It is more a drama than a martial arts flicks. Believe it or not, it is a remake of a late 50’s movie “Thunder Rain”. Starring a teenaged Bruce Lee. Yep, THE Bruce Lee. Whom played the character of the youngest son. The movie was based on a famous pre-war novel “Family Spring and Autumn (Means ‘The rise and fall of a family’ or ‘History of a family’)” about a moral decaying promenade family. Which the eldest son had an affair with the step mom (Yike!), and later fell in love with a chamber maid, whom turned out to be his long lost half sister by his supposingly dead mom. Which the long lost mom co-incidentally reappeared after she learned her daughter got pregnanted by the eldest son…Director Zhang Yimou has added a lots of Blinks and extras in the movies and turned the story’s time line back a thousand year, but the story hasn’t changed much. All in all, it’s a good movie for entertainment, but I won’t hold my breath for a academy award nomination.
In the spirit of such landmark Asian films as Akira Kurosawa’s RAN from Japan and Zhang Yimou’s own HERO and HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER promises ...more
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