{"id":9342,"date":"2005-08-14T13:20:52","date_gmt":"2005-08-14T10:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/14\/shi-mian-mai-fu\/"},"modified":"2005-08-14T13:20:52","modified_gmt":"2005-08-14T10:20:52","slug":"shi-mian-mai-fu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/14\/shi-mian-mai-fu\/","title":{"rendered":"Shi mian mai fu"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><!-- IMDB tt0385004 --><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/rummovie\/tt0385004.jpg?w=660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Shi mian mai fu (2004)\" \/>Looking for some martial arts movie to watch, I cam across &#8220;<a href =\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0385004\">Shi mian mai fu<\/a>&#8221; (aka &#8220;House of Flying Daggers&#8221;).  It was made in China and had both a good title and a covering picture, so I fell for it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directed by:<\/strong> Yimou Zhang<br \/>\n<strong>Genres:<\/strong> Action, Drama, Romance<br \/>\n<strong>Cast:<\/strong> Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Ziyi Zhang, Dandan Song<br \/>\n<strong>IMDB raintg:<\/strong> 7.6<br \/>\n<strong>My rating:<\/strong> 7.0 [rate 7.0]<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t a pure martial arts movie per se.  It was a dramatic love story with few fights in it.  While the fights were outstanding and in the best traditions of Chinese martial arts movies of modern times, I realized that it&#8217;s the wrong kind (by wrong kind I mean that it wasn&#8217;t the movie that I was wanting to see) of movie far too late.  It happened way after the midfilm, when I got tired of waiting for a fight and none came.  Usually, when I get tired of waiting, the fight starts.  And it didn&#8217;t.  So, I stopped and checked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0385004\/\">IMDB page<\/a> for the movie.  Action,  drama, romance.  Call me odd by I got disapponted.<\/p>\n<p>The beauty of the film though still caught up with me.  Since I was way deep into the movie and very close to the end, I decided to finish watching it rather than stopping.  It was only than that I realized how good the film was.  The drama was intense, the acting was strong and the story was with a few twists, shifting the role of the bad guy from person to person.<\/p>\n<p>And the ending was perfect.  It was intense and unpredictable.  Not unpredictable in the way when you don&#8217;t know what will happen, but in a way when you have several choices for the ending and you don&#8217;t know which one the director will go, until he goes.<\/p>\n<p>I also enjoyed the photography and music during the whole film.  Luckily, I pay always pay attention for these during any kind of movie, and so I could appreciate the work done here.  Oh, and I also have to mention the dance with the long sleves in the beginning of the movie &#8211; it was oustanding too.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Looking for some martial arts movie to watch, I cam across &#8220;Shi mian mai fu&#8221; (aka &#8220;House of Flying Daggers&#8221;). It was made in China and had both a good title and a covering picture, so I fell for it. Directed by: Yimou Zhang Genres: Action, Drama, Romance Cast: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Ziyi Zhang, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/14\/shi-mian-mai-fu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shi mian mai fu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[1971,500],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-movies","tag-china","tag-romance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9401,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/01\/shao-lin-san-shi-liu-fang\/","url_meta":{"origin":9342,"position":0},"title":"Shao Lin san shi liu fang","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 1, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Once in a while it's god to watch something really old and good. 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