Zhang Yimou
Hero (Ying Xiong)
Edition 2003
98'
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2002
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Action, Drama, Adventure
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Dialogue:
Mandarin
Director:
Zhang Yimou
Composer:
Dun Tan
With:
Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang
Towards the end of the warring states period (481-221 B.C.), China was divided into seven kingdoms. It was an age dominated by death and despair. The king of the northern province, Qin, was obsessed by the desire of being the leader of the greatest, most powerful empire. He was the target of numerous attacks. But there were only three of his enemies' warriors that he realy feared: Broken Sword, Flying Snow and Sky. After ten years an enigmatic county sheriff, Nameless, arrives at the palace with the weapons of the defeated warriors...
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Credits
Director
Zhang Yimou
Composer
Dun Tan
With
Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang
Scenario
Feng Li, Bin Wang, Zhang Yimou
Editor
Angie Lam, Ru Zhai
Producer
Zhang Yimou, Kong William
More information
Dialogue
Mandarin
Countries of production
Hong Kong, China
Year
2002
Filmography
Zhang Yimou
Raise the Red Latern (1991), The Story of Qiu Ju (1992), Keep Cool (1997), Not One Less (1999), The Road Home (1999), Hero (2002), House of the Flying Daggers (2004), Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005), Curse of the Golden Flower (2006), A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (2009), Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010), The Flowers of War (2011), Coming Home (2014), The Great Wall (2016), Shadow (2018), One Second (2020), a.o.
