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House of Flying Daggers
十面埋伏
2004 · Film · 119 min
Directed by Zhang Yimou
In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
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Quite a lot more if you include Hong Kong, but a lot of those films were developed under British rule.
I miss the Zhang Yimou that directed Hero and House of Flying Daggers. Those were some of my favorite films of that time.
Doesn't he do a lot of frivolous and light-hearted movies though -- I'm a huge fan.
Take a movie like "Who am I", it's like Johnny English meets Drunken Master.
"Kung Fu" films to me always have a notion of slapstick, even the beautiful ones like House of Flying Daggers; Chan's background in Opera I imagine helps to fulfill that element of slightly ludicrous spectacle (at least if Chinese opera has any similarity to its Western namesake).
I mean Shanghai Noon, great film within its genre, but goofy as anything; actors doing those sorts of movies just aren't treated as serious actors I guess.