IN "HOUSE of Flying Daggers," the slow-motion trajectory of a small bean, hurled from a police captain's hand, is a spectacular thing. It's a stunning, moving image, like a hummingbird caught in ...

Asia Society continues its ongoing monthly series titled Films to See Before You Die featuring classic films and underseen gems from across Asia and the Asian diaspora with extended introductions by ...

People always describe the fight scenes in martial-arts films as "balletic," which is a fancy way of saying you can enjoy the beauty, grace and athleticism even if you don't like watching people beat ...

Chinese director Zhang Yimou, whose epic martial-arts adventure Hero (2002) broke through to a mass audience in the U.S. last summer, returns with this small but visually grand drama set during the ...

Movie imagery, which has grown brutal and ugly in many of the new high-tech action pictures, may yet be redeemed by the elegance of martial arts pictures from the East. Zhang Yimou's 'House of Flying ...

A story of love in a time of political turmoil, of deception, betrayal and passion, "House of Flying Daggers" is, in terms of plot, a classic romance. But director Zhang Yimou has set that romance ...

Taiwan-based sales agent Distribution Workshop is launching pre-sales on Juno Mak’s long-gestating Sons Of The Neon Night at the upcoming Asian Contents and Film Market (ACFM) during Busan ...

The story is simple enough: Sometime during the dying days of the T’ang Dynasty in China, though it could really be any time and any place, two cops named Leo (Andy Lau) and Jin (Takeshi Kaneshiro) ...