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The story takes place in the jianghu, the world of the martial arts.
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Ashes of Time (1994) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) are films that pay their dues to their ancestors in the genre while inflecting the jianghu (The Genre These Films Fall in) with modern ideas about psychology, sexuality and existential loneliness.
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The story takes place in the jianghu, the world of the martial arts.
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Zhang Yimou’s Hero (2002) and House of Flying Daggers (2004) owe less to the genre’s history and more to an imaginative re-reading of China’s history, but they are none the less rooted in the jianghu.
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