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Wong Kar-wai isn't a filmmaker particularly known for his sense of humour. His work is many things: romantic, sumptuous, sensual, atmospheric. When he does attempt comedy, it's often tied to one character, an oddball outlier who provides a humorous foil to one of his stony-faced protagonists. The last thing you would expect his name attached to is a wacky parody wuxia movie less in line with King Hu and more on the same page as a Zucker Brothers production, and yet, from the spare change of the enormously expensive and troubled production behind his own “Ashes of Time”, “The Eagle Shooting Heroes” exists.

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Jet Tone Films was established after the release of Wong's first two sensitive tough guy movies (“As Tears Go By” and “Days of Being Wild”), and its initial efforts went towards adapting Jin Yong's classic wuxia novel,...

The house invasion sub-genre has been around long before it become one of the standard tropes in modern horror cinema. It’s usually a good way to build suspense by keeping the action confined to a restricted setting. The Audrey Hepburn vehicle “Wait until Dark” upped the ante with this by making the heroine blind which only further added to the tension by increasing the vulnerability of the lead. In turn it became much more cathartic when they would finally get the upper hand. “Three Days of a Blind Girl” is of a similar vein as it seeks to be a rollercoaster ride of suspense for its audience.

Jack Ng (Anthony Chan) is with his wife (Veronica Yip) as she leaves a consultation with her doctor (Alfred Cheung). Due to a complication following an eye operation in the states, she will be temporarily blind for three days.