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A romantic police captain breaks a beautiful member of a rebel group out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.A romantic police captain breaks a beautiful member of a rebel group out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.A romantic police captain breaks a beautiful member of a rebel group out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 26 wins & 74 nominations total
Ziyi Zhang
- Xiao Mei
- (as Zhang Ziyi)
Xiadong Yang
- Performer
- (as Yang Xiaodong)
- Director
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- TriviaThe climactic fight scene was filmed in Ukraine. It snowed so early (October) that it caught the filmmakers by surprise, as they had already started filming. They decided to change the script and the movie so that it would appear almost as if this epic battle began during the fall and ended during winter. Yimou Zhang was very happy with how it turned out because it set the perfect tone and obviously highlighted the blood spilled on the snow.
- GoofsBefore Jin and Mei are trapped by the bamboo spears they are standing among hundreds of short bamboo spears pierced into the ground as a trap. When the soldiers get killed by The Flying Daggers and fall down to the ground, the short bamboo spears are all gone.
- Crazy creditsThe Chinese theatrical release has a Chinese translation of the ending song (which has lyrics in English) on the left side of the screen during the credits.
- Alternate versionsThe US version has blood reduced or digitally painted out of some of the fight scenes in order to secure a PG-13 rating.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Siskel & Ebert: The Best Films of 2004 (2005)
Featured review
In the Ninth Century, the Tang Dinasty in China is weak and corrupt, and an army of rebels called "The House of the Flying Daggers" fights against the government military forces, and steals from the rich to give to the poor people. Leo (Andy Lau) and Jin (Takeshi Kaneshiro), two captains of the government army, plot a scheme against the rebels using the blind dancer Mei (Zhang Ziyi) to approach their leaders, but their love for Mei leads them to a tragedy.
"Shi mian mai fu" is a beautiful romantic adventure, with amazing clothing, cinematography, colors, music score, fight and martial arts choreography and special effects. The story begins like an action movie, and ends like a tragic romance. Visually, it is an impressive masterpiece, the story is also very nice, Zhang Ziyi is amazingly gorgeous and I really liked this movie a lot. My vote is nine.
Title (Brazil): "O Clã das Adagas Voadoras"("The Clan of the Flying Daggers")
"Shi mian mai fu" is a beautiful romantic adventure, with amazing clothing, cinematography, colors, music score, fight and martial arts choreography and special effects. The story begins like an action movie, and ends like a tragic romance. Visually, it is an impressive masterpiece, the story is also very nice, Zhang Ziyi is amazingly gorgeous and I really liked this movie a lot. My vote is nine.
Title (Brazil): "O Clã das Adagas Voadoras"("The Clan of the Flying Daggers")
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- Nov 11, 2005
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- Also known as
- Attack from Ten Directions
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- Budget
- CN¥100,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $11,050,094
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $397,472
- Dec 5, 2004
- Gross worldwide
- $92,863,945
- Runtime1 hour 59 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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