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Title Shi mian mai fu = House of Flying Daggers / Jing ying ji tuan qi ye you xian gong si chu pin ; An le ying pian you xian gong si, Zhang Yimou gong zuo shi, Beijing xin hua mian ying ye you xian gong si lian he she zhi ; jian zhi, Jiang Zhiqiang, Zhang Yimou ; bian ju, Li Feng, Zhang Yimou, Wang Bin ; dao yan, Zhang Yimou.
十面埋伏 / Sony Pictures Classics ; 精英集團企業有限公司出品 ; 安乐影片有限公司, 张艺谋工作室, 北京新画面影业有限公司联合摄制 ; 監製, 江志強, 張藝謀 ; 编剧, 李冯, 张艺谋, 王斌 ; 导演, 张艺谋.

Publication Info. Culver City, CA : Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2005.
©2005.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Video  PN1997.2 .H685 2005    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
surround
Dolby digital 5.1
video file
DVD video
region 1
Contents Start -- Mei -- Beauty song -- Echo game -- Assassination attempt -- Threat of torture -- Rescuing Mei -- Wind -- Mounted assault -- Cool as water -- Secret meeting -- Real flowers -- "Soldiers are approaching" -- Unseen benefactor -- Nature of wind -- Bamboo forest -- Flying daggers -- Blindsided -- Mole -- Three years -- No future -- His life in her hands -- "If we meet again ..." -- Life-changing decision -- All truths revealed -- Blood on snow -- Destiny by dagger -- " ... a beauty like this."
System Details DVD; region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround; widescreen presentation, 2.35:1 aspect ratio.
Cast Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Zhang Ziyi, Song Dandan.
Credits Director of photography, Zhao Xiaoding ; editor, Cheng Long ; original music scored and produced by Shigeru Umebayashi ; costume designer, Emi Wada ; production designer, Huo Tingxiao ; action director, Tony Ching Siu-Tung ; theme song "Lovers" performed by Kathleen Battle.
Event Originally produced as a motion picture in 2004.
Note Special features: Commentary with Ziyi Zhang and Zhang Yimou [audio feature]; Making-of "House of Flying Daggers" [featurette] (45 min.); Creating the visual effects [featurette] (4 min.); Storyboard comparisons [featurette] (17 min.); Costumes gallery [slide show] (2 min.); Behind the scenes photo gallery [slide show] (3 min.); Theme song "Lovers" music video (4 min.); Previews (5 min.).
Audience MPAA rating: PG-13 for sequences of stylized martial arts violence, and some sexuality; Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.
Summary "China 859 A.D. The once-mighty Tang dynasty is in decline. The emperor is weak and incompetent. His corrupt government no longer controls the land. Unrest sweeps the country. Village by village, an underground alliance forms: The House of Flying Daggers. Based near the imperial capital the House of Flying Daggers moves in the shadows. Stealing from the rich to give to the poor, they earn the support of the people. At the same time, they are feared and hated, by their bitter rivals, the local deputies."--Title screens. Local captains Leo and Jin set out to investigate a blind young dancer named Mei, who is believed to have ties to the Flying Daggers. Leo arrests Mei, only to have Jin break her out in a plot to gain her trust and lead the police to the new leader of the secret organization. Things are, however, far more complicated than they seem.
Awards Golden Satellite Awards, 2005, Golden Satellite Award - Best Cinematography (Xiaoding Zhao).
Language In Chinese [Mandarin], dubbed English or French, with optional subtitles in English or French.
Terms Of Use For private home use only.
Subject Secret societies -- China -- Drama.
Secret societies.
China.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Police -- China -- Drama.
Police.
Man-woman relationships -- China -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships.
China -- Social conditions -- Drama.
Social conditions.
China -- Politics and government -- Drama.
Politics and government.
Indexed Term Jing cha Zhongguo Xi ju.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Martial arts films.
Fantasy films.
Action and adventure films.
Fantasy films.
Adventure films.
Feature films.
Martial arts films.
Fantasy films.
Action and adventure films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Romance -- Feature.
Adventure -- Feature.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Subject Police.
Genre/Form Drama.
Added Author Zhang, Yimou, screenwriter, author, director, producer.
张艺谋. screenwriter, author, director, producer.
Kong, Bill, producer.
Li, Feng, 1968- screenwriter, author.
Wang, Bin, 1949- screenwriter, author.
Kaneshiro, Takeshi, actor.
Lau, Andy, 1961- actor.
Zhang, Ziyi, 1979- actor.
章子怡, 1979- actor.
Song, Dandan, actor.
Zhao, Xiaoding, cinematographer.
Umebayashi, Shigeru, 1951- composer.
Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
Elite Group Enterprises.
Edko Films.
安乐影片有限公司.
Zhang Yimou gong zuo shi.
张艺谋工作室.
Beijing xin hua mian ying ye you xian gong si.
北京新画面影业有限公司.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
Added Title Shi mian mai fu (Motion picture) https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2005101143
Note Title on disc label: House of flying daggers
ISBN 140497010X
9781404970106
Standard No. 043396091788
00043396091788
043396091801
g2011:426134
4339609178
Music No. 09178 Sony Pictures Classics