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House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu)

  • Rated PG 13
  • 1hr 59m
  • 89

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Yimou Zhang

Producer:

William Kong, Sook Yhun

Writer:

Feng Li, Bin Wang

Release Date:

Dec 3, 2004

Runtime:

1hr 59m

Synopsis

A romantic police captain breaks a beautiful member of a rebel group out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.

Cast

  • Takeshi Kaneshiro
  • Andy Lau
  • Ziyi Zhang
  • Dandan Song
  • Hongfei Zhao
  • Jun Guo
  • Shu Zhang
  • Jiusheng Wang
  • Zhengyong Zhang
  • Yongxin Wang

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Metacritic

89
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Based on 37 Critics
8.8

USER SCORE (478)

Universal acclaim based on 478 Reviews
100

Quite simply, House of Flying Daggers is a film that sets several new standards for production and entertainment values. It is a wild riot of color, music, passion, action, mystery, pure old-fashioned thrills and even dancing.

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Metacritic review by Phil Hall
Phil Hall
Film Threat
90

A glorious new addition to martial-arts cinema.

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Metacritic review by Kirk Honeycutt
Kirk Honeycutt
The Hollywood Reporter
88

Forget Hero -- that cult hit was just Zhang Yimou's warm-up for this martial-arts fireball that throws in a lyrical love story, head-spinning fights and dazzling surprises.

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Metacritic review by Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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