THE PLACE: Here’s a tidbit for you: Golden Flower Vietnamese Restaurant, the Reno icon on West Fifth Street, wasn’t always the only Golden Flower in town. For a time nearly 20 years ago, there were ...

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BEIJING — “The Curse Of The Golden Flower,” Zhang Yimou’s martial arts epic was Friday confirmed as China’s candidate for the foreign-language Academy Award nomination. While decision will surprise ...

Zhang Yimou’s “Curse of the Golden Flower” is blessed by an even grander color scheme than those he used in “Hero” and “House of Flying Daggers.” The film also is cursed by its own excesses, the rich ...

Traveling Alone for Thousands of Miles, about a Japanese man traveling to China to learn about his filmmaker son. Now Zhang now combines the genres of melodrama and martial arts action for his latest ...

Sometimes there's nothing as appealing as a good old-fashioned melodrama. What with Hollywood's propensity for glib human observations or even empty escapism, the power of a really heart-wrenching ...