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...budget of about $20 million, Daggers is set in China's Tang dynasty (A.D. 618-906) and follows the loves, loyalties and betrayals between imperial rulers and members of an underground martial-arts society. Expectations are high: Zhang's 2002 film Hero earned an Oscar nomination and broke mainland box-office records for a Chinese movie by raking in some $27 million. Daggers reunites several key players in that winning team: producer Bill Kong (who was also behind Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Hong Kong-based stunt director Tony Ching, and Australian visual-effects group Animal Logic, which dazzled...
...character plays second fiddle to Zhang Ziyi's blind brothel singer, whose affections he competes for against Kaneshiro in a bitter love triangle riddled with Shakespearean twists and aerial spin kicks. Lau was willing to accept less-than-top billing for a chance to work in a major mainland production?it's his first?with one of Asia's most honored directors. "In Hong Kong the camera is always moving," says Lau. The cinematic trick can distract an audience, providing cover for weak or halfhearted acting. "Zhang Yimou will put the camera on you and leave it there...
...Standing Committee without notice." MARTIN LEE, Hong Kong Democratic Party legislator, on Beijing's new interpretation of the Basic Law, the territory's mini-constitution-an adjustment that Lee says undermines the "one country, two systems" principle meant to afford Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy from the mainland...
...Down in Yunlin, however, few people wonder why the KMT's emperor has no clothes. Typical of rural Taiwan, the county is populated almost entirely by native-Taiwanese farmers, whose ancestors moved to the island from mainland China centuries before Chiang Kai-shek followed with his retreating KMT 55 years ago. For decades they supported the KMT, then Taiwan's only party, which co-opted local ?lites and controlled loans to farmers to win loyalty. Now that's changing. Locals worry that the KMT's desire for closer ties with the mainland will mean a flood of cheap imported produce...
...They've fallen out before. Three times in the past 15 years, KMT leaders have split to form their own parties. One renegade, mainland-born James Soong, now leads the PFP. A fiery speaker, Soong carried with him many of the KMT's mainland-born legislators. Since making an uneasy peace with Lien and running as his vice-presidential candidate, Soong has turned the postelection fracas to his advantage. KMT insiders insist he pressured Lien to dispute the election results on the night of March 20, and Soong's followers dominated the stage in massive demonstrations that followed. Protests that...