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• HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS (2004) - Zhang Yimou

  Published: October 7, 2007, 5:12 am

  Tags: Public Speaking Presentation, Drama, 7 10, 2004, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Yimou, Ziyi Zhang, Andy Lau

  drama, 7/10, 2004, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Yimou, Ziyi Zhang,

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• Jet Li Breaks Paycheck Record

  Published: November 26, 2007, 8:02 am

  Tags: Andy Lau, Andylau, Jet Li, Jetli, Peter Chan, Peterchan, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Takeshikaneshiro, Warlords, Xu Jinglei, Xujinglei

  Daggers stars Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro, as well as actress/director Xu Jinglei (A Letter from an Unknown Woman). Set amidst the Taiping Rebellion during the Qing Dynasty, Warlords focuses on an unresolved crime, and three brothers who turn on each other because of a beautiful woman. Chan says that it is influenced by the 1973 film, The

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• Asian Box Office: 'Warlords' Battle Will Smith

  Published: December 16, 2007, 12:02 pm

  Tags: Andy Lau, Blood Brothers, Chang Cheh, Cinematical, I Am Legend, Jet Li, Peter Chan, Takeshi Kaneshiro, The Warlords, Thewarlords, Will Smith

  stars Jet Li, Andy Lau, and Takeshi Kaneshiro in a film that director Peter Chan says was inspired by his watching Chang Cheh's Blood Brothers as a young boy in 1973. He told Yvonne Teh of BC Magazine that when he revisited it as an adult, he felt that the movie was "too simple for today," so he "started digging into history and into the

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• Takeshi Kaneshiro Set to Play 'The Fiend With Twenty Faces'

  Published: December 19, 2007, 2:32 pm

  Tags: Chungking Express, Cinematical, Fallen Angels, Hero, House Of Flying Daggers, Shimako Sato, Takako Matsu, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Takeshikaneshiro, The Fiend With Twenty Faces, The Returner, The Warlords, Toro Nakamura, Wong Kar Wai, Zhang Yimou

  two films in which I saw Takeshi Kaneshiro; his brooding, romantic looks have served him well in a career that has ranged all over Asia -- aided, no doubt, by his broad appeal and multi-lingual talents. Born in Taiwan, he speaks Japanese, Taiwanese, Mandarin, Cantonese and English.His highest profile titles in the West have probably been the

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• Takeshi Kaneshiro drives new Elantra

  Published: April 25, 2008, 3:00 am

  Tags: Japan, Takeshi Kaneshiro

  www.celebritycm.com Takeshi Kaneshiro ( ) seems to be a hot car spokesperson. Not too long ago, I featured his Toyota TVCM and now, he appears in this TVCM for the new Hyundai Elantra recently launched in China. Anyway, why can’t car ads be more interesting? It seems that they all look the same, emphasizing on aesthetics and

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• Takeshi Kaneshiro for Biotherm Homme

  Published: May 6, 2008, 9:39 am

  Tags: Japan, Takeshi Kaneshiro

  www.celebritycm.com Takeshi Kaneshiro ( ) is obviously a popular celebrity for advertising considering the number of times he’s been featured here. Here is our man promoting Biotherm Homme in China for the fourth year running. If you haven’t already seen it, check out his TVCM and wallpapers at the Biotherm Homme website.

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• John Woo goes back to his roots

  Published: July 8, 2008, 5:47 pm

  Tags: Chang Chen, Chinese Cinema, Chinese Literature, John Woo, Red Cliff, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Three Kingdoms, Tony Leung Chiu Wai

  Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Takeshi Kaneshiro), and dazzling production values. It’s got a Hollywood-level budget, about U.S. $80 million, which allegedly makes it the most costly movie produced in all of Asia to date. However, I’m guessing that there’s also a lot less of the Tinseltown-style micromanaging and interference

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• John Woo’s latest shatters box office records…

  Published: August 12, 2008, 4:24 pm

  Tags: Action, Drama, Foreign Cinema, Movie News, Battle Of Red Cliff, China, Chinese, Cinema, Epic, Film, John Woo, Red Cliff, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung, Zhang Yimou

  …in China, anyway! If you’ve been reading my blog, you already know that I’ve been looking forward to action maestro John Woo’s return to Chinese cinema with his star-studded period epic Red Cliff (a.k.a. The Battle of Red Cliff). Well, it opened in Woo’s motherland and raked in 302 million yuan, which is around

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