Hero | Eastern North Carolina Now

The Assassin Flying Snow, Maggie Cheung, rides hard to meet her true fate: Above.
    While the story is a multi-point quadrangle of ideals and interests between the remarkable strenghts of character between the stires principals: Nameless, the King of Qin, Flying Snow and Broken Sword, a secondary character, the peasant apprentice, Moon, the conscience of every Man, is drawn into the tale for a variety of purposes, yet, cheif among them, is her as symbol for the loyal masses that blown wildly by the winds of the ambitions of others - the principals of nations.
Moon played by Ziyi Zhang, is the apprentice of the Assassin Broken Sword, and her loyalty knows no bounds: Above.
    "Hero" is extremely short in duration, 96 minutes, for a film of such scale and epic purpose, and in that may lie a part of Director Yimou Zhang's profound artistry. He has taken a big story, of a noble human effort, and made it into a visual poem for his nation and the world to understand for centuries hence. It is simply a beautiful film that must be seen, and measured, and understood for its contribution, its value as an enduring tale told in rich hues and deaffening, but subtle tones.

    Rated PG-13, Released in theaters in China on October 24, 2002, and re-released in America, as promoted by American Director Quentin Tarantino on August 20, 2004.

A truly powerful film, and a remarkably styled poster: (from left to right) the first deated assassin, Sky, played by Donnie Yen, the dominant assassin and lover of Broken Sword, Flying Snow, Maggie Cheung, the Hero, nameless, played by Jet Li, the deeply contemplative assassin, Broken Sword, played by Tony Leung Chiu Wai, the young apprentice, Moon, played Ziyi Zhang, and in the background in the clouds, the first emperor of China, Daoming Chen.