Contrary to prior announcements, there are prints of House of Flying Daggers with English subtitles being shown in Tokyo. Yimou Zhang's (Hero, The Road Home) latest movie has received a lot of extremely bad reviews, mostly from Chinese people, but I agree with most of the Western viewers that it is a great film.

It stars Andy Lau and the Japanese/Taiwanese Takeshi Kaneshiro as two police officers in ancient China who are ordered to find and arrest the new leader of a group of rebels called the House of Flying Daggers. Their plan is for Kaneshiro to go undercover, free the recently captured blind daughter (Zhang Ziyi, currently China's hottest actress, star of Hero, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, and The Road Home) of the old leader from prison, win her trust, and led her lead them to the rebels' secret hideout. As it turns out, the undercover officer is not the only one with a hidden identity and a secret mission.

8 points