Susan Hated Literature

Apr 23 2007

Curse of the Golden Flower

Published by Fence under Moving Pictures

or Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia
Dir: Yimou Zhang Writ: Yimou Zhang & Yu Cao

Yun-Fat Chow - Emperor Ping
Li Gong - Empress Phoenix
Jay Chou - Prince Jai
Ye Liu - Crown Prince Wan
Junjie Qin - Prince Yu

Set in the Tang dynasty in the 10th Century, this film tells the tale of the Emperor Ping and his cold war with his wife, Empress Phoenix, as well as both of their attempts to influence the three princes. The eldest, Crown Prince Wan’s mother was the Emperor’s first wife, has been raised by Phoenix as well as her two sons. But the emperor is not happy with his wife. As her father is an important neighbouring king he cannot do away with her in the open and instead decides that as she is “sick” she needs to take her medicine. Medicine that he has formulated, and which includes a poison that will slowly cause damage and leave her nothing but a vegetable. Obviously she doesn’t want this to happen and so makes other plans.

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Jul 09 2006

Fearless

Published by Fence under Moving Pictures

aka Huo Yuanjia
Dir: Ronny Yu
Writ: Chris Chow

Jet Li - Huo Yoanjia
Shido Nakamura - Anno Tanaka
Dong Yong - Nong Jinsun
Betty Sun - Moon

Billed as Jet Li’s final martial arts epic, you should know to expect plenty of fight scenes in this film. But there is also a plot and a storyline too. One that revolves around the historical figure of Huo Yuanjia, a man who in his early life won great renown as a fighter and practitioner of wushu a skill he learned despite his father’s orders to the contrary.