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*Hero* (英雄) is a 2002 Chinese martial arts, action, and drama film directed, written, and produced by Zhang Yimou. The cast includes Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, and Chen Daoming. Christopher Doyle served as the director of photography, Tan Dun composed the music, and Emi Wada designed the costumes. The film was produced by companies including Beijing New Picture Film Co. Ltd., China Film Co-Production, Elite Group Enterprises, Edko Films, and Sil-Metropole Organisation. It is distributed by Netflix in video on demand format.
The narrative is set in Shaanxi, and the film was released in 2002 with a runtime of 99 minutes. It has a budget of 31,000,000 and generated revenue of 177,394,432. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Review scores include 8.2/10, 85/100, 94%, and 7.9/10, while IMDb lists a rating of 7.9 based on 194,414 votes. The tagline is "One man's strength will unite an empire."
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Film · TMDB
7.5During China's Warring States period, a district prefect arrives at the palace of Qin Shi Huang, claiming to have killed the three assassins who had made an attempt on the king's life three years ago.
Cast
- Jet Li as Nameless
- Tony Leung Chiu-wai as Broken Sword
- Maggie Cheung as Flying Snow
- Donnie Yen as Sky
- Zhang Ziyi as Moon
- Chen Daoming as King of Qin
Themes
- martial arts
- kung fu
- right and justice
- countryside
- loss of loved one
- patriot
- wuxia
- warring states period
- 3rd century bc
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Key facts
- Traditional chinese
- 英雄
- Simplified chinese
- 英雄
- Hanyu pinyin
- Yīngxióng
- Jyutping
- Jing Hung
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- China
- Original language
- Mandarin
- Director
- Zhang Yimou
- Screenwriter
- Zhang Yimou
- Cast member
- Donnie Yen
- Composer
- Tan Dun
- Producer
- Zhang Yimou
- Cinematographer
- Christopher Doyle
- Narrative location
- Shaanxi
- Duration
- 99
- FilmAffinity ID
- 158116
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.miramax.com/movie/hero
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- publication date
- 2004-08-27
- title
- 英雄
- distributed by
- Netflix
- costume designer
- Emi Wada
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- different from
- Hero
- review score
- 7.9/10
- capital cost
- 31000000
- box office
- 30000000
- set in period
- Warring States period
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Encyclopedic overview
Directed byZhang Yimou Screenplay by Feng Li
Bin Wang
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