yet the lush pictorial dazzle of all those deceptively gentle bamboo stalks reveals a razory threat of nearly mystical dimension. In House of Flying Daggers, beauty and lethality become one.

“House of Flying Daggers” is director Zhang Yimou’s ... A pivotal sequence set in a bamboo forest rivals the beauty and intensity of a similar scene in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” ...

There’s just something about watching soldiers fly across a bright green bamboo forest that commands your attention ... as poetically as the sword duels and battle scenes in “House of Flying Daggers,” ...

A relentless, shadowy revolutionary group called the House of Flying Daggers is up in arms against ... leading to what may seem to be a formula bamboo-forest fight. Nevertheless, the sheer ...

Like his last film, “Hero,” Yimou Zhang’s “House of Flying Daggers” retells a Chinese ... s dance in a brothel or a tree-top chase in a bamboo forest. Such scenes draw us into a grand ...

In the "House of Flying Daggers" bamboo-forest sequence, Jin and Mei flee from a group of soldiers (the baddies slide down their individual bamboo stalks face-forward, with a silently deafening ...

Zhang is on record as saying that “‘Hero’ was an experiment, ‘House of Flying Daggers’ is the real ... to a balletic bamboo-forest fight that tops that in “Crouching Tiger” and ...

Zhang is on record as saying that “‘Hero’ was an experiment, ‘House of Flying Daggers’ is the real ... to a balletic bamboo-forest fight that tops that in “Crouching Tiger” and ...

Two of the emperor’s police (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Andy Lau) resolve to infiltrate a rebel band called the House of Flying Daggers ... prolonged duel in a dense bamboo forest, where the ...

The same rule comes into play with House Of Flying Daggers, a follow-up that takes ... tree-bending struggle in a bamboo forest. Choreographed to the last beat, the action scenes have a depth ...

Two Tang Dynasty officers — pretty-boy Jin (Takeshi Kaneshiro) and rough-hewn Leo (Andy Lau) — try to trick Mei (Zhang Ziyi), a blind dancer, into leading them to the Flying Daggers ...

banks of autumn leaves and a bamboo grove that functions like a kinetic art installation. - Sun Times A still from House of Flying Daggers • Richard Corliss The cast list is like a convocation ...