House of Flying Daggers also known as Shi mian mai fu (2004)
Frankly speaking even after watch the movie for 2 times I dint understood the movie fully. But I will love to watch this movie for its action, picturisation and Martial Art. These are some of things which make the movie so special.
This is Zhang Yimou’s movie. He had Oscar nominated "Hero" to his credit is last year (2003). The film features a unique style of martial arts i.e. bamboo martial arts sequence. Far better executed than “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” (By Ang Lee, 2000). May be a lot of computer generated images are being used but hats-off to editing. That's excellent. A mind blowing fight scene where a sword is pitted against flowing, long sleeves. This movie finally evolves around two men in love with the same woman. And this is a point in the movie when audience get surprised; this is not just a martial art movie but a little more than that.
This movie is set during the decline of the Tang Dynasty, and follows captain Leo (Andy Lau) and Jin (Takeshi Kaneshiro) on their mission to bring down one of the most wanted rebel groups, the House of Flying Daggers. Leo sends Jin on an undercover assignment to find out if the Peony Pavilion’s new, blind dancer Mei (Zhang ZiYi) is really the daughter. Although she is captured and interrogated, Leo instructs Jin to go further undercover in order to locate the Flying Daggers’ lair. Jin rescues Mei from certain death and they flee into the rural countryside. But realism is as irrelevant as in any other normal bollywood movie. Inspite of getting stabbed so many times the characters are not even close to "Seriously Injured". But the same thing might kill a ordinary person. But the movie is about color, fight sequence, and computer generate images, put together. But all these things are beautifully merged and no room is left to any flaw.
About the Movie:
Name : House of Flying Daggers [Actual Name: Shi Mian Mai fu]
Year of Release : 2004
Director: Yimou Zhang
Cast : Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Ziyi Zhang, Dandan Song
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