The House of Flying Daggers Thread
HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS
OVERVIEW
This is one of my most anticipated films for the rest of this year. I have a deep respect of martial arts films, even those I don't consider to be great films. Case in point: I found Hero to be somewhat disappointing, but nevertheless saw great beauty in it. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is easily my favourite, and for good reasons, I should think.
House of Flying Daggers is in the same vein as Hero and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. One connection between all three is Zhang Ziyi, who stars in this one as well.
From Yahoo:
Near the end of the Tang Dynasty, police deputies Jin (Kaneshiro) and Leo (Lau) tangle with Mei (Ziyi), a dancer suspected of having ties to a revolutionary faction known as the House of Flying Daggers. Enraptured by her, the deputies concoct a plan to save her from capture, and Jin leads her north in what becomes a perilous journey into the unknown.
The story, by all accounts, is supposed to be simplistic, with the visuals used to tell the real story. In other words, if what you saw in Hero and CTHD satisfied you, you might give this film a try.
It has already been out in China for a long time, and opened there on July 16th, in fact (July 15th in HongKong). It is coming to North America in limited run on December 3rd, and will hopefully expand thereafter. I'm not fancying big bucks here; chances are Spidey made more in a day than this will during its entire run. It should be noted that this is an Oscar contender, and his been submitted as such.
Credits
Starring: Ziyi Zhang, Andy Lau, Anita Mui, Dandan Song, Feng Lu, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Song Dandan
Director: Zhang Yimou
Producer: Zhang Yimou, Bill Kong
Screenwriters: Li Feng, Bin Wang, Zhang Yimou, Wang Bin
Executive Producer: Zhang Weiping
Release Dates
France May 19 (Cannes Film Festival)
Hong Kong July 15
China July 16 (Beijing) (premiere)
Singapore July 29
USA August 3 (Telluride Film Festival)
Malaysia August 5
Thailand August 5
Japan August 28
South Korea September 10
Canada September 11 (Toronto Film Festival)
Italy October 1
Norway October 7 (Films From The South Festival)
USA October 9 (New York Film Festival)
Philippines October 13
Norway October 14 (Bergen International Film Festival)
Argentina October 18 (Semana de Cine Chino)
UK October 28 (London Film Festival)
Denmark October 29
France November 17
Belgium November 24
USA December 3 (limited)
Canada December 17 (presumably this is the wide release, I hope at least)
Germany January 6
Netherlands January 6
Australia January 20
Czech Republic March 17
You can see that it is rolling out unevenly. I'll put up as many Intl. numbers as I can find, since the film has already been released in quite a few markets, including some big ones. But you can see some heavy areas are still ahead of it, not least the US, France, and Germany.
RESOURCES
To view the trailer click
here
Official website:
http://www.houseofflyingdaggers.com/
Sony website:
http://www.sonyclassics.com/houseofflyingdaggers
Sony Classics is the US distributor, btw.
Even more trailers (and additional info):
http://www.thezreview.co.uk/comingsoon/ ... aggers.htm
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