Home of Flying Daggers (), occurs as 2004 action/romance movie directed by Zhang Yimou. the Chinese title derives from either a Chinese four-character idiom literally meaning "ambush from ten sides", however figuratively meaning "ambush from all sides". A English title, House of Flying Daggers, refers to the secret society (飛刀門) within a film. A film is in the wuxia genre, similar in style to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, or the additional recent Warriors of Heaven and Earth.

Such as more wuxia film, a fight scenes come a first aspect of a film, coupled by owning the cinematography. Home of Flying Daggers differs but, in this these are additional of the romance than the average martial arts film.

Utilize of hard colors once more occurs as signature of Zhang therein motion picture. Many scenes inside the bamboo forest completely filled a screen sustaining green when a actors likewise dressed around green. Touching the prevent of the motion-picture show, the fight scene is placed within a blizzard. the actors & blood come greatly highlighted in a whiteout background. There exists a second scene in which brilliantly yellowness wwhen utilized as a heavy colour theme.

A film opened inside limited release inside a United States on December 3, 2004, in New York City and Los Angeles, and open in extra screens throughout a united states fortnight late.

Although easily received by film critics in the U.S., a film & its director were fairly heavy criticized locally inside mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Several Chinese critics felt that a film lacked a heavy plot line or even message, that the dialogue was unfortunate, & that Zhang was just trying to appeal to American audiences by using heavy choreographed fight scenes & extensive apply of computer-generated imagery. Zhang's last films, including a critically acclaimed Raise the Red Lantern and The Story of Qiu Ju, were insightful & tragical dramas just about the exists of everyday peasants within modern rural China, and potentially his last raid a martial arts film, Hero, had the heavy underlying message just about sacrifice & national identity.

Plot

A film is placed inside 859 AD, and a Tang Dynasty is in decline. Many rebel groups stand formed, a largest of which is the Home of Flying Daggers, which is depending in the Feng Tian county. A rebels st& a trend lines of a locals, when it steal from either the rich and give to the poor people.

the local deputies, contender of a Home of Flying Daggers, use at times managed to defeat the leader of the rebel class action, however it exclusively succeed inside making it stronger, due to a mysterious recently leader. 2 captains, Jin & Leo, come ordered to defeat a freshly leader inside tenner times.

Sequentially to accomplish this, them men arrest Prunus mume, a unsighted dancer world health organization works at the bagnio & is suspected to exist as the girl of the old leader. Prunus mume refuses to reveal anything, and so them captains try an additional approach. Jin pretends to become a single warrior known as Wind, & rescues Prunus mume from either prison, gaining her trust then escorting her to the Flying Daggers headquarters. A recently project works, however Japanese apricot warms to Jin, & contrariwise.

Cast

Takeshi Kaneshiro — Captain Jin (金捕頭) Andy Lau — Captain Leo (劉捕頭) Zhang Ziyi — Mei (小妹) Dandan Song — Yee

Anita Mui was originally cast for a major role in the film. She died prior to any of her scenes were filmed. A film was dedicated around her memory.

Crew
Directed by Zhang Yimou Produced by Bill Kong, Zhang Yimou Executive Producer — Zhang Weiping Story by Zhang Yimou, Li Feng, Wang Bin Screenplay by Li Feng, Zhang Yimou, Wang Bin Director of Photography — Zhao Xiaoding Action Director — Tony Ching Siu-Tung Production Designed by Huo Tingxiao Sound Designed by Tao Jing Original Music Scored & By Shigeru Umebayashi Theme Song Performed by Kathleen Battle Costume Designed by Emi Wada Edited by Cheng Long Associate Producer — Zhang Zhenyan

Production notes
Mandarin dialogue, available subtitled in English.

Running off instance: 119 transactions.

An Edko Films, Zhang Yimou Studio Production together sustaining Beijing New Picture Film Co., Ltd.

Discharged by Sony Pictures Classics.

MPAA rating: PG-13, for sequences of stylized martial arts violence, & a bit of sexuality

Trivia
Literary origins
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Miscellaneous
This was originally attend exist as Anita Mui's final appearance around film & she experienced already accepted a role however, because she was battling cervical cancer, her a portion wasn't attend become filmed until early 2004. When her demise in 30 December 2003, director Yimou Zhang decided to vary the script like than buy a replacement.

A scene in the snow was filmed in the Ukraine. It actually snowed therefore early (October) that a makers experienced a vary a script & a film. It did non obviously hold off because a leaves were however on the trees. Zhang Yimou was super happy by having how else it turned out but, because it placed a hone tone.

To develop for her role, for 2 months Zhang Ziyi swallow the unsighted girl world health organization experienced misplaced her sight at the age of dozen because of a brain tumor.