China - Amazing Wu Xia Movie Locations

Movie: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo Hu Cang Long). Cast: Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Zi Yi.


Location: The Crouching Tiger desertscapes are the Gobi Desert in Xinjiang Province. The bamboo forest is in Zhejiang Province, southern China. The stately home and courtyard were a set at the Beijing Studios.







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Movie: House of Flying Daggers (Shi Mian Mai Fu). Cast: Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Zi Yi.

Location: Sets were built at Yongchuan, Sichun Province, in the bamboo forests of Tea Mountain and Bamboo Sea Scenery Park, near the city of Chongqing. Interiors, including the 'Peony Pavilion' and the abandoned Buddhist temple in the bamboo forest, lensed in Beijing Film Studio (where films such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Kill Bill were previously filmed).






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Movie: Hero (Yin Xiong). Cast: Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Jet Lee, Zhang Zi Yi, Donny Yuen.

Location: The attack on the calligraphy chool was filmed at Dangjin Mountain in Akesai, near old Dunhuang City, in northwest China, toward Mongolia. The amazing, wind-blasted rock formations, called 'yadan' are here too.

The sword fight above the lake is at Jiu Zhai Gou ('Nine Villages Valley', read more). The lake itself is Jian ZhuHai ('Cold bamboo Sea').




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Just to the south, where two valleys merge into Shuzheng Gully, you can see the waterfall, at which Broken Sword and Flying Snow meet in the 'green' sequence. It's the 98-feet-high Nuorilang Falls ('nuorilang' is "magnificent and splendid" in the Tibetan language).

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More scenes filmed at the yellow grassy marshland near another lake, Chang Hai (Long Sea).

The elegaic fight between Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung) and Moon (Zhang Ziyi) among fluttering autumnal leaves, is an ancient oak grove in Inner Mongolia. Timing was everything: an employee, stationed out in Mongolia, called the director the moment the leaves turned a perfect shade of gold.


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2 comments:

Emajanti said...

wow! you did a research! Try to compare Jacky Chan's then.. haha!

joelliea said...

yea I did the research ..

back in time when we worked for Fanstasia. Remember?

I still have the files and I thought it would be such a waste to keep it in a box. Especially for that Jiu Zhai Gou.