Asia Society continues its ongoing monthly series titled Films to See Before You Die featuring classic films and underseen gems from across Asia and the Asian diaspora with extended introductions by ...

IN "HOUSE of Flying Daggers," the slow-motion trajectory of a small bean, hurled from a police captain's hand, is a spectacular thing. It's a stunning, moving image, like a hummingbird caught in ...

Shen Teng, left, and Jackson Yee star in “Full River Red.” Niu Vision Media/TNS Yimou Zhang, the great Fifth Generation Chinese auteur and director of “Raise the Red Lantern” (1991), “Hero” (2002), ...

People always describe the fight scenes in martial-arts films as "balletic," which is a fancy way of saying you can enjoy the beauty, grace and athleticism even if you don't like watching people beat ...

Yimou Zhang, the great Fifth Generation Chinese auteur and director of “Raise the Red Lantern” (1991), “Hero” (2002), “House of Flying Daggers” (2004), “A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop” (2009) and ...

Movie imagery, which has grown brutal and ugly in many of the new high-tech action pictures, may yet be redeemed by the elegance of martial arts pictures from the East. Zhang Yimou's 'House of Flying ...