Out here in the West, Zhang Yimou has an established reputation as an auteur of wuxia martial arts films. Pieces of lavish design and spectacle such as Hero and House of Flying Daggers and even the execrable The Great Wall. However, to assume this all he’s capable of is a bit like assuming that Jack Daniels is the only whiskey made in Tennessee. The martial arts stuff is just what makes it over to us and is broad enough to penetrate the Western consciousness. In truth Yimou is a highly versatile workhorse of a director, dabbling in everything from personal drama to crime to espionage.
It is this territory in which Cliff Walkers is set. On the snow swept hills of North East China in the 1930s when the nation was under Japanese occupation. Here four Chinese agents of the Soviet Union are parachuted outside the city of Harbin to extract an informant.
It is this territory in which Cliff Walkers is set. On the snow swept hills of North East China in the 1930s when the nation was under Japanese occupation. Here four Chinese agents of the Soviet Union are parachuted outside the city of Harbin to extract an informant.
- 5/4/2021
- by Liam Macleod
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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