fan of the “wire work” done in Chinese wu xia films including Tsui Hark’s work with Tony Ching Siu-tung and especially Yuen Wo-ping’s brilliant team who were responsible for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.