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Best known in the U.S. for her role in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, actress Michelle Yeoh will once again be combining her ballet training and martial arts moves as an assassin in a new kung fu romance thriller.
Jianyu Jianghu, which loosely translates to “Rain of Swords in the Martial Arts World,”tells the story of Yeoh’s assassin character who falls in love with the son of a man whose father was killed by her gang. Needless to say, their fledgling love faces strain as the past is revealed.
The film, which producer Terrence Chang describes as “‘Face/Off’ meets ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ set in the Ming Dynasty,” is to be directed by Su Chaopin and produced as a joint project between Beijing Galloping Horse Prods., Media Asia of Hong Kong and two publicly traded media companies in Taiwan.
Jianyu Jianghu is set to be filmed in Shanghai and Taiwan, and ready for release late next summer.
