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[Brofist]

This weekend I saw the new movie Lovers (Japanese title) Chinese title is Shi Mian Mai Fu, or House of Flying Daggers. Quick overview: It's a pseudo sequel to Hero although it's really not at all, just made by the same production crew. The leads are Kaneshiro Takeshi, movies such as The Returner and played Samanosuke in Onimusha 1 and 3, and Ziyi Zhang of Hero.

First off Kaneshiro = 100x better actor than Jet Li at least he has some expression when he speaks, and a fairly decent screen presence. Story was great although I must admit since the movie was in Mandarin and subtitles in Japanese I found some parts of the dialogue difficult to follow. Yes it's heavy on love story (like Hero don't going in for 100% action), but the action that is in the movie (a fair amount btw) is damn impressive. The fighting scene in the bamboo forest freaking rocks, think Bushido Blade + Ninja Scroll elements and that's barely scratching it. For those overly jaded by the use of wire-fu in movies, just pass on this movie...that way we don't have to hear you bitch on these forums later

As expected Lovers had the beautiful scenary, music, and atmosphere, overall a very nice film, worth checking out.

Trailer Link

 

[MrCheez]

Hmm looks interesting...

And...

OMGOMG Zhang Ziyi ^_^

 

[Brofist]

yeah OMG is right, she looks incredible in this movie.

 

[fart]

great, another movie i want to see.

 

[Akira]

Kaneshiro Takeshi was awesome in Chungking Express. That movie was great overall. I wanna see House of Flying Daggers, if only for the fighting scenes.

 

[karasu]

Wow, opinions are all over the place with this one. I look forard to seeing it. Kaneshiro is a good actor. I just finished watchuing Chungking Express again. It'll be nice to see Ziyi as some other than a brat, and Andy Lau is cool too.

 

[Rei_Toei]

Looks nifty. Lovely pronounciation of the word 'lovers' at the end too: 'labarz'.

 

[-=DoAvl=-]

what does lau-san do in this movie?

 

[Brofist]

what does lau-san do in this movie?

Spoiler

He kicks ass in many fight scenes

of course he does more, I can explain his character but it would ruin movie if you were interested in watching it.

 

[Brofist]

Adding Rotten Tomatoes link

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/house_of_flying_daggers/

 

[jenov4]

So when does this movie come to North America? Did any studio pick it up for distribution yet?

And yeah, Zhang Ziyi's so hot! She rules.

 

[Brofist]

So when does this movie come to North America? Did any studio pick it up for distribution yet?

And yeah, Zhang Ziyi's so hot! She rules.

With Hero doing well I'm soon I'm sure a studio will pick it up for NA release.

 

[DarienA]

I saw a trailer for this a bit back... looked real interesting... is there a English sub-titled (doesn't matter the region) version of this movie on DVD yet? Is it out on DVD yet?

EDIT: Nevermind according to monkeypeaches only poor quality bootlegs are out right now... another site says Sony Pictures has picked up the movie for NA distribution, so we'll see...

 

[Boogie9IGN]

I LOVE YOU ZHANG ZIYI

That whole bamboo trap thing kicked ass

 

[FoneBone]

IMDB says it opens December 10th in limited release.

EDIT: ... but Sony's own site says December 3rd.
http://www.sonyclassics.com/comingsoon.php?filmid=88&page=2

 

[Alucard]

Yes, this movie will rock.

 

[Dan]

After having seen Returner, I have a damned difficult time believing that Takeshi Kaneshiro could ever put forth a good performance. He sucked, and the movie sucked, even for a midnight popcorn kind of film. I'm a fan of Zhang Ziyi (this the correct order of her name?) and Andy Lau though, so I'll give this a shot whenever I get the chance.

 

[Cosmic Bus]

Region-3 DVD hits in early December.

 

[Lil' Dice]

I'll buy it on DVD from some HK website....

 

[karasu]

After having seen Returner, I have a damned difficult time believing that Takeshi Kaneshiro could ever put forth a good performance. He sucked, and the movie sucked, even for a midnight popcorn kind of film. I'm a fan of Zhang Ziyi (this the correct order of her name?) and Andy Lau though, so I'll give this a shot whenever I get the chance.

Screw that movie. That was nothing serious.

 

[shuri]

Returner was pretty bad.