House of Flying Daggers (2004)
Coming Out at 15 July 2004 in theaters.
“Shi mian mai fu”
Action, Adventure, Drama
House of Flying Daggers is wuxia romance film directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Andy Lau, Zhang Ziyi and Takeshi Kaneshiro. Unlike other wuxia films, it is more of a love story than purely a martial arts film.
The film opened in limited release within the United States on 3 December 2004, in New York City and Los Angeles, and opened on additional screens throughout the country two weeks later. The film grossed $11,050,094 in United States box office, and then went on to significantly overperform in home video market in the United States.
In AD 859, as the Tang Dynasty declines, several rebel groups are established, the largest of which is the House of Flying Daggers, based in Fengtian, who battle the corrupt government that oppresses the people. Its members use special throwing daggers that always hit their targets to steal from the rich and give to the poor, gaining the support of the locals. Two police officers, Leo (Andy Lau) and Jin (Takeshi Kaneshiro)—who are best friends—are ordered to kill the leader of the group within ten days, a task that appears to be impossible as no one knows who the leader of the House of the Flying Daggers is.
Director: Yimou Zhang
Writers: Feng Li, Bin Wang, Yimou Zhang
Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Dandan Song
Cast:
Takeshi Kaneshiro | … | Jin |
Andy Lau | … | Leo |
Ziyi Zhang | … | Xiao Mei |
Dandan Song | … | Yee |
Hongfei Zhao | … | Performer |
Jun Guo | … | Performer |
Shu Zhang | … | Performer |
Jiusheng Wang | … | Performer |
Zhengyong Zhang | … | Performer |
Yongxin Wang | … | Performer |
Dong Liu | … | Performer |
Qi Zi | … | Performer |
Xuedong Qu | … | Performer |
Liping Tian | … | Performer |
Hongwei Zhao | … | Performer |
Weina Huang | … | Performer |
Dan Ge | … | Performer |
Xiadong Yang | … | Performer |
Yisha Shang | … | Performer |
Ying Liu | … | Performer |
Jingwen Huang | … | Performer |
Kejia Zhang | … | Performer |
Tianyou Luo | … | Performer |
Lin Zhu | … | Performer |
Jiwei Hu | … | Performer |
Yu Hong | … | Performer |
Bojie Hao | … | Performer |
Jiajun Zhu | … | Performer |
Ge Xu | … | Performer |
Jingxiu Chou | … | Performer |
Cuifang Guo | … | Performer |
Chengyuan Li | … | Performer |
Shuo Zhang | … | Performer |
Jidong Zhang | … | Performer |
Qiang Li | … | Performer |
Yang Fu | … | Performer |
Guang Yang | … | Performer |
Yang Wen | … | Performer |
Liang Chen | … | Performer |
Xiuqiang Lin | … | Performer |
Kun Wang | … | Performer |
Meng Li | … | Performer |
Ming Dong | … | Performer |
Xiaodong Zheng | … | Performer |
Chacha Song | … | Performer |
Xuanyi Wang | … | Performer |
Xueying Huang | … | Performer |
Sources: imdb & wikipedia