Fighting for Peace (and Art Films), Zhang Yimou on &quot;Hero&quot;
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Not if you allow Emperor Qin to unify feudal societies, build the Great Wall of china, and rule all the Warring States, supposedly putting an end to bloodshed and suffering for their folks.
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A major Hollywood studio and top US screen star unveil a new documentary addressing the bloody conflict that has raged without resolution for four years in in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region.
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China's top Communist Party training academy has slammed Oscar-nominated director Zhang Yimou's latest film "Curse of the Golden Flower" as the latest in a line of bloodthirsty blockbusters smearing modern Chinese cinema.
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Two years after opening in China,  the martial arts thriller "Hero" set a record for an Asian film  in North America, kicking off at No. 1 with a  better-than-expected haul of $17.8 million, according to studio  estimates issued on Sunday.
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A major Hollywood studio and top US screen star have unveiled a new documentary addressing the bloody conflict that has raged without resolution for four years in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region.
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Jackie Chan is in talks with famed Chinese director Zhang Yimou about a possible collaboration, his spokesman said Monday.
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Zhang Yimou&#39;s &#39;&#39;House of Flying Daggers&quot; is, hands down, the most visually ravishing movie of the year. It has sequences of balletic martial arts action that can
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&quot;Hero,&quot; Jet Li&#39;s acclaimed martial-arts epic, vanquished giant snakes, serial killers and a gang of superbabies to debut as the top weekend film with $17.
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Chinese martial arts thriller &quot;Hero&quot; logged a second weekend at the top of the North American box office during the US Labor Day holiday, while four new entries failed to make much of an impression.
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Steven Spielberg used his position as an artistic advisor for the 2008 Beijing Olympics to urge Chinese President Hu Jintao into pressure Sudan to accept UN peacekeepers. He also urged the Sudanese government to accept the peacekeepers. The UN peacekee...
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With Korean companies like Hyundai and Samsung now industry giants, Hyung Rae Shim, a film producer based in Seoul, wants to pull off a similar feat with his film âDragon Wars.â
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Zhang Yimou takes a pause between marital arts extravaganzas with this simple, affecting melodrama about a mournful Japanese patriarch on an odyssey through rural China.
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rights to Chinese director Zhang Yimou&#39;s martial-arts epic, &quot;Ying xiong,&quot; or &quot;Hero.&quot; Miramax, Biskind says, hoped that &quot;Hero&quot; might become the next &quot;Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.&quot; It didn&#39;t, though. The company bungled the picture&#39;s release, reportedly ...
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Zack Snyder talks about his ultraviolent film based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, from its amazing digital effects to its politics. Wired News interview by Jason Silverman.
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You're unlikely to find a martial arts movie as beautiful as Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers, but you'll need to look elsewhere for passion. By Jason Silverman.
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The director He Ping's panoramic epic is the latest Chinese answer to the American western film genre: martial arts meets Marshal Will Kane.
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Chinese martial arts film "Hero," starring Jet Li and Zhang Ziyi, opened at No. 1 at the North American box office this weekend. The flick, which was nominated for a foreign-language Oscar in 2003, grossed $17.8 million. Another new movie...