If you're a member of the Chinese Royal Family, you just can't have any secrets. The Imperial Palace has thousands of servants and everybody is on somebody else's team. Sneaky eunuchs, sneaky imperial doctors. The intrigue is endless.
I saw Curse of the Golden Flower. It's a pretty good, grandiose, very beautifully colourful melodrama. And I mean melodrama.
The cruel and evil Emperor is played by the one, the only, Chow Yun-Fat. And the moral of the story is the same one we all learned way back in the days of Hard Boiled: Never, ever, EVER mess with Chow Yun-Fat.
I expected him to be wielding two swords at the same time, but he never had to. He's that good.
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so about this time next year, it should make it to the movie channel, right?
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