Word: yen
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...much as children love Mickey Mouse?and if I can teach you how?is there any business that won't find value in that?" You might shake your head, finding it hard to make the connection with any other business you know. But give Reiji a fistful of yen for a bottle of cognac and a few hours next to you on the banquette, and it will all sound perfectly charming...
...epic action film, Zhang evidently felt: Why have cotton when you can have silk? The unprecedented collection of talent at work on this project reads like an A-to-Z list of the region's most beautiful, bankable and influential. Besides the stellar leads, Hong Kong actor/director Donnie Yen, the high-flying martial artist known for his rhythmic, graceful style, pits his gravity-defying leaps against Li in a scene that will have kung fu fans roaring for more. Working in three languages (Mandarin, Cantonese and English) and vastly different styles, these actors helped forge the martial-arts genre that...
...film Zhang is extending this ability to create a new form of action scene: rhythmic, poignant and majestic. Yen, whose working relationship with Li goes back a decade, sees that. He's fresh off success in the U.S. where Yuen Wo-ping's 1993 classic Iron Monkey, in which Yen plays a lead, was rereleased by Miramax and made $10 million at the box office. He applauds Zhang's command of a new style: "For a guy who has never directed action, he's got a nuance for certain pauses, certain breaks. He never stops looking at the bigger picture...
...seems a very commercial move to have cast Donnie Yen in the film. Very Miramax...
...Donnie was my decision. I talked to Zhang about the feel of the film. I wanted the fighting to look the way it did 2,000 years ago, like real martial arts. So Donnie Yen was the one. Films now are all about killing one's opponent as fast as possible. In the old days, guys had more respect for each other. There was a dignity about the way they fought...