Top 3 in Top 8 best films of talented director Zhang Yimou.
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Genre: historical folklore
Duration: 114 minutes
Actors: Chow Yun Fat, Gong Loi, Zhou Jie Lun
Release year: 2006
Curse of the Golden Flower is a martial arts and drama film written and directed by Zhang Yimou. The film's Mandarin title is the last line of a poem by Huang Chao, the leader of the peasant uprising. against the Tang Dynasty from 875 to 884.With a budget of US$45 million, at the time of its release, Hoang Kim Giap surpassed Infinity by director Chen Kaige, becoming the most expensive Chinese film of all time. The work was selected to compete for the Foreign Film Award. The film was nominated for the best costume design category at the 79th Academy Awards but did not receive a nomination. However, the film was still nominated for the category of Best Costume Design. In 2007, at the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards, the film received 14 nominations and 4 awards including Best Actress Award (Gong Loi), Best Action Direction Award (Cheng Xiaodong), Best Makeup and Costume Design Award (He Zhongwen) and Best Soundtrack Award (the song "Chrysanthemum Radio" by Jay Chou).
The story of the film is based on the content of Cao Yu's play "Lei Vu", but the context is pushed back from modern Tianjin to the Later Tang period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
The film takes the plot and details based on the play Lei Vu by Cao Yu, but is pushed back to the context of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, China was in a feudal period of constant war. Emperor Hau Duong before ascending the throne had a romantic relationship with a village girl and had two children, including a son (great prince) and a daughter. However, he concealed the truth to get married and get public the lord of the neighboring country as queen. The village girl swallowed her hatred, hugged her daughter and left her son, then left, married Chiang Thai y. During the chrysanthemum festival, the Queen and Prince Nguyen Kiet (same father) in the royal family started. The army overthrew the Great King but failed. Because he felt sorry for his mother, Nguyen Kiet drew his sword and took it from a soldier of Dai Vuong and committed suicide. Too sad about his son's death, So Nguyen Kiet's mother threw the medicine cup (poisonous) and hit the symbol representing the reign of Dai Vuong, causing the object to be completely tarnished and deformed by the (poisonous) cup of medicine.