A single marriage stands in for a national tragedy. When director Yimou Zhang took on The Rape of Nanking in The Flowers of War, he proportioned the look and feel of his film to the event: florid, unrestrained, unsubtle as a bayonet to the crotch. Here, he's treating China's cultural …
Nipponese bodice-ripper, from the best-seller by Arthur Golden, though it plays as if it could just as well have been by Danielle Steel, a Cinderella story of the rise and fall and rise and fall and rise of a blue-eyed geisha in pre-war and postwar Japan. "A story like mine," …
Urban crime drama directed by Yimou Zhang and starring Jiayin LeiGuoli, Zhang, and Hewei Yu.