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- The material is adapted from Qu Bo’s novel “Tracks in the Snowy Forest,” the basis for “Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy,” one of eight model operas produced during the Cultural Revolution. With its fanfare score, the movie has a nationalistic, didactic flavor and a tiresome devotion to spectacle. Even the climax is staged two ways.
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Just before Hawk can launch an unexpected second attack, Unit 203 decides to attack Tiger Mountain themselves during a New Year's Eve celebration in a last-ditch effort to bring Hawk down.
Tsui Hark adapts Peking opera, "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" into a juggernaut of spectacularly staged action sequences melded around the sterling central story about the historical...
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- Hanyu Zhang
- Hark Tsui
- Bona Film Group
Jan 1, 2015 · Film Review: ‘The Taking of Tiger Mountain’. Tsui Hark's 3D blockbuster boasts arguably the finest 3D visuals in recent mainland Chinese cinema. By Maggie Lee.
Jan 1, 2015 · Tsui Hark's 'The Taking of Tiger Mountain' is an action-filled 3-D version of a historical Chinese battle that is pro-communist.
Dec 23, 2014 · The Taking of Tiger Mountain: Directed by Hark Tsui. With Hanyu Zhang, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Kenny Lin, Nan Yu. A story focusing on a conflict between a People's Liberation Army squad and a bandit gang in north-east China during the Chinese revolution.
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- Action, Adventure, History
- Hark Tsui
Dec 30, 2014 · ‘The Taking of Tiger Mountain’ (‘Zhi Qu Wei Hu Shan’): Film Review. Tsui Hark conjures an all-out actioner from a late 1940s-set story about a People's Liberation Army soldier...
Dec 30, 2014 · The Taking of Tiger Mountain recounts the exploits of Agent Yang (played here by Zhang Hanyu) in exuberant fashion, pitting Unit 203 against the fiendishly malevolent Lord Hawk (an unrecognisable...