Why these 2 movies are really Zhang Yimou's best wuxia films
Hero and House of Flying Daggers are Zhang Yimou’s most famous wuxia films, but they are not his best. The Chinese filmmaker’s greatest accomplishments in the wuxia genre lie elsewhere. Zhang’s first two wuxia films, Hero and House of Flying Daggers were criticised in mainland China for being superficial, so he decided to make 2006’s Curse of the Golden Flower...
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