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Wei Li (screenplay), Yimou Zhang (screenplay)
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Chinese director Zhang Yimou has made beautiful period films like RAISE THE RED LANTERN and JU DO, my two personal favourites. But often the beauty of the films take over the narrative resulting in pretty empty pieces like his foray into martial art epics. Martial art epics should be excited with fast and furious executed action segments, not moving in slow motion showing the choreography of the moves. Films like HOUSE OF THE FLYING DAGGERS end up like empty pretty vessels. Yimou’s SHADOW again is a beautifully shot period pieces set in ancient China, but thankfully has a stronger plot with little martial arts.
The story concerns a king and his commander, the commander’s wife and the king’s sister.
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