Traveling Alone for Thousands of Miles, about a Japanese man traveling to China to learn about his filmmaker son. Now Zhang now combines the genres of melodrama and martial arts action for his latest ...

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In "Hero" (2003), "House of Flying Daggers" (2004) and now "Curse of the Golden Flower," director Zhang Yimou has transformed Hong Kong martial arts/fantasy movies ...

Just as you start to fret that all movie plots are alike, along comes Zhang Yimou’s action drama “Curse of the Golden Flower,” with a storyline that’s guaranteed to hoist an eyebrow or two. In ...

For all of Zhang Yimou’s well-earned accolades, a debate simmers among many in the Chinese film elite over the proper perspective to be given the acclaimed director. Central to the so-called Fifth ...

Zhang Yimou’s “Curse of the Golden Flower” is blessed by an even grander color scheme than those he used in “Hero” and “House of Flying Daggers.” The film also is cursed by its own excesses, the rich ...

"Curse of the Golden Flower" abounds in hysterical, mannered Tang Dynasty-era palace intrigue and dehumanized CGI battle sequences. Despite superstars Chow Yun-fat and Gong Li leading the lavish ...

Sometimes there's nothing as appealing as a good old-fashioned melodrama. What with Hollywood's propensity for glib human observations or even empty escapism, the power of a really heart-wrenching ...

"Curse of the Golden Flower" abounds in hysterical, mannered Tang Dynasty-era palace intrigue and dehumanized CGI battle sequences. Despite superstars Chow Yun-fat and Gong Li leading the lavish ...

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But in this film, Zhang stumbles with a dreary, futile plot in which the only character who seems on top of his game is the one who's on top from the start: Emperor Ping, played by the superb Chow Yun ...