Baotian Li,
Fu Biao,
Jiang Baoying,
Li Baotian,
Li Gong
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Shanghai, 1930. Mr. Tang, the godfather chief of the Tang family-run underground Green dynasty, controls the city's lucrative opium and prostitution trade. He has also acquired the services of Xiao Ji...( read more
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Directed by: Baotian Li, Fu Biao, Jiang Baoying, Li Baotian, Li Gong, Li Xuejian, Liu Jiang, Shu Chen, Sun Chun, Wang Xiaoxiao, Yang Qianquan, Yimou Zhang
Release Date: December 22, 1995
DVD Release Date: December 12, 2000
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March 21, 2009A gangster flick in the eastern tradition,Yimou is not ashamed to produce vivid landscapes and some morbid ones in the first part.It's a mid-90's Yimou,compared to the heartless Hero and Curse of the Golden Flower,this one possesses a terrific strength/narration recent gangster f...( read more)
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September 17, 2009This is the best Zhang Yimou film I have seen. I found The Road Home dull and his recent wuxia films to be too overblown for their own good, but this exists somewhere in between.
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March 10, 2008How do Yimou and Gong Li continue to make such beautifully stunning films? She is amazing. Their relationship (both on and off the screen) had a bit of a falling out after this film. Yimou's visual style would also change dramatically afterwards.
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February 14, 2008what a terrible, twisted, hard-to-understand plot. But...Zhang Yimou excels at these tragedies...and the filming, acting, and "twisting" really are impressive.
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