But a movie like 'Red Cliff' has really changed their minds. It's a movie on the Hollywood scale that has so much of the Asian spirit. It has drawn the Asian audience back to the movie theater.

The Battle of Red Cliff occupies a similar place in Chinese folklore to the Arthurian legends in our own: a sprawling epic narrative with roots in historical fact, retold so many times that any ...

Sponsor Message Reportedly the most expensive Chinese-language movie ever, Red Cliff impresses with its sweep, scale and precision. It's like a real-world chess game, with pawns who never seem ...

(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 ...

Except the warriors looked like they were storming ... Last year, “Red Cliff” broke all box-office records in China, where the five-hour movie was released in two parts. The movie was edited ...

Cut from its original four-plus hours — in China, the movie is split into two feature-length films — Red Cliff feels abbreviated ... (Chen), who are sort of like emperors only not, I guess ...

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 ...

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 ...

Filled with wall-to-wall battle scenes, “Red Cliff” feels like the kind of movie the director must have imagined when he was a child, a four-square endeavor where women are beautiful ...

Red Cliff is Woo's first movie in his native China in more than ... "You wrapped me up like a rice ball," Leung sweet-talks after getting bandaged by his wife. The film also finds itself bogged ...