During the reign of the Tang dynasty in China, a secret organization called "The House of the Flying Daggers" rises and opposes the government. A police officer called Leo sends officer Jin to ...

Zhang is on record as saying that “‘Hero’ was an experiment, ‘House of Flying Daggers’ is the real ... with a tiny cast of three main characters and no huge sets or thousands of extras.

Like his last film, “Hero,” Yimou Zhang’s “House of Flying Daggers” retells a Chinese legend using stupendous martial-arts set pieces and color-saturated landscapes. This time the story ...

Zhang Yimou’s ravishing “House of Flying Daggers” nabs its audience early, stealing our hearts with a scene so glorious, we’re instantly helpless in the movie’s thrall. In the late days ...

“House of Flying Daggers” is director Zhang Yimou’s follow-up to the spectacular epic “Hero.” Like “Hero,” “Daggers” is a simply gorgeous movie to watch. The vivid ...

As narrative, it doesn't always work; its story never quite coheres, in spite of the best efforts of an all-star cast ... rule comes into play with House Of Flying Daggers, a follow-up that ...

Sun Times A still from House of Flying Daggers • Richard Corliss The cast list is like a convocation of the Three Chinas: Taiwan's Kaneshiro, Hong Kong's Lau and the mainland's Zhang Ziyi.

Zhang is on record as saying that “‘Hero’ was an experiment, ‘House of Flying Daggers’ is the real ... with a tiny cast of three main characters and no huge sets or thousands of extras.

In what may be the single most ravishing sequence in Zhang Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers (and there’s a lot of competition), Mei (Ziyi Zhang), a sexy rebel warrior whose blindness scarcely ...

Two of the emperor’s police (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Andy Lau) resolve to infiltrate a rebel band called the House of Flying Daggers, and Kaneshiro goes undercover at the Peony Pavilion ...