Andy Lau on HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS | TIFF 2024

During the declining years of the Tang Dynasty in the 9th century, two police officers (Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro) enlist the help of the seemingly blind dancer Mei (Zhang) to bring down a rebel group known as the Flying Daggers. But this plan soon turns into a complex love triangle that proves as deadly as the weapons wielded by the lovers.
While the kung-fu and wuxia genres were originally as much a male preserve as their American counterparts, they allowed considerably more room for women to get in on the action. After becoming an international star with her lyrical, but hard-hitting swordplay in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Zhang Ziyi once again makes a captivating heroine of great elegance and strength in Zhang Yimou’s luxurious epic.
Andy Lau has been a leading figure in Asian cinema for the past four decades. Like many of his contemporaries, Lau started out in the early 1980s as an actor for Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), Hong Kong’s premier television network. He landed his first feature film role in Ann Hui’s Boat People (1982), a central work of the Hong Kong New Wave. In the late 1980s, Lau fully transitioned to working in film and enthralled audiences and critics alike in Wong Kar Wai’s As Tears Go By (1988) and Days of Being Wild (1990). Lau launched his own production company in the early 1990s and has starred in over 160 feature films, including Running Out of Time (1999), Infernal Affairs (2002), House of Flying Daggers (2004), and A Simple Life (2011). A natural entertainer and multi-faceted artist, Lau has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor, received the Asian Filmmaker of the Year Award at the 2006 Busan International Film Festival, and holds the Guinness World Record for “Most Awards Won by a Cantopop Male Artist."
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