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#330 - Zhang Yimou is Just Telling Stories

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Andy Lau's Blood Simple

From this point on hero onwards, he alternates between big Spielbergian martial arts fanatias and smaller Spielbergian dramas. He also gets to kind of follow his muse when he remakes a blood simple in 2009. A simple noodle story. I think it was a woman, a gun in a noodle shop. One second is also set during the cultural revolution but seems to me no more in Sunday area than that. In fact, it seems less in Sunday area.

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