house of flying daggers

by Zhang Yimou, who also did Hero. I didn't like this as much as Hero, but still liked it. There is a plot twist that puts some off, but I didn't mind it. The use of color is really brilliant (but not as overt as Hero) and there is a fight scene in a bamboo forest that was very dreamy (serendipitous, being how much i've been thinking about bamboo recently). At the end the protagonist Mei makes what i thought a totally understandable non-decision between her two lovers. Go see it.