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Curse of the Golden Flower [Blu-ray]

Chow Yun Fat (Actor), Gong Li (Actor), Zhang Yimou (Director) Rated:
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4.7 out of 5 stars 2,159 ratings
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Genre Foreign, Action, Drama
Format Dolby, Color, Dubbed, NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled, AC-3, Blu-ray
Contributor Li Man, Chen Jin, Liu Ye, Jay Chou, Chow Yun Fat, Qin Junjie, Ni Dahong, Gong Li, Zhang Yimou
Language English, Chinese
Runtime 1 hour and 54 minutes
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From the director of Hero and House of Flying Daggers comes the martial arts epic masterpiece. Starring Chow Yun Fat and Gong Li, Curse of the Golden Flower reveals a dazzling and spectacular world that will change the way you think of martial arts forever.

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Curse of the Golden Flower, a fictionalized historical glimpse into the brutally complicated politics of Emperor Ping's (Chow Yun Fat) reign during the Tang Dynasty, shows the viewer just how far a megalomaniac must go to gain and retain power in medieval China. Lavish sets, massive ceremonial displays, and perversely fascinating battle scenes impress similarly to the special effects Americans have come to love and expect from Chinese action films like Zhang Yimou's previous House of Flying Daggers and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. An intricate plot involving the Emperor's wife, Empress Phoenix (Gong Li) and their three sons, Crown Prince Xiang, Prince Jie, and Prince Cheng, most closely follows the Empress's secret plan to force abdication upon her corrupt husband as revenge for his slowly poisoning her with Black Fungus tea. Opening on the eve of the Chysanthemum Festival, 928 A.D., the Empress obsessively embroiders gold chysanthemums to adorn her army's uniforms while hatching plans with Jai to overthrow the Crown Prince for control of the throne. Meanwhile, a side plot develops as the Emperor's ex-wife and mother to Crown Prince Yu reemerges as Yu's lover. By the time the Festival occurs, family members are pitted against each other in a King Lear-ian web of lies that can only result in demise. The most sophisticated narrative aspect of Curse of the Golden Flower is that as the royal family crumbles, the Emperor's death grip on China remains unwavering. Gorgeous scenes set in the palace and costume design displaying China's upper class decadence cannot fail to entertain. The paradox between good and evil, here, is highlighted by how the Emperor successfully rules despite, and because of, his utter cruelty. --Trinie Dalton

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 5.75 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 05465485
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Zhang Yimou
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Dolby, Color, Dubbed, NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled, AC-3, Blu-ray
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 54 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ May 29, 2007
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Chow Yun Fat, Gong Li, Jay Chou, Liu Ye, Ni Dahong
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Chinese (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000MRA59C
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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Cinematography was amazing as well was the story line and pacing
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Cinematography was amazing as well was the story line and pacing
Cinematography was amazing as well was the story line and pacing. I watch the subtitle version its a little fast at times but I have watched it over and over. Many of the "Ninja" type acts have some basis in reality by their manner of presentation. No one floats in the air or leaps to great heights without a somewhat plausible mechanical assistance. You will look at the Chinese culture with a different eye after viewing this movie.
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  • Gin
    5.0 out of 5 stars The 3rd movie following "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" and "House of Flying Dagger"
    Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2025
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    This is very good move. The 3 must see movie is Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Dagger and the Curse of the Golden Flower. Watch the movie or read the review, the story, artistic back drop and poetic ending give a 5 star movie. In these 3 movies you have the best actor in Asian movies and in martial art.
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  • Eric
    5.0 out of 5 stars Golden Flower
    Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2025
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    Underrated movie
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  • Elizabeth Williams
    5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful, Engrossing, Gorgeous beginning to end
    Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2012
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    This is truly a beautiful and epic movie that should appeal to many audiences.

    It contains action in the form of several one on one martial art scenes, a war involving hundreds/thousands (?). The story moved at a fast clip, was filled with intrigue, secrets within secrets, strong character development, and lethal plot twists.

    With all that was required to tell this story cohesively, only tight, focused editing, spectacular direction and cinematography, and flat out gorgeous costuming, color schemes, sets and lighting could have made what I consider to be a masterpiece. One misstep and it would have been a bad joke. But there were no missteps so what we got was excellence.

    The visuals frame to frame are thrilling. Yes, if you do not speak the language then you can turn on dubbing or a much better choice, "read" the movie by subtitle. The yellow subtitles are so well done and the dialogue sparse enough that dubbing would be clumsy and distracting. This classic and complex tale relies more on character development, facial expressions, what is not said, emotions, and actions, than words.

    From the start the viewer is immediately sucked into the story and the suspense doesn't let up until the credits are done rolling. The story is set in the time of the Tang Dynasty, about 928 AD. We are introduced to an Emperor, expertly and uniquely portrayed by Chow Yun-Fat and his Empress, the always exquisite Gong Li who are attempting to do away with each other for different reasons.

    The Empress is all alone in trying to save herself once she learns her husband has added a new ingredient to the bitter tonic he has been having the palace pharmacist concoct to cure her "ill temper and bile" that will make her go mad within a few weeks. The Emperor got what he wanted. He went from an army grunt to an Emperor through marriage and got three boy children out of the deal. Now he just wants her gone.

    They've been together 10 years, so why now? The Emperor is getting older, ready to look at retiring, and wants to make some changes at the annual chrysanthemum festival. He can only hope that the poison has had time to take full effect so he'll get the added bonus of an incurably insane Empress he can then dump.

    Watching the Empress forced to swill a poison concoction every few hours pretending she is unaware of what is going on certainly keeps the tension up as does trying to figure out just what she has in mind for her husband during the annual chrysanthemum festival.

    This is only a Thumb-Nail sketch. There is a lot more going on all of the time and the story so well told that the viewer can actually keep up.

    In reading reviews, I saw there were a couple of nit pickers calling the movie over the top melodramatic and pointing out a couple of continuity issues. To this I say - The movie worked because of the level of drama. It was an incredibly difficult story to tell coherently within a couple of hours and hats off to the craftsman who managed to do it. If anyone gave anything less it would not be the masterpiece that for me it is.

    This movie is alive with color, lush scenery including a small village nestled in an old riverbed surrounded by water weathered rocks, and filled with character. It is one of the few that I watch again and again.

    Highly Recommend.
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  • Dupree
    5.0 out of 5 stars Blu ray was a great upgrade
    Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2024
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    Alreeady own thus movie. The upgrade was worth it
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  • CT-reviewer
    5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME!!!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2024
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    My favorite movie. The costumes and decorum are fabulous and how ironic all that beauty among all that ugliness in the roylal family.
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  • JLind555
    4.0 out of 5 stars A visual knockout
    Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2008
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    The year is 928 and the evil Tang emperor is slowly but inexorably poisoning his beautiful, unfaithful wife, after learning that she has been having an affair with her stepson, his eldest son. He can't kill her outright, because bringing her adultery into the open would discredit both himself and his son, so he takes an insidious revenge. He's added a new ingredient to her daily potion, a black fungus from Persia that, taken in small doses over a few months, will turn her into a cretin. But the empress isn't about to go down without a fight; she's onto his schemes and has hatched a scheme of her own: on the night of the Chrysanthemum Festival, when all Chinese celebrate the unity of the family, she'll raise a palace rebellion, force the emperor to abdicate and make her own blood son, Prince Jai, the emperor in his place.

    So begins "Curse of the Golden Flower" a Chinese morality story directed by Zhang Yimou, and it's a visual knockout: our eyes are almost assaulted by the lush interiors and the exterior action scenes. The emperor's palace looks like an explosion in a Day-Glo factory; a non-stop riot of color everywhere you look. The imperial family is covered in so much gold from nose to toes that you wonder how they can stand up straight, let alone move about. Everything about the palace is regimented down to the last detail and we understand it's all to underline the power of the emperor. When he sneezes, the earth shakes.

    The actors put in creditable performances. Chow Yun Fat (I wish Amazon would respect the Chinese rule of putting the surname first and stop calling him Yun Fat Chow) gives a chilling portrayal of the emperor, venal and evil, cruel and insensitive; watching him calmly chowing down at the Chrysanthemum Festival after his world has fallen down around his ears is mind-blowing. The beautiful Gong Li wins our sympathy as the empress, determined to go out with a bang rather than a whimper, even if it means taking everyone else down with her. Of the three sons, Liu Ye gives the most impressive performance as the weak Crown Prince Wan, seduced by his stepmother, unable to extricate himself from her machinations, and terrified of his sire; he arouses in us a mixture of pity and contempt. Qin Junjie is somewhat perplexing as the third son, Yu, who turns out to have had his own agenda all along and totally upsets the apple cart. The minor characters are interesting and well played, notably Li Man as the imperial doctor's daughter Chan, exquisitely beautiful with a face like a cameo. But the most intriguing character in this film is the emperor's cast-off first wife, the crown prince's birth mother, who reappears in the lives of the imperial family in a singularly incovenient fashion; Chen Jin's performance in this difficult role is excellent.

    What keeps "Curse of the Golden Flower" from being a great movie, as opposed to a merely good movie, is there's so much of everything, it's all so overblown, that it's more melodrama than true drama. We watch it, we're blown away by it, but we don't really feel it. One gets the sense that Zhang Yimou was piling special effect on special effect and the result is a kind of sensory overload. We're watching an opulent movie and the effects are so over the top that they almost overwhelm the story.

    "Curse of the Golden Flower" is meant to be a morality play, but it seems that the person most in need of enlightenment, the emperor himself, has learned exactly nothing. He knows only one way to be emperor, and he's succeeded both because of his cruelty and in spite of it. After all the blood is shed, the bodies are carted off, the blood is washed away, new carpets and chrysanthemums laid down, and everything will continue as usual. It's as if everything that went before was an inconvenient glitch in the proceedings, and it leaves us feeling curiously empty after the final credits.

    (And to the producers: next time you film a historical movie, check your history book first. Although this movie is set in 928 and the emperor is identified as the "Tang emperor", the Tang dynasty actually ended in 907.)

    Judy Lind
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  • vinAltenstadt Alexander
    4.0 out of 5 stars Curse of the Holden Flower
    Reviewed in Japan on January 10, 2015
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    面白かったです。速い動きと素晴らしい色と迫力のある作品です。
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  • Amazon Guy.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Love it Love it...
    Reviewed in Canada on January 12, 2014
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    "I don't think I've ever seen so much Cleavage in a movie before"it was everywhere I couldn't
    stop looking,it was so hard to concentrate on the movie itself,have to watch this again to see what
    I missed,this is a movie on the grandest scale I've ever seen in my life,the costume, the set stage and
    design was immaculate to say the bloody least,I'm in awe with this spectacle of a movie,
    this movie is set in the lavish [that's putting it mildly] and breathtakingly world hidden from the eyes of mere
    mortals behind the walls of the forbidden city,this is about revenge and betrayal of one Family struggle divided
    by itself,of course there is blood to be spilled in the quest for redemption,
    "Curse of the Golden Flower"is called a martial arts classic but I don't see it that way,there is no where here that
    I've seen that would make it that way,it was more like a battle scene to me, there was some but not much to talk
    about,this blu-ray of the movie is good picture quality to show all the colors and fine detail that come to life on screen,
    Widescreen 2.35:1
    Mastered in High Definition.
    Audio Chinese PCM 5.1
    (uncompressed).
    English 5.1 Chinese 5.1
    Runtime 114 Minutes.
    Who Cares If The Costume Don't Fit The Period,I would Like to see someone change this movie,yea Go For it.
    maybe the higher gods will hear you.
    Love it Love it...
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  • Oi
    1.0 out of 5 stars Wrong region
    Reviewed in Australia on August 30, 2020
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    Great movie, shame Amazon ships a region locked movie to regions that can't watch it
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  • Loris
    5.0 out of 5 stars La Citta' Proibita
    Reviewed in Italy on May 19, 2024
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    Consegna nei tempi previsti. Film già visto più volte ma che continua a coinvolge per la grandiosità e la spettacolarità delle scene con particolare riferimento alla battaglia finale. Da non perdere.
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  • Moschops72
    5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning Film
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 19, 2012
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    I can not understand why there are so many poor ratings for this film. I have seen the directors previous two martial arts films and personally think this is his finest achievement. It is important to realise that this is not a martial arts film as such. It is a dramatic tragedy in the tradition of Shakespeare about a Kingdom, a family and the betrayals, secrects and plotting that goes on. Yes there is martial arts in it but this is secondayr to plot and drama. The film looks absolutely gorgeous. The set design, costumes and colour schemes are a feast for the eyes. The story builds gradually but I prefer this to a fight every five minutes and I did not find it too slow. The performances are top notch especially the beautiful Gong Li who is one of Asia's finest actresses. Chow Yun Fat is also impressive. The fight sequences are well staged with sufficient blood and some CGI and wirework but I did not feel it was overdone. The thing I did not like about Hero was the over-use of CGI such as to show a sword slicing through a drop of water etc. Also, although this film is melodramatic I felt it held together unlike the final third of House of Flying Daggers which was dramatically laughable. I am a fan of Asian cinema in general but was not expecting to like this film as much as I did. I think viewers expecting lots of martial arts and impatient to watch a story and characterisation develop are maybe the ones scoring this low. It is an epic and beautifully made film and worth 5 stars in my opinion.
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