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House of Flying Daggers

Name: House of Flying Daggers
Director: Zhang Yimou
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action
Released: 2004-07-16
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Zhang Ziyi, Song Dandan, Zhao Hongfei

2004 · 1h 59m · Adventure, Drama, Action

IMDb 7.5 Metacritic 89 RT 87%

Watch it tonight. Zhang Yimou's visual masterpiece delivers stunning choreography, betrayal-laden plotting, and swooning romance that justifies the critical consensus—this is arthouse action done right, and the scores prove it's the real deal.

Plot

In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.

Director: Zhang Yimou

Cast: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Zhang Ziyi, Song Dandan, Zhao Hongfei

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