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Movie Preview: “Curse of the Golden Flower”

Via Joblo, here’s a nifty little scene from the new Zhang Yimou martial arts epic “Curse of the Golden Flower”, which features ninjas attacking a building and getting ambushed themselves in turn. Kinda cool. The film stars Jay Chou (”Initial D”), Chow Yun Fat (the upcoming “Pirates of the Caribbean 3″), and Gong Li (”Miami Vice”), who returns to working with Yimou for the first time in a long while. The film is about “the ill-fated romance between an imperial bodyguard and a prince takes the lovers on a dangerous journey where royal family secrets are revealed.” Doesn’t sound all that hot, but the video and the pictures below do show that this is an actual martial arts movie, and not some wacky road movie.

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