Cinema Leaping Beauty Film of the Week

The Herald › January 14, 2005

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HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS (15)

Dir: Yimou Zhang With: Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Dandan Song

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Cinema Leaping Beauty Film of the Week

4/5

Ang Lee's 2000 martial arts stunner Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon opened up a previously rather exclusive genre even to those individuals (I include myself)who had never quite grasped the point of watching athletic individuals relentlessly high-kick one another into oblivion to the exclusion of plot or characterisation.

Crouching Tigerwas also marketed like a mainstream blockbuster; this fortuitously coincided with a gradual loosening of general attitudes to sub...

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