Synopsis
House of Flying Daggers (2004) is Zhang Yimou's martial arts romance you can watch online on iFILM. The year is 859, the Tang dynasty is rotting from within, and the government hunts a rebel order known as the Flying Daggers. Two captains set a trap baited with a beautiful prisoner.
Officer Jin (Takeshi Kaneshiro) poses as a drifter to break blind dancer Mei (Zhang Ziyi) out of jail, hoping she will lead him to the rebel hideout. The scheme holds until he starts to fall for her. Trailing them both is the other captain, Leo (Andy Lau), who shares a buried past with Mei. By the end, nobody on screen is quite who they claimed to be.
The film is remembered for its bamboo-forest duel and the drumming "echo game," shot by cinematographer Zhao Xiaoding, who earned an Academy Award nomination for it. A wuxia tale of love and betrayal, drenched in color. Stream House of Flying Daggers (2004) online on iFILM.
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