House of Flying Daggers [Blu-ray] by Zhang Yimou, starring Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Ziyi Zhang: DVDNear.com

House of Flying Daggers [Blu-ray]

House of Flying Daggers [Blu-ray]
by Zhang Yimou

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Actor: Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Ziyi Zhang
Director: Zhang Yimou
Brand: Ingram
Blu-ray: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Mandarin Chinese (Original Language); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); English (Dubbed); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 119 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2006-06-20
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Product features:

Condition: New
Format: Blu-ray
AC-3; Color; Dolby; Dubbed; Subtitled; Widescreen

Movie Reviews of House of Flying Daggers [Blu-ray]

Movie Review: A Beautiful Blu-ray Experience
Summary: 5 Stars

As a Blu-ray presentation you won't get much better than this. House of Flying Daggers on Blu-ray is a true HD remaster and you will know that as soon as it starts playing. After being burned myself on some BD releases that were barely upgraded from DVD, you can purchase this one with confidence.

Along with a wonderful picture the disc includes an HD audio track in Chinese. If your system can play HD audio then that's the best way to watch this movie, even if you don't like subtitles. It's terrible that all BD releases don't have a HD audio track because it's really eye opening when you listen to it back to back with the regular 5.1.

There are a few extras, though I don't pay attention to them so you'll have to discover them yourself. This film does not use any BD Live functions that I could find.

If you want an entertaining movie that shows off the best your HDTV can offer then you can't go wrong here.

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Summary of House of Flying Daggers [Blu-ray]

"Prepare your eyes for popping," in this "martial-arts fireball that throws in a lyrical love story, head spinning fights and dazzling surprises" (Rolling Stone). "A gorgeous entertainment" (A.O. Scott, New York Times). Mei is an exotic, beautiful blind dancer, associated with a dangerous revolutionary gang, known as the House of Flying Daggers. Captured by officers of the decadent Tang Dynasty, Mei finds herself both threatened - and attracted - to the most unusual circumstances. Here, her heart and loyalties battle each other, amid warriors in the treetops and dazzling combat - the likes of which have never before been seen!

No one uses color like Chinese director Zhang Yimou--movies like Raise the Red Lantern or Hero, though different in tone and subject matter, are drenched in rich, luscious shades of red, blue, yellow, and green. House of Flying Daggers is no exception; if they weren't choreographed with such vigorous imagination, the spectacular action sequences would seem little more than an excuse for vivid hues rippling across the screen. Government officers Leo and Jin (Asian superstars Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro) set out to destroy an underground rebellion called the House of Flying Daggers (named for their weapon of choice, a curved blade that swoops through the air like a boomerang). Their only chance to find the rebels is a blind women named Mei (Ziyi Zhang, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) who has some lethal kung fu moves of her own. In the guise of an aspiring rebel, Jin escorts Mei through gorgeous forests and fields that become bloody battlegrounds as soldiers try to kill them both. While arrows and spears of bamboo fly through the air, Mei, Jin, and Leo turn against each other in surprising ways, driven by passion and honor. Zhang's previous action/art film, Hero, sometimes sacrificed momentum for sheer visual beauty; House of Flying Daggers finds a more muscular balance of aesthetic splendor and dazzling swordplay. --Bret Fetzer

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