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This movie is utterly breathtaking! A sumptuous visual feast that feeds your soul as well as your eyes. Ang Lee skilfully weaves the best elements of traditional Chinese cinema with a Hollywood-like budget and serves up what will surely become the most successful foreign language film of all time (mark my words!).
What a joy too in finding a film that gives women such strong, defined and central roles. Look out Hollywood - this film is out to show you that the era of the male dominated action role is looking decidedly worn around the edges.
Beautiful settings, lavish costumes, vivid colours, spectacular action scenes and powerful on-screen relationships all combine to transcend this movie above it's contemporaries.
If you're after some good old-fashioned storytelling that will have you shedding the odd tear, both though laughter and sorrow, then you can't go wrong with this film.
One thing though, when you sit down to watch it, make sure you're comfy - you won't be going anywhere for the duration of it!
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Production Year: 2003 - Martial Arts - Director: Paul Hunter - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William Scott, James King, Karel Roden
Production Year: 1972 - Martial Arts - Director: Bruce Lee - Original Language: English\Cantonese\Chinese - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Chuck Norris, Robert Wall, Jon T. Benn
Production Year: 1991 - Martial Arts - Director: Tsui Hark - Original Language: Cantonese - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Donnie Yen, Jet Lee, Rosamund Kwan, Yuen Biao, Mok Sui Chung
Production Year: 1981 - Martial Arts - Director: Kenji Misumi, Robert Houston - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ohki, Akiji Kobayashi, Shin Kishida, Masahiro Tomikawa, Tomisaburo Wakayama
Martial Arts - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Bruce Lee, Sho Kosugi, James Ryan, Jim Kelly, Jimmy Wang Yu, Bolo Yeung, Christopher Lee
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