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I did have the House of the Flying Daggers in my posession already for quite some time; after watching Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, which I liked too, I decided I should watch more of these Chinese martial art movies, and so, Yesterday I finally watched another one. Beautiful movie, I really would like to recommend you to watch. These Chinese films have a different atmosphere than the Western movies we’re used to watch, but not so different that it’s not possible to understand them (like for example Japanese Manga is making entirely no sense to me). House of the Flying Daggers again stars the lovely Ziyi Zhang, is quite entertaining and at the same time beautifully filmed; ballet-like fighting scenes that near the artistic, beautiful nature and music that really empowers the atmosphere of the film. Add to that an unexpected (read not Hollywood-like) ending, and you have the recipes for an awesome film. I’m certainly going to check out more of these movies, like, for example, Hero, which I also still long to see!