I’ve been a fan of Zhang Yimou’s[1] films since, well, for a while now. But I’m also a huge kung fu fan — Jackie Chan especially — so House of Flying Daggers was quite a treat.
It’s not that I didn’t like Hero, or that Daggers was particularly funny. To the contrary, it’s tale of complex characters who don’t end well. That might be story enough, but every scene is richly photographed and styled — a hallmark of so many of Yimou’s films, but wonderfully so in Daggers.
Trivia: Viewers may be surprised to learn it was filmed in Ukraine, but the silver birch in so many of the forrest scenes is not native to China.
[1]: there is some debate about whether it’s “Zhang Yimou” or “Yimou Zhang” and I’m ashamed to say I don’t know enough to know better. I learned it as “Zhang Yimou,” and that’s how Wikipedia has it.
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Posted August 2, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: film, hero, house of flying daggers, jackie chan, kung fu, movie, silver birch, ukrain, yimou zhang, zhang yimou.
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I’m pretty sure that Zhang is the director’s surname or family name and Yimou is equivalent to his first name. In Asian cultures the family name is used first. There is more information on the following webpage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_(surname)
The name is one of the most common in both China and the world. It means ‘Master of Bows’.
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