Filming the 14th-century Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a bit like trying to tell all of Shakespeare’s Henry plays in one movie ... few guqin solos. Red Cliff begins rockily ...

(Soundbite of gunfire) TURAN: Because it's filled with wall to wall battle scenes, Red Cliff feels like the kind of movie the director must have dreamed about when he was a child. It's a ...

Signature themes like male bonding and David-and-Goliath ... the most famous military feat in Chinese history, John Woo’s “Red Cliff” is a Pan-Asian project with the word “monumental ...