Known for making films about familial relationships, director Ang Lee surprised everyone with his martial arts epic CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON. Based on a novel by Wang Du Lu, CROUCHING TIGER starts with the revenge plot common in the wuxia stories that Lee loved as a child, then adds a feminist twist. Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun .. Read more
| Starring | Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen |
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| Director | Ang Lee |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, World Cinema |
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To celebrate the release of Blood: The Last Vampire, from 2nd November, on Blu-ray and DVD, we are giving you the chance to get your mits on a fantastic new Samsung Blu-ray player. Now that’s a prize you can really sink your teeth into! Directed and produced by the impressive combined talents of Chris Nahon (Chasing the Dragon, Kiss of the Dragon) and William Kong (Crouching Tiger, Hero), Blood: The Last Vampire is based on the hugely popular cult hit anime series of the same name.... Read more
Yann Martel's bestselling novel The Life of Pi is set to be made into a film. According to reports, Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, famous for Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, is in talks to adapt the Booker Prize-winning novel. Earlier reports suggested that M Night Shyamalan had been set to write and direct the movie. Lee is currently working on Taking Woodstock, starring Emile Hirsch and Demetri Martin. The novel, which tells the story of a boy cast adrift on the ocean... Read more
Internet reports suggest that George Clooney is being lined up to star in the remake of the much-lauded Japanese classic The Seven Samurai. The 1954 original, which inspired John Sturges' 1960 western The Magnificent Seven, was acclaimed as a masterpiece and set a new standard for Japanese film-making, becoming the country's highest grossing movie. Akira Kurosawa's cult movie has defined genre characteristics for many critics, with some suggesting that the recruitment of the seven heroes is a... Read more
Ang Lee's new film - his second filmed in China, after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and his first since the acclaimed Brokeback Mountain - begins with such an intensely observed game of mahjong you half expect the Hulk to appear from underneath the table and scatter these society ladies who have so little to talk about but their husbands, business, and black market goods. We are in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, 1942. The hostess, Mrs Yee (Joan Chen), is sitting pretty. Her husband (Tony Leung) Read more
Riding the crest of the Kill Bill wave Hero is preparing for its UK launch. The martial arts romp gets its UK release this week, with fans eagerly anticipating another visually stunning instalment from the action-backed genre. Films like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill double-header have whetted the appetites of film fans. Hero stars Jet Li as a nameless assassin defying death and gravity in third century China during a series of tales about his battles with a... Read more