Keyword: china
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Mulan
Tony Bancroft isn’t a director who plays it safe, and Mulan — released in 1998 — is proof of what happens when that restlessness meets a strong cast. “The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.” That’s the line the studio chose to sell the film, and it doesn’t…
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House of Flying Daggers
There’s a reason House of Flying Daggers keeps resurfacing in conversations about the best action films of its era: it simply refuses to be dated. The setup is straightforward enough on paper: In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful…