King Hu
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(It was particularly embarrassing, at last year’s New York Film Festival, to see the restored print of the 1965 Hong Kong movie “Come Drink With Me,” directed by King Hu and produced by the Shaw brothers, and to realize how much Lee had lifted from that film and yet how little he captured its spirit.)
Though the new film is set in a visually striking bamboo forest -- like King Hu's vastly superior A Touch of Zen (1969) -- this film fails to create any visual depth or emotional menace.
Here's a poetic version of the battle in a bamboo forest found in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and House of Flying Daggers.
Look also for the legendary Cheng Pei-pei, who was in King Hu's Come Drink with Me (1966) and Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).