Martial cinema has always been an equal opportunity domain. We have One Armed Swordsmen, The Crippled Avengers and fittingly here a history of Blind Swordsmen exemplified by the Zatoichi series. These individuals would all have exceptional skill to make up for their disability and give countless opportunities for scriptwriters to create ingenious ways to put them in danger. As Well Go USA release “Eye for an Eye: The Blind Swordsman onto Blu Ray, it's an opportunity to observe how the latest incarnation sits among his peers.
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Blind Cheng (Xie Miao) is a Ghost Killer for Dali Temple, a bounty hunter returning with his latest capture. On route, he smells freshly made wine made by Ni Yan (Weiman Gao) for her wedding day. Invited to attend, he witnesses the arrival of her brother Ni Jun, then falls asleep by his horse.
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Blind Cheng (Xie Miao) is a Ghost Killer for Dali Temple, a bounty hunter returning with his latest capture. On route, he smells freshly made wine made by Ni Yan (Weiman Gao) for her wedding day. Invited to attend, he witnesses the arrival of her brother Ni Jun, then falls asleep by his horse.
- 12/4/2023
- by Ben Stykuc
- AsianMoviePulse
After becoming blind, a swordsman with extraordinary skills begins to wander the land. When he meets Ni Yan, a restaurant girl who has been humiliated and had her life destroyed, he vows not to intervene. But as he gradually becomes more involved in a dark dispute, the blind man is forced to embark on a path of revenge-seeking justice and his true identity is revealed. [Source: Far East Films]
This iQIYI release is directed by Yang Bingjia with a cast including Tse Miu, Gao Weiman, Xiang Hao, Ben Liu, and Zhang Di.
This iQIYI release is directed by Yang Bingjia with a cast including Tse Miu, Gao Weiman, Xiang Hao, Ben Liu, and Zhang Di.
- 6/9/2022
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
Even if Monster Hunt were billed in America with “from Raman Hui, the supervising animator of everyone’s favorite DreamWorks player, the Gingerbread Man, and co-director of Shrek the Third, comes a magical adventure of man and beast” on the posters, it wouldn’t be enough. But that’s okay, because Hui didn’t make it for American audiences. Instead, it stemmed from a desire back in 2005 to make an animated film in China after spending so much time with Steven Spielberg‘s company learning the ropes. A decade later and the finished live-action-animated hybrid became the nation’s highest-grossing film ever (since beaten by Stephen Chow‘s The Mermaid). Not even the boast of this acclaim could make it a winner stateside, though. It’s simply too weird for western audiences.
That doesn’t mean it’s bad or indecipherable. Hui utilizes many of the same themes from the...
That doesn’t mean it’s bad or indecipherable. Hui utilizes many of the same themes from the...
- 3/10/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Stars: Daniel Wu, Kevin Spacey, Beibi Gong, Ni Yan, Peter Stormare, Kenneth Tsang, Mo Zhang | Written and Directed by Dayyan Eng
Originally filmed in 2011, Inseparable is one of those movies that defies pigeon-holing. Pegged as a “buddy-cop” superhero movie, the film actually deals with the breakdown of a marriage, mental health issues and how one man can actually make a difference.
Inseparable tells the story of Li (Wu) who, after a series of tragic life events, is burnt out. His beautiful but increasingly moody wife is never home, the unpaid bills are piling up and his work is pressuring him to lie at a public hearing. With seemingly no options left he decides to end it all. But he can’t even do that right. Enter Chuck (Spacey), Li’s wise-talking American neighbour who takes Li under his wing and encourages him to stand up for himself and the exploited people around him.
Originally filmed in 2011, Inseparable is one of those movies that defies pigeon-holing. Pegged as a “buddy-cop” superhero movie, the film actually deals with the breakdown of a marriage, mental health issues and how one man can actually make a difference.
Inseparable tells the story of Li (Wu) who, after a series of tragic life events, is burnt out. His beautiful but increasingly moody wife is never home, the unpaid bills are piling up and his work is pressuring him to lie at a public hearing. With seemingly no options left he decides to end it all. But he can’t even do that right. Enter Chuck (Spacey), Li’s wise-talking American neighbour who takes Li under his wing and encourages him to stand up for himself and the exploited people around him.
- 8/17/2013
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
A week doesn’t seem to pass these days without an ill-conceived Western remake of an Eastern classic, hell with it; they don’t even have to be classics anymore. Zhang Yimou is best known for martial arts period dramas like Hero and House of Flying Daggers, but here he turns the tables on Hollywood with a loose remake of the Coen Brothers cult classic Blood Simple. A strange choice on paper perhaps, and there’s not a lot of evidence on screen to suggest otherwise. Honglei Sun, Xiao Shen-Yang and Ni Yan star in the aptly named A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, available to own for the first time on R2 DVD. Wang (Dahong Ni) is a miserable noodle shop owner in a desert town, but considering the dim-witted company he keeps it’s hardly surprising. His wife (Ni Yan) feels neglected and finds comfort in...
- 4/25/2011
- 24framespersecond.net
Say what you will about Zhang Yimou, the man can build a beautiful extreme long-shot. Otherwise not fit to make their trailers, Yimou’s vast landscapes are as moody as Antonioni’s or Andersen’s, his sprawling back streets as mazelike as Welles’ or Mellville’s, Hero’s grand palace as foreboding as Kubrick’s Overlook Hotel. In A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop, Yimou shoots mountainous desert ranges with an eloquence evoking equal parts Sergio Leone and Ansel Adams. It’s just too bad he can’t tell a story as well as he can shoot a panorama.
Based on the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple, A Woman, A Gun and A Noodle Shop is a well needed step back from the bloated, increasingly nonsensical Kung-Fu epics Yimou produced last decade. It’s also good for him to be on such solid storytelling ground: even his best films (Red Sorghum,...
Based on the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple, A Woman, A Gun and A Noodle Shop is a well needed step back from the bloated, increasingly nonsensical Kung-Fu epics Yimou produced last decade. It’s also good for him to be on such solid storytelling ground: even his best films (Red Sorghum,...
- 2/4/2011
- by Willie Osterweil
- JustPressPlay.net
As regular readers know, foreign films are among my favorites. They provide mirror images of life and societal nuances we experience in our country, with a view of the same life perspectives as it applies to other cultures. In filmmaker Zhang Yimou's Chinese-language film "A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop," which is based on the Coen brothers' 1984 film "Blood Simple," actor Honglei Sun portrays a policeman who receives a bribe from the owner (Dahong Ni) of a Chinese noodle shop as part of a plan to kill his wife (Ni Yan) and her adulterous lover ...
- 9/25/2010
- by Stan Robinson, Phoenix Film Industry Examiner
- Examiner Movies Channel
If there is one genre that lacks critical acclaim it's without a doubt the animal/buddy genre. Usually aimed at small children and/or pet lovers, most of these films only aim for "awww, cute" value and have little else to offer the viewer. Leave it to the Chinese to come up with something that resembles actual quality film making. And if you think that's a stretch already, you'll be baffled to hear they used a cow(!) to pull it off.
Dogs and kittens are usually the favored animals for these kind of films. They are naturally cute and need little extra attention to extract emotional responses from their audience. Japan in particular has been making quite a few cat/dog movies these last couple of years, but none of them very good (although they can be adorable at times). The funky poster artwork and an attractive trailer convinced me...
Dogs and kittens are usually the favored animals for these kind of films. They are naturally cute and need little extra attention to extract emotional responses from their audience. Japan in particular has been making quite a few cat/dog movies these last couple of years, but none of them very good (although they can be adorable at times). The funky poster artwork and an attractive trailer convinced me...
- 6/28/2010
- Screen Anarchy
A trailer for Zhang Yimou’s “Amazing Tales: Three Guns” has popped up online, and it looks … interesting. Adapted by Jianquan Shi and Jing Shang, the Chinese remake of the Brothers Coens’ “Blood Simple” transplants the story into a period film set in a Chinese noodle shop, where the owner schemes to murder his adulterous wife and her lover, but things go awry, as they invariably always do in these type of situations. The comedy-crime thriller stars Honglei Sun, Dahong Ni, Ni Yan, Xiao Shen-Yang, Xiaojuan Wang, and is directed by Zhang Yimou of “The Curse of the Golden Flower” and “The House of Flying Daggers” fame. Plus, he also did some commie stuff recently.
- 11/2/2009
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Twitch’s X has spotted the first trailer for Zhang Yimou’s reinterpretation of the Coen Brother’s Blood Simple., Amazing Tales: Three Guns over at Sina. The film is set in a desert town in China where a neglected owner of a noodle shop (Dahong Ni) hires a corrupt patrol officer (Honglei Sun) to kill his wife (Ni Yan) and her secret lover (Xiao Shen-Yang).
While the trailer looks quite nice (at least from the visual standpoint), I can’t quite get my head around a comedy from the director of “serious” works like Hero and Curse of the Golden Flower.
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While the trailer looks quite nice (at least from the visual standpoint), I can’t quite get my head around a comedy from the director of “serious” works like Hero and Curse of the Golden Flower.
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- 10/30/2009
- by Ulrik
- Affenheimtheater
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